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

2. What governs Dorian’s behavior, according to the beginning of Chapter Eleven?
(a) Lord Henry.
(b) His love of Sibyl.
(c) The “yellow book.”
(d) His guilt.

3. What does Dorian tell his friend in Chapter Fourteen?
(a) Sibyl Vane is pregnant.
(b) There is a painting locked in a room that bears the weight of his sins.
(c) He killed Sibyl Vane.
(d) There is a dead body locked in a room of his house.

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

5. Who does Lord Henry mock in a discussion about the soul in Chapter Nineteen?
(a) Basil.
(b) Dorian.
(c) Lord Fermor.
(d) A street preacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Basil say he wanted to speak to Dorian before leaving?

2. How does Lord Henry react to what Dorian says about the incident on the hunting trip?

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

4. How does Dorian react to Basil’s request?

5. What of Dorian’s does Basil say he wants to see, according to Chapter Twelve?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Basil stop Dorian on the street at the beginning of Chapter Twelve?

2. Why does Basil call Dorian’s painting “an awful lesson?”

3. What is Dorian’s obsession in Chapter Eighteen?

4. Explain how and why Dorian dies at the end of The Picture of Dorian Gray.

5. Why is Dorian so conflicted in Chapter Fifteen?

6. Why does Dorian tell Lord Henry in Chapter Eighteen that he wishes he could love?

7. What does Lord Henry’s credo mean?

8. Why does Basil have to identify the painting of Dorian by his signature rather than by its appearance in Chapter Thirteen?

9. Why does Dorian swoon and feel chills throughout dinner in Chapter Seventeen?

10. What does Basil wonder about Dorian in Chapter Twelve? Why?

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