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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. What does Henry like about the American girls' reaction to Paris?
(a) their interest in historical facts about the city.
(b) their desire to walk everywhere and keep journals
(c) their interest in art and museums
(d) their delight in the colors, vistas and grandeur of Paris

2. Where did Henry spend time that summer in Chapter 6?
(a) in Venice
(b) in the villages of the Suffolk coast
(c) in Ireland
(d) on a vist to America

3. How did Henry like the court at Dublin Castle?
(a) He was impressed by the pomp and grandeur of it.
(b) He felt at home and wished he too were nobility.
(c) He found it a weariness to flesh and spirit alike.
(d) He loved the distraction of the many balls.

4. Who had once stayed in the guest room at Lamb House?
(a) George I
(b) George Bernard Shaw
(c) Queen Victoria
(d) Lord Tennyson

5. Who wrote a letter from Venice to Henry in the beginning of Chapter 8?
(a) Mrs. Curtis, the owner of Palazzo Barbaro
(b) Mrs. Scalia the owner of Hotel San Marco
(c) Mrs. D'Onofrio the owner of Hotel Venezia
(d) Mrs. Bellini the owner of Pension Giovanni

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Henry decide to travel to Ireland?

2. What is the dilemma of the main character in Henry's play?

3. Who became a regular visitor of Henry's while he was preparing to leave London?

4. In what century is the play set?

5. Who was Lord Alfred Douglas?

(see the answer key)

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