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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, An Incomplete Aesthete.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Oscar Wilde shy away from marriage?
(a) He was still a student.
(b) He was in debt.
(c) He was openly homosexual.
(d) He was expelled from school

2. What religion is Oscar Wilde baptized into the second time?
(a) Protestantism.
(b) Calvinism.
(c) Catholicism.
(d) Anglicanism.

3. What was Oscar Wilde interested in in school?
(a) Mechanical engineering.
(b) Greek culture.
(c) Religion.
(d) Medicine.

4. When did Oscar Wilde matriculate at Oxford?
(a) 1914.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1874.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oxford University do for Oscar Wilde after his School's Examinations in 1878?

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

3. What is the name of the scholarship Oscar Wilde won to Oxford?

4. What religion is Oscar Wilde first baptized into?

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

(see the answer key)

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