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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Henry have to occupy his time with in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) writing columns for the London Times
(b) writing letters to his many friends
(c) showing friends and relatives around London
(d) visiting a sick friend daily

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

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

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

6. What mutual friend became the topic of conversation between Gosse and Henry after the trial?
(a) Yeats
(b) George Bernard Shaw
(c) Sturges
(d) John Addington Symonds

7. 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) His father watched a female bather too intensely.
(c) Henry fell in love with the city of Boulogne.
(d) Henry saved a drowning girl.

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

9. What idea for a story comes to Henry while riding to dinner at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) the story of an Irish princess falling in love with an Englishman
(b) the story of an ill girl who has hallucinations
(c) the story of an American family in England
(d) the story of the affection of an orphaned brother and sister

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

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

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

13. In Chapter 1 where did Henry's dream take place?
(a) America
(b) New England
(c) Italy
(d) England

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

15. In what century is the play set?
(a) seventeenth century
(b) sixteenth century
(c) nineteenth century
(d) eighteenth century

Short Answer Questions

1. Who visits Henry in the first chapter?

2. When Henry decides to write his own version of the ghost story, where does he finally decide it should take place?

3. Where did Henry , Alice and Aunt Kate visit together when Alice was suffering from hysteria?

4. Who did Aunt Kate say Alice would marry?

5. Who was Minny Temple?

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