THE PICTURE OF
DORIAN GRAY
CHAPTER 1
1.Describe the young man in the picture.
2.Why was Basil unhappy when he heard that
Lord Henry wanted to meet Dorian?
3.What did Lord Henry do while Basil stood
and painted and how did Dorian react?
CHAPTER 3
1.How did Dorian meet Sibyl Vane?
2.How did Sibyl describe Prince Charming?
3.Why was James going to Australia and why
were Sibyl and her mother sad?
CHAPTER 5
1.What did Dorian see when he looked at the
portrait and then in the mirror?
2.Why didn’t Dorian want to look at the
portrait and what did he do?
3.What did Dorian see when he removed the
cloth in the morning?
CHAPTER 2
1.How did Dorian and Basil feel about the
picture and why?
2.What did Lord Fermor tell Lord Henry about
Lady Margaret?
3.What happened to Dorian after Lady
Margaret died?
CHAPTER 4
1.What was Basil’s opinion of Dorian’s
marriage to Sibyl and why did he think this?
2.In Dorian’s opinion, how did Sibyl act badly?
3.What happened at the end of the play?
4.Sibyl wasn’t a good actress any more. What
was her explanation for this?
CHAPTER 6
1.What information was in Lord Henry’s letter?
2.Why was there going to be an investigation?
3.What did Dorian decide after he tought
about Lord Henry’s words?
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DORIAN GRAY
CHAPTER 7
1.Why did Basil want to see the portrait?
2.Where did Dorian decide to hide the
portrait? Why did he decide to hide it there?
3.What did the workmen do 10 minutes later,
and what did Dorian do when they left?
CHAPTER 9
1.What did Dorian see when he entered the
living room and what did he plan to do later?
2.What did Dorian do after he wrote the note,
and what happened next=
3.How did Dorian persuade Alan Campbell to
help him?
CHAPTER 11
1.What did Dorian see from the living room and
why did this make him nervous?
2.What did Dorian and his friends do at
Dorian’s country house?
3.What happened in the stables, and why did
Dorian feel happy?
CHAPTER 8
1.Why was Basil worried?
2.What did Basil see when he removed the clot,
and what did he understand?
3.Why was Dorian sure that nobody saw him kill
Basil?
CHAPTER 10
1.Why was James Vane sure that Dorian Gray
was Sibyl’s Prince Charming and was James
going to do?
2.How did Dorian convince Jame that he
wasn’t Prince Charming?
CHAPTER 12
1.Lord Henry talked about a strange
coincidence. What was it?
2.What did Dorian see when he looked at the
portrait?
3.What did the servants see when they entered
the room upstairs?