QUIZ

1.  Wilde entered New York at a building known as Castle Garden or what other name?

a.      Castle Lincoln
b.      Castle Grant
c.      Castle Ford
d.      Castle Clinton

2.  In a letter, whom did Oscar Wilde call his "lily of lilies"?

a.      Alfred Douglas
b.      Constance Wilde
c.      Lillian Russell
d.      Lillie Langtry

3.  "Forgive me, sweetheart!  Trust me, you will find/My love one day deep in your life entwined."  Who wrote these lines in a sonnet to his wife?

a.      Oscar Wilde
b.      Willie Wilde
c.      Alfred Douglas
d.     Marquis of Queensbury

4.  As he interviewed Wilde in Montreal, a reporter noted: "the ruins of…"  What?

a.      His future life
b.      His previous reputation
c.      St. Teresa's Church
d.      A substantial looking breakfast

5.  In his third trial, Wilde was asked by the Solicitor-General: "Did you not take Charles Parker to the Savoy Hotel?  What did Oscar reply?:

a.      Yes. I did not.
b.      No.  I did take him there.
c.      Yes, certainly.
d.      No, certainly not.

6. In his book 'Oscar Wilde’ St. John Ervine says Frank Harris pursued women with what?

a.      No regard for his honor
b.      No regard for their honor
c.      Mathematical precision
d.      Red hair

7.   Which one of these words appears in The Importance of Being Earnest?

a.      Anabolics
b.      Anabaptists
c.      Analeptics
d.      Analgesics

8.  Lord Alfred Douglas wrote to his father: "I shall defend myself with..".  What?

a.      Honour
b.      Right on my side
c.      Increased resistance
d.      A loaded revolver

9.  What plan shape is the main cell block of Reading Gaol?

a.      Cruciform
b.      Square
c.      Hollow triangle
d.      L-shaped

10. In 1921, Lord Alfred Douglas sued the newspaper Evening News for libel following the fact that they printed what?

a.      That he was probably mad
b.     That he was probably homosexual
c.      That he shouldn't be alive

d.      That he was already dead