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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Henry's play which is having its premiere?
(a) Portrait of a Lady
(b) Guy Domville
(c) Civil War Nightmare
(d) Daisy Miller

2. What county in Ireland had Henry's ancestors come from?
(a) Kerry
(b) Cavan
(c) Cork
(d) Tyrone

3. What famous novelist visited the Jameses in Paris?
(a) Guy de Maupassant
(b) George Eliot
(c) Thackery
(d) Balzac

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

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

6. What did Henry's father say was a woman's job?
(a) be submissive, cook, do needlework and care for her children.
(b) be a helpmeet to her husband in his career
(c) help make ends meet by earning some money
(d) be a sweetheart and lover

7. What was Henry's brother, William, like?
(a) He was exuberant, strong and popular
(b) He was quiet and intellectual
(c) He was shy and retiring
(d) He was a sickly boy

8. With whom had Sturges met to discuss Oscar Wilde's trial?
(a) George Bernard Shaw
(b) Wilde's parents
(c) Lady Wolseley
(d) Lord Wolseley

9. What did Gosse say Wilde's children looked like?
(a) angels
(b) hoodlums
(c) leprechauns
(d) beggar children

10. Who was it who told a ghost story to Henry which intrigued him?
(a) his friend Benson
(b) his father
(c) his aunt Kate
(d) the archbishop of Canterbury

11. What is the dilemma of the main character in Henry's play?
(a) whether to carry on the family line or join a monastery
(b) whether to marry his true love or marry a wealthy woman
(c) whether to become a novelist or a businessman
(d) whether to travel to America or remain in Europe

12. Where did Henry's story appear in print?
(a) the Irish Illustrated Magazine
(b) as a published book in London
(c) the English Illustrated Magazine
(d) the New England Quarterly

13. How many children did Oscar Wilde have and what gender were they?
(a) two boys and a girl
(b) two girls
(c) a boy and a girl
(d) two boys

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

15. Describe Alice, Henry's younger sister.
(a) She was in ill health but stoic.
(b) She was a robust, happy girl.
(c) She was healthy and very athletic.
(d) She was pretty but shallow.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who are some of Henry's friends who attended the play?

3. How did the audience like Oscar Wilde's play, AN IDEAL HUSBAND?

4. What was Minny Temple like?

5. What English locale did Henry fall in love with?

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