This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Authors > Oscar Wilde > Oscar Wilde – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Oscar Wilde Quiz 1 (60 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) Wrong. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wrong. 2. When was Oscar Wilde born? A) 1854. B) 1993. C) 1850. D) 1880. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1854. 3. In the Victorian era, social classes did not freely mix together generally. True or false? A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 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) Of a better life. B) That every human being had a right to avoid hardships in the search of pleasure. C) That only some persons had a right to avoid hardships in the search of pleasure. D) That art's aim was to educate people. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 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 having a happy ending to the play. C) Making his character look foolish. D) By making fun of him. 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 is a Biblical story. B) Salome is a tragic hero. C) It does not have a hero. D) It is not a play. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 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) West. B) East. C) South. D) North. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 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) 1905. B) 1935. C) 1890. D) 1920. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1890. 16. HOW MANY PEOPLE WILDE'S FAMILY WAS COMPOSED BY? A) 4 PEOPLE. B) 2 PEOPLE. C) 3 PEOPLE. D) 6 PEOPLE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 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 boy. B) Ruler. C) To the hero. D) Councilor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To the boy. 21. What did the Happy King fall in love with? A) In sapphire. B) U rubin. C) And tristic. D) In the swallow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) And tristic. 22. Why does Dorian stop loving Sibyl? A) Because he acts badly. B) Because he was unfaithful. C) Because he sees her without makeup. D) Because he has an extremely dangerous brother. E) Because she sees the portrait. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because he acts badly. 23. Who was very sad for the nightingale? A) Student. B) Poet. C) Oak. D) Lizard. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oak. 24. Oscar Wilde was great A) Musician. B) Writer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Writer. 25. What did the Nightingale sacrifice its life for? A) Her love. B) The girl. C) The love of the young male student. D) Her baby. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The love of the young male student. 26. The novel 'The Picture of Dorian Gray" was written in: A) 1890. B) 1891. C) 1893. D) 1892. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1891. 27. Was he satisfied with the fame of the writer? A) He was satisfied with the fame of the writer. B) He wasn't satisfied with his fame. C) He wasn't satisfied with the fame of the writer and tried to make his own life and personality a masterpiece of art. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He wasn't satisfied with the fame of the writer and tried to make his own life and personality a masterpiece of art. 28. The moral dilemma in An Ideal Husband is A) Staying true to your ideals. B) The quality of one's character. C) Honesty. D) Loyalty. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The quality of one's character. 29. Mark a feature that we cannot associate with a swallow? A) Selfish. B) Lawn. C) Brave. D) Good. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Selfish. 30. The old king is very ..... A) Scared. B) Excited. C) Young. D) Worried. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Worried. 31. The newspaper stories stopped people from attending his lectures. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 32. There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about and that is ..... A) Being sung about. B) Being reviewed. C) Not being talked about. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Not being talked about. 33. Who/what is the lucky prince? A) Princ. B) Boy. C) Kip. D) Swallow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kip. 34. One ..... night a swallow saw the statue and decided to stay there. A) Cold and windy. B) Warm and starry. C) Snowy and freezing. D) Cool and rainy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cold and windy. 35. Princess is married to an ..... man. A) Ugly. B) Beautiful. C) Weird. D) Ordinary. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ordinary. 36. What two most valuable treasures did the angel bring to God from the city where the Happy King lived? A) Ruby from the sword and sapphire from the eye. B) Gold leaves and a dress embroidered with flowers. C) A leaden heart and a dead bird. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A leaden heart and a dead bird. 37. DID WILDE EMBARK ON AN AMERICAN LECTURE? A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) TRUE. 38. What 2 most valuable things did the angel bring to God? A) The rose and the nightingale. B) Tin heart and dead bird. C) A beautiful prom dress and a portrait of the mayor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tin heart and dead bird. 39. Oscar Wilde was born in 1854 in ..... A) London. B) New York. C) Paris. D) Dublin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dublin. 40. People said princess died because of ..... A) Sadness. B) Happiness. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sadness. 41. Who doesn't recognise any ideals or laws of morality? A) Basil Hallward. B) Sibyl Vane. C) James Vane. D) Lord Henry Wotton. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lord Henry Wotton. 42. From the work:The Picture of Dorian Gray; What play, in which Sibyl acts, are Dorian, Henry and Basil going to see? A) Summer night Dream. B) Fausto. C) Romeo and Juliet. D) Macbeth. E) The importance of being called Ernesto. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Romeo and Juliet. 43. Who kills Dorian? A) Lord Henry. B) James Vane. C) Basil. D) Dorian. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dorian. 44. The writer of the passage is which of the following:I. a husbandII. a prisonerIII. a writer A) I. B) II. C) III. D) I and III. E) I, II, and III. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) I, II, and III. 45. Who let the king melt in the melting furnace? A) Swallow. B) Mayor. C) It's sloppy. D) The Little Match Girl. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mayor. 46. Why is the statue of the Happy King crying? A) Because the swallow will leave him. B) Because he no longer lives in his castle. C) Because he sees trouble and sadness in his city. D) Because of unrequited love. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Because he sees trouble and sadness in his city. 47. The reed was in character A) An entrepreneur and a stay-at-home person. B) Very caring and helpful. C) Travel enthusiast. D) Good communicator. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An entrepreneur and a stay-at-home person. 48. Which of the following alternatives is a work by Oscar Wilde? A) "The importance of being called Ernesto". B) "Crime and Punishment". C) "Kill a Mockingbird". D) "Ulises". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "The importance of being called Ernesto". 49. Why is this prose work a fairy tale? A) It has animal figures. B) Animals are personified. C) The statue and the swallow have human features. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The statue and the swallow have human features. 50. The type of this work is A) Fairy tale. B) Basna. C) A song. D) Roman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fairy tale. 51. Oscar studied studied at ..... university. A) Harvard. B) WITH. C) Oxford. D) Cambridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxford. 52. The happy king and the swallow are over A) On island. B) In paradise. C) At the beach. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In paradise. 53. To whom does the swallow take gold leaf after leaf? A) The mayor. B) To another swallow. C) To the poor. D) Reeds. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To the poor. 54. Why did the swallow die? A) Because he did not fly to warmer regions. B) Because the mayor threw him into the smelter. C) For the love of reeds. D) Because he had no food. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because he did not fly to warmer regions. 55. What is meant by the term aesthetics? A) It is the focus on culture and sophistication. B) It is the focus on the importance of eating and drinking. C) It is the focus on reading literature. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is the focus on culture and sophistication. 56. When did Oscar Wilde die? A) 1914. B) 1910. C) 1899. D) 1900. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1900. 57. Lord Henry is a villain character in what novel of Wilde? A) The picture of Dorian Gray. B) Ballad of Reading Gaol. C) An ideal husband. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The picture of Dorian Gray. 58. WHERE DID OSCAR WILDE STUDY? A) OXFORD AND HAMPTON. B) TRINITY AND MAGDALEN. C) CAMBRIDGE AND LONDON. D) HARVARD AND OXFORD. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) TRINITY AND MAGDALEN. 59. A young man/student was disappointed in love. A) And. B) It is. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) And. 60. What happens to the baby? A) Thieves take the baby from princess. B) Baby runs away. C) King takes the baby. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thieves take the baby from princess. Next →Related QuizzesAuthors QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesOscar Wilde Quiz 2Oscar Wilde Quiz 3Oscar Wilde Quiz 4 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books