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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, Hellenizing Paris.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the setting of Oscar Wilde's first play?
(a) Contemporary London.
(b) Czarist Russia.
(c) Montparnasse, Paris.
(d) Berlin.

2. What trend was creating a scandal at Oxford University in 1875?
(a) Abolition.
(b) Homosexuality.
(c) Irish nationalism.
(d) Anti-Catholicism.

3. As Oscar Wilde watched how the French interpreted aestheticism, what did he see coming from aesthetic ideas?
(a) Existentialism.
(b) Fascism.
(c) Decadence.
(d) Materialism.

4. What does Robert Harborough Sherard do for Oscar Wilde?
(a) He published Wilde's first book.
(b) He produced Wilde's first play.
(c) He wrote Wilde's biography.
(d) He produced "The Duchess of Padua."

5. Oscar Wilde said that men resemble which celestial body?
(a) Suns.
(b) Meteors.
(c) Moons.
(d) Stars.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Oscar Wilde return to England from America?

2. Who replaced Oscar Wilde as James McNeill Whistler's favorite in Wilde's absence?

3. In what year does Oscar Wilde publish his first piece?

4. Who is the central character in Oscar Wilde's play "Salome"?

5. Where does Oscar Wilde first publish?

(see the answer key)

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