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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 Oscar Wilde's wife do because of the scandal and trial?
(a) came to London to stand by him
(b) denounced him in an article in the London Times
(c) committed suicide
(d) moved to Switzerland with her children and changed her name

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

3. What did Yeats tell Gosse about Oscar Wilde's house and family?
(a) his house was forbidding, his wife and children ordinary
(b) his house was ordinary, his family introverted and fearful
(c) his house was small and unimposing, his family unattractive
(d) his house, wife and children were warm, perfect and beautiful

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

5. What famous novelist visited the Jameses in Paris?
(a) Guy de Maupassant
(b) George Eliot
(c) Balzac
(d) Thackery

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Webster insult Henry at dinner?

2. Who is John Gray?

3. Who was Hammond?

4. Who did Gosse say would produce unwashed boys to give evidence against Wilde?

5. What is the name of the producer and lead actor of Henry's play?

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