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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9: March 1899.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did Gosse say Wilde's children looked like?
(a) beggar children
(b) hoodlums
(c) leprechauns
(d) angels

4. What advantage did Emerson say Henry James, Sr. had over him?
(a) a large family
(b) first-hand knowledge of suffering and being alone to study
(c) a more thorough knowledge of the Bible
(d) an understanding wife

5. With whom did Alice develop a close friendship after her parents died?
(a) her cousin Minny
(b) Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(c) Mrs. Charles Kingsley
(d) Katherine Loring

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the only child at the Hospital?

2. What was Symonds's wife like?

3. What had Hammond been before he was employed by the Wolseleys?

4. How many children did Oscar Wilde have and what gender were they?

5. Why were the family meals a trial for Alice?

(see the answer key)

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