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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did Henry treat the actors in his play?
(a) He criticized their acting ability.
(b) He ignored them.
(c) He spoiled them with hampers of food.
(d) He complemented their acting ability constantly.

3. Who are the two relatives who appear in Henry's dream?
(a) his father and his brother William
(b) his Mother and his Aunt Kate
(c) his cousin, Minny, and his mother
(d) his brother, Wilky and his brother Bob

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

5. What had Henry heard about Oscar Wilde's parents?
(a) His mother was a lesbian, his father a homosexual
(b) His mother was mad or revolutionary , his father a philanderer.
(c) His parents were of the Irish nobility.
(d) Wilde's parents had disowned him for being homosexual.

6. Who did Henry visit first after his play was a failure in London?
(a) his Aunt Kate
(b) William, his brother
(c) Lord Houghton
(d) Minny, his cousin

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

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

9. What did Henry like about Americans?
(a) their independence and love of freedom
(b) their yearning openness and readiness for experience
(c) their tolerance of others
(d) their Yankee practicality

10. What did Henry like about Holmes Jr.?
(a) his steadfast friendship
(b) his intellectuality and solemness
(c) his wordiness and bursts of sermon-like phrases
(d) his honesty and forthrightness

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

12. Why were the family meals a trial for Alice?
(a) Bob and Wilky teased her and left her defenseless.
(b) She had no appetite and was constantly urged to eat.
(c) She was asked by her parents to tell about her day.
(d) She didn't like being with the family but wanted to be alone.

13. What is the title of Henry's play which is having its premiere?
(a) Daisy Miller
(b) Civil War Nightmare
(c) Portrait of a Lady
(d) Guy Domville

14. What did Henry base the story he wrote at the end of Chapter 4 on?
(a) his friends, Sturges and Gosse
(b) Oscar Wilde's wife and children
(c) a couple like the Symondses and their beloved son
(d) Oscar Wilde's trial

15. What did Henry's father say that Minny took exception to?
(a) He said women were inferior in intellect and physical strength.
(b) He was critical of his sons and daughter.
(c) He was against abolition
(d) He didn't like animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the dilemma of the main character in Henry's play?

2. Who was Mr. Webster?

3. What did the emerging story idea do for Henry?

4. What did Henry think of Oscar Wilde's play, AN IDEAL HUSBAND?

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

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