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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: June 1898.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What mutual friend became the topic of conversation between Gosse and Henry after the trial?
(a) John Addington Symonds
(b) Yeats
(c) George Bernard Shaw
(d) Sturges

2. What was the significance of the 54th Massachusetts Civil War Regiment?
(a) It was the first primarily black regiment of the American army
(b) Henry's brother William had served in it.
(c) Henry had almost joined the regiment.
(d) It was the main theme of one of Henry's stories

3. Who was it who told a ghost story to Henry which intrigued him?
(a) his aunt Kate
(b) his friend Benson
(c) the archbishop of Canterbury
(d) his father

4. How did Alice behave when a young man came into the room?
(a) She left the room immediately.
(b) She made a point of ignoring the young man.
(c) She became garrulous, shrill and uneasy.
(d) She became extremely flirtatious.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Henry's cousins joined the army in the first year of the war?

2. With whom had Sturges met to discuss Oscar Wilde's trial?

3. After Alice's arrival in England, what novel did Henry write that had a double portrait of her?

4. Who was Hammond?

5. What was the name of the doctor who examined Henry?

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