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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Mr. and Mrs. Wilde.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Oscar Wilde do on the School's Examinations in 1878?
(a) He did not pass.
(b) He took first place.
(c) He only passed the divinity exams.
(d) He took second place.

2. For how long did Oscar Wilde lose his scholarship?
(a) Two years.
(b) A year.
(c) Three terms.
(d) Half a year.

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

4. How does Oscar Wilde spend money?
(a) Conservatively.
(b) Parsimoniously.
(c) Lavishly.
(d) Carelessly.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Robert Ross?

2. As Oscar Wilde watched how the French interpreted aestheticism, what did he see coming from aesthetic ideas?

3. How did Oscar Wilde handle the disruption of his Harvard lecture?

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

5. What is the setting of Oscar Wilde's first play?

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