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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. How did the audience like Henry's play?
(a) They loved it.
(b) They were luke warm about it.
(c) They were indifferent.
(d) They booed it and disliked it.

2. What did Holmes not disclose to Henry but did discuss with William, his brother?
(a) details about the cases he tried
(b) his casual attitude toward women and the Civil War
(c) whom he was in love with
(d) his thoughts about England

3. What did Hendrick Andersen and Henry James have in common?
(a) They both loved classical music.
(b) They were both writers.
(c) They were both obsessed with the past.
(d) They both lived in Newport as children.

4. What does Henry seek to correct about the American girls he tours Paris with?
(a) their rude manners
(b) their flirtatiousness with European men
(c) their gaudy clothes
(d) their speech, the way they drop consonants

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Constance had a letter of introduction from whom which she gave Henry?

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

3. What does William, Henry's brother, do which Henry views as an insult?

4. What did Henry do after the play ended?

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

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