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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 did Henry like about Americans?
(a) their Yankee practicality
(b) their independence and love of freedom
(c) their yearning openness and readiness for experience
(d) their tolerance of others

2. What did Henry answer when Hammond asked where his loyalty would lie if there were a war between Great Britain and the U.S.?
(a) He was indifferent.
(b) His loyalty would lie with the United States.
(c) His loyalty would lie in making peace between them.
(d) His loyalty would lie with Great Britain.

3. What did Henry think of Oscar Wilde's play, AN IDEAL HUSBAND?
(a) He thought it was too intellectual.
(b) He thought it was boring.
(c) He thought it was feeble and vulgar.
(d) He thought it was clever and amusing.

4. How many children did Oscar Wilde have and what gender were they?
(a) two boys
(b) two boys and a girl
(c) two girls
(d) a boy and a girl

5. Why did Henry decide to travel to Ireland?
(a) It was near and the people he visited hadn't seen his play.
(b) His ancestors had come from there.
(c) He wanted to write a novel about Ireland.
(d) He loved the landscape.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Gus Barker?

2. Where had Henry found some of the names he used in his novels?

3. What did Gosse say Wilde's children looked like?

4. Describe Alice, Henry's younger sister.

5. What was Henry's brother, William, like?

(see the answer key)

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