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Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

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Oscar Wildes The Picture of Dorian Gray game quiz
"This quiz should be fairly easy for anyone who has read Wilde's only novel."

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1. In which year did Wilde publish "The Picture of Dorian Gray"?
    1888
    1892
    1891
    1893


2. Which of the following quotations is NOT fom the prologue?
    "The artist is the creator of beautiful things"
    "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book"
    "Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril"
    "Beauty is a form of Genius"


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 ______)


4. Which of the following Shakespearean roles does Sibyl Vane not perform?
    Juliet
    Rosalind
    Imogen
    Desdemona


5. How does Sibyl Vane die?
    slits her wrists
    jumps off of a bridge
    poisons herself
    Dorian strangles her with her hair


6. Last one on Sibyl! What is her name for Dorian?
    Prince Charming
    Beauty
    Prince of Darkness
    Sunlord


7. Which of the following quotations is from "The Picture of Dorian Gray"?
    "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance"
    "The good ended happily, the bad unhappily, that is what fiction means"
    "Each man kills the thing he loves"
    "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about"


8. Okay- and in the same vein, which quotation is NOT from Dorian Gray?
    "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"
    "The nineteenth- century dislike of Romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in the glass"


9. And continuing...which of the following is not said by Henry Wotton?
    "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it"
    "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things"
    "Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid"
    "A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies"


10. How do the people who find Dorian's body recognise it?
    they know him
    from the picture
    from the clothes
    from the rings

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