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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 loved it.
(b) They were shocked by it.
(c) They hated it.
(d) They were bored with it.

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

3. Who did Aunt Kate say Alice would marry?
(a) her older brother William
(b) Ned Lowell
(c) Charles Kingsley
(d) Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

4. With whom did Alice develop a close friendship after her parents died?
(a) Mrs. Charles Kingsley
(b) Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(c) Katherine Loring
(d) her cousin Minny

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

6. After Alice's arrival in England, what novel did Henry write that had a double portrait of her?
(a) The Bostonians
(b) Portrait of a Lady
(c) Daisy Miller
(d) The Princess Casamassima

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

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

9. Who did Gosse say would produce unwashed boys to give evidence against Wilde?
(a) Sturges
(b) Lady Wolseley
(c) Douglas's father
(d) a newspaper reporter

10. Who was it who told a ghost story to Henry which intrigued him?
(a) his aunt Kate
(b) his father
(c) his friend Benson
(d) the archbishop of Canterbury

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

12. What news did Henry's friends, Jonathan Sturges and Edmond Gosse, bring him?
(a) Wilde's wife was accused of adultery
(b) the tremendous success of Wilde's latest play
(c) Wilde's affair with the son of the Marquess of Queensberry
(d) Oscar Wilde was very ill and confined to his bed.

13. Who are some of Henry's friends who attended the play?
(a) Paul, Peter and Eric
(b) Hammond, Littlefield and Philip Smith
(c) Sargent, Gosse and Philip Burne-Jones
(d) Minny, Constance and Hammond

14. How did Henry like the court at Dublin Castle?
(a) He was impressed by the pomp and grandeur of it.
(b) He found it a weariness to flesh and spirit alike.
(c) He loved the distraction of the many balls.
(d) He felt at home and wished he too were nobility.

15. What did Henry think of Oscar Wilde's play, AN IDEAL HUSBAND?
(a) He thought it was too intellectual.
(b) He thought it was feeble and vulgar.
(c) He thought it was boring.
(d) He thought it was clever and amusing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Henry decide to travel to Ireland?

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

3. How did the audience like Henry's play?

4. What was the name of the only child at the Hospital?

5. What did Henry like about Americans?

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