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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Countering the Renaissance.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Oscar Wilde go to Paris?
(a) To work with Walter Pater.
(b) To meet a lover.
(c) To finish his play, "The Duchess of Padua."
(d) To lecture at the Sorbonne.

2. What disruption took place during Oscar Wilde's Harvard lecture?
(a) Sixty students lampooned his style.
(b) Unruly students rode horses through the lecture hall.
(c) Oscar Wilde was chased off the stage by angry students.
(d) A fight broke out between aestheticians.

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

4. Where does Oscar Wilde give his first public lecture in America?
(a) New York.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Boston.
(d) Baltimore.

5. What does Oscar Wilde win in 1878?
(a) The Newdigate Prize.
(b) Second place in the Schools Examinations.
(c) His divinity degree.
(d) Second place in the Honour Moderations.

Short Answer Questions

1. Oscar Wilde moved in with an artist after he graduated from Oxford. What kind of art did this artist make?

2. What does Oxford University do for Oscar Wilde after his School's Examinations in 1878?

3. How does Oscar Wilde return to England from America?

4. Who is Archibald Forbes?

5. How does Oscar Wilde resolve the opposition between Ruskin and Pater?

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