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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. With whom did Alice develop a close friendship after her parents died?
(a) Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(b) her cousin Minny
(c) Katherine Loring
(d) Mrs. Charles Kingsley

2. What did the emerging story idea do for Henry?
(a) filled him with fear that he couldn't bring it off
(b) inspired him to turn it into a play
(c) lifted him out of gloom and filled him with hope for his writing
(d) gave him the hope he might make a lot of money

3. What is the name of the producer and lead actor of Henry's play?
(a) Alexander
(b) William
(c) Trevor
(d) Oscar

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

5. How many children did Oscar Wilde have and what gender were they?
(a) two girls
(b) two boys and a girl
(c) a boy and a girl
(d) two boys

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Yeats tell Gosse about Oscar Wilde's house and family?

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

3. For whom had the Royal Hospital at Kilmainham been built?

4. What did Hammond look like?

5. 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.

(see the answer key)

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