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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the distinguished guest of the Jameses embarrass and shame Alice?
(a) By making the remark that she was homely and umkempt
(b) By exclaiming that she wore a crinoline and it was depraved
(c) By remarking on her table manners not being refined
(d) By exclaiming that she was terribly skinny and looked ill

2. Who was Mr. Webster?
(a) Lady Wolseley's nephew
(b) the cook at the Royal Hospital
(c) the MP, friend of Lady Wolseley and foe to Henry
(d) a servant at the Royal Hospital

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

4. With what poet's sister did Henry compare Alice?
(a) Dorothy Wordsworth
(b) Mary Burns
(c) Emily Keats
(d) Lydia Shelly

5. How does Webster insult Henry at dinner?
(a) alludes to the low heritage of the James family
(b) makes insulting remarks about Americans
(c) talks about the inferiority of homosexuals
(d) puts down writers as fools

6. What did Oscar Wilde's wife do because of the scandal and trial?
(a) committed suicide
(b) denounced him in an article in the London Times
(c) moved to Switzerland with her children and changed her name
(d) came to London to stand by him

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 became deathly ill and was hospitalized.
(d) She had a nervous breakdown.

8. Who was Henry's lost homosexual love?
(a) Lionel
(b) Paul
(c) Peter
(d) Eric

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

10. How did Henry like to be seen as a writer by people?
(a) as a writer who would be known as a genius in the future
(b) as a noble, selfless non-materialist devoted to his art
(c) as a playwright not a novelist
(d) as a popular, rich success

11. 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.

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

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

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

15. What did Henry's father say was a woman's job?
(a) help make ends meet by earning some money
(b) be submissive, cook, do needlework and care for her children.
(c) be a sweetheart and lover
(d) be a helpmeet to her husband in his career

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Henry visit first after his play was a failure in London?

2. What county in Ireland had Henry's ancestors come from?

3. Who was Minny Temple?

4. Where did Henry's story appear in print?

5. What was Symonds's wife like?

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