This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Periods > Victorian > Victorian Period – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Victorian Period Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What was the name of Queen Victoria's husband? A) Prince Edgar. B) Prince Albert. C) Prince Alan. D) Prince Arthur. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prince Albert. 2. THEY HAD THE RIGHT TO VOTE A) MIDDLE CLASS-WORKERS. B) WORKERS AND MONKS. C) UPPER CLASS AND WORKERS. D) MONKS AND PRIESTS. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) MIDDLE CLASS-WORKERS. 3. What does MP stand for? A) Main parliament. B) Member of parliament. C) Minister of parliament. D) Mother of paper. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Member of parliament. 4. How many hours did children have to work for? A) 10. B) 12. C) 6. D) 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 12. 5. Which is NOT an explanation as to why cholera spread quickly around London during Victorian era. A) Cholera was believed to spread through the air and smell. B) Pollution of the cities water supplies. C) High population density. D) Pollutants from burning coal were absorbed into the rain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pollutants from burning coal were absorbed into the rain. 6. Who played crucial roles in shaping governance during the Victorian era? A) Foreign policy and imperial expansion. B) William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli. C) Queen Victoria and the elected Parliament. D) Industrial revolution and social change. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli. 7. Street children or orphans usually had to work in Victorian times. A) True. B) False. C) Not stated. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 8. What was the period of Queen Victoria's reign? A) 1820-1837. B) 1820-1914. C) 1837-1901. D) 1901-1914. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1837-1901. 9. Why did the Victorian Prime Minister say that the Queen ruled over two countries? A) The rich and the poor lived completely different lives. B) The rich and the poor got along very well. C) The rich and the poor lived similar lives. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The rich and the poor lived completely different lives. 10. Why is it called the Victorian era? A) Parliament had elected Victoria as absolutist queen. B) Queen Victoria gave a lot of personality to the era. C) Because they had been victorious in the Olympic games. D) They had high self-esteem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Queen Victoria gave a lot of personality to the era. 11. Dame schools were set up by women who were wealthy. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 12. What is the definition of the word 'revolution'? A) To shout and protest at something or someone. B) To overthrow one system in favour of another. C) To express disapproval of someone or something. D) To stick on an old way of doing something. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To overthrow one system in favour of another. 13. Which event contributed to many changes in clothing styles? A) Industrial Revolution. B) Regency Period. C) Enlightenment. D) Great Awakening. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Industrial Revolution. 14. What was George interested in as a child? A) Science and arts. B) Languages and literature. C) Science and soccer. D) Arts and photography. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Science and arts. 15. What was the expansion of the national electorate achieved with? A) Voting Rights Act. B) Universal Suffrage Act. C) Representation of the People Act. D) Constitutional Amendment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Representation of the People Act. 16. Workhouse owners purposefully kept the houses filthy so that people would not want to stay there long. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 17. What played a central role in the Industrial Revolution? A) Horses and plows. B) Transportation. C) Invention of the wheel. D) Steam Engine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Steam Engine. 18. Mass of poor children were educated at home A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 19. What happened in 1901? A) Many people moved into towns to find work in factories, shops and offices. B) Most people stay in villages and work on the land. C) Some people moved to cities and got a job from the Queen. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Many people moved into towns to find work in factories, shops and offices. 20. How did the Victorians travel over long distances A) By car. B) Walking. C) Airplane. D) Horse and carriage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Horse and carriage. 21. An instalment was published A) Every week. B) In specialized magazines. C) In magazines read also by the lower class. D) Every month and it always had a happy ending. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In magazines read also by the lower class. 22. Most workhouses in England and Wales were established during ..... A) The 20th century. B) The 17th century. C) The 15th century. D) The 19th century. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The 17th century. 23. Who was the revolutionary engineer who built bridges and tunnels during the Industrial Revolution? A) Isambard Kingdom Brunel. B) Karl Benz. C) Thomas Edison. D) Henry Bessemer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Isambard Kingdom Brunel. 24. What was the purpose of the new 'Poor Law' introduced in 1834? A) To improve the living conditions in slums. B) To force the unemployed into workhouses. C) To encourage people to work in factories. D) To provide financial help to the poor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To force the unemployed into workhouses. 25. The master was a fat, healthy man; but he turned very pale. He gazed in stupified astonishment on the small rebel for some seconds, and then clung for support to the copper. The assistants were paralysed with wonder; the boys with fear. 'What!' said the master at length, in a faint voice. 'Please, sir, ' replied ....., 'I want some more.' A) Samuel Pickwick. B) David Copperfield. C) Oliver Twist. D) Abel magwitch. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oliver Twist. 26. Do you want a extra mark? A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 27. Where was the Great Exhibition 0f 1851 housed? A) Windsor Palace. B) Osborne House. C) Buckingham Palace. D) Crystal Palace. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Crystal Palace. 28. MANY CHILDREN WORKED AS CHIMNEY SWEEPS AND IN COAL MINES BECAUSE ..... A) They knew the job. B) It was a good job. C) They were small. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They were small. 29. What happened to Hardy's faith in God? A) He lost it. B) It increased and be became a priest. C) It never faltered and helped him through life. D) He converted to Judaism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He lost it. 30. Novelists made their novels more affordable by ..... A) Serialising their novels in a series of installments. B) Creating libraries where people could check out books. C) Using inferior printing techniques. D) Only writing one novel a year. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Serialising their novels in a series of installments. 31. During a literature class, the teacher asked Jackson, Aria, and Hannah, 'Who among these authors wrote the novel 'Middlemarch' during the Victorian era?' A) George Eliot. B) Emily Bronte. C) Charles Dickens. D) Jane Austen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) George Eliot. 32. Poor children had to do what in the Victorian Era? A) Relax and play. B) Private school. C) Child labour. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Child labour. 33. London's population grew ..... in Victorian times. A) Slowly. B) Plants. C) Greatly. D) Smelly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Greatly. 34. Layla is charged with having a Blood Alcohol reading of 0.088 whilst driving. Which court will this matter be heard in? A) Drug and Alcohol Court. B) Traffic Court. C) Magistrates Court. D) Supreme Court. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Magistrates Court. 35. What was the traditional food for Christmas dinner in northern England? A) Chicken. B) Turkey. C) Roast beef. D) Goose. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Roast beef. 36. Albert and Victoria married in A) February 1840. B) March 1846. C) July 1939. D) November 1852. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) February 1840. 37. Choose the word or phrase that best defines the italicized word. "This is my son, mine own Telemachus, /To whom I leave the scepter and the isle ..... " A) Title. B) Wisdom. C) Royal baton. D) Robe and crown. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Royal baton. 38. What were some of the jobs children were forced to do during the Victorian era? A) Factories, mines, chimney sweeps, agriculture, domestic servants. B) Librarians. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Factories, mines, chimney sweeps, agriculture, domestic servants. 39. Which country is Spain? A) 4. B) 1. C) 3. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3. 40. Sahib is accused of culpable driving. What court will his case be heard in? A) County Court. B) Supreme Court. C) Infringement Court. D) Country Court. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) County Court. 41. It was well-known that people became poorly with: A) Cholera. B) Food poisoning. C) Chicken pox. D) Sneezes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cholera. 42. Which theory would best be described as evolution? A) God created humans and animals as separate beings. B) Over time, humans became animals. C) Monkeys and humans must have a common ancestor because of our great similarities. D) After a human dies, he or she becomes a monkey in the zoo. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Monkeys and humans must have a common ancestor because of our great similarities. 43. How were Victorian children punished? A) They had to apologise. B) They weren't punished. C) No pocket money. D) With a cane. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) With a cane. 44. What technique is being used in this example: "It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves forever and ever ..... " A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 45. Why was Queen Victoria an Empress? A) Because she was the Queen of England. B) She ruled over Great Britain. C) Because people liked her. D) She ruled over many countries. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She ruled over many countries. 46. Thomas John Barnardo has helped about ..... children because of his missions. A) 50, 000. B) 60, 000. C) 90, 000. D) 80, 000. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 60, 000. 47. The end of the Victorian period. A) 1900. B) 1901. C) 1701. D) 1801. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1901. 48. Wilkie Collins' private life ..... A) Respected Victorian values. B) Was strict and rigid. C) Was conventional. D) Was unconventional. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Was unconventional. 49. What date did the Victorian Era start? A) 1847. B) 1837. C) 1845. D) 1835. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1837. 50. When was the Victorian period? A) 20th century. B) 17th century. C) 19th century. D) 18th century. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 19th century. 51. When did queen Victoria marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha? A) June 12, 1850. B) May 23, 1844. C) November 30, 1673. D) February 10, 1840. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) February 10, 1840. 52. Arthur Doyle wrote ..... A) Wuthering Heights. B) Alice in Wonderland. C) Sherlock Holmes. D) Treasure Island. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sherlock Holmes. 53. Suffrage Bill of 1830 in England extended; A) Democracy. B) The right to vote. C) Less suffering among poor people. D) The rights of the Third Estate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The right to vote. 54. Members of upper-class Victorian society were kept busy doing what? A) Making their own clothes. B) Going to parties and dances. C) Cooking and cleaning. D) Going to work. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Going to parties and dances. 55. From what age did children during Victorian Times started to work? A) From 7. B) From 6. C) From 5. D) From 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) From 5. 56. WHAT IS THE PROGRAMME ABOUT? A) INVENTIONS FROM THE VICTORIAN TIME. B) QUEEN VICTORIA AND PRINCE ALBERT. C) THE VICTORIAN AGE. D) THINGS FROM THE PAST. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) INVENTIONS FROM THE VICTORIAN TIME. 57. Britain colonized Australia in 1788 and began to send certain types of individuals to the new continent. A) Lower Class Families. B) Middle Class Families. C) Aborigines. D) Convicts. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Convicts. 58. During Queen Victoria's reign ..... A) Britain became the most powerful and richest country in the world. B) Mr Davies was born. C) The first Iphone was released. D) World War 2 broke out. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Britain became the most powerful and richest country in the world. 59. Naturalism is just a way of Romanticism to expand its knowledge on the outside scientific world. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 60. What was a workhouse? A) A building for orphans only. B) A building where the poor were sent to learn how to work, but were treated like prisoners. C) A hospital. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A building where the poor were sent to learn how to work, but were treated like prisoners. 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