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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15, A Late Victorian Love Affair.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Oscar Wilde's father's name?
(a) Randolph Hearst Wilde.
(b) William Robert Wilde.
(c) Richard Matthew Wilde.
(d) Alexander Wilde.

2. What trend was creating a scandal at Oxford University in 1875?
(a) Abolition.
(b) Irish nationalism.
(c) Homosexuality.
(d) Anti-Catholicism.

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

4. How does Oscar Wilde make money during his courtship of his wife?
(a) Book sales.
(b) Ticket sales from the production of The Duchess of Padua.
(c) Lectures.
(d) Ticket sales from the production of Vera.

5. What group did Oscar Wilde join in 1875?
(a) Kappa Sigma.
(b) The Masons.
(c) The Elks.
(d) The Republicans.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was "A Woman of No Importance" received?

2. Why did Oscar Wilde lose his scholarship?

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

4. Which intellectual invokes disciplined restraint?

5. What was the punishment for homosexuality in England in the late 1800s?

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