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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where had Henry found some of the names he used in his novels?

2. What is the name of the producer and lead actor of Henry's play?

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

4. How was the only child guest at the Royal hospital dressed for the costume ball?

5. What did Gosse say Wilde's children looked like?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who is Hammond?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) What two girls does Henry tour Paris with. Describe them and Henry's opinion o them.

2) Describe Constance Fenimore Woolson.

3) Why is Constance Henry's closest friend?

4) Choose one of the three topics to write on.

Essay Topic 2

1) In the beginning of the book Henry has a dream. Describe the dream. Where does it take place? Which of Henry's relatives are in it? What is Henry's reaction to it?

2) What does Henry like about having a play of his produced? What is his relationship to the actors taking parts in his play? What hopes does he have for it and for being a playwright rather than a novelist?

3) Compare Henry's play to Oscar Wilde's play. How do the audiences of the different plays react?

4) Choose one of the three topics to write on.

Essay Topic 3

1) Who is John Addington Symonds? What does he do?

2) Describe John Addington Symonds's wife.

3) Describe the story that John Symonds and his wife inspire Henry to write.

4) Choose one of the three topics to write on.

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