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

2. Where was Oscar Wilde's play held?
(a) Coventry
(b) the Haymarket
(c) St. George's Theatre
(d) the Royal theatre

3. What famous novelist visited the Jameses in Paris?
(a) Thackery
(b) Balzac
(c) George Eliot
(d) Guy de Maupassant

4. Who was the person Alice disliked and lived below her in London?
(a) a nurse
(b) a clergyman
(c) a novelist
(d) a prim English woman

5. In Chapter 1 where did Henry's dream take place?
(a) America
(b) Italy
(c) England
(d) New England

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Henry decides to write his own version of the ghost story, where does he finally decide it should take place?

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

4. What upsets Henry the most when visiting the Wolseleys?

5. Who led Henry onto the stage after the play?

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