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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 in debt.
(b) He was still a student.
(c) He was openly homosexual.
(d) He was expelled from school

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

3. What is Oscar Wilde's first publication?
(a) A poem.
(b) A short story.
(c) A book review.
(d) An article.

4. What is the name of the scholarship Oscar Wilde won to Oxford?
(a) Balyship.
(b) Fellowship.
(c) Assistantship.
(d) Demyship.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How well had Oscar Wilde's studies prepared him for Oxford?

2. Why does Oscar Wilde resist converting to Catholicism?

3. Why did Oscar Wilde need a special dispensation to join the group he joined in 1875?

4. What was Oscar Wilde ill with late in his fourth year at Oxford?

5. What trend was creating a scandal at Oxford University in 1875?

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