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

2. Who were the children in the ghost story Henry wrote?
(a) two young brothers
(b) two girls and their younger brother
(c) three young sisters
(d) a boy and his younger sister

3. What had William Dean Howells told Sturges during their meeting in Paris?
(a) that he was ashamed to be a homosexual
(b) that he didn't like Paris as well as London
(c) that Sturges should live and be glad of it while he was young
(d) that he was ready finally to have a romantic fling

4. For whom had the Royal Hospital at Kilmainham been built?
(a) for old British soldiers of the seventeenth century
(b) for war victims
(c) for the general population of Dublin
(d) for the noble inhabitants of Dublin

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What situation leads Henry to compose a new story?

2. What did Yeats tell Gosse about Oscar Wilde's house and family?

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

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

5. What had intrigued John Addington Symonds?

(see the answer key)

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