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

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

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

4. What is the smell in the upper room of Dorian’s house at the end of Chapter Fourteen?
(a) Nitric acid.
(b) Lavender.
(c) Dust.
(d) Smoke.

5. What of Dorian’s does Basil say he wants to see, according to Chapter Twelve?
(a) His portrait.
(b) His bedchamber.
(c) His diary.
(d) His soul.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much time passes during Chapter Eleven?

2. Whose face does Dorian see pressed against the window in Chapter Seventeen?

3. Why does Dorian ask about the man who was accidentally shot in Chapter Eighteen?

4. Where is Dorian at the beginning of Chapter Seventeen?

5. Where does Dorian decide to go at the beginning of Chapter Eighteen?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Dorian have multiple copies of the yellow book made?

2. What role does Alan Campbell play in Chapter Fourteen?

3. Explain the reference to a double life made at the beginning of Chapter Fifteen.

4. In Chapter Nineteen what evidence does Dorian give Lord Henry of his desire to reform himself?

5. What does Lord Henry’s credo mean?

6. What is the turning point that occurs at the end of Chapter Eighteen? Why is this a turning point?

7. Why does Dorian see red paint on the hand of his likeness in the portrait at the end of Chapter Fourteen?

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

9. What does Dorian mean when he says he will show Basil his soul in Chapter Twelve?

10. What moral can be taken from Dorian’s experiences in The Picture of Dorian Gray?

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