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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 had Henry's friend, Edward Warren, offered to do for Henry?
(a) introduce him to some English nobility as possible patrons
(b) help him pay for the stenographer
(c) find him a house outside London where he could write
(d) make drawings of the houses in Henry's novels

2. How did the audience like Henry's play?
(a) They booed it and disliked it.
(b) They were indifferent.
(c) They loved it.
(d) They were luke warm about it.

3. What idea for a story comes to Henry while riding to dinner at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) the story of the affection of an orphaned brother and sister
(b) the story of an American family in England
(c) the story of an ill girl who has hallucinations
(d) the story of an Irish princess falling in love with an Englishman

4. How old had Henry been when he first visited Rome?
(a) forty-one
(b) in his teens
(c) in his early thirties
(d) in his twenties

5. Where had Henry found some of the names he used in his novels?
(a) wedding announcements
(b) tombstones
(c) newspaper articles
(d) obituaries and death notices

Short Answer Questions

1. What would Alice, Henry's sister, have done about the predicament with the Smiths?

2. Where did Henry , Alice and Aunt Kate visit together when Alice was suffering from hysteria?

3. With what poet's sister did Henry compare Alice?

4. Who helps Henry pick out furnishings for his house in Rye?

5. What did Henry think of Oscar Wilde's play, AN IDEAL HUSBAND?

(see the answer key)

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