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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Dorian send for after breakfast in Chapter Fourteen?
(a) Lord Henry.
(b) Basil.
(c) Alan.
(d) James.

2. How does Dorian appear as time passes during Chapter Eleven?
(a) Angrier.
(b) Older.
(c) The same.
(d) Younger.

3. What does Dorian recite at the beginning of Chapter Sixteen?
(a) Lord Henry’s credo.
(b) The inscription from his yellow book.
(c) The Lord’s Prayer.
(d) Incoherent phrases.

4. What does Dorian actually see at the beginning of Chapter Twenty?
(a) Lord Henry’s wife.
(b) The spirit of Sibyl.
(c) More questions.
(d) No change in the painting.

5. What does Dorian tell Lord Henry about what happens on the hunting trip?
(a) It could not have been an accident.
(b) It is a symbol of Sibyl’s love.
(c) It is a bad omen.
(d) It is a good omen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Dorian decide to go at the beginning of Chapter Eighteen?

2. Whose face does Dorian see pressed against the window in Chapter Seventeen?

3. What is the occupation of the man Dorian sends for in Chapter Fourteen?

4. Who does Dorian have breakfast with at the beginning of Chapter Eighteen?

5. What does Dorian realize about his attempt to be virtuous?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the hare in Chapter Eighteen symbolize?

2. Why does Dorian see red paint on the hand of his likeness in the portrait at the end of Chapter Fourteen?

3. What is Dorian’s obsession in Chapter Eighteen?

4. Compare and contrast Basil and Lord Henry’s views of Dorian.

5. Why is Dorian so conflicted in Chapter Fifteen?

6. Why does Dorian have multiple copies of the yellow book made?

7. Why does Basil call Dorian’s painting “an awful lesson?”

8. What is the significance of the conversation between Lord Henry and Dorian about the nature of the soul in Chapter Nineteen?

9. Explain how and why Dorian dies at the end of The Picture of Dorian Gray.

10. What is the turning point that occurs at the end of Chapter Eighteen? Why is this a turning point?

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