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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. Where in Rome did Henry attend a party?
(a) Palazzo Accoramboni, overlooking St. Peter's Square
(b) Palazzo Giovanni, overlooking the Spanish Steps
(c) Palazzo Pitti, overlooking the rooftops of Rome
(d) Palazzo Alfredo, overlooking the colosseum

2. Who had been Henry's best friend, the person closest to him outside his own family?
(a) Jonathan Sturges
(b) Constance Fenimore Woolson
(c) Lady Wolseley
(d) Edmund Gosse

3. With whom had Sturges met to discuss Oscar Wilde's trial?
(a) Lord Wolseley
(b) George Bernard Shaw
(c) Lady Wolseley
(d) Wilde's parents

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

5. Who was Minny Temple?
(a) Henry's cousin
(b) an imaginary character in one of Henry's novels
(c) Wendell's cousin
(d) Wendell's girlfriend

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Henry's father live on?

2. To whom does Henry introduce Constance in Florence?

3. How did Henry's good friend, Constance Fenimore Woolson, die?

4. What did Henry's mother do to prevent Henry from joining the Civil War?

5. Why were the family meals a trial for Alice?

(see the answer key)

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