Find one correct answer: In a letter to an admirer, _ explained that “seriousness of manner is the disguise of the fool, folly in its exquisite modes of triviality and indifference and lack of care is the robe of the wise man
(*ответ*) Wilde
Wide
Wild
Crazy
Find one correct answer: Nothing is sacred, for Wilde’s epigrams show astute social observation, and are directed at such diverse topics as religion, class, education, property, the role of men, philanthropy, food, _, and more
(*ответ*) feminism
sexism
rasism
homosexualism
Find one correct answer: Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was _ in 1854 in Dublin
(*ответ*) born
borne
burned
burried
Find one correct answer: Studying classics first at Trinity College in Dublin before going _ to Magdalen College, Oxford, Wilde proved to be a brilliant scholar, winning the Newdigate Prize for his poem “Ravenna.”
(*ответ*) on
in
out
from
Find one correct answer: The extreme _ of the characters contrasts sharply with the absurdity of the action they engage in
(*ответ*) elegance
clumsiness
heaviness
violence
Find one correct answer: The play is subtitled A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, which implies paradox, and indeed Wilde exposes the paradoxes of existence in a comprehensive _
(*ответ*) manner
story
book
chapter
Find one correct answer: The protagonists are _ fundamentally acquisitive, their rapacity symbolized by greed as they eat repeatedly throughout the drama
(*ответ*) all
some
everything
any
Find one correct answer: The quality of earnestness, so prized by the Victorians, is _ to be of less importance than Wilde’s affected ironical view which was so widely regarded as flippant
(*ответ*) shown
given
told
put
Find one correct answer: This is comically underlined in the scene where the couples decide to speak in unison. Lady Bracknell _ on caricature as do Canon Chasuble and Miss Prism
(*ответ*) verges
merges
urges
purges
Find one correct answer: Translated by Wilde’s close friend Lord Alfred Douglas (“Bosie”), it _ appeared for publication in England
(*ответ*) later
late
lately
latent
Find one correct answer: When Algy says “Divorces are made in heaven,” the twisted phrase is hilarious, but the remark has a _
(*ответ*) sting
swing
string
ring
Find one correct answer: While at Oxford his flamboyant appearance and conspicuous espousal of aestheticism - art for _ sake - attracted great attention, much of it hostile
(*ответ*) art’s
arts
arts’
arts’s