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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. Who did Gosse say would produce unwashed boys to give evidence against Wilde?
(a) Sturges
(b) Lady Wolseley
(c) a newspaper reporter
(d) Douglas's father

2. What is the only thing that depresses Henry about living at Lamb House?
(a) that he will most likely die there
(b) that it is a distance from London
(c) that he might be lonely there
(d) that his sister, Alice, hadn't seen it before she died

3. Who was the brother of the Baroness von Rabe?
(a) the novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne
(b) the writer Lewis Crawford
(c) the novelist Marion Crawford
(d) the poet William Jones

4. To whom does Henry introduce Constance in Florence?
(a) his friends, Mrs. and Mr. Miller
(b) his aunt Kate and his cousin, Henrietta
(c) Francis Boott and his daughter Lizzie
(d) Florence Lett and Lily Norton

5. What publication accepted Henry's first story written in the French style about an adulterous woman?
(a) the Newport News
(b) the North American Review
(c) the Atlantic Monthly
(d) the Continental Monthly

Short Answer Questions

1. Describe Alice, Henry's younger sister.

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

3. When Henry decides on residing in Lamb House in Rye how long a lease does the owner grant him?

4. Who wrote a letter from Venice to Henry in the beginning of Chapter 8?

5. Who had once stayed in the guest room at Lamb House?

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