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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. What does Basil warn Dorian about in Chapter Two?
(a) Lady Agatha’s charity work.
(b) The opium dens.
(c) Lord Henry.
(d) The portrait is not an exact likeness.

2. What does Dorian ask Basil to do in Chapter Nine?
(a) A new portrait.
(b) Let Dorian move into his house.
(c) A drawing of Sibyl.
(d) To leave.

3. What does Dorian decide to do with the portrait at the end of Chapter Nine?
(a) Hide it.
(b) Allow it to be exhibited.
(c) Destroy it.
(d) Give it back to Basil.

4. What decision does Sibyl make in Chapter Seven?
(a) To elope with Dorian.
(b) To quit her acting career.
(c) To follow James to Australia.
(d) To break off the engagement.

5. What news about Dorian is shared at the end of Chapter Four?
(a) He has bought the playhouse.
(b) He is missing.
(c) He is engaged to Sibyl.
(d) He is married to Sibyl.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Basil blame for the change in Dorian, according to Chapter Nine?

2. Why is James reluctant to leave his family?

3. What plans does Dorian abandon at the end of Chapter Three?

4. What is Dorian’s servant’s name, according to Chapter Ten?

5. How is Sibyl’s performance in Chapter Seven?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Preface about?

2. What does Lord Henry think of the story of Dorian’s past?

3. Why was Dorian in the slums in Chapter Four?

4. What does Lord Henry muse over at the end of Chapter Four?

5. Why is Basil reluctant to introduce Dorian and Lord Henry?

6. Why is Dorian’s past considered dark?

7. Why does Basil say he originally did not want Dorian to see the painting?

8. What pledges do James and Sibyl each make at the end of Chapter Five?

9. Why does Dorian hide the painting from Basil?

10. What reaction does Dorian have to the yellow book? What does the yellow book signify?

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