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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Oxford University do for Oscar Wilde after his School's Examinations in 1878?
(a) Paid for his medical bills.
(b) Asked him to leave the school.
(c) Offered him a lecturership in aesthetics.
(d) Extended his Demyship for another year.

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

3. What is the name of the scholarship Oscar Wilde won to Oxford?
(a) Assistantship.
(b) Demyship.
(c) Fellowship.
(d) Balyship.

4. What were the gate receipts for Oscar Wilde's first lecture in America?
(a) $81.
(b) $452.
(c) $1,211.
(d) $2,571.

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

6. What is the theme of Oscar Wilde's first play?
(a) Homosexuality and art.
(b) Marriage and manners.
(c) Modernity and war.
(d) Socialism and nihilism.

7. How well had Oscar Wilde's studies prepared him for Oxford?
(a) He was so well prepared that he skipped several courses.
(b) He was on the same level as the rest of the students.
(c) He was far behind the other students and had to catch up.
(d) He was very well prepared and found the work boring.

8. What belief does Pater lead Oscar Wilde to?
(a) Work can set you free.
(b) Art can transcend reality.
(c) Art can improve society.
(d) Man can govern himself.

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

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

11. What was Oscar Wilde studying for in the spring of 1876?
(a) Engineering exams.
(b) His divinity exams.
(c) Qualifying exams.
(d) Honor Moderations.

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

13. What was Oscar Wilde interested in in school?
(a) Greek culture.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Religion.
(d) Mechanical engineering.

14. What is Oscar Wilde's first publication?
(a) A book review.
(b) A poem.
(c) An article.
(d) A short story.

15. When students disrupt one of Oscar Wilde's lectures, where does Oscar Wilde say the students have put their heads?
(a) In their own ears.
(b) In the clouds.
(c) In the sewer.
(d) In the lion's mouth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which feat did Oscar Wilde claim to be capable of?

2. Where did Oscar Wilde spend his term while he was waiting to return to school in October 1877?

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

4. For how long did Oscar Wilde lose his scholarship?

5. How does Oscar Wilde resolve the opposition between Ruskin and Pater?

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