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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 was Oscar Wilde ill with late in his fourth year at Oxford?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Syphilis.
(c) Gonorrhea.
(d) Flu.

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

3. When did Oscar Wilde's father die?
(a) 1881.
(b) 1876.
(c) 1877.
(d) 1883.

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

5. What is the outcome of Oscar Wilde's travels and lectures in America?
(a) Americans successfully repudiated Oscar Wilde's aesthetic theories.
(b) Oscar Wilde was embraced by west coast intellectuals.
(c) Oscar Wilde's name had become a household word.
(d) Oscar Wilde established himself as one of Britain's best artists.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Oscar Wilde live with immediately after he graduates from Oxford?

2. What career does Oscar Wilde explore while he is without his fellowship?

3. What split does Oscar Wilde's poetry explore?

4. Where did Oscar Wilde spend his term while he was waiting to return to school in October 1877?

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

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