This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Authors > Oscar Wilde > Oscar Wilde – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Oscar Wilde Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Where did the children try to play after the giant chased them out of the garden? A) At the park. B) On the road. C) On the playground. D) In the forest. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) On the road. 2. He was a happy king A) Grub. B) Merciful. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Merciful. 3. When was Oscar Wilde accused of immorality? A) In 1900. B) In 1898. C) In 1897. D) In 1895. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In 1895. 4. Wilde's last days occurred in Paris where he preferred to lead a quiet and silent life. He died of a strange illness at that time and according to what they say it was caused by poisoning; This disease was: A) Lung cancer. B) Diabetes. C) Meningitis. D) Pulmonary fibrosis. E) Cirrhosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meningitis. 5. How many children did Oscar Wilde have? A) 2. B) 4. C) 1. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2. 6. Thank you my prince. You have ..... me the true meaning of happiness! A) Helped. B) Taught. C) Given. D) Learnt. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Taught. 7. The Prince asked the swallow to take the ruby to ..... A) The match girl. B) The child's house. C) The young writer. D) The mayor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The child's house. 8. Where was the Swallow going to fly? A) To Egypt. B) Turkish. C) To Crete. D) To Spain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To Egypt. 9. Where did the Happy King live when he had a human heart? A) In a palace where there was no sorrow. B) In Egypt. C) In a poor house. D) In the attic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In a palace where there was no sorrow. 10. He also visited Canada and gave lectures there. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 11. SELFISH is the opposite of ..... A) Generous. B) Sick. C) Faithful. D) Sad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Generous. 12. The city councilors decided to melt down the statue of the Happy Prince. What was the fight about after that? A) Of which the new statue will be. B) Not everyone agreed with the decision to melt the statue of the Happy King. C) About the ban on killing birds in the city. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Of which the new statue will be. 13. What is the name of the story? A) The young king. B) The old king. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The young king. 14. What is the main reason Dorian Gray wants his portrait to age instead of him? A) By an act of magic. B) To gain notoriety as a scientific experiment. C) To hide your true identity. D) To maintain your youth and beauty forever. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To maintain your youth and beauty forever. 15. Which nickname did Jane Wilde use? A) Constance. B) Butterfly. C) Queen. D) Hope. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hope. 16. A swallow on the river surprised someone in particular, so it was written about in the newspapers. Who is it about? A) To the director of the Zoo. B) To a professor who studies birds. C) To a journalist. D) City councilor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To a professor who studies birds. 17. The primary mode of composition of the final paragraph is: A) Narration. B) Description. C) Definition. D) Comparison and contrast. E) Argument. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Definition. 18. What is the name of the Newdigate Prize Winning Poem? A) How Much Has Changed?. B) Ravenna. C) My voice. D) Alas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ravenna. 19. WHAT MOVIMENT DID HE PARTICIPATE? A) ROMANTICISM. B) AESTHETICISM. C) NEOCLASSICISM. D) REALISM. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) AESTHETICISM. 20. Determine the basic thought of the fairy tale Happy King. A) The Swallow and the Happy King lived happily ever after. B) God rewards earthly goodness. C) The happy king will be remembered forever. D) The poor can be saved. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) God rewards earthly goodness. 21. The body of the statue was covered ..... shiny gold leaf A) For. B) In. C) From. D) Of. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In. 22. What is true about Dorian Gray? A) Face stays beautiful and pure forever. B) Was kind and innocent but then became more and more immoral. C) Both. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both. 23. Did autumn bear fruit in the garden of the selfish giant? A) And. B) It is. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is. 24. The song of which bird the selfish giant heard one day while he was resting A) Nightingale. B) Hemp plant. C) Crow. D) Kos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hemp plant. 25. Oscar's mother's name was Jane but she preferred to be called 'Speranza'. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 26. Lady Windermere's Fan is significant in the play because it represents A) A veil of secrets. B) Her memories from her childhood of her mother. C) The mistrust she has for her mother. D) Her courage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A veil of secrets. 27. What is a dandy? A) Someone that thinks that how they appear is significant. B) Someone that is rich. C) Someone that likes to read literature. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Someone that thinks that how they appear is significant. 28. What consequences does Dorian Gray face at the end of the novel? A) Live a happy and virtuous life. B) He becomes a famous painter. C) Dies of an illness. D) Commits suicide. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Commits suicide. 29. "Bring me the two ..... things on earth", said God to one of his angels A) Most beautiful. B) More beautiful. C) Beautifullest. D) Beautifuller. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Most beautiful. 30. The swallow should have flown away A) Danube. B) They. C) Amazon. D) Euphrates. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They. 31. The young man in the attic wrote ..... A) A play. B) A poem. C) A novel. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A play. 32. WHY OSCAR WILDE WAS SENT TO PRISON? A) For treason. B) For indecency. C) For be a man. D) Because he had trouble. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) For indecency. 33. Where did you move to after finishing college? A) Paris. B) Rome. C) Dublin. D) London. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) London. 34. WHERE OSCAR WILDE WAS BORN? A) LONDON. B) IRELAND. C) UNITED STATES. D) BRAZIL. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) IRELAND. 35. What object in the novel ages and corrupts instead of the main character, Dorian Gray? A) A dress. B) A pocket watch. C) A mirror. D) A picture. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A picture. 36. Later, he wrote a story about an American family. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 37. It was one of Wilde's best known compositions A) One Hundred Years of Solitude. B) The Picture of Dorian Gray. C) The Raven. D) Brave New World. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Picture of Dorian Gray. 38. How did the Happy Prince live before his death? A) Carefree and fun, didn't know there was poverty in the world. B) He was poor. C) He was rich and helped the poor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carefree and fun, didn't know there was poverty in the world. 39. Oscar is put in prison because he falls in love A) Of a queen. B) Of a man. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Of a man. 40. Where is the statue of the Happy King? A) In front of the castle. B) High above the city on a tall pillar. C) In the city park. D) Next to the lake in the middle of the reed grove. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) High above the city on a tall pillar. 41. In context, the word "tremulous" in line 44 most nearly means: A) Exceedingly sensitive. B) Timid. C) Hesitant. D) Uncertain. E) Having little substance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exceedingly sensitive. 42. The selfish giant belongs to the species: A) Novel. B) Fable. C) Tale. D) Epic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tale. 43. The happy king and the swallow helped A) The rich. B) To the poor. C) To all. D) Councilors. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To the poor. 44. Did he write a childern's book? A) A lot of. B) No. C) I don't know. D) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Yes. 45. What was the Work that came out in 1878? A) The selfish giant. B) Ravenna. C) From the depths. D) The Canterville Ghost. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ravenna. 46. Oscar was a role model A) Of healthy living. B) Of style. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Of style. 47. The lucky prince was covered A) Bronze. B) Gold. C) Silver. D) With plastic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gold. 48. The passage as a whole primarily appeals to:I. ethosII. logosIII. pathos A) I. B) II. C) III. D) I and II. E) I, II, and III. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) III. 49. Wilde was a citizen of all civilized capitals, a very Irish Irishman at heart, and as such a foreigner everywhere but Ireland. Known for writing works of the genre: A) Novels, stories, essays, poems. B) Stories and poems. C) Purely novels. D) Essays and novels. E) N.A. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Novels, stories, essays, poems. 50. Was there a queen? A) Yes they were. B) No there wasnt. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No there wasnt. 51. Middle class men were expected to follow their fathers into their occupation. True or false? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 52. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be ..... A) Careless. B) Forgiven. C) Wrong. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wrong. 53. The use of the pronoun "it" in line 29 refers to: A) The writer's shame. B) The writer's country. C) The writer's anguish. D) The writer's mother's death. E) The writer's name. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) The writer's name. 54. The lucky king was left without A) Hearing. B) Life. C) Speech. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Life. 55. The happy prince is covered in pure gold. A) Wrong. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 56. At Oxford where he studied he came ..... A) To write his famous works. B) To marry Constance Mary. C) To John Ruskin. D) Under the influence of John Ruskin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Under the influence of John Ruskin. 57. Nothing that is worth knowing can be ..... A) Taught. B) Bought. C) Dreamed. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Taught. 58. Oscar's father was a poet A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 59. In Victorian England, it was easy to practice social mobility. True or false? A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 60. We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the ..... A) Stars. B) Bars. C) Cars. D) None of above. 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