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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: April 1895.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Henry's sister Alice react when her mother died?
(a) She had a nervous breakdown.
(b) She rallied and tried to be the mother of the house.
(c) She stayed in her bedroom and mourned.
(d) She became deathly ill and was hospitalized.

2. For whom had the Royal Hospital at Kilmainham been built?
(a) for war victims
(b) for the noble inhabitants of Dublin
(c) for old British soldiers of the seventeenth century
(d) for the general population of Dublin

3. What had Hammond been before he was employed by the Wolseleys?
(a) an army corporal
(b) a lieutenant in the army
(c) a servant at Dublin Castle
(d) an actor

4. What is the dilemma of the main character in Henry's play?
(a) whether to travel to America or remain in Europe
(b) whether to marry his true love or marry a wealthy woman
(c) whether to become a novelist or a businessman
(d) whether to carry on the family line or join a monastery

5. What news did Henry's friends, Jonathan Sturges and Edmond Gosse, bring him?
(a) Oscar Wilde was very ill and confined to his bed.
(b) Wilde's wife was accused of adultery
(c) the tremendous success of Wilde's latest play
(d) Wilde's affair with the son of the Marquess of Queensberry

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hammond look like?

2. What was the adjective one of the Wolseleys' guests used over and over again in discussing the characters in Henry's novels and in George Eliot's novels.

3. What mutual friend became the topic of conversation between Gosse and Henry after the trial?

4. Who was Lord Houghton?

5. How did the distinguished guest of the Jameses embarrass and shame Alice?

(see the answer key)

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