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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) George Eliot
(b) Balzac
(c) Thackery
(d) Guy de Maupassant

2. Where did Henry , Alice and Aunt Kate visit together when Alice was suffering from hysteria?
(a) Boston
(b) Venice
(c) Geneva
(d) Rome

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

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

5. Where did Henry's story appear in print?
(a) as a published book in London
(b) the English Illustrated Magazine
(c) the New England Quarterly
(d) the Irish Illustrated Magazine

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Minny Temple like?

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

3. How did Alice behave when a young man came into the room?

4. What news did Henry's friends, Jonathan Sturges and Edmond Gosse, bring him?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who was Gus Barker?

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

5. Describe Minny Temple, Henry's cousin.

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

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

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

9. What was Symonds' wife like?

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

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