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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Countering the Renaissance.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Oscar Wilde need a special dispensation to join the group he joined in 1875?
(a) He was under twenty-one.
(b) He was Irish.
(c) He was Catholic.
(d) He was Protestant.

2. What was Oscar Wilde's greatest challenge when he matriculated at Oxford?
(a) To hide his homosexuality.
(b) To lose his Irish accent.
(c) To finish at the top of his class.
(d) To publish in a literary review.

3. Oscar Wilde's mother was a strong supporter of which political cause?
(a) Women's rights.
(b) Irish nationalism.
(c) Abolition of slavery.
(d) Anti-colonialism.

4. With which American writer does Oscar Wilde meet in Philadelphia while he is making his first set of American lectures?
(a) Nathaniel Hawthorne.
(b) Walt Whitman.
(c) Margaret Fuller.
(d) Ralph Waldo Emerson.

5. How does Oscar Wilde spend money?
(a) Lavishly.
(b) Carelessly.
(c) Parsimoniously.
(d) Conservatively.

Short Answer Questions

1. What religion is Oscar Wilde first baptized into?

2. What were the gate receipts for Oscar Wilde's first lecture in America?

3. Which item is part of each course during the dinner Oscar Wilde has in Leadville, Colorado?

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

5. What is Robert Harborough Sherard's first impression of Oscar Wilde?

(see the answer key)

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