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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 had Sturges met to discuss Oscar Wilde's trial?
(a) Lady Wolseley
(b) Wilde's parents
(c) George Bernard Shaw
(d) Lord Wolseley

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

3. Who was Lord Alfred Douglas?
(a) Wilde's cousin
(b) Lord Wolseley's cousin
(c) a homosexual friend who slept with Wilde's boys after he did
(d) Henry's friend and patron

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

5. When Henry decides to write his own version of the ghost story, where does he finally decide it should take place?
(a) in the present in New England
(b) in the past in England
(c) in a remote house on the rocks in Newport
(d) in an old mansion in New York

Short Answer Questions

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

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.

3. Describe Alice, Henry's younger sister.

4. Why did Henry decide to travel to Ireland?

5. Who did Gosse say would produce unwashed boys to give evidence against Wilde?

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