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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. How did Henry's sister Alice react when her mother died?
(a) She became deathly ill and was hospitalized.
(b) She rallied and tried to be the mother of the house.
(c) She had a nervous breakdown.
(d) She stayed in her bedroom and mourned.

2. What had intrigued John Addington Symonds?
(a) Italy and its beauty
(b) Greek ethics, love between men
(c) fairytales
(d) Baroque art and music

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

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

5. What did Henry think of Oscar Wilde's play, AN IDEAL HUSBAND?
(a) He thought it was clever and amusing.
(b) He thought it was boring.
(c) He thought it was feeble and vulgar.
(d) He thought it was too intellectual.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the emerging story idea do for Henry?

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

3. What did Henry base the story he wrote at the end of Chapter 4 on?

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. In what century is the play set?

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