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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18, Doomed Deferred.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How well had Oscar Wilde's studies prepared him for Oxford?
(a) He was so well prepared that he skipped several courses.
(b) He was very well prepared and found the work boring.
(c) He was on the same level as the rest of the students.
(d) He was far behind the other students and had to catch up.

2. How does Oscar Wilde resolve the conflict between progress and authority in his reading?
(a) He resisted conforming to convention.
(b) He adhered to social conventions.
(c) He invented his own morality.
(d) He located the seat of moral reasoning in the individual.

3. How did Oscar Wilde come across at his first trial?
(a) As an elitist.
(b) As a hero.
(c) As a victim.
(d) As a corrupter of youth.

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

5. Oscar Wilde moved in with an artist after he graduated from Oxford. What kind of art did this artist make?
(a) Bronze sculpture.
(b) Surreal oil paintings.
(c) Female portraits.
(d) Miniature street scenes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Oscar Wilde go for homosexual sex?

3. What is the name of the scholarship Oscar Wilde won to Oxford?

4. Where does Oscar Wilde go after his first trial?

5. What did the public think of "Lady Windermere's Fan"?

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