A) On crush of Lady Brandon? T
B) In the street
C) In Lord Henry’s place
D) at the theater
E) at evening of Lady Agatha
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About what have Basil and Dorian burst out laughing at once on a crush of Lady Brandon?
A) someone has fallen directly before them
B) Over her witty joke T
C) She mixed up a grand piano with a violin
D) They watch the sketch played by guests
E) Over the freakish suit of one gentleman
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What bird did Lord Henry compare with Lady Brandon?
A) nightingale
B) blackbird
C) peacock
D) eagle
E) secretary bird
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Who said that “Genius longer than beauty”?
A) Dorian
B) Lady Brandon
C) Lord Henry
D) Basil
E) Lord Henry’s wife
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From whom did Lord Henry hear for the first time about Dorian Grey?
A) his uncle – Lord Fermor
B) his gardener
C) Dorian’s grandfather
D) Lady Agatha
E) Lady Brandon
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Why didn’t Basil want to acquaint Dorian with Lord Henry?
A) He was jealous Dorian to everyone
B) He was afraid that Lord Henry could spoil Dorian T
C) He was afraid that Lord Henry could be closer to Dorian
D) Lord Henry could draw picture better he
E) Because Lord Henry was very Ugly
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According to Lord Henry “conscience is a …”
A) truth
B) penitence
C) sincerity
D) expectation
E) cowardice T
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Why did Lord Henry call artists – odd chaps?
A) They want to gain a reputation, but when they have chance, they throw it away.
B) For them first of all is art T
C) They are very naïve
D) They work for the sake of money
E) They believe in miracles
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What is the main reason? Why didn’t Basil want to send the picture of Dorian?
A) he thought that it can’t be pleasant to the spectators
B) picture was very large and difficult for transporting
C) someone could maleficent Dorian’s beauty
D) He had put too much of himself to the picture T
E) He was afraid that it would be stolen
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Carlington was mad __________ her.
A) for
B) after T
C) in
D) about
E) for
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How long has Dorian known Sibyl Vane when he told about her Lord Henry for the first time?
A) three days
B) three weeks
C) three months
D) three years
E) three hours T
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Why did Lord Henry say to Dorian? “Never marry a woman with straw- colored hair.”
A) Because they are so silly
B) Because they are so stupid
C) Because they are so kind
D) Because they are so sentimental T
E) Because they are so cruel
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She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy. Her name was _________
A) Victoria (Lord Henry’s wife) T
B) Sibyl Vane
C) Lady Thornberry
D) Lady Agatha
E) Margaret Devereux
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“She was one of the loveliest creatures I ever saw. She could have married anybody she chose.”
Who was she?
A) Victoria (Lord Henry’s wife)
B) Sibyl Vane
C) Lady Thornberry
D) Lady Agatha
E) Margaret Devereux (Dorian’s mother) T
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“Carlington went on his knees to her. ” Means:
A) упал на колени T
B) пошел к ней
C) сделал шаг навстречу к ней
D) сделал ей предложение выйти замуж
E) нет правильного перевода
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There wasn’t a girl in London at the time who wasn’t __________ him
A) about
B) with
C) before
D) at
E) after T
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A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voices agony, and then a child born in pain.
Whom was Lord Henry thinking about?
A) his wife
B) Dorian’s girl-friend
C) Dorian’s sister
D) Dorian’s mother T
E) No correct answer
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What does Lord Henry claim to value more than anything else?
A) Beauty T
B) love
C) money
D) women
E) truth
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What is Sybil Vane’s profession?
A) singer
B) artist
C) musician
D) actress T
E) chef
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Where did Dorian first see Sybil?
A) in the street
B) in the theater T
C) at a party
D) in the restaurant
E) at the exhibition
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What is the name of Dorian’s grandfather?
A) Lord Kelso T
B) Lord Fermor
C) Lord Wotton
D) Lord Henry
E) Lord Gray
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How old was Dorian when Bazil completed the painting?
A) 18
B) 19
C) 20 T
D) 23
E) 25
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Finish the phrase from the preface: ‘All art is quite…”
A) admirable
B) useful
C) beautiful
D) useless T
E) awful
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What is the name of Dorian’s mother?
A) Isabella
B) Mary
C) Kate
D) Margaret T
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Where did Lord Henry advise to send the portrait of Dorian Grey?
A) London T
B) Grosvenor
C) Academy
D) New – York
E) Gallery
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Who wrote the novel ”Dorian Grey”?
A) Walter Scott
B) Kippling
C) Galsworthy
D) Oskar Wild
E) Dreiser
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What was the main (or the best) work of Basil Hallward?
A) Figurine
B) Book
C) Magazine
D) Portrait
E) Sculpture
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Why was Basil Hallward afraid to introduce Dorian to Lord Henry?
Because he was afraid that Lord Henry could … him?
A) improve
B) kill
C) disserve
D) hurt
E) spoil T
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Find the right word to the definition “to gratify by compliment”
A) flatter
B) perplexity
C) languid
D) to convey
E) to toss
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Find the right word to the definition “to throw a head back with a jerk mean?”
A) to convey
B) to toss back T
C) to toss
D) to detest
E) to pluck
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Choose the right synonym “to detest”
A) to like
B) to kill
C) to hate T
D) to love
E) to lie
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Form the noun “to perplex”
A) perplexhess
B) perplexy
C) perplexly
D) perplexity T
E) perplexios
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Find the right word to the definition “To go on smb’s land illegally”
A) to detest
B) to pluck
C) to pick
D) to perplex
E) to poach T
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Who was Lord Henry to Basil Hallword?
A) enemy
B) friend T
C) acquaintance
D) husband
E) wife
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Who had often spoken to Lord Henry about Dorian Grey?
A) his uncle
B) his wife
C) his aunt T
D) his mother
E) his father
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What were Dorian and Lord Henry speaking about?
A) youth and beauty T
B) death and life
C) friendship and hatred
D) love and friendship
E) hatred and death
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What was Basil doing while Dorian and Henry were speaking?
A) sleeping
B) lying
C) drawing T
D) laughing
E) running
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Choose the right synonym “irritable”?
A) sluggish
B) petulan t T
C) condour
D) fombre
E) squabble
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“Noisy quarrel about smth trivial” – means?
A) fombre
B) candour T
C) squabble
D) tedious
E) petulant
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“To make one’s peace with”- means?
A) to settle a quarrel T
B) to be in bad temper
C) noise quarrel about smth trivial
D) to go on smb’s land illegally
E) to be very close to
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Form the adjective “whim”?
A) whimsica l T
B) whimness
C) whimly
D) whimy
E) whim
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What newspaper was Henry’s uncle reading?
A) the Times
B) Blue book
C) The Economist
D) The Daily Mail T
E) The spectator
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What’s the nationality of the girl Dartmoor wanted to marry?
A) American
B) English T
C) French
D) Italian
E) Spanish
$$$44
What was the name of Dorian’s mother?
A) Juliette
B) Agatha
C) Loren
D) Jennifer
E) Margaret T
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Carlington was mad _________
A) about
B) for
C) of
D) in
E) after T
$$$ 46
Match the definition and the word: make a low, indistinct sound, to utter in a low voice;
A) to murmur T
B) to toss
C) to convey
D) to flatter
E)to peacock
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Match the definition and the word: to make known (ideas, views, feelings); communicate
A) to peacock
B) to convey T
C ) to flatter
D) to murmur
E) to toss
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Match the definition and the word: to jerk, to throw up with the hand into the air;
A) to convey
B) to peacock
C) to toss T
D) to flatter
E) to murmur
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Match the definition and the word: empty, unreal, worthless, unproductive, self-admiring;
A) perplexity
B) incredible
C) languid T
D)vain
E) conscious
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Match the definition and the word: to gratify by compliment, praise falsely; insincere praise;
A) to peacock
B) to convey
C) to murmur
D) to toss
E) to flatter T
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Match the definition and the word: puzzlement, bewilderment, embarrassment;
A ) perplexity T
B) languid
C)vain
D) conscious
E) incredible
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Match the definition and the word: extraordinary great, astounding;
A) conscious
B) incredible T
C) perplexity
D) languid
E) vain
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Match the definition and the word: lacking liveliness, interest or energy, faint, dull, listless;
A) conscious
B) vain
C) languid T
D) incredible
E) perplexity
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Match the definition and the word: having immediate knowledge, fully aware;
A) perplexity
B) languid
C) incredible
D ) conscious T
E) vain
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Match the definition and the word: want of courage, extreme timidity;
A) incredible
B) languid
C) vain
D) perplexity
E) cowardice T
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Match the definition and the word: to display or plume oneself;
A) to peacock
B) to detest
C) to poach
D) to pluck
E) to be on the verge of
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Match the definition and the word:a feeling of hatrid, intense hatred:
A) sincerity
B) enmity T
C) subtle
D) dainty
E) languid
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Match the definition and the word:to hate;
A) to poach
B) to pluck
C) to detest T
D) to peacock
E) to be on the verge of
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Match the definition and the word: to go on smb’s land illegally;
A) to be on the verge of
B) to detest
C) to pluck
D) to poach T
E) to peacock
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Match the definition and the word: honesty
A) subtle
B) languid
C) dainty
D) enmity
E) sincerity T
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Match the definition and the word:delicate, hard to seize, acute, clever;
A) subtle
B) languid
C) enmity
D) sincerity
E) dainty T
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Match the definition and the word:pleasing to the taste, choice; pretty, elegant, luxurious
A) enmity
B) dainty
C) sincerity
D) subtle
E) languid
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Match the definition and the word:to pick, pull off, drag, to strip;
A) to detest
B) to be on the verge of
C) to pluck
D) to peacock
E) to poach
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Match the definition and the word: to be very close to …, to be on the border of;
A) to poach
B) to detest
C) to peacock