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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What had Henry heard about Oscar Wilde's parents?
(a) His mother was a lesbian, his father a homosexual
(b) His parents were of the Irish nobility.
(c) His mother was mad or revolutionary , his father a philanderer.
(d) Wilde's parents had disowned him for being homosexual.

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

4. Who was Hammond?
(a) Henry's manservant at the Royal Hospital
(b) One of Lord Wolseley's guests
(c) Henry's cousin
(d) Henry's lost love from the past

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

6. What did Henry's father say that Minny took exception to?
(a) He was against abolition
(b) He didn't like animals.
(c) He was critical of his sons and daughter.
(d) He said women were inferior in intellect and physical strength.

7. What did Henry have to occupy his time with in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) showing friends and relatives around London
(b) visiting a sick friend daily
(c) writing columns for the London Times
(d) writing letters to his many friends

8. What county in Ireland had Henry's ancestors come from?
(a) Kerry
(b) Tyrone
(c) Cavan
(d) Cork

9. What did Henry answer when Hammond asked where his loyalty would lie if there were a war between Great Britain and the U.S.?
(a) His loyalty would lie in making peace between them.
(b) His loyalty would lie with Great Britain.
(c) His loyalty would lie with the United States.
(d) He was indifferent.

10. What did the emerging story idea do for Henry?
(a) gave him the hope he might make a lot of money
(b) filled him with fear that he couldn't bring it off
(c) lifted him out of gloom and filled him with hope for his writing
(d) inspired him to turn it into a play

11. Who led Henry onto the stage after the play?
(a) Gosse
(b) Alexander
(c) Peter
(d) Paul

12. How did the audience like Oscar Wilde's play, AN IDEAL HUSBAND?
(a) They loved it.
(b) They were shocked by it.
(c) They hated it.
(d) They were bored with it.

13. What is the name of the producer and lead actor of Henry's play?
(a) Alexander
(b) Oscar
(c) Trevor
(d) William

14. Who did Gosse say would produce unwashed boys to give evidence against Wilde?
(a) Douglas's father
(b) Sturges
(c) Lady Wolseley
(d) a newspaper reporter

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Henry decide to travel to Ireland?

2. What was the adjective one of the Wolseleys' guests used over and over again in discussing the characters in Henry's novels and in George Eliot's novels.

3. Who did Aunt Kate say Alice would marry?

4. What upsets Henry the most when visiting the Wolseleys?

5. What had William Dean Howells told Sturges during their meeting in Paris?

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