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

2. What does Dorian do when he sees the portrait?
(a) He covers it.
(b) He curses it.
(c) He refuses to look at it.
(d) He takes it.

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

4. Where did Dorian meet Sibyl?
(a) In Bristol.
(b) At a dinner party.
(c) Paris.
(d) The London slums.

5. Who is Basil conversing with at the beginning of the story?
(a) His servant.
(b) Dorian.
(c) Lord Henry.
(d) No one.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Dorian’s housekeeper’s name, according to Chapter Ten?

2. What is Dorian’s topic of conversation at the beginning of Chapter Seven?

3. Who arrives to Dorian’s home with news in Chapter Eight?

4. At the end of Chapter Seven, what does Dorian decide he will do the next day?

5. Where is Sibyl’s social standing in comparison to Dorian’s?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What decision does Dorian make in his life as a result of Sibyl’s suicide?

3. Why is Dorian’s past considered dark?

4. Why does Lord Henry not pass judgment on Dorian’s engagement?

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

6. How does Dorian deal with his emotion about Sibyl’s death at the end of Chapter Ten?

7. Why is Dorian heartbroken at the beginning of Chapter Seven?

8. How does Lord Henry defend his point of view at the end of Chapter Six?

9. How does Sibyl avoid discussing Dorian with James while they walk together?

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

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