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

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

3. Who was Lord Houghton?
(a) an old friend of Henry's
(b) lord lieutenant, representing the queen in Ireland
(c) a distant relative of Henry's
(d) an English lord who dabbled in writing

4. What was Henry's brother, William, like?
(a) He was shy and retiring
(b) He was a sickly boy
(c) He was exuberant, strong and popular
(d) He was quiet and intellectual

5. Which novel of Henry's mentioned at the end of Chapter 5 was a tribute to Minny?
(a) The Princess Casamassima
(b) The Bostonians
(c) Portrait of a Lady
(d) Daisy Miller

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom had the Royal Hospital at Kilmainham been built?

2. What did Henry like about Americans?

3. What profession did Henry's friend, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., have?

4. What did Henry's father say that Minny took exception to?

5. With whom did Alice develop a close friendship after her parents died?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What upsets Henry the most while visiting the Wolseleys?

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

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

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

6. Describe who visits him at eleven o'clock.

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

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

9. Who is Mr. Webster and how does he interact with Henry?

10. What former friend of Henry's does the Russian princess mention and why does it upset Henry?

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