This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Authors > Oscar Wilde > Oscar Wilde – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Oscar Wilde Quiz 1 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The seamstress's son was sick and wanted apricots, but the mother could only give him river water. A) True. B) Wrong. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wrong. 2. When was Oscar Wilde born? A) 1880. B) 1850. C) 1854. D) 1993. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1854. 3. In the Victorian era, social classes did not freely mix together generally. True or false? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 4. The most popular form of theatre in the Victorian era was ..... A) The situational comedy. B) The music halls. C) The opera. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The music halls. 5. He thought ..... A) That only some persons had a right to avoid hardships in the search of pleasure. B) Of a better life. C) That every human being had a right to avoid hardships in the search of pleasure. D) That art's aim was to educate people. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) That every human being had a right to avoid hardships in the search of pleasure. 6. Wilde is making a statement about social class with his character of Ernest by A) By using satire. B) By making fun of him. C) By having a happy ending to the play. D) Making his character look foolish. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) By using satire. 7. What ruins Wilde's health? A) The work. B) The prison. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The prison. 8. Salome is different from the other plays because A) It does not have a hero. B) It is not a play. C) It is a Biblical story. D) Salome is a tragic hero. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It is a Biblical story. 9. Wilde often compared man's beauty to what? A) Precious stones. B) The sky. C) A picture. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Precious stones. 10. "The Picture of Dorian Gray" is O. Wilde's one and only novel. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 11. Which of the following statements fits the main message of "The Happy Prince" ? A) A simple-minded person will not succeed in life and perish while serving others. B) The world is so cold that there is no room for goodness and love. C) There is no point in helping the weak. Let everyone be the master of his own destiny. D) Happiness is goodness. E) Sharing with others makes you rich. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Happiness is goodness. 12. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong ..... A) Tragedy. B) Secret. C) Romance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Romance. 13. The other swallows had gone ..... A) South. B) North. C) East. D) West. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) South. 14. When he was at the peak of his career, he was unfortunately destroyed socially and morally by being accused of a crime, this was: A) Sodomy and gross indecency. B) Homicide. C) Aggravated robbery. D) Domestic violence. E) Leaving home. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sodomy and gross indecency. 15. In what year was the novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray" published? A) 1890. B) 1905. C) 1920. D) 1935. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1890. 16. HOW MANY PEOPLE WILDE'S FAMILY WAS COMPOSED BY? A) 2 PEOPLE. B) 6 PEOPLE. C) 4 PEOPLE. D) 3 PEOPLE. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 4 PEOPLE. 17. Anybody can make history. Only a great man can ..... A) Survive it. B) Forget it. C) Write it. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Write it. 18. What does the Happy Prince do in paradise? A) Tells God about the miserable life of people. B) Praise God. C) Having fun. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Praise God. 19. In blaming himself and expressing his shame in the sentences "I had disgraced that name eternally. I had made it a low by-word among low people. I had dragged it through the very mire. I had given it to brutes that they might make it brutal, and to fools that they might turn it into a synonym for folly, " the writer uses all of the following rhetoricaltechniques except: A) Anaphora. B) Epistrophe. C) Parallelism. D) Repetition. E) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epistrophe. 20. The swallow took the ruby from the sword to the sick person A) To the hero. B) Councilor. C) Ruler. D) To the boy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To the boy. Next →Related QuizzesAuthors QuizzesOscar Wilde Quiz 2Oscar Wilde Quiz 3Oscar Wilde Quiz 4Oscar Wilde Quiz 5Oscar Wilde Quiz 6Oscar Wilde Quiz 7Oscar Wilde Quiz 8Oscar Wilde Quiz 9Oscar Wilde Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books