Wilde won the Newdigate, Prize for his poem “Ravenna” in:
(a) 1879
(b) 1878
(c) 1880
(d) 1881
Question’s Answer: 1878
Which was the last year of Oscar Wilde at Oxford?
(a) 1880
(b) 1878
(c) 1879
(d) 1877
Question’s Answer: 1878
Wilde moved to London in:
(a) 1876
(b) 1877
(c) 1879
(d) 1878
Question’s Answer: 1878
Wilde’s collection of poems appeared in July:
(a) 1885
(b) 1882
(c) 1881
(d) 1886
Question’s Answer: 1881
Wilde accepted an invitation to go on a lecture tour of the USA in:
(a) 1880
(b) 1886
(c) 1885
(d) 1882
Question’s Answer: 1882
Wilde’s first play, “Vera”, was written in:
(a) 1882
(b) 1881
(c) 1880
(d) 1883
Question’s Answer: 1880
How many months were spent by Oscar Wilde in the USA addressing audience?
(a) Ten Months
(b) Thirteen Months
(c) Thirteen Months
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Thirteen Months
Oscar Wilde went to Paris in:
(a) 1884
(b) 1883
(c) 1885
(d) 1886
Question’s Answer: 1883
A son was born to Wilde in:
(a) 1887
(b) 1886
(c) 1885
(d) 1888
Question’s Answer: 1885
Wilde took up the job of a book reviewer on the staff of the Pall Mall Gazette in:
(a) 1883
(b) 1886
(c) 1885
(d) 1887
Question’s Answer: 1885
Wilde had become well known in London social circle by his wit and his fantastic manner of dressing till:
(a) 1881
(b) 1880
(c) 1882
(d) 1883
Question’s Answer: 1880
How many months were spent by Oscar Wilde in Paris?
(a) A Couple of Months
(b) Five Months
(c) Three Months
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: A Couple of Months
Wilde’s first play “Vera” was performed in New York in:
(a) 1885
(b) 1884
(c) 1883
(d) 1886
Question’s Answer: 1883
Wilde married Constance Mary Lloyd in:
(a) 1887
(b) 1885
(c) 1886
(d) 1884
Question’s Answer: 1884
Wilde spent his honeymoon in:
(a) Paris
(b) London
(c) New York
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Paris
Wilde became friend of Robert Ross in:
(a) 1887
(b) 1886
(c) 1888
(d) 1889
Question’s Answer: 1886
How many books of different kinds by Oscar Wilde were published during 1891?
(a) Four
(b) Three
(c) Five
(d) Six
Question’s Answer: Four
Wilde’s play “Lady Windermere’s Fan” was staged in:
(a) 1892
(b) 1891
(c) 1890
(d) 1893
Question’s Answer: 1892
Wilde became the editor of a magazine called “The Woman’s World” in:
(a) 1885
(b) 1886
(c) 1888
(d) 1887
Question’s Answer: 1887
Wilde’s second son was born in:
(a) 1882
(b) 1883
(c) 1887
(d) 1886
Question’s Answer: 1886
Wilde remained the editor of “The Woman’s World” for:
(a) Six months
(b) Two years
(c) One year
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Two years
A collection of Wilde’s fairy tales appeared under the title of ‘Happy Prince and other Tales” in:
(a) 1885
(b) 1886
(c) 1889
(d) 1888
Question’s Answer: 1888
Which is not a play by Oscar Wilde?
(a) Arms and the Man
(b) An Ideal Husband
(c) Salome
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Arms and the Man
Which play of Oscar Wilde was written in French and then translated into English?
(a) The importance of being Earnest
(b) Salome
(c) Vera
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Salome
Which play by Oscar Wilde was banned to be staged by the authorities?
(a) Salome
(b) A Woman of no Importance
(c) Lady Windermere’s Fan
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Salome
Wilde’s master piece “The importance of being Earnest” was staged: in:
(a) February 1895
(b) January 1895
(c) March 1895
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: February 1895
Who is the author of the “The Happy Prince”?
(a) Oscar Wilde
(b) Bernard Shaw
(c) Sheridan
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Oscar Wilde
Which was the first play of Oscar Wilde?
(a) Vera or the Nihilists
(b) The Duchess of Padua
(c) Salome
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Vera or the Nihilists
Wilde’s play “A Woman of no Importance” was staged in:
(a) 1890
(b) 1892
(c) 1894
(d) 1893
Question’s Answer: 1893
Wilde’s play “An Ideal Husband” was staged in:
(a) 1898
(b) 1896
(c) 1897
(d) 1895
Question’s Answer: 1895
The “Selfish Giant” was proudly written by:
(a) Ibsen
(b) Bernard Shaw
(c) Oscar Wilde
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Oscar Wilde
“The Star Child” is a:
(a) Fairy Tale
(b) Novel
(c) Short-Story
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Fairy Tale
On releasing from prison, Wilde left for:
(a) Germany
(b) France
(c) Rome
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: France
Wilde’s poem “The Sphinx” was published in which year?
(a) 1893
(b) 1892
(c) 1891
(d) 1894
Question’s Answer: 1893
“The Duchess of Padua” by Oscar Wilde is a:
(a) Comedy
(b) Comic Tragedy
(c) Tragedy
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Tragedy
“A House of Pomegranates” was published in which year?
(a) 1890
(b) 1889
(c) 1892
(d) 1891
Question’s Answer: 1891
“The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde was published in which year?
(a) 1894
(b) 1892
(c) 1893
(d) 1891
Question’s Answer: 1891
Which is not a poem by Oscar Wilde?
(a) Ravenna
(b) Birches
(c) The Ballad of Reading Goal
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Birches
Who is the author of the “The Sphinx”?
(a) Oscar Wilde
(b) Browning
(c) Keats
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Oscar Wilde
Which is not a play by Oscar Wilde?
(a) An Ideal Husband
(b) Salome
(c) The Rivals
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: The Rivals
Which play by Oscar Wilde is called his masterpiece?
(a) The Importance of Being Earnest
(b) Salome
(c) An Ideal Husband
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: The Importance of Being Earnest
Who is the author of the “The Model Millionaire”?
(a) Hemingway
(b) Oscar Wilde
(c) Francis Bacon
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde had lived and worked in Tite Street, London between:
(a) 1884-1895
(b) 1885-1896
(c) 1884-1896
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 1884-1895
Which poem was proudly written by Wilde when he was still a student at Oxford?
(a) The Sphinx
(b) The Ballad of Reading Goal
(c) Ravenna
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Ravenna
The first major play written by Oscar Wilde was:
(a) Vera or The Nihilists
(b) An Ideal Husband
(c) Lady Windermere’s Fan
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Lady Windermere’s Fan
“Lady Windermere’s Fan” by Oscar Wilde ran at the St. James’s Theatre for:
(a) Five months
(b) Three months
(c) Two Months
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Five months
“The Importance of Being Earnest” was proudly written by:
(a) Oscar Wilde
(b) Ibsen
(c) Bernard Shaw
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde had:
(a) Three brothers and no sister
(b) Two brothers and one sister
(c) One brother and one sister
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: One brother and one sister
Which was Oscar Wilde’s last year at the Portora Royal School?
(a) 1870
(b) 1873
(c) 1872
(d) 1871
Question’s Answer: 1871
Oscar Wilde’s father was a:
(a) Eye and Ear Specialist
(b) Playwright
(c) Heart Specialist
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Eye and Ear Specialist
Oscar Wilde was born in:
(a) 1857
(b) 1855
(c) 1856
(d) 1854
Question’s Answer: 1854
Oscar Wilde’s father received a knight-hood in:
(a) 1863
(b) 1866
(c) 1865
(d) 1864
Question’s Answer: 1864
Wilde’s mother became well-known as:
(a) An Irish Nationalist
(b) A Surgeon
(c) An Actress
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: An Irish Nationalist
The Wilde family moved to the more fashionable locality of Merrion Square in Dublin in:
(a) 1855
(b) 1858
(c) 1857
(d) 1856
Question’s Answer: 1856
Oscar Wilde and his elder brother Willie were away to Portora Royal School in:
(a) 1864
(b) 1863
(c) 1862
(d) 1865
Question’s Answer: 1864
Oscar Wilde’s little sister Isola pass away in:
(a) 1870
(b) 1868
(c) 1869
(d) 1867
Question’s Answer: 1867
Oscar Wilde’s little sister pass away at the age of:
(a) Ten
(b) Eight
(c) Eleven
(d) Twelve
Question’s Answer: Ten
Oscar Wilde gained an entrance scholarship to Trinity College, Dublin in:
(a) 1870
(b) 1872
(c) 1871
(d) 1873
Question’s Answer: 1871
Wilde won the Berkeley gold medal for Greek in:
(a) 1877
(b) 1875
(c) 1876
(d) 1874
Question’s Answer: 1874
Wilde was taken on a tour of Greece by Professor Mahaffy in:
(a) 1876
(b) 1877
(c) 1878
(d) 1879
Question’s Answer: 1877
Who is the author of the “The Importance of Being Earnest”?
(a) Oscar Wilde
(b) Thomas Hardy
(c) George Eliot
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Oscar Wilde
Wilde went on a tour of Italy during the summer vacation in:
(a) 1878
(b) 1876
(c) 1877
(d) 1875
Question’s Answer: 1875
Wilde won a scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford in:
(a) 1872
(b) 1874
(c) 1873
(d) 1875
Question’s Answer: 1874
Wilde’s father pass away in:
(a) 1875
(b) 1878
(c) 1877
(d) 1876
Question’s Answer: 1876
Which is not a play by Oscar Wilde?
(a) Pygmalion
(b) The Duchess of Padua
(c) Vera
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Pygmalion
The Happy Prince and other Tales” by Oscar Wilde contained:
(a) 9 stories
(b) 15 stories
(c) 12 stories
(d) 10 stories
Question’s Answer: 10 stories
The volume “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime” and other stories by Oscar Wilde contained:
(a) Four stories
(b) Five stories
(c) Six stories
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Four stories
Wilde’s mother moved from Dublin London in: to
(a) 1878
(b) 1877
(c) 1876
(d) 1879
Question’s Answer: 1876
Wilde’s book “Intention” comprised:
(a) Four essays
(b) Three essays
(c) Two essays
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Four essays
“The portrait of Mr. W.H.” was first published in a periodical in:
(a) 1885
(b) 1889
(c) 1887
(d) 1890
Question’s Answer: 1889
Which poem of Wilde won him the Newdigate prize for poetry?
(a) The Ballad Of Reading Goal
(b) Ravenna
(c) The Sphinx
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Ravenna
Which book of Oscar Wilde was used against Wilde at the Queens Berry trial by Edward Carson, the counsel
for Queens berry?
(a) The Picture of Dorian Gray
(b) The Truth of Masks
(c) The Decay of Lying
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wilde’s essay” The Soul of Man Under Socialism” was first published in a periodical in:
(a) 1894
(b) 1892
(c) 1893
(d) 1891
Question’s Answer: 1891
How many acts are there in Wilde’s play “Vera or the Nihilists”?
(a) Three Acts
(b) Six Acts
(c) Five Acts
(d) Four Acts
Question’s Answer: Four stories
Wilde’s essay “The Soul of Man under Socialism” was published as a small-volume in:
(a) 1895
(b) 1894
(c) 1893
(d) 1896
Question’s Answer: 1895
Which is not a short story by Oscar Wilde?
(a) The Model Millionaire
(b) The Killers
(c) The Sphinx Without A Secret
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: The Killers
Which work of Oscar Wilde was called by critics an immoral work?
(a) Vera or The Nihilists
(b) The Picture of Dorian Gray
(c) The Importance Of Being Earnest
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“De Profundis” by Oscar Wilde was written in the form of a:
(a) Story
(b) Letter
(c) Novel
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Letter
“De Profundis” by Oscar Wilde was proudly written by him in prison and published:
(a) Five years after his death
(b) Three years after his death
(c) Six years after his death
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Five years after his death
The full version of “De Profundis” was published in which year?
(a) 1963
(b) 1962
(c) 1964
(d) 1965
Question’s Answer: 1962
Who is the author of the “The Doer Of Good”?
(a) Dickens
(b) Thomas Hardy
(c) Oscar Wilde
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Oscar Wilde
Wilde’s play “The Duchess of Padua”:
consists of:
(a) Five acts
(b) Four acts
(c) Three acts
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Five acts
Wilde filed a suit for criminal libel against the Marquis of Queens Berry who had called him a sodomite in:
(a) 1898
(b) 1896
(c) 1897
(d) 1895
Question’s Answer: 1895
The trial against “Queens Berry” was opened on the:
(a) 3rd April 1896
(b) 3rd April 1895
(c) 3rd April 1897
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 3rd April 1895
“An Ideal Husband” by Oscar Wilde consists of:
(a) Six Acts
(b) Five Acts
(c) Four Acts
(d) Seven Acts
Question’s Answer: Four Acts
Which was the last play of Oscar Wilde?
(a) The Importance of Being Earnest
(b) Salome
(c) An Ideal Husband
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde’s “Lady Windersmere’s Fan” was a play in:
(a) Four Acts
(b) Three Acts
(c) Six Acts
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Four Acts
Wilde’s play “The importance of Being Earnest” Consists of:
(a) Two Acts
(b) Four Acts
(c) Three Acts
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Three Acts
Wilde was arrested on charges of homosexuality in:
(a) 1884
(b) 1894
(c) 1896
(d) 1895
Question’s Answer: 1895
Wilde’s mother pass away in:
(a) 1896
(b) 1895
(c) 1894
(d) 1897
Question’s Answer: 1896
Wilde’s wife pass away in:
(a) 1901
(b) 1899
(c) 1990
(d) 1898
Question’s Answer: 1898
Wilde was converted to the Roman Catholic faith in:
(a) 1897
(b) 1900
(c) 1899
(d) 1901
Question’s Answer: 1900
Who brought the news of Wilde’s mother death to him in prison?
(a) His wife
(b) His friend
(c) His uncle
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: His wife
Wilde wrote his “Confession and Apologia” during the period of his imprisonment which lasted from:
(a) 1896-98
(b) 1896-97
(c) 1895-98
(d) 1897-99
Question’s Answer: 1896-97
On charges of homosexuality, Wilde was sentenced to:
(a) Two years imprisonment
(b) One year imprisonment
(c) Three years imprisonment
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Two years imprisonment
Wilde was released from prison on the morning of:
(a) 1896
(b) 1899
(c) 1898
(d) 1897
Question’s Answer: 1897
Wilde was buried:
(a) One day after his death
(b) Three days after his death
(c) Two days after his death
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Two days after his death
Who is the author of the “The Importance of Being Earnest”?
(a) Ibsen
(b) Samuel Backett
(c) Oscar Wilde
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Oscar Wilde
“The house of Pomegranates” was the:
(a) Wilde’s Second Volume of fairy tales
(b) Wilde’s First Volume of fairy tales
(c) Wilde’s Third Volume of fairy tales
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Wilde’s First Volume of fairy tales
“The House of Pomegranates” by Oscar Wilde contained:
(a) Three Stories
(b) Five Stories
(c) Four Stories
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Four Stories
Wilde pass away in:
(a) 1903
(b) 1901
(c) 1902
(d) 1900
Question’s Answer: 1900
Which is not a play by Oscar Wilde?
(a) Waiting for Godot
(b) Salome
(c) The Duchess of Padua
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Waiting for Godot
Which play of Oscar Wilde was watched by “The Prince of Wales”?
(a) An ideal Husband
(b) The importance of being Earnest
(c) A Woman of No Importance
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: An ideal Husband
Wilde became a practicing homosexual in the:
(a) Late eighties
(b) Mid eighties
(c) Early eighties
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Late eighties
Wilde wrote the poem “Requiescat” in the memory of:
(a) His father
(b) His sister
(c) His girl friend
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: His sister
MCQs & Summary of Some Famous Poems by Oscar Wilde
- The Ballad of Reading Gaol MCQs and Summary
- The Harlot’s House MCQs and Summary
- Requiescat MCQs and Summary
- Impression du Matin MCQs and Summary
- The Sphinx MCQs and Summary