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1) What type of writing did Walter Pater define as “the special and opportune art of the modern world” ? a. the novel b. nonfiction prose c. the lyric d. comic drama
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2) Which of the following contributed to the growing awareness in the Late Victorian Period of the immense human, economic, and political costs of running an empire ? a. the India Mutiny in 1857 b. the Boer War in the south of Africa c. the Jamaica Rebellion in 1865 d. all of the above
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3) Which city became the perceived center of Western civilization by the middle of the nineteenth century ? a. Paris b. Tokyo c. London d. Amsterdam
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4) Vanity Fair is a novel by_______________? a. Jane Austin b. Dickens c. Emily Bronte d. Thackery
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5) Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions ? a. W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan b. George Bernard Shaw c. Robert Corrigan d. all but C
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6) What did Victorian journalists mean by terming certain women surplusor
edundant ? a. They remained unmarried due to a population imbalance between the sexes. b. Their willingness to work for low wages resulted in a surplus of textiles, causing them to drop in price. c. They were women writers who wrote frequently about similar topics. d. They prostituted themselves as a way to make money in a market economy that didn’t provide extensive job opportunities to women.
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7) The Charge of the Light Bridge is a poem by________________? a. D.G Rossetti b. Leigh Hunt c. Tennyson d. Arnold
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8) Heathcliff is a character from_____________? a. Emma b. Jane Eyre c. Vanity Fair d. Wuthering Heights
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9) Who were the “Two Nations” referred to in the subtitle of Disraeli’s Sybil (1845) ? a. the rich and the poor b. Anglicans and Methodists c. England and Ireland d. Britain and Germany
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10) Fill in the blanks from Tennyson’s The Princess. Man for the field and woman for the …..: Man for the sword and for the ___________ she: Man with the head and woman with the __________Man to command and woman to _____________? a. crop; scabbard; foot; agree b. throne; scepter; soul; decree c. school; scalpel; pen; set free d. hearth; needle; heart; obey
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11) What best describes the subject of most Victorian novels ? a. the representation of a large and comprehensive social world in realistic detail b. a surrealist exploration of alternate states of consciousness c. the attempt of a protagonist to define his or her place in society d. A and C
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12) Who, among the following, was a Catholic novelist, an Intelligence Officer, a film critic and set his fictions in far-away places wrecked by political conflicts ? a. Graham Greene b. Anthony Powell c. Evelyn Waugh d. William Golding
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13) What factors contributed to the increased popularity of nonfiction prose ? a. a new market position for nonfiction writing and an exalted sense of the didactic function of the writer b. a Puritanical distrust of fictions and a thirst for trivia c. the forbiddingly high cost of threevolume novels and the difficulty of finding poetry in bookshops outside of London d. the deconstruction of the truth-fiction dichotomy and an accompanying relativistic sense that every opinion was of equal value
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14) Which of th following novels is called a “Novel without a hero” ? a. Vanity Fair b. Mill on the Floss c. Northanger Abbey d. Pickwick Papers
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15) Which of the following discoveries, theories, and events contributed to Victorians feeling less like they were a uniquely special, central species in the universe and more isolated ? a. geology b. evolution c. discoveries in astronomy about stellar distances d. all of the above
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16) Which poem by Chaucer was written on the death of Blanche, Wife of John of Gaunt ? a. The Legend of Good Women b. The House of Fame c. The Book of Duchess d. Troilus and Criseyde
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17) Who is the author of Blessed Damozel ? a. Robert Browning b. D.G Rossetti c. Tennyson d. Christina Rossetti
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18) Which movement revived under Whitefield and Wesley ? a. Methodist b. Imagism c. Oxford Movement d. Pre-Raphaelite
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19) Matthew Arnold;s Thyrsis is an elegy written on the death of______________? a. Arthur Hallam b. Milton c. Edward King d. Hugh Clough
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20) What type of writing did Walter Pater define as he special and opportune art of the modern world ? a. the novel b. nonfiction prose c. the lyric d. comic drama
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21) Which of the following authors promoted versions of socialism ? a. William Morris b. John Ruskin c. Edward FitzGerald d. all but c
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22) Experimentation in which of the following areas of poetic expression characterize Victorian poetry and allow Victorian poets to represent psychology in a different way ? a. the use of pictorial description to construct visual images to represent the emotion or situation of the poem b. sound as a means to express meaning c. perspective, as in the dramatic monologue d. all of the above
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23) Which best describes the minority of Evangelicals in the Church of England ? 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 Engl b. Also called Nonconformists or Dissenters, Evangelicals led the missionary movement in the colonies, advocated a Puritan moral code, and were responsib c. They were part of the High Church or the Catholicside of the church. d. They were devout ractarians,as described by John Henry Newman.
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24) Spenser’s Epithalamion is____________? a. a narrative poem b. a sonnet c. an elegy d. a wedding hymn
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25) ’George Eliot’ was the pen-name of______________? a. Mary Collins b. Marian Evans c. Lara Evans d. Clare Reeve
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26) What is meant by ’Wessex’ ? a. The region where Bronte sisters lived b. The region in which Hardy’s novels are set c. The home town of George Eliot d. A county in Ireland
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27) Which of the following best defines Utilitarianism ? a. a farming technique aimed at maximizing productivity with the fewest tools b. a moral arithmetic, which states that all humans aim to maximize the greatest pleasure to the greatest number c. a critical methodology stating that all words have a single meaningful function within a given piece of literature d. a philosophy dictating that we should only keep what we use on a daily basis.
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28) What did Thomas Carlyle mean by “Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe” ? a. Britain’s preeminence as a global power will depend on mastery of foreign languages. b. Even a foreign author is better than a homegrown scoundrel. c. Abandon the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose found in Goethe. d. In a carefully veiled critique of the monarchy, Byron and Goethe stand in symbolically for Queen Victoria and Charles Darwin respectively.
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29) Which city became the perceived center of Western civilization by the middle of the nineteenth century? a. Paris b. Tokyo c. London d. Amsterdam
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30) Queen Victoria succeeded to the throne of England after_____________? a. George IV b. George III c. William IV d. Edward VII
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