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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. Where did Oscar Wilde spend his term while he was waiting to return to school in October 1877?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Frankfurt.
(c) Paris.
(d) London.

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

3. What is the name of the journal in which Oscar Wilde published a poem about a boy?
(a) Dublin University Magazine.
(b) London Times.
(c) Oxford Review.
(d) Kattabos.

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

5. What split does Oscar Wilde's poetry explore?
(a) Between man and superman.
(b) Between aesthetic and ethical man.
(c) Between Irish and English man.
(d) Between reflective and pragmatic man.

Short Answer Questions

1. How well had Oscar Wilde's studies prepared him for Oxford?

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

3. How does Oscar Wilde spend money?

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

5. When students disrupt one of Oscar Wilde's lectures, where does Oscar Wilde say the students have put their heads?

(see the answer key)

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