MCQs / Q&A

Which best describes the general feeling expressed in literature during the last decade of the Victorian era ?

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Which best describes the general feeling expressed in literature during the last decade of the Victorian era ?

A. studied melancholy and aestheticism
B. sincere earnestness and Protestant zeal
C. raucous celebration mixed with selfcongratulatory sophistication
D. paranoid introspection and cryptic dissent

Which contemporary discussions on women’s rights did Tennyson’s The Princess address ?

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Which contemporary discussions on women’s rights did Tennyson’s The Princess address ?

A. the grueling working conditions for women in textile factories
B. the debate on women’s suffrage
C. the need to enlarge and improve educational opportunities for women, resulting in the establishment of the first women’s college in London
D. the question of monarchical succession and if a woman should hold royal power

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

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

Elizabeth Barrett’s poem The Cry of the Children is concerned with which major issue attendant on the Time of Troubles during the 1830s and 1840s ?

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Elizabeth Barrett’s poem The Cry of the Children is concerned with which major issue attendant on the Time of Troubles during the 1830s and 1840s ?

A. women’s rights and suffrage
B. child labor
C. Chartism
D. the prudishness and old-fashioned ideals of her fellow Victorians

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