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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11: October 1899.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had happened when Henry walked with his father on the beach in Boulogne?
(a) His father watched a female bather too intensely.
(b) He and his father bonded for the first time.
(c) Henry fell in love with the city of Boulogne.
(d) Henry saved a drowning girl.

2. When did Henry James Senior die?
(a) four years after his wife died
(b) within a year after his wife died
(c) ten years after his wife died
(d) three years after his wife died

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

4. What did Henry base the story he wrote at the end of Chapter 4 on?
(a) Oscar Wilde's wife and children
(b) his friends, Sturges and Gosse
(c) Oscar Wilde's trial
(d) a couple like the Symondses and their beloved son

5. What was Minny Temple like?
(a) light, curious, fresh and spontaneous
(b) unfriendly and unlikable
(c) serious and shy
(d) demure and domestic

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Henry and how old was Constance when they met?

2. When Henry decides on residing in Lamb House in Rye how long a lease does the owner grant him?

3. What did Maud Howe Elliot and her artist husband want Henry to do?

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

5. What was the name of the medium William and Alice went to see?

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