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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Indoctrinating America.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What group did Oscar Wilde join in 1875?
(a) The Republicans.
(b) The Elks.
(c) Kappa Sigma.
(d) The Masons.

2. Which intellectual invokes disciplined restraint?
(a) Arnold.
(b) Ruskin.
(c) Mill.
(d) Pater.

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

4. 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) Miniature street scenes.
(c) Bronze sculpture.
(d) Female portraits.

5. Who is Oscar Wilde's primary love interest at Oxford?
(a) Florence Balcombe.
(b) Jane Thompson.
(c) Speranza Francesca.
(d) Eva Fidelia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the friend who converted to Catholicism and influenced Oscar Wilde to consider converting?

2. What does Oscar Wilde do for work immediately after he graduates from Oxford?

3. What was Oscar Wilde's greatest challenge when he matriculated at Oxford?

4. What was Oscar Wilde's reaction to the attacks that were made on him?

5. What belief does Pater lead Oscar Wilde to?

(see the answer key)

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