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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: May 1896.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the audience like Henry's play?
(a) They loved it.
(b) They were indifferent.
(c) They were luke warm about it.
(d) They booed it and disliked it.

2. What did Hammond look like?
(a) He was tall with brown eyes without a mustache or beard
(b) He was short with brown eyes and a beard
(c) He was medium height with green eyes and a mustache
(d) He was tall and blond with blue eyes

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

4. What did Holmes not disclose to Henry but did discuss with William, his brother?
(a) whom he was in love with
(b) his casual attitude toward women and the Civil War
(c) details about the cases he tried
(d) his thoughts about England

5. With whom did Alice develop a close friendship after her parents died?
(a) Katherine Loring
(b) Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(c) her cousin Minny
(d) Mrs. Charles Kingsley

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Henry's father say was a woman's job?

2. What idea for a story comes to Henry while riding to dinner at the beginning of Chapter 4?

3. What did Henry base the story he wrote at the end of Chapter 4 on?

4. What profession did Henry's friend, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., have?

5. What had intrigued John Addington Symonds?

(see the answer key)

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