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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. Oscar Wilde decorated his room with pictures of whom?
(a) The Pope and Bishop Manning.
(b) Martin Luther and John Calvin.
(c) King Henry VIII
(d) Florence Balcombe.

2. Who is Lillie Langtry?
(a) Oscar Wilde's roommate's girlfriend.
(b) Oscar Wilde's mother's friend.
(c) Oscar Wilde's good friend.
(d) Oscar Wilde's boss' wife.

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

4. What was Oscar Wilde's greatest challenge when he matriculated at Oxford?
(a) To publish in a literary review.
(b) To hide his homosexuality.
(c) To lose his Irish accent.
(d) To finish at the top of his class.

5. What does Oscar Wilde encourage Lillie Langtry to do?
(a) Move to Paris.
(b) Become an actress.
(c) Divorce her husband.
(d) Become his lover.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Oscar Wilde's mother encourage him to do?

3. Oscar Wilde moved in with an artist after he graduated from Oxford. What kind of art did this artist make?

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

5. What is the name of the journal in which Oscar Wilde published a poem about a boy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Oscar Wilde's relationship with Oxford University.

2. What was Oscar Wilde like as a young boy?

3. Where does Oscar Wilde move after graduating from Oxford?

4. What was Oscar Wilde's primary challenge in his fourth year at Oxford, and how did he meet it?

5. What factors made Oscar Wilde's lecturing tour in America a success?

6. What does Oscar Wilde's mother change her name to when she marries Oscar Wilde's father?

7. What was Oscar Wilde's relationship with Robert Harborough Sherard?

8. Why does Oxford extend Oscar Wilde's Demyship?

9. Why was Oscar Wilde's first play never produced?

10. What were Oscar Wilde's greatest challenges in his first year at Oxford?

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