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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. Who did Henry visit first after his play was a failure in London?
(a) Lord Houghton
(b) Minny, his cousin
(c) his Aunt Kate
(d) William, his brother

2. Describe Alice, Henry's younger sister.
(a) She was healthy and very athletic.
(b) She was pretty but shallow.
(c) She was a robust, happy girl.
(d) She was in ill health but stoic.

3. What did Yeats tell Gosse about Oscar Wilde's house and family?
(a) his house was forbidding, his wife and children ordinary
(b) his house was small and unimposing, his family unattractive
(c) his house was ordinary, his family introverted and fearful
(d) his house, wife and children were warm, perfect and beautiful

4. What English locale did Henry fall in love with?
(a) Rye
(b) Nottingham
(c) Brighton Beach
(d) Cornwall

5. What had Henry heard about Oscar Wilde's parents?
(a) Wilde's parents had disowned him for being homosexual.
(b) His parents were of the Irish nobility.
(c) His mother was a lesbian, his father a homosexual
(d) His mother was mad or revolutionary , his father a philanderer.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. After Alice's arrival in England, what novel did Henry write that had a double portrait of her?

4. What part of Henry's body began to hurt him?

5. What did Henry do after the play ended?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was Symonds' wife like?

3. What scandal results in Oscar Wilde being brought to open trial?

4. Who was Gus Barker?

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

6. Who is Hammond?

7. What was the reception of Henry's play in comparison with the reception of Oscar Wilde's play?

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

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

10. Why was the success of his play so important to Henry?

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