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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: April 1895.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Henry James Senior die?
(a) ten years after his wife died
(b) within a year after his wife died
(c) three years after his wife died
(d) four years after his wife died

2. Who was Henry's lost homosexual love?
(a) Lionel
(b) Eric
(c) Peter
(d) Paul

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

4. How does Webster insult Henry at dinner?
(a) makes insulting remarks about Americans
(b) talks about the inferiority of homosexuals
(c) alludes to the low heritage of the James family
(d) puts down writers as fools

5. With what poet's sister did Henry compare Alice?
(a) Emily Keats
(b) Mary Burns
(c) Dorothy Wordsworth
(d) Lydia Shelly

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gosse say Wilde's children looked like?

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

3. Who did Gosse say would produce unwashed boys to give evidence against Wilde?

4. What news did Henry's friends, Jonathan Sturges and Edmond Gosse, bring him?

5. Who were the children in the ghost story Henry wrote?

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