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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. What is the focus of Dorian’s study, according to Chapter Eleven?
(a) Lord Henry.
(b) The yellow book.
(c) Art and music.
(d) Beautiful things.

2. According to Chapter Thirteen, Basil recognizes the portrait based on his signature and _____.
(a) Color palette.
(b) Setting.
(c) Frame.
(d) Brushwork.

3. What idea does Dorian entertain in Chapter Eighteen?
(a) Moving to the Americas.
(b) Following Basil to Paris.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Sailing away on a yacht.

4. What is the name of the man who follows Dorian into the street in Chapter Sixteen?
(a) Lord Henry.
(b) James Vane.
(c) Adrian Singleton.
(d) Basil Hallward.

5. Who does Lord Henry mock in a discussion about the soul in Chapter Nineteen?
(a) Lord Fermor.
(b) A street preacher.
(c) Basil.
(d) Dorian.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose presence brightens the party for Dorian in Chapter Fifteen?

2. Where is Basil going to go, according to Chapter Twelve?

3. What does Dorian do to the portrait in Chapter Twenty?

4. According to Chapter Fifteen, what relation of Lady Narborough has a sad life?

5. What does Basil want Dorian to do, according to Chapter Thirteen?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the reference to a double life made at the beginning of Chapter Fifteen.

2. What does Basil wonder about Dorian in Chapter Twelve? Why?

3. What reinvigorates Dorian when he ventures out of his home after the incident in Chapter Seventeen?

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

5. Why does Dorian decide to go to the opium den in Chapter Sixteen?

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

7. Explain the hypocrisy in Dorian’s attempt to reform himself.

8. Why does Basil have to identify the painting of Dorian by his signature rather than by its appearance in Chapter Thirteen?

9. Why does Basil stop Dorian on the street at the beginning of Chapter Twelve?

10. What moral can be taken from Dorian’s experiences in The Picture of Dorian Gray?

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