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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 upsets Henry the most when visiting the Wolseleys?
(a) The servants are mistreated.
(b) The young daughter of one of the guests is ignored.
(c) The horses in the stables are starving.
(d) It's bitterly cold in his room

2. Who is the love of Oscar Wilde's life?
(a) Yeats
(b) John
(c) his wife
(d) Bosie

3. What did Henry like about Holmes Jr.?
(a) his honesty and forthrightness
(b) his intellectuality and solemness
(c) his steadfast friendship
(d) his wordiness and bursts of sermon-like phrases

4. What did Holmes not disclose to Henry but did discuss with William, his brother?
(a) details about the cases he tried
(b) his thoughts about England
(c) whom he was in love with
(d) his casual attitude toward women and the Civil War

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Henry think of Oscar Wilde's play, AN IDEAL HUSBAND?

2. What did Wilky and Bob have in common?

3. What did Henry discover under the stairs of the house in Newport?

4. Where had Henry found some of the names he used in his novels?

5. What had intrigued John Addington Symonds?

(see the answer key)

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