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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Indoctrinating America.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Oscar Wilde linger in America after he completes his lectures?
(a) To stay with a lover.
(b) To pursue his interests in the theatre.
(c) To visit with one of his mentors who had moved to America.
(d) To revise his lectures and write new material.

2. How does Oscar Wilde resolve the conflict between progress and authority in his reading?
(a) He adhered to social conventions.
(b) He located the seat of moral reasoning in the individual.
(c) He resisted conforming to convention.
(d) He invented his own morality.

3. What was Oscar Wilde ill with late in his fourth year at Oxford?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Gonorrhea.
(c) Syphilis.
(d) Flu.

4. When does Oscar Wilde achieve fame?
(a) 1882.
(b) 1880.
(c) 1881.
(d) 1878.

5. Oscar Wilde decorated his room with pictures of whom?
(a) King Henry VIII
(b) The Pope and Bishop Manning.
(c) Martin Luther and John Calvin.
(d) Florence Balcombe.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Oscar Wilde graduate from Oxford?

2. How did Oscar Wilde handle the disruption of his Harvard lecture?

3. Which intellectual appeals to conscience over imagination?

4. What was Oscar Wilde studying for in the spring of 1876?

5. How does Oscar Wilde achieve fame?

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