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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which novel of Henry's mentioned at the end of Chapter 5 was a tribute to Minny?
(a) Portrait of a Lady
(b) Daisy Miller
(c) The Bostonians
(d) The Princess Casamassima

3. What had intrigued John Addington Symonds?
(a) fairytales
(b) Italy and its beauty
(c) Greek ethics, love between men
(d) Baroque art and music

4. Who was Lord Alfred Douglas?
(a) Wilde's cousin
(b) a homosexual friend who slept with Wilde's boys after he did
(c) Lord Wolseley's cousin
(d) Henry's friend and patron

5. 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.
(a) intelligent
(b) boring
(c) blank
(d) sensitive

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 said women were inferior in intellect and physical strength.
(d) He was critical of his sons and daughter.

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

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

9. Where was Henry's play held?
(a) Covent Gardens
(b) St. James Theatre
(c) the Haymarket
(d) Price Albert's Theatre

10. What had happened when Henry walked with his father on the beach in Boulogne?
(a) Henry fell in love with the city of Boulogne.
(b) Henry saved a drowning girl.
(c) His father watched a female bather too intensely.
(d) He and his father bonded for the first time.

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

12. 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 with the United States.
(b) His loyalty would lie in making peace between them.
(c) His loyalty would lie with Great Britain.
(d) He was indifferent.

13. 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) Oscar Wilde's wife and children
(c) Oscar Wilde's trial
(d) his friends, Sturges and Gosse

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Henry like about Holmes Jr.?

2. How did Henry treat the actors in his play?

3. Who was Henry's lost homosexual love?

4. What did Henry's father say was a woman's job?

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

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