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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 Hammond look like?
(a) He was tall with brown eyes without a mustache or beard
(b) He was tall and blond with blue eyes
(c) He was medium height with green eyes and a mustache
(d) He was short with brown eyes and a beard

2. Who are some of Henry's friends who attended the play?
(a) Hammond, Littlefield and Philip Smith
(b) Minny, Constance and Hammond
(c) Sargent, Gosse and Philip Burne-Jones
(d) Paul, Peter and Eric

3. What idea for a story comes to Henry while riding to dinner at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) the story of the affection of an orphaned brother and sister
(b) the story of an ill girl who has hallucinations
(c) the story of an Irish princess falling in love with an Englishman
(d) the story of an American family in England

4. In what century is the play set?
(a) nineteenth century
(b) eighteenth century
(c) sixteenth century
(d) seventeenth century

5. Who did Aunt Kate say Alice would marry?
(a) Ned Lowell
(b) Charles Kingsley
(c) Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(d) her older brother William

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Oscar Wilde's play held?

2. When did Henry James Senior die?

3. What is the dilemma of the main character in Henry's play?

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

5. How was the only child guest at the Royal hospital dressed for the costume ball?

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