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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) Anti-Catholicism.
(b) Abolition.
(c) Homosexuality.
(d) Irish nationalism.

2. Why did Oscar Wilde lose his scholarship?
(a) He was in a fight with another student.
(b) He returned to school late at Easter term.
(c) His grades were not good enough.
(d) He failed his divinity examinations.

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

4. What was Oscar Wilde's greatest challenge when he matriculated at Oxford?
(a) To publish in a literary review.
(b) To lose his Irish accent.
(c) To hide his homosexuality.
(d) To finish at the top of his class.

5. What was Oscar Wilde's father's profession?
(a) Politician.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Eye doctor.
(d) Obstetrician.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oscar Wilde's mother change her name to?

2. Where does Oscar Wilde first publish?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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