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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. When does Oscar Wilde achieve fame?
(a) 1881.
(b) 1878.
(c) 1880.
(d) 1882.

2. What split does Oscar Wilde's poetry explore?
(a) Between aesthetic and ethical man.
(b) Between Irish and English man.
(c) Between man and superman.
(d) Between reflective and pragmatic man.

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

4. What does Oscar Wilde do at Marie Prescott's request?
(a) He returned to England.
(b) He moved to Paris.
(c) He added a part for her in "The Duchess of Padua."
(d) He rewrote "Vera."

5. What does Oscar Wilde do for work immediately after he graduates from Oxford?
(a) He taught at Oxford.
(b) He edited the Encyclopedia Britannica.
(c) He lectured on aesthetics.
(d) He wrote art reviews.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Oscar Wilde marry?

2. What defines Oscar Wilde's style?

3. Why does Oscar Wilde resist converting to Catholicism?

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

5. Whose house does Oscar Wilde move out of while his first play is being prepared?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Oscar Wilde move after graduating from Oxford?

2. With whom does Oscar Wilde visit Rome in 1875?

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

4. What was Oscar Wilde's relationship with Robert Harborough Sherard?

5. Describe Oscar Wilde's meeting with Walt Whitman.

6. What does Oscar Wilde's mother change her name to when she marries Oscar Wilde's father?

7. Why was Oscar Wilde's first play never produced?

8. What did Oscar Wilde do when he lost his University Demyship?

9. What is Oscar Wilde's father's profession, and what are his political views?

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

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