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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. Who is the love of Oscar Wilde's life?
2. What did Henry like about Americans?
3. What is the title of Henry's play which is having its premiere?
4. Who did Aunt Kate say Alice would marry?
5. What county in Ireland had Henry's ancestors come from?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who is Hammond?
2. What happened when Alice's father died within a year after her mother's death?
3. What does Oscar Wilde's wife do because of the scandal and trial of Wilde?
4. Describe who visits him at eleven o'clock.
5. Describe Minny Temple, Henry's cousin.
6. What is the plot of the novel Henry writes at the end of Chapter 4?
7. What was Symonds' wife like?
8. How was Princess Casamassima a double portrait of Henry's sister, Alice?
9. What former friend of Henry's does the Russian princess mention and why does it upset Henry?
10. What does Holmes talk about with Henry's brother, William, and not with Henry?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
1) Describe an incident in Alice's childhood where she interacts in a deviant way with her aunt Kate.
2) What speech does William give in Boston? Why doesn't Henry travel to Boston for the speech?
3) What is the significance of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment? Who in Henry's family is in that regiment?
4) Choose one of the three topics to write on.
Essay Topic 3
1) Why does Henry feel guilty about Minny's death? Who rebukes Henry concerning her death?
2) What does Henry do when he can no longer write do to a painful hand? Who does he hire?
3) Describe Lamb House?
4) Choose one of the three topics to write on.
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