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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19, Pentonville, Wandsworth, and Reading.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which intellectual appeals to conscience over imagination?
(a) Mill.
(b) Ruskin.
(c) Arnold.
(d) Pater.

2. What did Oscar Wilde discover that his lover was trying to do to him?
(a) Expose him out of love.
(b) Get revenge for the lawsuit against his father.
(c) Blackmail him by threatening to publish their letters.
(d) Increase his fame by publishing his plays.

3. How did Oscar Wilde describe Christ's life?
(a) As a tragic drama.
(b) As a moving song.
(c) As an iconic sculpture.
(d) As the greatest of poems.

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

5. How does Oscar Wilde's wife handle the news of Wilde's homosexuality?
(a) She ignored it.
(b) She tried to cure him.
(c) She divorced him because of it.
(d) She discussed it openly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Oscar Wilde said that men resemble which celestial body?

2. Why did Oscar Wilde lose his scholarship?

3. What does Robert Harborough Sherard do for Oscar Wilde?

4. How do Oscar Wilde's spending habits change when he gets married?

5. How did Oscar Wilde do on the School's Examinations in 1878?

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