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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: June 1898.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Burgess Noakes?
(a) the butler at Lamb House
(b) boy-boy and valet to Henry at Lamb House
(c) an old American friend who came to visit
(d) a magazine publisher friend of Henry's

2. What did Henry like about Holmes Jr.?
(a) his wordiness and bursts of sermon-like phrases
(b) his steadfast friendship
(c) his intellectuality and solemness
(d) his honesty and forthrightness

3. Who had been Henry's best friend, the person closest to him outside his own family?
(a) Lady Wolseley
(b) Constance Fenimore Woolson
(c) Edmund Gosse
(d) Jonathan Sturges

4. What had Henry purchases before he left London?
(a) a new writing desk
(b) a walking cane
(c) a bicycle
(d) a fashionable summer suit

5. Who did Gosse say would produce unwashed boys to give evidence against Wilde?
(a) Douglas's father
(b) Sturges
(c) Lady Wolseley
(d) a newspaper reporter

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Minny Temple like?

2. What mutual friend became the topic of conversation between Gosse and Henry after the trial?

3. Who was the person Alice disliked and lived below her in London?

4. What did Henry do after the play ended?

5. What did the emerging story idea do for Henry?

(see the answer key)

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