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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. Who was it who told a ghost story to Henry which intrigued him?
(a) his father
(b) his aunt Kate
(c) his friend Benson
(d) the archbishop of Canterbury

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

3. What did Henry base the story he wrote at the end of Chapter 4 on?
(a) a couple like the Symondses and their beloved son
(b) his friends, Sturges and Gosse
(c) Oscar Wilde's trial
(d) Oscar Wilde's wife and children

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Henry think of Oscar Wilde's play, AN IDEAL HUSBAND?

2. What does Lady Wolseley insinuate when assigning Hammond to serve Henry?

3. What is the title of Henry's play which is having its premiere?

4. Who were the children in the ghost story Henry wrote?

5. Who are some of Henry's friends who attended the play?

(see the answer key)

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