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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Oscar Wilde's father's name?
(a) Richard Matthew Wilde.
(b) Alexander Wilde.
(c) Randolph Hearst Wilde.
(d) William Robert Wilde.

2. How does Oscar Wilde arrive in America?
(a) In desperate poverty.
(b) With open curiosity and enthusiasm.
(c) With a retinue of admirers.
(d) With distinctive flair.

3. Which direction does Oscar Wilde's lecturing tour travel in?
(a) From the north to the south and then west and north before returning to the east.
(b) From the south to the northeast and back to the south.
(c) From the northeast, west through Canada to the West Coast, and south again before returing east.
(d) From the east coast to the west coast and back.

4. Who is Oscar Wilde's primary love interest at Oxford?
(a) Speranza Francesca.
(b) Eva Fidelia.
(c) Jane Thompson.
(d) Florence Balcombe.

5. When does Oscar Wilde go to Paris?
(a) 1882.
(b) 1878.
(c) 1883.
(d) 1881.

6. When does Oscar Wilde graduate from Oxford?
(a) 1877.
(b) 1878.
(c) 1891.
(d) 1876.

7. Why is Oscar Wilde's first play not produced?
(a) Because Oscar Wilde's enemies poisoned the backers against him.
(b) Because it dramatized an assassination attempt.
(c) Because the producers ran out of money.
(d) Because Oscar Wilde withdrew it under political pressure.

8. Where does Oscar Wilde give his first public lecture in America?
(a) Baltimore.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) New York.
(d) Boston.

9. What happens when Oscar Wilde tries to have his first play produced in America?
(a) Nothing came of his attempts.
(b) The production did not get all the support it needed.
(c) The play was panned by critics.
(d) It was received very well.

10. Who cables Oscar Wilde with an invitation to lecture?
(a) President Garfield.
(b) James McNeill Whistler.
(c) Walt Whitman.
(d) Richard D'Oyly.

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

12. What magazine does Oscar Wilde publish in from 1887 to 1888?
(a) Harper's Bazaar.
(b) The London Times.
(c) Women's World.
(d) Pall Mall Gazette.

13. Which American writer found Oscar Wilde to be contemptuous?
(a) William Dean Howells.
(b) Stephen Crane.
(c) Henry James.
(d) Mark Twain.

14. What is Robert Harborough Sherard's first impression of Oscar Wilde?
(a) He thought Wilde was an impostor.
(b) He was awed by Wilde's wit and intelligence.
(c) He fell in love with Wilde.
(d) He was scandalized by Wilde's views.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Oscar Wilde ill with late in his fourth year at Oxford?

2. What religion is Oscar Wilde baptized into the second time?

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

4. What disruption took place during Oscar Wilde's Harvard lecture?

5. Oscar Wilde decorated his room with pictures of whom?

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