Victorian Age MCQs

Option A: A group of unattractive people relegated to the colonies to perform missionary work where they wouldn’t tarnish the aesthetics of the Church of England.

Option B: Also called Nonconformists or Dissenters, Evangelicals led the missionary movement in the colonies, advocated a Puritan moral code, and were responsible for the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire as early as 1833.

Option C: They were part of the High Church or the \Catholic\side of the church.

Option D: They were devout \tractarians,\as described by John Henry Newman.

Correct Answer: Also called Nonconformists or Dissenters, Evangelicals led the missionary movement in the colonies, advocated a Puritan moral code, and were responsible for the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire as early as 1833. ✔

Option A: a narrative poem

Option B: a sonnet

Option C: an elegy

Option D: a wedding hymn

Correct Answer: a wedding hymn ✔

Option A: Mary Collins

Option B: Marian Evans

Option C: Lara Evans

Option D: Clare Reeve

Correct Answer: Marian Evans ✔

Option A: a farming technique aimed at maximizing productivity with the fewest tools

Option B: a moral arithmetic, which states that all humans aim to maximize the greatest pleasure to the greatest number

Option C: a critical methodology stating that all words have a single meaningful function within a given piece of literature

Option D: a philosophy dictating that we should only keep what we use on a daily basis.

Correct Answer: a moral arithmetic, which states that all humans aim to maximize the greatest pleasure to the greatest number ✔

Option A: Britain’s preeminence as a global power will depend on mastery of foreign languages.

Option B: Even a foreign author is better than a homegrown scoundrel.

Option C: Abandon the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose found in Goethe.

Option D: In a carefully veiled critique of the monarchy, Byron and Goethe stand in symbolically for Queen Victoria and Charles Darwin respectively.

Correct Answer: In a carefully veiled critique of the monarchy, Byron and Goethe stand in symbolically for Queen Victoria and Charles Darwin respectively. ✔

Option A: Paris

Option B: Tokyo

Option C: London

Option D: Amsterdam

Correct Answer: London ✔

Option A: George IV

Option B: George III

Option C: William IV

Option D: Edward VII

Correct Answer: William IV ✔

Option A: H. Drummond, Edward Irving and John Ervine

Option B: W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn

Option C: Oscar Wilde and his contemporaries

Option D: Jonathan Swift and his contemporaries

Correct Answer: B. W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn ✔

Option A: the working classes

Option B: women

Option C: the lower middle classes

Option D: slaves

Correct Answer: the lower middle classes ✔

Option A: The Romantics remained largely forgotten until their rediscovery by T. S. Eliot in the 1920s.

Option B: The Victorians were disgusted by the immorality and narcissism of the Romantics.

Option C: The Romantics were seen as gifted but crude artists belonging to a distant, semi barbarous age.

Option D: The Victorians were strongly influenced by the Romantics and experienced a sense of belatedness.

Correct Answer: The Victorians were strongly influenced by the Romantics and experienced a sense of belatedness. ✔

Option A: a farming technique aimed at maximizing productivity with the fewest tools

Option B: a moral arithmetic, which states that all humans aim to maximize the greatest pleasure to the greatest number

Option C: a critical methodology stating that all words have a single meaningful function within a given piece of literature

Option D: a philosophy dictating that we should only keep what we use on a daily basis.

Correct Answer: a moral arithmetic, which states that all humans aim to maximize the greatest pleasure to the greatest number ✔

Option A: studied melancholy and aestheticism

Option B: sincere earnestness and Protestant zeal

Option C: raucous celebration mixed with self congratulatory sophistication

Option D: paranoid introspection and cryptic dissent

Correct Answer: studied melancholy and aestheticism ✔

Option A: Religious Movement

Option B: Political Movement

Option C: Social Movement

Option D: Literary Movement

Correct Answer: Religious Movement ✔

Option A: Silas Marner

Option B: Emma

Option C: Hard Times

Option D: Adam Bede

Correct Answer: Silas Marner ✔

Option A: the rich and the poor

Option B: Anglicans and Methodists

Option C: England and Ireland

Option D: Britain and Germany

Correct Answer: the rich and the poor ✔

Option A: Paradise Lost

Option B: Divine Comedy

Option C: Utopia

Option D: Pilgrims Progress

Correct Answer: Pilgrims Progress ✔

Option A: Hugh Clough

Option B: Arthur Hallam

Option C: Lord Byron

Option D: Keats

Correct Answer: Arthur Hallam ✔

Option A: women’s rights and suffrage

Option B: child labor

Option C: chartism

Option D: the prudishness and old-fashioned ideals of her fellow Victorians

Correct Answer: child labor ✔

Option A: Gothic novel

Option B: Autobiographical novel

Option C: Historical novel

Option D: Picaresque novel

Correct Answer: Historical novel ✔

Option A: the use of pictorial description to construct visual images to represent the emotion or situation of the poem

Option B: sound as a means to express meaning

Option C: perspective, as in the dramatic monologue

Option D: all of the above

Correct Answer: all of the above ✔

Option A: Thomas Carlyle

Option B: Matthew Arnold

Option C: Charles Dickens

Option D: all of the above.

Correct Answer: all of the above. ✔

Option A: D.G Rossetti

Option B: Swinburne

Option C: Christina Rossetti

Option D: Morris

Correct Answer: D.G Rossetti ✔

Option A: William Morris

Option B: John Ruskin

Option C: Edward FitzGerald

Option D: all but C

Correct Answer: all but C ✔