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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. Why is Oscar Wilde's first play not produced?
(a) Because the producers ran out of money.
(b) Because it dramatized an assassination attempt.
(c) Because Oscar Wilde's enemies poisoned the backers against him.
(d) Because Oscar Wilde withdrew it under political pressure.

2. Who moves to London after Oscar Wilde graduates from Oxford?
(a) James McNeill Whistler.
(b) Oscar Wilde's mother.
(c) Florence Balcombe.
(d) Oscar Wilde's father.

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

4. Which intellectual does Oscar Wilde turn to for spiritual guidance?
(a) Pater.
(b) Mill.
(c) Ruskin.
(d) Arnold.

5. How does Oscar Wilde resolve the opposition between Ruskin and Pater?
(a) He sided with Ruskin.
(b) He sided with Pater.
(c) He resolved to remain neutral.
(d) He synthesized a new aesthetic ethics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which intellectual does Oscar Wilde work with on road-building and beautification projects?

2. Where does Oscar Wilde give his first public lecture in America?

3. What was Oscar Wilde's primary challenge in his fourth year at Oxford?

4. What religion is Oscar Wilde baptized into the second time?

5. Which intellectual appeals to conscience over imagination?

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