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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: March 1895.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Aunt Kate say Alice would marry?
(a) her older brother William
(b) Charles Kingsley
(c) Ned Lowell
(d) Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

2. Who visits Henry in the first chapter?
(a) an expatriate Russian princess
(b) his brother William
(c) his cousin Minny
(d) Oscar Wilde

3. Who did Henry visit first after his play was a failure in London?
(a) Lord Houghton
(b) William, his brother
(c) Minny, his cousin
(d) his Aunt Kate

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

5. Who were the children in the ghost story Henry wrote?
(a) two girls and their younger brother
(b) three young sisters
(c) a boy and his younger sister
(d) two young brothers

Short Answer Questions

1. Describe Alice, Henry's younger sister.

2. Where was Oscar Wilde's play held?

3. Where did Henry go on the opening night of his play?

4. With whom did Alice develop a close friendship after her parents died?

5. Who was the person Alice disliked and lived below her in London?

(see the answer key)

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