This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Authors > Oscar Wilde > Oscar Wilde – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Oscar Wilde Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In which City Oscar Wilde was considered one of the most outstanding playwrights A) London. B) Liverpool. C) Bristol. D) Manchester. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) London. 2. Point out who is the author of "The importance of being called Ernesto" A) Arthur Conan Doyle. B) Oscar Wilde. C) Franz Kafka. D) Edgar Allan Poe. E) William Faulkner. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oscar Wilde. 3. Who said the Happy King looks like an angel? A) It's sloppy. B) Mayor. C) Young student. D) Children from orphanages. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Children from orphanages. 4. Name one way in which drama is different to poetry A) It uses more of the senses. B) It contains figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It uses more of the senses. 5. Oscar takes a passion for poetry A) From his father. B) From his mom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) From his mom. 6. The swallow got tired of his lover because he was a bad conversationalist and flirted with the wind. A) True. B) Wrong. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. Only one part of the king could not melt, and that was it A) His eye. B) His ear. C) His heart. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) His heart. 8. The primary mode of composition of paragraph two is: A) Narration. B) Description. C) Cause and effect. D) Classification. E) Process. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Description. 9. The statue of the happy prince was replaced by the statue of the mayor. A) Wrong. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wrong. 10. What gift from Lord Henry does Dorian consider to be, in part, responsible for his own degradation? A) The portrait. B) A dose of opium. C) A novel. D) A mirror. E) A book of poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A novel. 11. All the Americans liked Oscar Wilde. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 12. Wilde was not a very good writer A) FALSE. B) VERO. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) FALSE. 13. It is not a work of Wilde: A) The Portrait of Dorian Gray. B) The happy Prince. C) The selfish giant. D) Seagull. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Seagull. 14. What is the character that negatively influences Dorian Gray and introduces him to hedonism and immorality? A) Lord Henry Wotton. B) James Vane. C) Basil Hallward. D) Sibyl Vane. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lord Henry Wotton. 15. What country did he visit in 1881? A) England. B) Scotland. C) America. D) France. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) America. 16. Wilde belongs to the literary movement: A) Medievalism. B) Realism. C) Romance. D) Neoclassicism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Realism. 17. The Nightingale and The Rose is a: A) Poem. B) Novel. C) Short story. D) Fairy tale. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fairy tale. 18. What was the Happy Prince's heart made of? A) Ambassador. B) Of gold. C) Seatinast. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Seatinast. 19. A bird that is a friend to the happy king A) Kos. B) Nightingale. C) Swallow. D) Dove. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Swallow. 20. Oscar Wilde wrote A) The Picture of Dorian Gray. B) Pride and Prejudice. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Picture of Dorian Gray. 21. What did the swallow do before it died? A) He kissed the Happy King on the lips. B) Ducked under his hat. C) He kissed the Happy King's hand. D) He sang the most beautiful song to the Happy King. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He kissed the Happy King on the lips. 22. The students came to his lecture because they admired Oscar Wilde. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 23. Oscar Wilde dies young A) VERO. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) VERO. 24. The swallow starved to death. A) Wrong. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wrong. 25. Some works made Oscar Wilde famous ..... A) Only in his country. B) Both at home and abroad. C) Only abroad. D) Only in America. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Both at home and abroad. 26. Oscar Wilde was ..... A) Australian. B) Irish. C) Welsh. D) American. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irish. 27. What poem dis Wilde write in prison? A) The Picture of Dorian Gray. B) The Nightingale and the Rose. C) Ballad of Reading Gaol. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ballad of Reading Gaol. 28. He wore very unusual and dramatic clothes. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 29. Why did the swallow turn off the king's eye for the first time? A) To keep the writing student warm. B) That the swallow can fly to Egypt. C) To help the little girl with the matches. D) For the swallow to bring him a bigger eye. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To keep the writing student warm. 30. In what year was Oscar Wilde born? A) 1991. B) 1854. C) 1755. D) 1759. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1854. 31. In its discussion of sorrow in the first paragraph, the writer uses all of the following rhetorical techniques except: A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Sentence type variety. D) Multi-connectors. E) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Synecdoche. 32. What does the name SANC-SOUCI mean? A) Friendship. B) Love. C) Happiness. D) Carelessness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carelessness. 33. Oscar lived a quiet and healthy life A) VERO. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 34. Oscar Wilde refused to visit Niagara Falls. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 35. Raindrops dripped on the swallow's head. A) Wrong. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wrong. 36. Oscar Wilde was a ..... and clever man. A) Quiet. B) Funny. C) Boring. D) Arrogant. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Funny. 37. The girl rejected the young man with the red rose saying A) As of today, I prefer yellow roses. B) I'm afraid it won't go with my dress. C) Your rose has too many thorns. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I'm afraid it won't go with my dress. 38. What were the Happy Prince's eyes made of? A) Ambassador. B) Smaragdid. C) Diamonds. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ambassador. 39. The little match seller was threatened with being beaten by his father. A) Wrong. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 40. What did the nightingale see in the student's eyes? A) The glare of the sun. B) Luck. C) Sincere love and tears. D) Anger. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sincere love and tears. 41. The swallow was the first to help the playwright. A) Wrong. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wrong. 42. Who murders Dorian? A) Dorian doesn't die. B) James Vane. C) Alan Campbell. D) Dorian. E) The devil. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dorian. 43. The Swallow didn't want to go to Egypt:he wanted to be ..... A) The Prince's mouth. B) The Prince's ears. C) The Prince's eyes. D) The Prince's hands. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Prince's eyes. 44. The princess had a ..... A) Mother. B) Daughter. C) Son. D) Aunt. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Son. 45. ..... of imprisonment made it impossible for the great writer to stay in England. A) The ten years. B) The four years. C) One year. D) The two years. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The two years. 46. The swallow did not fly to Egypt because it fell in love with the wolf. A) True. B) Wrong. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wrong. 47. Were there any situations in which the Happy King cried during his life in the castle? A) And. B) It is. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is. 48. Oscar Wilde visited America with Charles Dickens. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 49. Who was Swallow's first love? A) The happy prince. B) Nightingale. C) Roos. D) Reed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reed. 50. The tone of the passage as a whole can best be described as: A) Indignant. B) Mirthful. C) Plaintive. D) Belligerent. E) Sanguine. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plaintive. 51. According to God, the most valuable things in the city were the corpse of the swallow and the golden statue of the happy prince. A) Wrong. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wrong. 52. Indicate which literary movement Oscar Wilde belonged to: A) Aestheticism. B) Decadentism. C) Realism. D) None is correct. E) More than one is correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) More than one is correct. 53. The lecture tour was financially successful. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 54. What is the nationality of Oscar Wilde? A) Irish. B) United States. C) British. D) French. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irish. 55. Oscar Wilde was born in ..... A) Dublin in 1856. B) England in 1856. C) Scotland in 1854. D) London in 1856. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dublin in 1856. 56. The princess and the son were living in a A) Village. B) Forest. C) Lake. D) City. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Forest. 57. What does it mean that the king's heart of lead burst? A) He was very happy. B) His heart burst with grief. C) His heart was healed from joy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His heart burst with grief. 58. The swallow is at the end A) Still went to Egypt. B) Stayed with the king and died. C) Stayed with the king until spring. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stayed with the king and died. 59. Which character is a talented painter in the novel? A) Dorian Gray. B) Basil Hallward. C) Lord Henry. D) Sibyl Vane. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Basil Hallward. 60. What are Kraljevic's eyes made of? A) Of dry gold. B) From lead. C) Of rare sapphires brought from India. D) From reeds. 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