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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 situation leads Henry to compose a new story?
(a) Holmes, Gray and himself seeking Minny's affection
(b) Minny's courageous defense of her opinions
(c) His father's outgrageous outburst against women
(d) Henry's experience when sleeping with Holmes

2. Who visits Henry in the first chapter?
(a) his cousin Minny
(b) his brother William
(c) an expatriate Russian princess
(d) Oscar Wilde

3. What had Henry's friend, Edward Warren, offered to do for Henry?
(a) make drawings of the houses in Henry's novels
(b) find him a house outside London where he could write
(c) help him pay for the stenographer
(d) introduce him to some English nobility as possible patrons

4. What is the title of Henry's play which is having its premiere?
(a) Guy Domville
(b) Portrait of a Lady
(c) Civil War Nightmare
(d) Daisy Miller

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the audience like Henry's play?

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

3. What did Oscar Wilde's wife do because of the scandal and trial?

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

5. Who was George Gammon?

(see the answer key)

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