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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10: May 1899.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What place in Rome do Henry and Hendrik visit together?
(a) the Spanish Steps
(b) the Vatican
(c) the Colosseum
(d) the Protestant Cemetery

2. Who was Hammond?
(a) Henry's lost love from the past
(b) Henry's manservant at the Royal Hospital
(c) Henry's cousin
(d) One of Lord Wolseley's guests

3. Henry remembers that Constance was depressed when?
(a) on completing a novel and in the winter months
(b) in the fall and when she had no inspiration to write
(c) when considering her age and being single
(d) in the summer months and when visited by Americans

4. What had happened when Henry walked with his father on the beach in Boulogne?
(a) Henry saved a drowning girl.
(b) His father watched a female bather too intensely.
(c) Henry fell in love with the city of Boulogne.
(d) He and his father bonded for the first time.

5. What did Florence Lett's daughter look like and what was she wearing during her mother's visit to Lamb House?
(a) She was beautiful, fair with blue eyes and a blue dress.
(b) She was ordinary-looking with dark hair and a red dress
(c) She was a dark-skinned brunette in a white dress.
(d) She was a red-head in a bright green dress.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the love of Oscar Wilde's life?

2. With whom had Sturges met to discuss Oscar Wilde's trial?

3. What hadn't he done for a long time because of his painful hand?

4. Who was it who told a ghost story to Henry which intrigued him?

5. What was one of the photographs Henry looked at at the beginning of Chapter 7?

(see the answer key)

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