Victorian Age Quiz 1 (49 MCQs)

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1. The Irish Dramatic Movement was heralded by such figures as
2. 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?
3. The Oxford Movement was started by:
4. Cocktown is an imaginary industrial town in the novelfirst
5. Which one is Gaskell's first novel?
6. The basic theme of Arnold's Literature and Dogma is:
7. Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions?
8. What was common amongst D.G Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Morris and Swinburne?
9. Who is the author of Aurora Leigh?
10. Who were the "Two Nations" referred to in the subtitle of Disraeli's Sybil (1845)?
11. What is meant by 'Wessex'?
12. Who was the leader of Pre-Raphaelite group of artists in England?
13. The Charge of the Light Bridge is a poem by
14. Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian era?
15. What is common amongst Cardinal Newman, John Keble, Henry Newman and Stanley?
16. In 'In Memorium', Tennyson mourns the death of :
17. George Eliot's novel Romola is a:
18. Who was appointed as Poet-Laureate after William Wordsworth
19. Arnold's Culture and Anarchy deals with the subject of:
20. Which one is the unfinished novel of Charles Dickens
21. Wild's drama Woman of No Importance appared in :
22. Who is the author of Blessed Damozel?
23. What type of writing did Walter Pater define as textbackslash the special and opportune art of the modern worldtextbackslash?
24. Which of the following Victorian writers regularly published their work in periodicals?
25. 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?
26. Which one of Gaskell's novels has been called a Victorian Much Ado About Nothing?
27. From where Matthew Arnold took the story for his Sohras and Rustam?
28. Spenser's Epithalamion is:
29. Who, among the following English playwrights, scripted the film Shakespeare in Love?
30. The Song of the Lotus is a poem by
31. Which of th following novels is called a "Novel without a hero" ?
32. The title Vanity Fair has been taken from:
33. The Battle of Baladava in the Crimean War finds its reference in the poem
34. Queen Victoria became the Empress of India in:
35. 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?
36. Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill are characters from the novel
37. The Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria's reign was celebrated in:
38. Matthew Arnold;s Thyrsis is an elegy written on the death of:
39. Which poem by Chaucer was written on the death of Blanche, Wife of John of Gaunt?
40. Dunstan is a character from the novel
41. Which movement revived under Whitefield and Wesley?
42. 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?
43. The Oxford Movement was basically a:
44. Who were the textbackslash Two Nationstextbackslash referred to in the subtitle of Disraeli's Sybil (1845)?
45. Queen Victoria succeeded to the throne of England after:
46. 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?
47. Heathcliff is a character from
48. What type of writing did Walter Pater define as "the special and opportune art of the modern world" ?
49. Maud is a poem written by: