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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Oscar Wilde interested in in school?
(a) Mechanical engineering.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Religion.
(d) Greek culture.

2. What religion is Oscar Wilde baptized into the second time?
(a) Anglicanism.
(b) Calvinism.
(c) Protestantism.
(d) Catholicism.

3. When did Oscar Wilde's father die?
(a) 1881.
(b) 1877.
(c) 1883.
(d) 1876.

4. Which feat did Oscar Wilde claim to be capable of?
(a) Beating his teachers at chess.
(b) Memorizing all the elements on the periodic table.
(c) Reading facing pages at the same time.
(d) Memorizing the Iliad.

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

6. What is the name of Oscar Wilde's first play?
(a) "Vera."
(b) "The Duchess of Padua."
(c) "The Ballad of Reading Gaol."
(d) "The Importance of Being Earnest."

7. What was Oscar Wilde's mother's name before she changed it?
(a) Melissa Banks.
(b) Jane Elgee.
(c) Martha Shepard.
(d) Constance Larue.

8. Where did Oscar Wilde spend his term while he was waiting to return to school in October 1877?
(a) Paris.
(b) Frankfurt.
(c) London.
(d) Berlin.

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

10. What is the outcome of Oscar Wilde's travels and lectures in America?
(a) Oscar Wilde was embraced by west coast intellectuals.
(b) Americans successfully repudiated Oscar Wilde's aesthetic theories.
(c) Oscar Wilde's name had become a household word.
(d) Oscar Wilde established himself as one of Britain's best artists.

11. Where is Oscar Wilde invited to lecture?
(a) In America.
(b) In Berlin.
(c) In Paris.
(d) In Scotland.

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

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

14. How does Oscar Wilde's wife handle the news of Wilde's homosexuality?
(a) She discussed it openly.
(b) She divorced him because of it.
(c) She tried to cure him.
(d) She ignored it.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What group did Oscar Wilde join in 1875?

2. In what year does Oscar Wilde publish his first piece?

3. What kind of run does "Vera" have in America?

4. Who is Oscar Wilde's primary love interest at Oxford?

5. What is the name of the friend who converted to Catholicism and influenced Oscar Wilde to consider converting?

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