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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Dorian appear as time passes during Chapter Eleven?
(a) Older.
(b) Angrier.
(c) The same.
(d) Younger.

2. Who does Dorian send for after breakfast in Chapter Fourteen?
(a) Basil.
(b) Alan.
(c) Lord Henry.
(d) James.

3. Where is the body of the man who was accidentally shot being kept?
(a) The local doctor’s office.
(b) A church.
(c) A farm.
(d) The basement.

4. Where is Dorian at the beginning of Chapter Seventeen?
(a) His estate at Selby.
(b) This is not revealed.
(c) Paris.
(d) Walking his grounds.

5. How much time passes between Chapter Sixteen and Chapter Seventeen?
(a) A week.
(b) Ten years.
(c) An indeterminate amount of time.
(d) A month.

6. What does Dorian do to the portrait in Chapter Twenty?
(a) He burns it.
(b) He gives it to Lord Henry.
(c) He moves it to a monastery.
(d) He stabs it.

7. What does Dorian actually see at the beginning of Chapter Twenty?
(a) The spirit of Sibyl.
(b) No change in the painting.
(c) More questions.
(d) Lord Henry’s wife.

8. What does Basil want Dorian to do, according to Chapter Thirteen?
(a) Reconcile with Sibyl.
(b) Beg for forgiveness.
(c) Exile himself.
(d) Destroy the painting.

9. Where does Dorian take Basil at the beginning of Chapter Thirteen?
(a) Paris.
(b) The schoolroom.
(c) To the gardens.
(d) Lord Henry’s house.

10. What knowledge does Dorian’s friend have that Dorian needs, according to Chapter Fourteen?
(a) Ethics.
(b) Chemistry.
(c) Law.
(d) Music.

11. Why does Lord Henry think Dorian could not have murdered Basil?
(a) He does not think Basil is dead.
(b) He thinks Dorian lacks the detachment needed to murder.
(c) He thinks Dorian loved Basil too much to kill him.
(d) He thinks murder is too vulgar for a man like Dorian.

12. What happens to Dorian’s portrait during Chapter Eleven?
(a) Dorian refuses to look at it, so this is not known.
(b) It does not change.
(c) It deteriorates.
(d) It begins to look more beautiful.

13. What does Lady Narborough suggest is the root of Dorian’s problems in Chapter Fifteen?
(a) Exhaustion.
(b) Love.
(c) Sin.
(d) Paranoia.

14. What idea does Dorian entertain in Chapter Eighteen?
(a) Moving to the Americas.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Sailing away on a yacht.
(d) Following Basil to Paris.

15. What youth does Dorian find in Chapter Sixteen, whom he is said to have corrupted?
(a) James Vane.
(b) Adrian Singleton.
(c) John Worthing.
(d) Alan Campbell.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dorian not want Lord Henry to loan to anyone, according to Chapter Nineteen?

2. When does Dorian dress at the end of Chapter Fifteen?

3. What occupation did Dorian assume the man who was shot had in Chapter Eighteen?

4. Where does Dorian go at the beginning of Chapter Fifteen?

5. Where does Dorian go at the end of Chapter Fifteen?

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