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

2. Why did Henry decide to travel to Ireland?
(a) His ancestors had come from there.
(b) He loved the landscape.
(c) It was near and the people he visited hadn't seen his play.
(d) He wanted to write a novel about Ireland.

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

4. When was the worst time for Alice when she had her most severe nervous breakdown?
(a) when she was staying in London
(b) when she returned to New England
(c) before and just after William's marriage
(d) when she was traveling in Italy

5. How did the audience like Henry's play?
(a) They booed it and disliked it.
(b) They loved it.
(c) They were indifferent.
(d) They were luke warm about it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What upsets Henry the most when visiting the Wolseleys?

2. What had Henry heard about Oscar Wilde's parents?

3. Who is the love of Oscar Wilde's life?

4. What English locale did Henry fall in love with?

5. Who was the person Alice disliked and lived below her in London?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Hammond?

2. Briefly describe the dream Henry has in Chapter 1.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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