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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

English Literature Mcqs, Victorian Age

What was common amongst D.G Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Morris and Swinburne ?

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What was common amongst D.G Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Morris and Swinburne ?

A. They all belonged to the Oxford Movement
B. They were all painters
C. They were all Victorian Novelists
D. They all belonged to the Pre- Raphaelite School

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English Literature Mcqs, Victorian Age

What type of writing did Walter Pater define as “the special and opportune art of the modern world” ?

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What type of writing did Walter Pater define as “the special and opportune art of the modern world” ?

A. the novel
B. nonfiction proseB.
C. the lyric
D. comic drama

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English Literature Mcqs, Victorian Age

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 ?

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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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English Literature Mcqs, MCQs / Q&A

Which city became the perceived center of Western civilization by the middle of the nineteenth century ?

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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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English Literature Mcqs, Victorian Age

Vanity Fair is a novel by_______________?

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Vanity Fair is a novel by_______________?

A. Jane Austin
B. Dickens
C. Emily Bronte
D. Thackery

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English Literature Mcqs, Victorian Age

Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions ?

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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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