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

2. After Alice's arrival in England, what novel did Henry write that had a double portrait of her?
(a) Portrait of a Lady
(b) The Princess Casamassima
(c) The Bostonians
(d) Daisy Miller

3. Who was Hammond?
(a) Henry's manservant at the Royal Hospital
(b) Henry's lost love from the past
(c) One of Lord Wolseley's guests
(d) Henry's cousin

4. What news did Henry's friends, Jonathan Sturges and Edmond Gosse, bring him?
(a) Wilde's wife was accused of adultery
(b) Wilde's affair with the son of the Marquess of Queensberry
(c) Oscar Wilde was very ill and confined to his bed.
(d) the tremendous success of Wilde's latest play

5. How did Henry like the court at Dublin Castle?
(a) He felt at home and wished he too were nobility.
(b) He loved the distraction of the many balls.
(c) He was impressed by the pomp and grandeur of it.
(d) He found it a weariness to flesh and spirit alike.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Henry heard about Oscar Wilde's parents?

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

3. With whom had Sturges met to discuss Oscar Wilde's trial?

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. What had Hammond been before he was employed by the Wolseleys?

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