Q 01/05

In which city does Dorian Gray lead his double life of drawing rooms and opium dens?

A) Paris

B) Dublin

C) London

D) Edinburgh

Answer · why

C) London

London. Dorian keeps a grand town house, yet slips away in disguise and under a false name to a seedy tavern near the docks, a secret his unchanging f...

Q 02/05

What does Dorian Gray say he would give if only the portrait could grow old in his place?

A) His fortune

B) His name

C) His soul

D) His freedom

Answer · why

C) His soul

His soul. 'I would give my soul for that!' he cries, jealous that the picture will stay young while he ages; no pact is signed, yet from then on the c...

Q 03/05

Which artist paints the portrait of Dorian Gray?

A) Alan Campbell

B) Henry Wotton

C) Adrian Singleton

D) Basil Hallward

Answer · why

D) Basil Hallward

Basil Hallward. He gives the finished picture to Dorian instead of exhibiting it, and years later pays with his life for seeing what it has become.

Q 04/05

Lord Henry calls the portrait's sitter a young Adonis and then which other beautiful youth of Greek myth?

A) Ganymede

B) Narcissus

C) Endymion

D) Hyacinthus

Answer · why

B) Narcissus

Narcissus. Dorian lives up to it: he once kisses, or pretends to kiss, the painted lips of his own portrait, 'in boyish mockery' of the youth who fell...

Q 05/05

Sibyl Vane, the young woman Dorian Gray falls for and then casts aside, works as what?

A) A seamstress

B) A flower seller

C) A governess

D) An actress

Answer · why

D) An actress

An actress. She plays Juliet and Rosalind in a shabby backstreet theatre, and falling for Dorian ruins her art: once she knows real love, she can no l...