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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Whose face does Dorian see pressed against the window in Chapter Seventeen?
2. What does Dorian do to Basil in Chapter Thirteen?
3. According to Chapter Thirteen, what did Dorian pledge his soul in exchange for?
4. What idea does Dorian entertain in Chapter Eighteen?
5. What is the smell in the upper room of Dorian’s house at the end of Chapter Fourteen?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Basil stop Dorian on the street at the beginning of Chapter Twelve?
2. What does the hare in Chapter Eighteen symbolize?
3. What does Basil wonder about Dorian in Chapter Twelve? Why?
4. Why does Dorian tell Lord Henry in Chapter Eighteen that he wishes he could love?
5. Why do people dismiss the stories of Dorian’s behavior in Chapter Eleven?
6. Why does Basil call Dorian’s painting “an awful lesson?”
7. What is the turning point that occurs at the end of Chapter Eighteen? Why is this a turning point?
8. What is the significance of Lord Henry changing the subject when Dorian mentions his desire to reform?
9. Why does Dorian swoon and feel chills throughout dinner in Chapter Seventeen?
10. Why is Dorian so conflicted in Chapter Fifteen?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain the effect Dorian’s sins have on his psyche. How does he feel about his sins? How does he deal with his feelings? Why do Dorian’s sins affect him if the portrait is meant to take on the burden of his sins?
Essay Topic 2
Explain the role of the arts in The Picture of Dorian Gray. How do the arts affect the various characters in the story? How do the arts help progress the plot forward? Why does Wilde choose to include the arts in this way?
Essay Topic 3
Define foil. Identify a pair of foils from The Picture of Dorian Gray and explain how they are foils to each other.
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