This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Periods > Victorian > Victorian Age – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Victorian Age Quiz 1 (49 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The Irish Dramatic Movement was heralded by such figures as A) H. Drummond, Edward Irving and John Ervine. B) W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn. C) Oscar Wilde and his contemporaries. D) Jonathan Swift and his contemporaries. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn. 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? A) New Criticism. B) Higher Criticism. C) Critical Inquiry. D) Scientific Bibliology. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Higher Criticism. 3. The Oxford Movement was started by: A) The Scholars of the Oxford University. B) The University Wits. C) The clergymen of Oxford. D) The people of the Oxford area. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Scholars of the Oxford University. 4. Cocktown is an imaginary industrial town in the novelfirst A) Ruth. B) Hard Times. C) Cranford. D) Vanity Fair. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hard Times. 5. Which one is Gaskell's first novel? A) Mary Barton. B) Ruth. C) Cranford. D) North and South. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mary Barton. 6. The basic theme of Arnold's Literature and Dogma is: A) Contemporary literary criticism. B) Art and Literature. C) Theology. D) Social changes in the Victorian Age. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theology. 7. 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. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All but C. 8. 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. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They all belonged to the Pre-Raphaelite School. 9. Who is the author of Aurora Leigh? A) D. G. Rossetti. B) Tennyson. C) Elizabeth Barret Browning. D) Christina Rossetti. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Elizabeth Barret Browning. 10. Who were the "Two Nations" referred to in the subtitle of Disraeli's Sybil (1845)? A) The rich and the poor. B) Anglicans and Methodists. C) England and Ireland. D) Britain and Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The rich and the poor. 11. What is meant by 'Wessex'? A) The region where Bronte sisters lived. B) The region in which Hardy's novels are set. C) The home town of George Eliot. D) A county in Ireland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The region in which Hardy's novels are set. 12. Who was the leader of Pre-Raphaelite group of artists in England? A) Swinburne. B) D.G Rossetti. C) Christina Rossetti. D) Morris. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) D.G Rossetti. 13. The Charge of the Light Bridge is a poem by A) Leigh Hunt. B) Tennyson. C) Arnold. D) D.G Rossetti. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tennyson. 14. Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian era? A) The Married Women's Property Rights Acts. B) The Custody Act. C) The Women's Suffrage Act. D) A series of Factory Acts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Women's Suffrage Act. 15. What is common amongst Cardinal Newman, John Keble, Henry Newman and Stanley? A) They were all poets. B) They were all associated with Pre-Raphaelite School. C) They were all atheists. D) They were all associated with the Oxford Movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They were all associated with the Oxford Movement. 16. In 'In Memorium', Tennyson mourns the death of : A) Hugh Clough. B) Arthur Hallam. C) Lord Byron. D) Keats. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Arthur Hallam. 17. George Eliot's novel Romola is a: A) Gothic novel. B) Autobiographical novel. C) Picaresque novel. D) Historical novel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Historical novel. 18. Who was appointed as Poet-Laureate after William Wordsworth A) George Eliot. B) Tennyson. C) D.G Rossetti. D) Robert Browning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tennyson. 19. Arnold's Culture and Anarchy deals with the subject of: A) Civilization. B) Tehology. C) Education. D) Religion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Education. 20. Which one is the unfinished novel of Charles Dickens A) Dombey and Son. B) Little Dorrit. C) Our Mutual Friend. D) Edwin Drood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Edwin Drood. 21. Wild's drama Woman of No Importance appared in : A) 1884. B) 1893. C) 1879. D) 1904. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1893. 22. Who is the author of Blessed Damozel? A) Christina Rossetti. B) Tennyson. C) Robert Browning. D) D.G Rossetti. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) D.G Rossetti. 23. What type of writing did Walter Pater define as textbackslash the special and opportune art of the modern worldtextbackslash? A) The lyric. B) Comic drama. C) The novel. D) Nonfiction prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nonfiction prose. 24. Which of the following Victorian writers regularly published their work in periodicals? A) Thomas Carlyle. B) Matthew Arnold. C) Charles Dickens. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 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? A) Women's rights and suffrage. B) Child labor. C) Chartism. D) The prudishness and old-fashioned ideals of her fellow Victorians. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Child labor. 26. Which one of Gaskell's novels has been called a Victorian Much Ado About Nothing? A) Cranford. B) North and South. C) Ruth. D) Mary Barton. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) North and South. 27. From where Matthew Arnold took the story for his Sohras and Rustam? A) Shah Namah. B) Canterbury Tales. C) Arabian Nights. D) Pilgrims Progress. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shah Namah. 28. Spenser's Epithalamion is: A) A wedding hymn. B) A sonnet. C) A narrative poem. D) An elegy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A wedding hymn. 29. Who, among the following English playwrights, scripted the film Shakespeare in Love? A) Caryl Churchill. B) Alan Bennett. C) Tom Stoppard. D) Harold Pinter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tom Stoppard. 30. The Song of the Lotus is a poem by A) Eliot. B) Coleridge. C) Tennyson. D) Keats. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tennyson. 31. Which of th following novels is called a "Novel without a hero" ? A) Vanity Fair. B) Northanger Abbey. C) Pickwick Papers. D) Mill on the Floss. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vanity Fair. 32. The title Vanity Fair has been taken from: A) Pilgrims Progress. B) Utopia. C) Divine Comedy. D) Paradise Lost. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pilgrims Progress. 33. The Battle of Baladava in the Crimean War finds its reference in the poem A) The Charge of the Light Bridge. B) Ultima Ratio Regum. C) In Memorium. D) 1st September. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Charge of the Light Bridge. 34. Queen Victoria became the Empress of India in: A) 1876. B) 1854. C) 1843. D) 1892. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1876. 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? A) Anthony Trollope. B) Charles Dickens. C) John Ruskin. D) Friedrich Engels. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anthony Trollope. 36. Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill are characters from the novel A) Great Expectation. B) Cranford. C) Hard Times. D) Emma. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Emma. 37. The Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria's reign was celebrated in: A) 1837. B) 1842. C) 1859. D) 1871. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1837. 38. Matthew Arnold;s Thyrsis is an elegy written on the death of: A) Arthur Hallam. B) Milton. C) Edward King. D) Hugh Clough. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hugh Clough. 39. Which poem by Chaucer was written on the death of Blanche, Wife of John of Gaunt? A) The Legend of Good Women. B) The House of Fame. C) The Book of Duchess. D) Troilus and Criseyde. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Book of Duchess. 40. Dunstan is a character from the novel A) Emma. B) Adam Bede. C) Silas Marner. D) Hard Times. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Silas Marner. 41. Which movement revived under Whitefield and Wesley? A) Imagism. B) Oxford Movement. C) Methodist. D) Pre-Raphaelite. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Methodist. 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? A) Anthony Powell. B) Evelyn Waugh. C) William Golding. D) Graham Greene. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Graham Greene. 43. The Oxford Movement was basically a: A) Literary Movement. B) Political Movement. C) Social Movement. D) Religious Movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Religious Movement. 44. Who were the textbackslash Two Nationstextbackslash referred to in the subtitle of Disraeli's Sybil (1845)? A) The rich and the poor. B) Anglicans and Methodists. C) England and Ireland. D) Britain and Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The rich and the poor. 45. Queen Victoria succeeded to the throne of England after: A) William IV. B) George III. C) George IV. D) Edward VII. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William IV. 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? A) Geology. B) Evolution. C) Discoveries in astronomy about stellar distances. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 47. Heathcliff is a character from A) Jane Eyre. B) Wuthering Heights. C) Vanity Fair. D) Emma. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wuthering Heights. 48. What type of writing did Walter Pater define as "the special and opportune art of the modern world" ? A) Comic drama. B) The lyric. C) Nonfiction prose. D) The novel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nonfiction prose. 49. Maud is a poem written by: A) Swineburne. B) Pope. C) Tennyson. D) Byron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tennyson. Related QuizzesPeriods QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesVictorian Literature QuizVictorian Period Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books