This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Periods > Victorian > Victorian Period – Quiz 12 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Victorian Period Quiz 12 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Other children pushed trucks of coal. A) True. B) False. C) Not stated. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 2. The first Christmas carols were written during Victorian times A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 3. Read these lines from Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess." "A heart-how shall I say?-too soon made glad, /Too easily impressed; she liked whate'er/She looked on, and her looks went everywhere." How is the poem's speaker describing its subject? A) As loving and fearful. B) As flirtatious and naive. C) As beloved and flawless. D) As beautiful and cunning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) As flirtatious and naive. 4. What were some of the jobs that poor people had during the Victorian era? A) Factory owners and merchants. B) Bankers and shopkeepers. C) Rat catchers and street sweepers. D) Doctors and lawyers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rat catchers and street sweepers. 5. According to the article, which of the following was NOT one way Britain improved during the Victorian period? A) British culture was enhanced by live band music, photography, and architecture. B) Industrialization created ENORMOUS wealth (for some). C) Britain experienced a golden age of scientific discovery and new technology. D) Population growth and people moving from farms to cities improved everyone's lives. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Population growth and people moving from farms to cities improved everyone's lives. 6. When was the telephone invented? A) 1845. B) 1906. C) 1876. D) 1910. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1876. 7. Why the time period called the "Victorian" Era? A) It is named after Queen Victoria who ruled during that time period. B) It is because England became victorious across the world during this time. C) It is named after the ancient Scottish Queen Victoria who influenced Victorian fashion. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is named after Queen Victoria who ruled during that time period. 8. It was during the victorian era, where computers, TV and cars where invented. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 9. How were the Victorian teachers? A) Strict and scary. B) Friendly. C) Insensitive. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Strict and scary. 10. Who was born in 1812 and died in 1870 A) Boris Johnson. B) Queen Victorian. C) George Stevenson. D) Charles Dickens. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Charles Dickens. 11. Which poem exemplified the idealized Victorian woman angelically pure and devoted to her family and home? A) The Windhover. B) The Angel in the House. C) Pied Beauty. D) In Memoriam. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Angel in the House. 12. What's the Estonian for destitute? A) Poor, needy. B) Desperate. C) Anxious anticipation. D) Distant, distant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poor, needy. 13. Which sentence contains a collective noun? A) I saved my allowance to buy a video game. B) One-eighth of my allowance goes into savings. C) I earn my allowance by watching my baby sister. D) I love spending my allowance on games. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) One-eighth of my allowance goes into savings. 14. What was the war between France, Britain, and Russia called A) The Prussian War. B) The Crimean War. C) The Victorian War. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Crimean War. 15. What was the main organizing principle of Victorian society? A) Race and religion. B) Gender and class. C) Occupation and education. D) Income and family structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gender and class. 16. Readers wanted to meet characters like themselves and the people they knew; they wanted to learn more about their rapidly ..... A) Industrial life. B) Changing world. C) Medical advancements. D) Social movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Changing world. 17. Charles Dickens's novel, (a) is considered autobiographical. A) Hard Times. B) A David Copperfield. C) A Christmas Carol. D) Oliver Twist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A David Copperfield. 18. What is the another name of Andrea del Sarto? A) The Faultless Painter. B) The Careless Painter. C) The Fastest Painter. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Faultless Painter. 19. When did Victorian become a queen? A) 1838. B) 1837. C) 1836. D) 1839. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1837. 20. What was the average life expectancy of a child born into the working classes in London during the Victorian period? A) 30 years. B) 20 years. C) 10 years. D) 40 years. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 10 years. 21. T/F During the Industrial Revolution, the middle class grew but children were dying in factories. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 22. In which year was a law created which stopped the use of young boys as chimney sweeps? A) 1825. B) 1807. C) 1832. D) 1830. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1832. 23. How did farmers improve their crops? A) By watering them more often. B) By planting them far away from the farm animals. C) By using manure to fertilise them. D) By putting a roof over the plants. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) By using manure to fertilise them. 24. What lecture of John Ruskin talks about the treasures to be found in books? A) Sesame. B) Lilies. C) None of the Above. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sesame. 25. When did Queen Victoria celebrate her golden jubilee? A) 1890. B) 1870. C) 1910. D) 1850. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1890. 26. How is the structure of the section "Victorian Values" similar to the structure of the section "Being Human" ? A) Both are organized using a list. B) Both are organized using chronology (Time order). C) Both are organized using cause and effect. D) Both are organized using problem and solution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both are organized using cause and effect. 27. Del Sarto means? A) Son of Painter. B) Son of Tailor. C) Son of King. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Son of Tailor. 28. Which is NOT a modern marvel of this age? A) Indoor toilets and telegraphs. B) Power looms and Electric lights. C) Full size locomotives and photographs. D) Printing press and telescope. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Printing press and telescope. 29. In Victorian times, some of the poor died on city streets of starvation. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 30. What resource drove the development of the Industrial Revolution? A) Oil. B) Coal. C) Solar energy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Coal. 31. Advancements of the Time:Steamships and railways made travel ..... (er) and ..... (er) for people and goods. A) Faster and easier. B) Safer and cheaper. C) Slower and harder. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Faster and easier. 32. WHICH INSTITUTIONS HAD ALWAYSA CONSIDERED SPORT IMPORTANT? A) PUBLIC SCHOOLS. B) PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES. C) UNIVERSITIES. D) PRIVATE SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES. 33. Whose book inspired Christmas traditions to be revived? A) Charlotte Bronte. B) Dylan Thomas. C) Charles Dickens. D) Edgar Allen Poe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Charles Dickens. 34. Which sonnet form was popular with Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti? A) An elegy. B) A Shakespearean sonnet. C) A Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet. D) A ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet. 35. Life for the average person was easy. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 36. Which of the following was a social reform in The Victorian era: A) The reforms of divorce law. B) The creation of the Sunday school. C) The political introduction of women. D) The abolition of slavery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The abolition of slavery. 37. Which country is France? A) 1. B) 4. C) 3. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2. 38. Victorian novels tend to be idealized portraits of difficult lives in which hard work, perseverance, love, and luck win out in the end. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 39. What was the name of the Victorian meal given to people living in the Workhouse? A) Gruel. B) Oats. C) Grime. D) Cornflakes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gruel. 40. The poor families lived in ..... A) Slums. B) Mines. C) Palaces. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Slums. 41. What spread across the country during this era? A) Roads. B) Canals. C) Railways. D) Cycle Paths. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Railways. 42. Ragged schools were A) Focusing on sports and religion. B) Set up to provide free basic education. C) A form of private schools. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Set up to provide free basic education. 43. Lewis Carroll wrote ..... A) Alice in Wonderland. B) A Christmas Carol. C) Various plays. D) Treasure Island. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alice in Wonderland. 44. Who was a great engineer? A) Mr Barak. B) Mrs sally. C) Ismbard Kindom Brunel. D) Mr judge. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ismbard Kindom Brunel. 45. What was the purpose of the Poor Laws in Victorian England? A) To provide aid to the poor. B) To regulate wages. C) To provide aid to the wealthy. D) To provide education to working class children. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To provide aid to the poor. 46. Putin helped to stop adults from using young children at work. A) True. B) False. C) Not stated. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 47. Where are the jokes used of the "Victorian Meme Machine" from? A) The mind of its inventor. B) The British Library Collections. C) The British Newspapers. D) The memory of the old people. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The British Library Collections. 48. What was the other term for cursive writing? A) Handwriting. B) Copper plate. C) Pen writing. D) Slate writing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Copper plate. 49. What year did the Victorians make sure every child in Britain between the ages of 5 and 10 went to school? A) 1879. B) 1880. C) 1881. D) 1882. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1880. 50. They worked in tunnels too narrow and low for ..... A) Teachers. B) Parents. C) Adults. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adults. 51. What do you call the thick leather strap split at one end into two or three tails that was also used for punishing students? A) Stick. B) Dunce cap. C) Cane. D) Take off. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Take off. 52. The Factory Act stopped children from ages 8 to 13 from being able to work in the factories. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 53. The first railway line was between A) Liverpool and Manchester. B) Manchester and England. C) Liverpool and England. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Liverpool and Manchester. 54. Who engineered the first underground railway? A) George Jennings. B) Samuel Morse. C) Sophie Kingdom. D) Marc Brunel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Marc Brunel. 55. Select the correct spelling:The caracter in the narrative had a unique journey. A) Charactre. B) Character. C) Caractre. D) Character. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Character. 56. The novel became a very popular form of literature in the victorian age A) Because the reading of it could be afforded by anyone. B) Because poetry was in a state of degradation. C) Because it described mainly the life of the nobility. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because the reading of it could be afforded by anyone. 57. Which substance did women use to "increase beauty" ? A) Mercury. B) Arsenic. C) Rose water. D) Vinegar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Arsenic. 58. The Parliament (democratic institution of government in Britain) was first created in Britain under Queen Victoria's rule A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 59. What was the 'drill'? A) A playground game. B) Lots of exercises done at the side of a desk. C) A song. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lots of exercises done at the side of a desk. 60. Very poor, lower class Victorians often worked as what? A) Tailors. B) Rat catchers. C) Chefs. D) Butlers. 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