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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. Who are some of Henry's friends who attended the play?
(a) Hammond, Littlefield and Philip Smith
(b) Minny, Constance and Hammond
(c) Paul, Peter and Eric
(d) Sargent, Gosse and Philip Burne-Jones

2. Where was Oscar Wilde's play held?
(a) Coventry
(b) the Royal theatre
(c) St. George's Theatre
(d) the Haymarket

3. With what poet's sister did Henry compare Alice?
(a) Dorothy Wordsworth
(b) Mary Burns
(c) Emily Keats
(d) Lydia Shelly

4. What upsets Henry the most when visiting the Wolseleys?
(a) It's bitterly cold in his room
(b) The servants are mistreated.
(c) The horses in the stables are starving.
(d) The young daughter of one of the guests is ignored.

5. What idea for a story comes to Henry while riding to dinner at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) the story of the affection of an orphaned brother and sister
(b) the story of an American family in England
(c) the story of an ill girl who has hallucinations
(d) the story of an Irish princess falling in love with an Englishman

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What county in Ireland had Henry's ancestors come from?

4. Who is the love of Oscar Wilde's life?

5. Which novel of Henry's mentioned at the end of Chapter 5 was a tribute to Minny?

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