Salomé

by: Oscar Wilde

Wilde and the Legend of Salomé in the Nineteenth Century Quick Quiz

1 of 5
In the years before John the Baptist was widely venerated as a saint, who was assigned guilt for his death?

2 of 5
Heinrich Heine asks, "Why would a woman want the head of any man she did not ___?”.

3 of 5
In Huysmans’s novel, the protagonist A Rebours considers Moreau's painting of Salomé to be the spirit of ___ incarnate.

4 of 5
___ was a symbolist playwright whose characters spoke with simplistic deliberateness, which some critics likened to childish prattle.

5 of 5
Wilde once observed, "Of course, I plagiarize. It is the privilege of the ___.”

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