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Victorian Age

Which best describes the minority of Evangelicals in the Church of England ?

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 England.
B. Also called Nonconformists or Dissenters, Evangelicals led the missionary movement in the colonies, advocated a Puritan moral code, and were responsible for the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire as early as 1833.
C. They were part of the High Church or the Catholicside of the church.
D. They were devout tractarians,as described by John Henry Newman.

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English Literature Mcqs, Victorian Age

What did Thomas Carlyle mean by “Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe” ?

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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English Literature Mcqs, Victorian Age