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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. How does Basil advise Dorian about his influence over other youths?
(a) Let go of it.
(b) Refrain from using it.
(c) It is dangerous.
(d) Use it for good.

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

3. What does Dorian grab in Chapter Twenty?
(a) A gun.
(b) The portrait.
(c) A knife.
(d) Basil’s pocketwatch.

4. According to Chapter Thirteen, what did Dorian pledge his soul in exchange for?
(a) Love.
(b) Intellect.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Youth.

5. What does Dorian recite at the beginning of Chapter Sixteen?
(a) The inscription from his yellow book.
(b) The Lord’s Prayer.
(c) Incoherent phrases.
(d) Lord Henry’s credo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Basil want Dorian to do, according to Chapter Thirteen?

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

3. Where does Dorian take Basil at the beginning of Chapter Thirteen?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why does Wilde not reveal the secret that Dorian uses to blackmail Alan?

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 is Dorian’s obsession in Chapter Eighteen?

10. What fears does Dorian have in regards to his painting, according to Chapter Eleven? What does this fear reflect?

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