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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 does Oxford University do for Oscar Wilde after his School's Examinations in 1878?
(a) Paid for his medical bills.
(b) Asked him to leave the school.
(c) Offered him a lecturership in aesthetics.
(d) Extended his Demyship for another year.

2. Which intellectual does Oscar Wilde work with on road-building and beautification projects?
(a) Pater.
(b) Mill.
(c) Arnold.
(d) Ruskin.

3. What disruption took place during Oscar Wilde's Harvard lecture?
(a) A fight broke out between aestheticians.
(b) Oscar Wilde was chased off the stage by angry students.
(c) Sixty students lampooned his style.
(d) Unruly students rode horses through the lecture hall.

4. Who does Oscar Wilde live with immediately after he graduates from Oxford?
(a) Keith Balcombe.
(b) William Langtry.
(c) Robert Osborn.
(d) Frank Miles.

5. Why did Oscar Wilde need a special dispensation to join the group he joined in 1875?
(a) He was Catholic.
(b) He was under twenty-one.
(c) He was Irish.
(d) He was Protestant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Oscar Wilde shy away from marriage?

2. Which intellectual does Oscar Wilde turn to for spiritual guidance?

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

4. In what year does Oscar Wilde publish his first piece?

5. What is the name of Oscar Wilde's first play?

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