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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was it who told a ghost story to Henry which intrigued him?
(a) the archbishop of Canterbury
(b) his father
(c) his aunt Kate
(d) his friend Benson

2. How did Alice behave when a young man came into the room?
(a) She left the room immediately.
(b) She became garrulous, shrill and uneasy.
(c) She made a point of ignoring the young man.
(d) She became extremely flirtatious.

3. How did Henry's sister Alice react when her mother died?
(a) She became deathly ill and was hospitalized.
(b) She rallied and tried to be the mother of the house.
(c) She stayed in her bedroom and mourned.
(d) She had a nervous breakdown.

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

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

6. What was Henry's brother, William, like?
(a) He was exuberant, strong and popular
(b) He was quiet and intellectual
(c) He was shy and retiring
(d) He was a sickly boy

7. Where did Henry's story appear in print?
(a) the Irish Illustrated Magazine
(b) as a published book in London
(c) the New England Quarterly
(d) the English Illustrated Magazine

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

9. Who are some of Henry's friends who attended the play?
(a) Hammond, Littlefield and Philip Smith
(b) Sargent, Gosse and Philip Burne-Jones
(c) Paul, Peter and Eric
(d) Minny, Constance and Hammond

10. Who was the person Alice disliked and lived below her in London?
(a) a clergyman
(b) a nurse
(c) a prim English woman
(d) a novelist

11. Where did Henry go on the opening night of his play?
(a) He went to the opera.
(b) He attended Oscar Wilde's new play.
(c) He went for a walk in the park.
(d) He went to a restaurant and drank.

12. Who was Minny Temple?
(a) Wendell's cousin
(b) an imaginary character in one of Henry's novels
(c) Wendell's girlfriend
(d) Henry's cousin

13. Why did Henry decide to travel to Ireland?
(a) It was near and the people he visited hadn't seen his play.
(b) He loved the landscape.
(c) He wanted to write a novel about Ireland.
(d) His ancestors had come from there.

14. What had Hammond been before he was employed by the Wolseleys?
(a) an actor
(b) a servant at Dublin Castle
(c) a lieutenant in the army
(d) an army corporal

15. 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 ill girl who has hallucinations
(c) the story of an American family in England
(d) the story of an Irish princess falling in love with an Englishman

Short Answer Questions

1. Which novel of Henry's mentioned at the end of Chapter 5 was a tribute to Minny?

2. What had Henry purchases before he left London?

3. What had Henry heard about Oscar Wilde's parents?

4. What had happened when Henry walked with his father on the beach in Boulogne?

5. How did Henry like to be seen as a writer by people?

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