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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. 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.

2. Describe Alice, Henry's younger sister.
(a) She was in ill health but stoic.
(b) She was healthy and very athletic.
(c) She was a robust, happy girl.
(d) She was pretty but shallow.

3. Who led Henry onto the stage after the play?
(a) Paul
(b) Gosse
(c) Alexander
(d) Peter

4. How did the audience like Oscar Wilde's play, AN IDEAL HUSBAND?
(a) They were bored with it.
(b) They were shocked by it.
(c) They loved it.
(d) They hated it.

5. Who are some of Henry's friends who attended the play?
(a) Sargent, Gosse and Philip Burne-Jones
(b) Hammond, Littlefield and Philip Smith
(c) Paul, Peter and Eric
(d) Minny, Constance and Hammond

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 1 where did Henry's dream take place?

2. When was the worst time for Alice when she had her most severe nervous breakdown?

3. What was Henry's brother, William, like?

4. What was the adjective one of the Wolseleys' guests used over and over again in discussing the characters in Henry's novels and in George Eliot's novels.

5. Who are the two relatives who appear in Henry's dream?

(see the answer key)

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