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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who was Minny Temple?
(a) an imaginary character in one of Henry's novels
(b) Wendell's cousin
(c) Henry's cousin
(d) Wendell's girlfriend

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

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

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

8. 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) Oscar Wilde's wife and children
(d) a couple like the Symondses and their beloved son

9. What news did Henry's friends, Jonathan Sturges and Edmond Gosse, bring him?
(a) Oscar Wilde was very ill and confined to his bed.
(b) Wilde's wife was accused of adultery
(c) Wilde's affair with the son of the Marquess of Queensberry
(d) the tremendous success of Wilde's latest play

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

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

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

14. What was the name of the only child at the Hospital?
(a) Marilyn
(b) Mary
(c) Minny
(d) Mona

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Henry go on the opening night of his play?

2. How did the distinguished guest of the Jameses embarrass and shame Alice?

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

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

5. What had Henry purchases before he left London?

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