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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: May 1896.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What county in Ireland had Henry's ancestors come from?
(a) Cavan
(b) Tyrone
(c) Cork
(d) Kerry

2. What was Minny Temple like?
(a) light, curious, fresh and spontaneous
(b) demure and domestic
(c) unfriendly and unlikable
(d) serious and shy

3. What did Henry's father say that Minny took exception to?
(a) He was against abolition
(b) He said women were inferior in intellect and physical strength.
(c) He didn't like animals.
(d) He was critical of his sons and daughter.

4. How did Henry's sister Alice react when her mother died?
(a) She rallied and tried to be the mother of the house.
(b) She stayed in her bedroom and mourned.
(c) She became deathly ill and was hospitalized.
(d) She had a nervous breakdown.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What had William Dean Howells told Sturges during their meeting in Paris?

3. Who is John Gray?

4. Where did Henry , Alice and Aunt Kate visit together when Alice was suffering from hysteria?

5. When was the worst time for Alice when she had her most severe nervous breakdown?

(see the answer key)

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