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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 ordinary, his family introverted and fearful
(d) his house was small and unimposing, his family unattractive

2. Where was Oscar Wilde's play held?
(a) the Haymarket
(b) St. George's Theatre
(c) the Royal theatre
(d) Coventry

3. What part of Henry's body began to hurt him?
(a) his foot
(b) his hand
(c) his arm
(d) his eyes

4. Where did Henry , Alice and Aunt Kate visit together when Alice was suffering from hysteria?
(a) Venice
(b) Geneva
(c) Rome
(d) Boston

5. 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) He was indifferent.
(c) His loyalty would lie with the United States.
(d) His loyalty would lie with Great Britain.

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

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

8. 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) Minny's courageous defense of her opinions
(d) Henry's experience when sleeping with Holmes

9. With whom did Alice develop a close friendship after her parents died?
(a) Mrs. Charles Kingsley
(b) Katherine Loring
(c) her cousin Minny
(d) Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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

11. How did the distinguished guest of the Jameses embarrass and shame Alice?
(a) By exclaiming that she wore a crinoline and it was depraved
(b) By remarking on her table manners not being refined
(c) By exclaiming that she was terribly skinny and looked ill
(d) By making the remark that she was homely and umkempt

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

13. In what century is the play set?
(a) eighteenth century
(b) seventeenth century
(c) nineteenth century
(d) sixteenth century

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

15. When did Henry James Senior die?
(a) four years after his wife died
(b) within a year after his wife died
(c) ten years after his wife died
(d) three years after his wife died

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hammond look like?

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

3. After Alice's arrival in England, what novel did Henry write that had a double portrait of her?

4. What did Henry base the story he wrote at the end of Chapter 4 on?

5. What did Henry like about Holmes Jr.?

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