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English Literature Mcqs

What did Victorian journalists mean by terming certain women surplusor redundant ?

English Literature Mcqs, Victorian Age /
What did Victorian journalists mean by terming certain women surplusor redundant ?

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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English Literature Mcqs, Victorian Age

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 _____________?

English Literature Mcqs, Victorian Age /
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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English Literature Mcqs, Victorian Age

What best describes the subject of most Victorian novels ?

English Literature Mcqs, Victorian Age /
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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English Literature Mcqs, Victorian Age

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 ?

English Literature Mcqs, Victorian Age /
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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English Literature Mcqs, Victorian Age

What factors contributed to the increased popularity of nonfiction prose ?

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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 oion was of equal value

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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 ?

English Literature Mcqs, MCQs / Q&A /
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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