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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which direction does Oscar Wilde's lecturing tour travel in?
(a) From the north to the south and then west and north before returning to the east.
(b) From the east coast to the west coast and back.
(c) From the northeast, west through Canada to the West Coast, and south again before returing east.
(d) From the south to the northeast and back to the south.

2. 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's enemies poisoned the backers against him.
(d) Because Oscar Wilde withdrew it under political pressure.

3. Where does Oscar Wilde first publish?
(a) The Frankfurt Times.
(b) The Dublin University Magazine.
(c) The Irish Times.
(d) The Oxford Review.

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

5. In what year was Oscar Wilde born?
(a) 1877.
(b) 1854.
(c) 1862.
(d) 1902.

6. 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) A fight broke out between aestheticians.
(d) Oscar Wilde was chased off the stage by angry students.

7. How did Oscar Wilde handle the disruption of his Harvard lecture?
(a) He outwitted the students by stealing the points they were lampooning him for.
(b) He faced the crowd down with a cane as a weapon.
(c) He took off his jacket to cover the streaker's nakedness.
(d) He broke up the fight and resolved the quarrel.

8. What kind of run does "Vera" have in America?
(a) Short and disappointing.
(b) Unspectacular, but moderately successful.
(c) Long and successful.
(d) Short but meteoric.

9. Which intellectual does Oscar Wilde work with on road-building and beautification projects?
(a) Mill.
(b) Pater.
(c) Arnold.
(d) Ruskin.

10. How does Oscar Wilde arrive in America?
(a) With open curiosity and enthusiasm.
(b) In desperate poverty.
(c) With distinctive flair.
(d) With a retinue of admirers.

11. What was Oscar Wilde studying for in the spring of 1876?
(a) His divinity exams.
(b) Engineering exams.
(c) Qualifying exams.
(d) Honor Moderations.

12. What is the setting of Oscar Wilde's first play?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Montparnasse, Paris.
(c) Contemporary London.
(d) Czarist Russia.

13. Why does Oscar Wilde resist converting to Catholicism?
(a) He was afraid of being written out of his father's will.
(b) He distrusted Catholic priests.
(c) He did not know enough about Catholicism yet.
(d) He was afraid of eternal damnation.

14. What is Oscar Wilde's daughter's name?
(a) Vyvyan.
(b) Alexandra.
(c) Constance.
(d) Marie.

15. Why did Oscar Wilde need a special dispensation to join the group he joined in 1875?
(a) He was Protestant.
(b) He was Irish.
(c) He was under twenty-one.
(d) He was Catholic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which intellectual appeals to conscience over imagination?

2. What was Oscar Wilde interested in in school?

3. Who does Oscar Wilde live with immediately after he graduates from Oxford?

4. Oscar Wilde's mother was a strong supporter of which political cause?

5. How did Oscar Wilde feel about his dialogue with William Butler Yeats?

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