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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. What trend was creating a scandal at Oxford University in 1875?
(a) Abolition.
(b) Anti-Catholicism.
(c) Homosexuality.
(d) Irish nationalism.

2. How does Oscar Wilde spend money?
(a) Lavishly.
(b) Parsimoniously.
(c) Conservatively.
(d) Carelessly.

3. What does Oscar Wilde's mother change her name to?
(a) Speranza Francesca.
(b) Jessica Linde.
(c) Roberta Montagna.
(d) Lisbeth Horten.

4. What is Oscar Wilde's father's name?
(a) William Robert Wilde.
(b) Randolph Hearst Wilde.
(c) Alexander Wilde.
(d) Richard Matthew Wilde.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What defines Oscar Wilde's style?

2. How does Oscar Wilde resolve the conflict between progress and authority in his reading?

3. Oscar Wilde decorated his room with pictures of whom?

4. Which intellectual invokes disciplined restraint?

5. Oscar Wilde's mother was a strong supporter of which political cause?

(see the answer key)

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