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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What part of Henry's body began to hurt him?
2. Who led Henry onto the stage after the play?
3. What was the adjective one of the Wolseleys' guests used over and over again in discussing the characters in Henry's novels and in George Eliot's novels.
4. Where did Henry go on the opening night of his play?
5. What county in Ireland had Henry's ancestors come from?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was Symonds' wife like?
2. What scandal results in Oscar Wilde being brought to open trial?
3. Where does Henry find an inspiration for a story?
4. What does Oscar Wilde's wife do because of the scandal and trial of Wilde?
5. What happened when Alice's father died within a year after her mother's death?
6. What is the plot of the novel Henry writes at the end of Chapter 4?
7. What was the reception of Henry's play in comparison with the reception of Oscar Wilde's play?
8. What does Henry discover about Alice when they're caught in the rain in Newport?
9. Who is Mr. Webster and how does he interact with Henry?
10. Who was Gus Barker?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
1) Who was Katherine Loring and what relationship did she have with Alice?
2) Who are Jonathan Sturges and Edmund Gosse? What is their relationship to Henry?
3) What is the scandal concerning Oscar Wilde? Describe some of the details of the scandal.
4) Choose one of the three topics to write on.
Essay Topic 2
1) Who is Gus Barker? What does he do at the school where William is a student? What happens to him during the Civil War?
2) Who are Minny Temple's three male suitors and what novel the James write based on the possible outcomes of her life with these three men?
3) Which English writer does Minny Temple love and how does Henry to some extent address this issue after Minny's death?
4) Choose one of the three questions to answer.
Essay Topic 3
1) Who is John Addington Symonds? What does he do?
2) Describe John Addington Symonds's wife.
3) Describe the story that John Symonds and his wife inspire Henry to write.
4) Choose one of the three topics to write on.
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