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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, Hellenizing Paris.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Oscar Wilde achieve fame?
(a) As a playwright, with his first play.
(b) As a personality, through conversation with James McNeill Whistler.
(c) As an art critic, through his writing in the London art papers.
(d) As the son of a rich and famous mother.

3. Who replaced Oscar Wilde as James McNeill Whistler's favorite in Wilde's absence?
(a) Rennell Rodd.
(b) Lillie Langtry.
(c) The Duchess of Padua.
(d) Archibald Forbes.

4. Who moves to London after Oscar Wilde graduates from Oxford?
(a) Oscar Wilde's father.
(b) Florence Balcombe.
(c) Oscar Wilde's mother.
(d) James McNeill Whistler.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Oscar Wilde go to Paris?

3. Oscar Wilde's debates with James McNeill Whistler are included in which of Wilde's works?

4. How does Robert Harborough Sherard's impression of Oscar Wilde change once he gets to know him?

5. Where does Oscar Wilde first publish?

(see the answer key)

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