This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Periods > Victorian > Victorian Period – Quiz 14 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Victorian Period Quiz 14 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The aims of Dickens A) Entertain and teach. B) Criticize and dissent. C) Pursue beauty. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Entertain and teach. 2. What marked the shift in the English economy which moved away from agriculture and toward the production of manufactured goods? A) The Victorian Period. B) The Technology Revolution. C) A New Industry. D) The Industrial Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Industrial Revolution. 3. What event took place in 1851 which showcased inventions from all over the world. A) The Workhouses. B) The Victoria & Albert Museum. C) The Great Exhibition (Crystal Palace). D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Great Exhibition (Crystal Palace). 4. Turkey as the centerpiece of a Christmas dinner began in Victorian times A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 5. Who ruled Britain for 64 years from 1837 to? A) Queen Elizabeth 1. B) Queen Victoria. C) Queen Elizabeth 2. D) Prince Albert. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Queen Victoria. 6. Drill included running, jumping and lifting weights A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. What did a Victorian teacher write on? A) A white board. B) A chalk board. C) In interactive white board. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A chalk board. 8. How many children did Queen Victoria have? Can you name any of them? A) 8. B) 9. C) 7. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 9. 9. Who is often regarded as a rural annalist? A) Hardy. B) Dickens. C) Thackeray. D) George Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hardy. 10. What could happen when children worked as chimney sweeps? A) They could get paid more money. B) They could be given food. C) They could get hurt or die. D) They could keep any valuables they find. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They could get hurt or die. 11. Which of the following was NOT a major cultural movement during the Victorian Era? A) Gothic Revival. B) Realism. C) Romanticism. D) Modernism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Modernism. 12. Victorian poets developed their own style with a focus on A) Love, death, and the afterlife. B) Realism, skepticism, and a sense of responsibility. C) Ancient Greece and Rome. D) Religion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Realism, skepticism, and a sense of responsibility. 13. What happened in 1877? A) Graham Bell patents the telephone. B) Queen Victoria crowned Empress of India. C) Queen Victoria's golden jubilee. D) Third Reform Act. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Queen Victoria crowned Empress of India. 14. What colour were post boxes originally? A) Yellow. B) Blue. C) Red. D) Green. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Green. 15. WHAT YEARS DOES VICTORIA'S REIGN INCLUDE? A) 1988-1999. B) 2005-2020. C) 1920-1974. D) 1987-1901. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1987-1901. 16. Choose the correct option in accordance with 'The Tenants of wildfell Hall A) I) Tenants of wildfell Hall is the second novel of Anne Bronte. B) Ii) It is an epistolary novel. C) Iii) It consists of three volumes. D) Iv) In the novel, series of letters were written by Gilbert Markham to his friend. E) All the abpve. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) All the abpve. 17. Which Victorian woman writer is known for her novel 'Frankenstein'? A) Emily Bronte. B) Mary Shelley. C) Charlotte Bronte . D) Jane Austen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mary Shelley. 18. What was the school morning schedule of Victorian student? A) 8am to 12nn. B) 8am to 11am. C) 8:30am to 11:30am. D) 9am to 12nn. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 9am to 12nn. 19. A scientist named ..... created a rift among Christians, some of whom were willing to accept his theory of evolution, and others whose interpretations of the Bible did not. A) Charles Manson. B) Charles Dickens. C) Charles Darwin. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Charles Darwin. 20. The Bronte sisters spent most of their life in isolation A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 21. Which of these established the policy for sending poor people to the workhouses? A) The Poor Act of 1834. B) The Economic Opportunity Act of 1889. C) The Elementary Education Act of 1880. D) The Married Women's Property Act. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Poor Act of 1834. 22. 'My Last Duchess' is a ..... A) Autobiographical Poem. B) Dramatic Monologue. C) Dramatic Lyric. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dramatic Monologue. 23. In 1846, the industrial middle class won a significant victory with the abolition of the Cornb Laws: A) The protectionist legislation which imposed heay taxation on imported goods, thusfavouring the monarchy. B) The protectionist legislation which imposed heay taxation on imported goods, thusfavouring the great landowners. C) The protectionist legislation which imposed heay taxation on imported goods, thusfavouring London banks. D) The protectionist legislation which imposed heay taxation on imported goods, thusfavouring the America colonies. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The protectionist legislation which imposed heay taxation on imported goods, thusfavouring the great landowners. 24. How many children did she have? A) 12. B) 5. C) 9. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 9. 25. In the first line, " ..... gone away" and again in the second line, "gone far away" is an example of which literary technique? A) Euphemism. B) Personification. C) Colloquialism. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Euphemism. 26. Which event changed the face of Christmas forever in Britain? A) Queen Victoria's reign. B) The industrial revolution. C) The invention of the railways . D) Charles Dickens' books. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The industrial revolution. 27. What part of the body did women have to keep completely covered? A) Hair. B) Legs. C) Arms. D) Face. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Legs. 28. What fell apart soon after Queen Victoria's death? A) Parliament. B) The British Empire. C) The Monarchy. D) National Train Lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The British Empire. 29. What type of trains were there in Victorian times? A) Electric trains. B) Steam trains. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Steam trains. 30. When did the Irish Great Famine start? A) 1700s. B) 1945. C) 1890. D) 1845. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1845. 31. Dickens had a job and was the provider for his family at ..... years of age. A) 6. B) 10. C) 12. D) 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 12. 32. When did most women over age 30 get the right to vote in Britain? A) 1867. B) 1832. C) 1829. D) 1918. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1918. 33. What's an important reform from the Victorian Era? A) Being able to change your gender. B) Women's suffrage. C) Forcing children to mine for coal. D) Speed limit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Women's suffrage. 34. How are the speakers in "My Last Duchess" and "Porphyria's Lover" different? A) The duke appears sane to the outside world, but Porphyria's lover appears mad. B) The duke is articulate about his motives, but Porphyria's lover cannot explain his feelings. C) The duke acts out of cruelty, but only true love motivates Porphyria's lover. D) The duke acts to protect his broken heart, but Porphyria's lover acts out of vengeance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The duke appears sane to the outside world, but Porphyria's lover appears mad. 35. Who was the famous author during the Victorian era? A) Jane Austen. B) Charles Dickens. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Charles Dickens. 36. WHO WAS ONE OF THE FIRST PEOPLE WHO SENT A TEXT MESSAGE? A) PRINCE ALBERT. B) QUEEN VICTORIA. C) QUEEN'S VICTORIA HUSBAND. D) QUEEN'S VICTORIA'S SON. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) QUEEN VICTORIA. 37. Which of these would a rich Victorian male have? A) An iPhone. B) A pocket watch. C) A chimney sweep. D) Hobnail boots. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A pocket watch. 38. What do Barnaby Rudge:A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty and A Tale of Two Cities have in common? A) Both narrate the years leading to the French Revolution. B) Both explore the clash of social classes in Victorian England. C) Both explore the impact of the 19th industrial society and the oppression to the employees. D) Both attempt to portray social evils as child labour as well as to depict hypocrisies of the times. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Both narrate the years leading to the French Revolution. 39. What major event occurred during the Victorian era that transformed society and the economy? A) French Revolution. B) Industrial Revolution. C) Renaissance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Industrial Revolution. 40. Oscar Wilde's play that was turned into an award winning movie? A) Jungle Book. B) The Importance of Being Earnest. C) Jane Eyre. D) Far From the Madding Crowd. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Importance of Being Earnest. 41. What was the Victorian slang term for ''a house" ? A) A crash. B) A crib. C) A knicknack. D) A castle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A crib. 42. Wealthy Victorian children were educated by who? A) A governess. B) Their dad. C) Their brother. D) A maid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A governess. 43. Where would families who were poor be sent as a last resort? A) Jail/prison. B) To the queen. C) The Workhouse. D) To live in the countryside. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Workhouse. 44. What did men's coats include? A) Trousers, long sleeved-shirts, a vest and a coat or a jacket. B) Trousers, and a vest and a coat or a jacket. C) Trousers, short sleeved-shirts, a vest or a coat. D) Trousers, long sleeved-shirts, a vest and a coat, boots. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trousers, long sleeved-shirts, a vest and a coat or a jacket. 45. Trade Unions Act A) 1871. B) 1846. C) 1877. D) 1901. E) 1870. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1871. 46. Did women get voting rights during the time of Queen Victoria A) Yes. B) No. C) Don't know. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 47. What was a life during the Victorian era in England? A) Happiness for everyone. B) It depends on the social class. C) The king had a great depresion. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It depends on the social class. 48. Political, economic and social doctrine that aspired to radically transform society by solving the problems of the working class. A) Materialism. B) Socialism. C) Empiricism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Socialism. 49. What was mass-produced during the Industrial Revolution? A) The steam engine. B) Electric generators. C) The telegraph/telephone. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 50. Who wrote in A Tale of Two Cities, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ..... " A) James Montgomery Boyce. B) Charles Dickens. C) Oliver Twist. D) Edward Shopeh. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Charles Dickens. 51. In which Court would it be determined how a person died? A) Supreme Court. B) Magistrates Court. C) Coroner's Court. D) High Court. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Coroner's Court. 52. Poor families who could not support their families moved into these places, but the conditions were hard to encourage them to only stay a short time. A) Work Houses. B) Churches. C) Boarding Houses. D) Prisons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Work Houses. 53. Together with The Brontes, one of the most famous Victorian female writers A) George Eliot. B) George B. Shaw. C) Lewis Carroll. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) George Eliot. 54. What did women wear that gave the figure a curved shape? A) Hoop skirts. B) Petticoats. C) Elongated corsets. D) Double layered skirts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Elongated corsets. 55. What did men change into in the evening? A) A dinner suit with a short coat and a bow tie. B) A dinner suit with a short frock coat and a bow tie. C) A dinner suit with a long frock coat and a tie. D) A dinner suit with a long frock coat and a bow tie. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A dinner suit with a long frock coat and a bow tie. 56. Anthony Trollope wrote about ..... and the kind of corruption and evil which Dickens also showed in his novels. A) Ireland. B) Scottland. C) Wales. D) England. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ireland. 57. Children picked fruits and vegetables in ..... A) Fields. B) The street. C) Factories. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fields. 58. How many siblings did Queen Victoria have? A) 2. B) 3. C) 0. D) 1000. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2. 59. True or False? Charles Dickens wrote his stories to show the world how harsh life was for the poor. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 60. What was the name of the program created to provide education to working class children in Victorian England? A) The Education Act. B) The Factory Acts. C) The Workhouse Act. D) The Poor Laws. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Education Act. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesPeriods QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesVictorian Period Quiz 1Victorian Period Quiz 2Victorian Period Quiz 3Victorian Period Quiz 4Victorian Period Quiz 5Victorian Period Quiz 6Victorian Period Quiz 7Victorian Period Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books