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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What idea for a story comes to Henry while riding to dinner at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) the story of an American family in England
(b) the story of an Irish princess falling in love with an Englishman
(c) the story of the affection of an orphaned brother and sister
(d) the story of an ill girl who has hallucinations

2. Who are the two relatives who appear in Henry's dream?
(a) his father and his brother William
(b) his Mother and his Aunt Kate
(c) his cousin, Minny, and his mother
(d) his brother, Wilky and his brother Bob

3. Who were the children in the ghost story Henry wrote?
(a) two young brothers
(b) three young sisters
(c) two girls and their younger brother
(d) a boy and his younger sister

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

5. Who visits Henry in the first chapter?
(a) his cousin Minny
(b) his brother William
(c) Oscar Wilde
(d) an expatriate Russian princess

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

7. What English locale did Henry fall in love with?
(a) Rye
(b) Cornwall
(c) Nottingham
(d) Brighton Beach

8. What famous novelist visited the Jameses in Paris?
(a) George Eliot
(b) Balzac
(c) Guy de Maupassant
(d) Thackery

9. What profession did Henry's friend, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., have?
(a) physician
(b) soldier
(c) judge
(d) journalist

10. Who did Aunt Kate say Alice would marry?
(a) Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(b) Ned Lowell
(c) her older brother William
(d) Charles Kingsley

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

12. What situation leads Henry to compose a new story?
(a) His father's outgrageous outburst against women
(b) Holmes, Gray and himself seeking Minny's affection
(c) Henry's experience when sleeping with Holmes
(d) Minny's courageous defense of her opinions

13. 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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom had the Royal Hospital at Kilmainham been built?

2. What was the name of the only child at the Hospital?

3. Where did Henry , Alice and Aunt Kate visit together when Alice was suffering from hysteria?

4. Who is Gus Barker?

5. What had Hammond been before he was employed by the Wolseleys?

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