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English Literature Mcqs

Which of the following novelists best represents the mid-Victorian period’s contentment with the burgeoning economic prosperity and decreased restiveness over social and political change ?

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Which of the following novelists best represents the mid-Victorian period’s contentment with the burgeoning economic prosperity and decreased restiveness over social and political change ?

A. Anthony Trollope
B. Charles Dickens
C. John Ruskin
D. Friedrich Engels

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What best describes the subject of most Victorian novels? A. the representation of a large and comprehensive social world in realistic detail_____________?

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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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What does the phrase “White Man’s Burden,” coined by Kipling, refer to ?

English Literature Mcqs, Victorian Age /
What does the phrase “White Man’s Burden,” coined by Kipling, refer to ?

A. Britain’s manifest destiny to colonize the world
B. the moral responsibility to bring civilization and Christianity to the peoples of the world
C. the British need to improve technology and transportation in other parts of the world
D. the importance of solving economic and social problems in England before tackling the world’s problems

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English Literature Mcqs, Victorian Age

Why did the novel seem a genre particularly well-suited to women ?

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Why did the novel seem a genre particularly well-suited to women ?

A. It did not carry the burden of an august tradition like poetry.
B. It was a popular form whose market women could enter easily.
C. It was seen as a frivolous form where one shouldn’t make serious statements about society.
D. all but C

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Which of the following terms is defined as the application of a scientific attitude of mind toward studying the Bible, seen as a mere text of history and not an infallibly sacred document?

English Literature Mcqs, Victorian Age /
Which of the following terms is defined as the application of a scientific attitude of mind toward studying the Bible, seen as a mere text of history and not an infallibly sacred document?

A. New Criticism
B. Critical Inquiry
C. Scientific Bibliology
D. Higher Criticism

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English Literature Mcqs, Victorian Age