Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales

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See if you can master three of the most famous of Oscar Wilde's fairy tales!

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1.

Oscar Wilde's fairy tales were written for his children, but are in fact for adults.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
2.

The Selfish Giant and The Happy Prince contain the motif of love between elders and children
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
3.

Female figures appear cold-hearted and frivolous in The Happy Prince and The Nightingale and the Rose, because
- A.
  
  Oscar Wilde prefered men in his private life
- B.
  
  Oscar Wilde thought that women was a decorative sex
- C.
  
  Oscar Wilde wants to underline the value of true love regardless of sex
4.

The Selfish giant wants his beautiful to himself and doesn't allow the children to come and .His heart will melt when the youngest, who cannot climb a tree, asks him to help him. When the Giant does, the child gives him a and melts his selfish heart. Years after, they meet again, but the child shows the Giant the marks of nails on his hands and . He is Jesus, and has come to take the Giant to His own garden, Paradise, in return for what he had done.
5.

The religious feeling in the Selfish Giant is more aesthetically felt than authentic.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
6.

In The Happy Prince there is hidden social critisism in...
- A.
  
  The fact that the prince was sheltered from unhapinness when he was alive
- B.
  
  The fact that cruel children threw stones to the swallow
- C.
  
  The fact that upper classes have no feelings for working people, like the seamstress
- D.
  
  The fact that the Town's leaders only appreciated a statue for its beauty and not its historic value
- E.
  
  The fact that a statue covered with gold stood in a town full of poor people.
7.

Do you think the nightingale's sacrifice for the student was worth it? Write three reasons for your answer.