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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Basil do while Lord Henry and Dorian talk in Chapter Two?
(a) Make tea.
(b) Finish the portrait.
(c) Dress for dinner.
(d) Play the piano.

2. Who is Dorian speaking with at the beginning of Chapter Four?
(a) Lady Agatha.
(b) Victoria.
(c) Sybil.
(d) James.

3. Why does Basil refuse to do what Lord Henry wants him to do?
(a) He fears a self-portrait would show his true, ugly self.
(b) He does not do portraits of friends.
(c) He says the painting shows too much of himself.
(d) He thinks Dorian is too immoral to be captured on canvas.

4. What is praised in the Preface?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Education.
(c) Literature.
(d) Beauty.

5. What plans does Dorian abandon at the end of Chapter Three?
(a) Singing for Lady Agatha.
(b) Going to the theater.
(c) Visiting his mother.
(d) Visiting Basil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lord Henry mock at dinner in Chapter Three?

2. Who does Lord Henry visit at the beginning of Chapter Three?

3. Who arrives at the end of Chapter One?

4. In what historical period does The Picture of Dorian Gray take place?

5. What is the topic of Dorian’s conversation at the beginning of Chapter Four?

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