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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) sensitive
(b) intelligent
(c) blank
(d) boring

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

3. What was Symonds's wife like?
(a) a narrow, cold, Calvinistic, dull woman
(b) a romantic, adoring wife
(c) a dutiful, domestic wife
(d) a fiery Italian beauty

4. With whom had Sturges met to discuss Oscar Wilde's trial?
(a) Wilde's parents
(b) George Bernard Shaw
(c) Lord Wolseley
(d) Lady Wolseley

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

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

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

8. What did Hammond look like?
(a) He was medium height with green eyes and a mustache
(b) He was short with brown eyes and a beard
(c) He was tall with brown eyes without a mustache or beard
(d) He was tall and blond with blue eyes

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

10. What did Henry do after the play ended?
(a) visited the nearest pub and got drunk
(b) slunk home in disgrace
(c) sat on a park bench half the night
(d) waited in the shadows then returned bravely to face the actors

11. What upsets Henry the most when visiting the Wolseleys?
(a) The horses in the stables are starving.
(b) The servants are mistreated.
(c) It's bitterly cold in his room
(d) The young daughter of one of the guests is ignored.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where had Henry found some of the names he used in his novels?

2. What does Lady Wolseley insinuate when assigning Hammond to serve Henry?

3. What did Yeats tell Gosse about Oscar Wilde's house and family?

4. What part of Henry's body began to hurt him?

5. How did Henry's sister Alice react when her mother died?

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