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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 was small and unimposing, his family unattractive
(c) his house was ordinary, his family introverted and fearful
(d) his house, wife and children were warm, perfect and beautiful

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

4. Who was Hammond?
(a) One of Lord Wolseley's guests
(b) Henry's manservant at the Royal Hospital
(c) Henry's lost love from the past
(d) Henry's cousin

5. What does Lady Wolseley insinuate when assigning Hammond to serve Henry?
(a) that Henry should be treated like royalty
(b) that Henry isn't capable of taking care of himself
(c) that Henry likes to be waited on hand and foot
(d) that it will be a match since they're both homosexuals

6. Describe Alice, Henry's younger sister.
(a) She was healthy and very athletic.
(b) She was a robust, happy girl.
(c) She was in ill health but stoic.
(d) She was pretty but shallow.

7. Who is the love of Oscar Wilde's life?
(a) his wife
(b) John
(c) Yeats
(d) Bosie

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

9. What did Holmes not disclose to Henry but did discuss with William, his brother?
(a) his thoughts about England
(b) his casual attitude toward women and the Civil War
(c) whom he was in love with
(d) details about the cases he tried

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

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

12. 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 an Irish princess falling in love with an Englishman
(c) the story of an American family in England
(d) the story of the affection of an orphaned brother and sister

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

14. What had Henry purchases before he left London?
(a) a new writing desk
(b) a fashionable summer suit
(c) a walking cane
(d) a bicycle

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was it who told a ghost story to Henry which intrigued him?

2. How did Henry like the court at Dublin Castle?

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

4. When was the worst time for Alice when she had her most severe nervous breakdown?

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.

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