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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What profession does Oscar Wilde give up in order to supplement his wife's income?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Playwriting.
(c) Journalism.
(d) Lecturing.

2. Who is Archibald Forbes?
(a) Oscar Wilde's agent.
(b) One of Oscar Wilde's lovers.
(c) An American art critic.
(d) A war journalist.

3. Where does Oscar Wilde first publish?
(a) The Dublin University Magazine.
(b) The Irish Times.
(c) The Frankfurt Times.
(d) The Oxford Review.

4. What is the name of the friend who converted to Catholicism and influenced Oscar Wilde to consider converting?
(a) Richard Williamson.
(b) David Hunter Blair.
(c) Eva Manning.
(d) Rupert Balcombe.

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

6. What defines Oscar Wilde's style?
(a) Conservative views.
(b) Epigrammatic wit.
(c) Exotic pets.
(d) Perverse humor.

7. Which intellectual appeals to conscience over imagination?
(a) Ruskin.
(b) Pater.
(c) Mill.
(d) Arnold.

8. Why did Oscar Wilde lose his scholarship?
(a) He returned to school late at Easter term.
(b) His grades were not good enough.
(c) He failed his divinity examinations.
(d) He was in a fight with another student.

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

10. When did Oscar Wilde matriculate at Oxford?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1874.
(d) 1914.

11. Why does Oscar Wilde shy away from marriage?
(a) He was in debt.
(b) He was openly homosexual.
(c) He was still a student.
(d) He was expelled from school

12. What religion is Oscar Wilde baptized into the second time?
(a) Protestantism.
(b) Anglicanism.
(c) Calvinism.
(d) Catholicism.

13. What does Oscar Wilde do for work immediately after he graduates from Oxford?
(a) He wrote art reviews.
(b) He lectured on aesthetics.
(c) He taught at Oxford.
(d) He edited the Encyclopedia Britannica.

14. When did Oscar Wilde's father die?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1883.
(c) 1881.
(d) 1877.

15. Oscar Wilde moved in with an artist after he graduated from Oxford. What kind of art did this artist make?
(a) Miniature street scenes.
(b) Female portraits.
(c) Surreal oil paintings.
(d) Bronze sculpture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the theme of Oscar Wilde's first play?

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

3. What is the name of the man who attacked Oscar Wilde mercilessly during his American lectures?

4. How does Oscar Wilde resolve the conflict between progress and authority in his reading?

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

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