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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. Why does Dorian decide not to dwell on his feelings in Chapter Fourteen?
(a) Because he cannot do anything to change the past.
(b) Because he wants to preserve his friendship with Lord Henry.
(c) To avoid making himself ill.
(d) To focus on his yellow book.

2. When does Chapter Fourteen begin in relation to Chapter Thirteen?
(a) A week or so later.
(b) An indeterminate amount of time.
(c) The next morning.
(d) Several hours later.

3. How old is Dorian going to be on his birthday, according to the beginning of Chapter Twelve?
(a) Forty-eight.
(b) Thirty-eight.
(c) Twenty-eight.
(d) Fifty-three.

4. How does Dorian appear as time passes during Chapter Eleven?
(a) Older.
(b) The same.
(c) Angrier.
(d) Younger.

5. How have many of Dorian’s friendships ended, according to Chapter Twelve?
(a) Quietly.
(b) Amicably.
(c) Disastrously.
(d) Mysteriously.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dorian recite at the beginning of Chapter Sixteen?

2. What is the true identity of the man who was accidentally shot in Chapter Eighteen?

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

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

5. What does Dorian do at the beginning of Chapter Twenty?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of Lord Henry changing the subject when Dorian mentions his desire to reform?

2. What is the significance of the conversation between Lord Henry and Dorian about the nature of the soul in Chapter Nineteen?

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

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 Dorian swoon and feel chills throughout dinner in Chapter Seventeen?

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

7. Why does Dorian get angry with Basil in Chapter Thirteen?

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

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

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

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