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

2. 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 playwright not a novelist
(c) as a popular, rich success
(d) as a noble, selfless non-materialist devoted to his art

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

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

5. What did Hammond look like?
(a) He was medium height with green eyes and a mustache
(b) He was short with brown eyes and a beard
(c) He was tall and blond with blue eyes
(d) He was tall with brown eyes without a mustache or beard

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What idea for a story comes to Henry while riding to dinner at the beginning of Chapter 4?

4. What did Henry base the story he wrote at the end of Chapter 4 on?

5. What did Henry's father say was a woman's job?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Princess Casamassima a double portrait of Henry's sister, Alice?

2. What inspires Henry to return to his writing with vigor in the beginning of Chapter 4?

3. What does Holmes talk about with Henry's brother, William, and not with Henry?

4. What happened when Alice's father died within a year after her mother's death?

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

6. Where does Henry find an inspiration for a story?

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

8. What does Henry discover about Alice when they're caught in the rain in Newport?

9. Describe Minny Temple, Henry's cousin.

10. What was Symonds' wife like?

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