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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Declaring His Genius.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the theme of Oscar Wilde's first play?
(a) Socialism and nihilism.
(b) Homosexuality and art.
(c) Marriage and manners.
(d) Modernity and war.

2. How does Oscar Wilde resolve the conflict between progress and authority in his reading?
(a) He located the seat of moral reasoning in the individual.
(b) He adhered to social conventions.
(c) He invented his own morality.
(d) He resisted conforming to convention.

3. What does Oxford University do for Oscar Wilde after his School's Examinations in 1878?
(a) Asked him to leave the school.
(b) Extended his Demyship for another year.
(c) Paid for his medical bills.
(d) Offered him a lecturership in aesthetics.

4. What was Oscar Wilde's mother's name before she changed it?
(a) Jane Elgee.
(b) Constance Larue.
(c) Melissa Banks.
(d) Martha Shepard.

5. Who cables Oscar Wilde with an invitation to lecture?
(a) Richard D'Oyly.
(b) James McNeill Whistler.
(c) Walt Whitman.
(d) President Garfield.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Oscar Wilde say the secret of life was at the end of his first American lecture?

2. Who is Oscar Wilde's primary love interest at Oxford?

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

4. Which intellectual invokes disciplined restraint?

5. For how long did Oscar Wilde lose his scholarship?

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