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

2. What is the name of the friend who converted to Catholicism and influenced Oscar Wilde to consider converting?
(a) David Hunter Blair.
(b) Richard Williamson.
(c) Rupert Balcombe.
(d) Eva Manning.

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

4. What does Oscar Wilde do for work immediately after he graduates from Oxford?
(a) He edited the Encyclopedia Britannica.
(b) He taught at Oxford.
(c) He wrote art reviews.
(d) He lectured on aesthetics.

5. With which American writer does Oscar Wilde meet in Philadelphia while he is making his first set of American lectures?
(a) Walt Whitman.
(b) Nathaniel Hawthorne.
(c) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(d) Margaret Fuller.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose house does Oscar Wilde move out of while his first play is being prepared?

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

3. Who replaced Oscar Wilde as James McNeill Whistler's favorite in Wilde's absence?

4. When students disrupt one of Oscar Wilde's lectures, where does Oscar Wilde say the students have put their heads?

5. How well was Oscar Wilde's first lecture in America received?

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