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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which item is part of each course during the dinner Oscar Wilde has in Leadville, Colorado?
(a) Wine.
(b) Cheddar cheese.
(c) Whiskey.
(d) Partridges.

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

3. Which intellectual does Oscar Wilde turn to for spiritual guidance?
(a) Pater.
(b) Ruskin.
(c) Mill.
(d) Arnold.

4. What was Oscar Wilde ill with late in his fourth year at Oxford?
(a) Gonorrhea.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Syphilis.
(d) Flu.

5. What is the name of the friend who converted to Catholicism and influenced Oscar Wilde to consider converting?
(a) Eva Manning.
(b) Rupert Balcombe.
(c) David Hunter Blair.
(d) Richard Williamson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Oscar Wilde invited to lecture?

2. What is the outcome of Oscar Wilde's travels and lectures in America?

3. Who replaced Oscar Wilde as James McNeill Whistler's favorite in Wilde's absence?

4. What is Oscar Wilde's father's name?

5. What is Oscar Wilde's first publication?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Oscar Wilde's contact with Catholicism at Oxford.

2. Where does Oscar Wilde try to find work after graduating from Oxford?

3. What does Oscar Wilde do for work after he gives up lecturing?

4. What was Oscar Wilde like as a young boy?

5. Describe Oscar Wilde's marriage to Constance Lloyd.

6. Why does Oscar Wilde skip his Baltimore speaking engagement?

7. What is Wilde's experience in Paris?

8. What factors made Oscar Wilde's lecturing tour in America a success?

9. What was Oscar Wilde's primary challenge in his fourth year at Oxford, and how did he meet it?

10. What is memorable about Oscar Wilde's stop in Leadville, Colorado?

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