Вопрос: Which of the two assertions were truly made and which are made up?
A) Of The Importance of Being Stupid, his most famous play, Wilde wrote “It is exquisitely trivial, a delicate bubble of fancy, and it has its philosophy ... that we should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.”
B) The play is subtitled A Trivial Comedy for Dummies, which implies paradox, and indeed Wilde exposes the paradoxes of existence in a comprehensive manner
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Which of the two assertions were truly made and which are made up?
A) Of The Importance of Sleeping Earnest, his most famous play, Wilde wrote “It is exquisitely trivial, a delicate bubble of fancy, and it has its philosophy ... that we should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.”
B) His dialogue is riddled with contradictions that poke fun at cherished English beliefs and institutions, and his characters are outrageously inconsistent
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Which of the two assertions were truly made and which are made up?
A) Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). Playwright, poet, essayist and wit he is now as famous for his flamboyant lifestyle and idioms as for his plays, poems and fiction
B) Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in 1854 in Suzdal
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Which of the two assertions were truly made and which are made up?
A) Studying classics first at Trinity College in Dublin before going on to Magdalen College, Oxford, Wilde proved to be a brilliant scholar, winning the Newdigate Prize for his poem “Roxanna.”
B) While in Congo, his flamboyant appearance and conspicuous espousal of aestheticism - art for art’s sake - attracted great attention, much of it hostile 
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Which of the two assertions were truly made and which are made up?
A) The farcical plot, like that of so many social comedies, centres around the theme of business, but the dazzling repartee that underpins this touches on a far wider range of themes
B) The inversion of cherished sayings and notions is an essential mechanism of both Wilde’s wit and his social criticism
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Which of the two assertions were truly made and which are made up?
A) The protagonists are all fundamentally acquisitive, their rapacity symbolized by greed as they eat repeatedly throughout the drama
B) Milene Farmer, daughter of Lord and Lady Bracknell, declares to Jack, the man she apparently loves, “I never change except in my affections, and Lady Bracknell herself, an embodiment of paradox, embraces double-standards
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Which of the two assertions were truly made and which are made up?
A) The quality of earnestness, so prized by the Victorians, is shown to be of less importance than Wilde’s affected ironical wife which was so widely regarded as flippant
B) The protagonists are all fundamentally acquisitive, their rapacity symbolized by mercy as they eat repeatedly throughout the drama
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Which of the two assertions were truly made and which are made up?
A) The quality of earnestness, so prized by the Victorians, is shown to be of more importance than Wilde’s affected ironical view which was so widely regarded as flippant
B) Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). Playwright, poet, essayist and wit he is now as famous for his flamboyant lifestyle and idioms as for his plays, poems and friends
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 А-true, В-false
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