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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11: October 1899.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Henry's father live on?
(a) his inheritance, rent and dividends
(b) his writing
(c) his wife's fortune
(d) his children's earnings

2. What idea for a story comes to Henry while riding to dinner at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) the story of the affection of an orphaned brother and sister
(b) the story of an American family in England
(c) the story of an Irish princess falling in love with an Englishman
(d) the story of an ill girl who has hallucinations

3. What had happened when Henry walked with his father on the beach in Boulogne?
(a) He and his father bonded for the first time.
(b) Henry saved a drowning girl.
(c) His father watched a female bather too intensely.
(d) Henry fell in love with the city of Boulogne.

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

5. What was the name of the only child at the Hospital?
(a) Mona
(b) Marilyn
(c) Mary
(d) Minny

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Henry go on the opening night of his play?

3. What did Alice, William's wife, offer Henry when she heard of his wish to buy Lamb House?

4. How did Henry like the court at Dublin Castle?

5. What was Minny Temple like?

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