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Quiz about Oscar Wildes The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" Quiz

This quiz should be fairly easy for anyone who has read Wilde's only novel.

A multiple-choice quiz by bleedingwhiterose. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
bleedingwhiterose

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
95,468

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
5 / 10

Plays
1074

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. In which year did Wilde publish "The Picture of Dorian Gray"? Hint

1888

1892

1891

1893

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Question 2 of 10

2. Which of the following quotations is NOT fom the prologue? Hint

"The artist is the creator of beautiful things"

"Beauty is a form of Genius"

"Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril"

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book"

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Question 3 of 10

3. Complete the quote: "The world is changed because you are made of _______and______. The curves of your lips rewrite history."

Answer: (Three Words- ____ and ______)

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which of the following Shakespearean roles does Sibyl Vane not perform? Hint

Juliet

Rosalind

Imogen

Desdemona

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Question 5 of 10

5. How does Sibyl Vane die? Hint

poisons herself

Dorian strangles her with her hair

jumps off of a bridge

slits her wrists

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Question 6 of 10

6. Last one on Sibyl! What is her name for Dorian? Hint

Prince of Darkness

Sunlord

Beauty

Prince Charming

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Question 7 of 10

7. Which of the following quotations is from "The Picture of Dorian Gray"? Hint

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance"

"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about"

"Each man kills the thing he loves"

"The good ended happily, the bad unhappily, that is what fiction means"

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Question 8 of 10

8. Okay- and in the same vein, which quotation is NOT from Dorian Gray? Hint

"The nineteenth- century dislike of Romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in the glass"

"Women are a decorative sex. they never have anything to say but they say it charmingly"

"We must treat the trivial things in life seriously and the serious things with sincere and studied triviality"

"The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world"

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Question 9 of 10

9. And continuing...which of the following is not said by Henry Wotton? Hint

"Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid"

"A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies"

"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things"

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it"

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Question 10 of 10

10. How do the people who find Dorian's body recognise it? Hint

they know him

from the picture

from the clothes

from the rings

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. In which year did Wilde publish "The Picture of Dorian Gray"?

Answer: 1891

"Lady Windemere's Fan" was published in 1892; "A Woman of No Importance" was published in 1893; and I just picked 1888 for Jack the Ripper's sake!

2. Which of the following quotations is NOT fom the prologue?

Answer: "Beauty is a form of Genius"

Henry Wotton tells Dorian that beauty is a form of genius in one of his early speeches to him.

3. Complete the quote: "The world is changed because you are made of _______and______. The curves of your lips rewrite history."

Answer: ivory and gold

I first fell in love with this line when I heard Ewan Mcgregor say it to Johnathan Rhys Myers in "Velvet Goldmine". Of course Wilde only wrote the line as part of a letter to Dorian Gray from many of his adoring fans; a letter he describes as "mad" and "idolatrous".

4. Which of the following Shakespearean roles does Sibyl Vane not perform?

Answer: Desdemona

It's seeing her as Juliet that makes Dorian fall both in and out of love with her.

5. How does Sibyl Vane die?

Answer: poisons herself

Henry tells Dorian that she swallowed prussic acid or white lead. The strangling with hair is from Robert Browning's "Porphyria's Lover".

6. Last one on Sibyl! What is her name for Dorian?

Answer: Prince Charming

She calls him her Prince Charming; all very sweet, but it's hearing the name that leads her brother to Dorian later on.

7. Which of the following quotations is from "The Picture of Dorian Gray"?

Answer: "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about"

Another of Henry's lines- he gets all the best ones! The "lifelong romance" one is from "An Ideal Husband"; "Each man kills the thing he loves" from the "Ballad of Reading Gaol"; and the fiction thing from "The Importance of Being Earnest".

8. Okay- and in the same vein, which quotation is NOT from Dorian Gray?

Answer: "We must treat the trivial things in life seriously and the serious things with sincere and studied triviality"

I don't actually know where this is from, but it's one of my favourite Wildeans ever!

9. And continuing...which of the following is not said by Henry Wotton?

Answer: "Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid"

Spoken to Dorian near the end, by Bazil, just before the painter is knifed. Of course, Dorian doesn't take the slightest bit of notice.

10. How do the people who find Dorian's body recognise it?

Answer: from the rings

This has to be the best closing paragraph ever written! "When they entered they found hanging on the wall a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty. Lying on the floor was a dead man in evening dress with a knife in his heart.

He was withered, wrinkled and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognised who it was."

Source: Author bleedingwhiterose

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