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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 news did Henry's friends, Jonathan Sturges and Edmond Gosse, bring him?
(a) Wilde's affair with the son of the Marquess of Queensberry
(b) the tremendous success of Wilde's latest play
(c) Wilde's wife was accused of adultery
(d) Oscar Wilde was very ill and confined to his bed.

2. Who was Burgess Noakes?
(a) the butler at Lamb House
(b) a magazine publisher friend of Henry's
(c) boy-boy and valet to Henry at Lamb House
(d) an old American friend who came to visit

3. Who is Gus Barker?
(a) a cousin of the Temple sisters, killed in the Civil War
(b) Henry's father's best friend
(c) another of Minny's suitors
(d) a fellow student of William's at Harvard

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Symonds's wife like?

2. Describe Alice, Henry's younger sister.

3. What possession of Henry's brother, Wilky, had such a powerful effect on him and influenced his writing?

4. What idea for a story comes to Henry while riding to dinner at the beginning of Chapter 4?

5. What would Alice, Henry's sister, have done about the predicament with the Smiths?

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