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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: April 1898.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Oscar Wilde's wife do because of the scandal and trial?
(a) moved to Switzerland with her children and changed her name
(b) denounced him in an article in the London Times
(c) came to London to stand by him
(d) committed suicide

2. Who is John Gray?
(a) a man Henry fell in love with in his youth
(b) a fellow novelist
(c) another of Minny's suitors, a military man and intellectual
(d) Henry's cousin

3. What did Henry like about Americans?
(a) their independence and love of freedom
(b) their Yankee practicality
(c) their yearning openness and readiness for experience
(d) their tolerance of others

4. What news did Henry's friends, Jonathan Sturges and Edmond Gosse, bring him?
(a) Wilde's wife was accused of adultery
(b) the tremendous success of Wilde's latest play
(c) Wilde's affair with the son of the Marquess of Queensberry
(d) Oscar Wilde was very ill and confined to his bed.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. With what poet's sister did Henry compare Alice?

3. When Henry decides to write his own version of the ghost story, where does he finally decide it should take place?

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

5. Who was Mr. Webster?

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