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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Alice's arrival in England, what novel did Henry write that had a double portrait of her?
(a) Daisy Miller
(b) The Princess Casamassima
(c) The Bostonians
(d) Portrait of a Lady

2. What was Minny Temple like?
(a) demure and domestic
(b) serious and shy
(c) unfriendly and unlikable
(d) light, curious, fresh and spontaneous

3. 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) his friends, Sturges and Gosse
(d) a couple like the Symondses and their beloved son

4. What did Henry like about Americans?
(a) their Yankee practicality
(b) their independence and love of freedom
(c) their tolerance of others
(d) their yearning openness and readiness for experience

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

6. How did Henry like the court at Dublin Castle?
(a) He loved the distraction of the many balls.
(b) He felt at home and wished he too were nobility.
(c) He was impressed by the pomp and grandeur of it.
(d) He found it a weariness to flesh and spirit alike.

7. How was the only child guest at the Royal hospital dressed for the costume ball?
(a) as a fairy princess
(b) as the infanta of Velaquez' painting
(c) as Little Bo Peep
(d) as an angel

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

9. How many children did Oscar Wilde have and what gender were they?
(a) two boys
(b) a boy and a girl
(c) two girls
(d) two boys and a girl

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

11. 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

12. For whom had the Royal Hospital at Kilmainham been built?
(a) for war victims
(b) for the noble inhabitants of Dublin
(c) for old British soldiers of the seventeenth century
(d) for the general population of Dublin

13. Where had Henry found some of the names he used in his novels?
(a) tombstones
(b) newspaper articles
(c) wedding announcements
(d) obituaries and death notices

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

15. Who was Lord Houghton?
(a) lord lieutenant, representing the queen in Ireland
(b) a distant relative of Henry's
(c) an old friend of Henry's
(d) an English lord who dabbled in writing

Short Answer Questions

1. With what poet's sister did Henry compare Alice?

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

3. When was the worst time for Alice when she had her most severe nervous breakdown?

4. With whom had Sturges met to discuss Oscar Wilde's trial?

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

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