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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. Who did Henry visit first after his play was a failure in London?
(a) his Aunt Kate
(b) William, his brother
(c) Lord Houghton
(d) Minny, his cousin

2. Describe Alice, Henry's younger sister.
(a) She was a robust, happy girl.
(b) She was pretty but shallow.
(c) She was in ill health but stoic.
(d) She was healthy and very athletic.

3. What did Henry base the story he wrote at the end of Chapter 4 on?
(a) his friends, Sturges and Gosse
(b) Oscar Wilde's wife and children
(c) Oscar Wilde's trial
(d) a couple like the Symondses and their beloved son

4. Henry remembers that Constance was depressed when?
(a) in the summer months and when visited by Americans
(b) on completing a novel and in the winter months
(c) when considering her age and being single
(d) in the fall and when she had no inspiration to write

5. What did Yeats tell Gosse about Oscar Wilde's house and family?
(a) his house, wife and children were warm, perfect and beautiful
(b) his house was small and unimposing, his family unattractive
(c) his house was ordinary, his family introverted and fearful
(d) his house was forbidding, his wife and children ordinary

Short Answer Questions

1. Who led Henry onto the stage after the play?

2. What did William want to be at first?

3. What was Symonds's wife like?

4. What did Henry give a moving speech about at a party in Rome?

5. Who was the famous mother of Maud Elliot?

(see the answer key)

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