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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. What did the emerging story idea do for Henry?

2. How did Henry like to be seen as a writer by people?

3. How did Henry like the court at Dublin Castle?

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

5. Who was Henry's lost homosexual love?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe the mutual friend, John Addington Symonds, whom Henry and Gosse discuss after the trial.

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

6. Who was Gus Barker?

7. What was Symonds' wife like?

8. What does Holmes talk about with Henry's brother, William, and not with Henry?

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

10. Who is Hammond?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

1) Who is Burgess Noakes? Describe him.

2) What problem does Henry have with his servants , the Smiths and how does he finally resolve it?

3) How would Constance have resolved the problem with the Smiths? How would Alice, his sister-in-law handled the problem?

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

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