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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What famous novelist visited the Jameses in Paris?
(a) Balzac
(b) Thackery
(c) Guy de Maupassant
(d) George Eliot

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

3. What had Hammond been before he was employed by the Wolseleys?
(a) an actor
(b) a servant at Dublin Castle
(c) a lieutenant in the army
(d) an army corporal

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

5. What had William Dean Howells told Sturges during their meeting in Paris?
(a) that he was ready finally to have a romantic fling
(b) that he didn't like Paris as well as London
(c) that he was ashamed to be a homosexual
(d) that Sturges should live and be glad of it while he was young

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Henry go on the opening night of his play?

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

4. How did Henry like to be seen as a writer by people?

5. Who led Henry onto the stage after the play?

Short Essay Questions

1. What incident with his father in Boulogne haunts Henry?

2. How did Alice react to her mother's death?

3. Describe Minny Temple, Henry's cousin.

4. What English locale entrances Henry and what is it like?

5. With whom does Minny argue and about what?

6. What does Oscar Wilde's wife do because of the scandal and trial of Wilde?

7. Describe the mutual friend, John Addington Symonds, whom Henry and Gosse discuss after the trial.

8. What did Henry long for after observing the people at the ball?

9. What is the plot of the novel Henry writes at the end of Chapter 4?

10. Whom does Henry decide to visit after the failure of his play in London and why?

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