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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 was Minny Temple like?
(a) unfriendly and unlikable
(b) demure and domestic
(c) light, curious, fresh and spontaneous
(d) serious and shy

2. Who were the children in the ghost story Henry wrote?
(a) two girls and their younger brother
(b) two young brothers
(c) a boy and his younger sister
(d) three young sisters

3. What did Gosse say Wilde's children looked like?
(a) angels
(b) beggar children
(c) hoodlums
(d) leprechauns

4. Where had Henry found some of the names he used in his novels?
(a) tombstones
(b) wedding announcements
(c) newspaper articles
(d) obituaries and death notices

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are some of Henry's friends who attended the play?

2. Who was Lord Houghton?

3. Who is John Gray?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. With whom does Minny argue and about what?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What was Symonds' wife like?

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

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

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