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

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

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

4. What is the name of the friend who converted to Catholicism and influenced Oscar Wilde to consider converting?
(a) Eva Manning.
(b) Richard Williamson.
(c) Rupert Balcombe.
(d) David Hunter Blair.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which intellectual appeals to conscience over imagination?

2. Why does Oscar Wilde resist converting to Catholicism?

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

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

5. Which item is part of each course during the dinner Oscar Wilde has in Leadville, Colorado?

(see the answer key)

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