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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 was the name of the only child at the Hospital?
(a) Minny
(b) Mona
(c) Marilyn
(d) Mary

2. 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.
(a) boring
(b) blank
(c) intelligent
(d) sensitive

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

4. How did the audience like Henry's play?
(a) They loved it.
(b) They were luke warm about it.
(c) They were indifferent.
(d) They booed it and disliked it.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Henry go on the opening night of his play?

2. Who was Lord Alfred Douglas?

3. What did Henry do after the play ended?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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