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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. Who did Gosse say would produce unwashed boys to give evidence against Wilde?
(a) a newspaper reporter
(b) Douglas's father
(c) Sturges
(d) Lady Wolseley

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

3. How were the downstairs rooms at Lamb house like?
(a) large and airy
(b) elegant with large windows
(c) medium-sized and dark
(d) small and cozy

4. 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 didn't like Paris as well as London
(d) that he was ashamed to be a homosexual

5. Who helps Henry pick out furnishings for his house in Rye?
(a) Sturges
(b) Gosse
(c) Lady Wolseley
(d) hit aunt Kate

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How did the distinguished guest of the Jameses embarrass and shame Alice?

4. How did Henry treat the actors in his play?

5. What part of Henry's body began to hurt him?

(see the answer key)

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