This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Periods > Victorian > Victorian Period – Quiz 15 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Victorian Period Quiz 15 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The first line of the London ..... was built. A) Underground. B) Underground. C) Railway. D) Train. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Underground. 2. In Victorian times, life was very easy for the poor. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 3. The following things are necessary in order to make a pleasure garden or park attractive for kids to play. Which one is not? A) Having different games. B) Charging entrance fee. C) Having different toys. D) Good music. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Charging entrance fee. 4. In David Copperfield, the hero becomes the kind of success which Victorians admired. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 5. How many attempts were made on Queen Victoria's life? A) 7. B) 4. C) 3. D) 9. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 7. 6. Why did Victorian desks have holes? A) To hold the children's pencils. B) To hold the inkwells. C) To hold chalk. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To hold the inkwells. 7. America abolished slavery before the British Empire. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 8. What is malnutrition? A) A diet of either not enough food or not enough of the right food. B) An invention during that time. C) Another name for a Victorian child. D) A game played in Victorian times. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A diet of either not enough food or not enough of the right food. 9. When was the Great Exhibition held? A) 1851. B) 1850. C) 1852. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1851. 10. Children worked because their parents didn't have work. A) True. B) False. C) Not stated. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Not stated. 11. Who won the Crimean war? A) France. B) Britain. C) Turkey. D) Russia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Britain. 12. What was George Stephenson famous for? A) Bridges. B) Camera. C) Locomotive. D) Penny Farthing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Locomotive. 13. The masters were often ..... A) Kind. B) Cruel. C) Understanding. D) Gentle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cruel. 14. What were the major demands in People's Charter? 1. Annual parliaments 2. Universal suffrage (for Men) 3. Abolition of the property qualification for members of the House of Commons 4. A secret ballot A) 1 and 2. B) 1and 4. C) 2, 3 and 4. D) 1, 2, and 3. E) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) All the above. 15. Who were sold to employers to become chimney sweeps? A) Young children. B) Orphans. C) Older children. D) Orphans and homeless children. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Orphans and homeless children. 16. Who said, "Criticism is the art of interpreting art" ? A) G.B.Shaw. B) I.A.Richards. C) Walter Pater. D) Oscar Wilde. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Walter Pater. 17. What did Victorian children learn to write on? A) Paper. B) Wood. C) Slate. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Slate. 18. What was the period of the Victorian era? A) 1820-1914. B) 1820-1901. C) 1837-1914. D) 1837-1901. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1820-1914. 19. When did the school bell ring? A) At the beginning and end of lessons and at playtime. B) Every half an hour. C) Just at the start of the day. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) At the beginning and end of lessons and at playtime. 20. Who was the monarch in England during this time period? A) Queen Elizabeth. B) King George. C) Queen Victoria. D) King Victor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Queen Victoria. 21. Who worked in the workhouses? A) The rich kids. B) The old people. C) The poor kids. D) No-one. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The poor kids. 22. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, people's lives revolved around ..... A) Cell phones. B) Cattle ranching. C) Creating small businesses. D) Farming. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Farming. 23. In which essay does Ruskin discuss about the fall of a culture? A) The French Revolution. B) Chartism. C) The Stones of Venice. D) The Fall of India. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Stones of Venice. 24. Albert, the consort of Victoria, was a ..... prince. A) German. B) Greek. C) Scottish. D) Danish. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) German. 25. What was unusual about the marriage between Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning? A) He acknowledged that she was the superior poet. B) She was prepared to run away with him and surrender her financial dependence on her father. C) They saw their marriage as being a partnership between equals. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 26. In 1837, who was the Queen of England? A) London. B) Elizabeth. C) Rachel. D) Victoria. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Victoria. 27. Where was Victoria born? A) The Tower of London. B) Starbucks. C) The Royal School Wolverhampton. D) Kensington Palace. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kensington Palace. 28. What articles of clothing were introduced in the 1870s? A) Tea gowns. B) Crinoline petticoats. C) Sailor suits. D) Skirts and blouses. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tea gowns. 29. Which work of Elizabeth Gaskell was left unfinished? A) Cranford. B) Wives and Daughter. C) Mary Barton. D) Ruth. E) Sylvia's Lovers. F) North and South. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wives and Daughter. 30. Could you own a gun? A) There were no guns at all. B) If you were in an army. C) If you wanted to. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) If you were in an army. 31. Christmas cards were first sent in Victorian times A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 32. E2 What your soft drink comes in, long creek A) Wye River. B) Lakes Entrance. C) Boggy Creek. D) Cann River. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cann River. 33. Which works were accepted for joint publication in 1847? A) Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. B) Jane Eyre and Agnes Grey. C) Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey. D) Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey. 34. What is the name of Merman's wife in "The Forsaken Merman" poem? A) Juliet. B) Margaret. C) Mariana. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Margaret. 35. A workhouse was a place where ..... A) Poor people could have a home. B) People could have a day-job. C) The destitute could live and work. D) People could ask for help if they didn't have a job. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The destitute could live and work. 36. VOTING SYSTEM ESTABLISHED IN 1832 IN GREAT BRITAIN A) OPEN. B) NULL. C) CENSITARIO. D) SECRET. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) CENSITARIO. 37. Most girls of any class received little or no formal education A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 38. What was the diet of poor people during the Victorian era? A) Bread, dripping, gravy, tea, and vegetables (Sometimes rotten). B) Cake, tea, potted meat. C) Potatoes and Steak. D) Meat, vegetables, cheese, and eggs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bread, dripping, gravy, tea, and vegetables (Sometimes rotten). 39. Children who were lucky enough to go to school were taught what subjects? A) Art, music, and embroidery. B) Reading, writing and arithmetic. C) French, reading, and writing. D) Art, arithmetic, and reading. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reading, writing and arithmetic. 40. What did Queen Victoria and Prince Albert introduce that became a prominent aspect of Christmas in Britain? A) Christmas carols. B) Christmas cards. C) Christmas crackers. D) Christmas trees. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Christmas trees. 41. Which monarch preceded Queen Victoria? (her uncle) A) William VI. B) William IV. C) Henry VIII. D) Edward VII. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William IV. 42. What was expensive for schools? A) Wood. B) Coal. C) Paper. D) Slate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paper. 43. What is a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson? A) Moral story. B) Paradox. C) Parable. D) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parable. 44. Which behavior was a part of consumerism in the Victorian era? A) Decorating a house with exotic stuff. B) Educating daughters at home. C) Having dinner at restaurants. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Decorating a house with exotic stuff. 45. In what year did Queen Victoria take her first train ride? A) 1847. B) 1851. C) 1842. D) 1846. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1842. 46. The Duke is irritated by the fact that his wife A) Dependent on him. B) Too flirtacious. C) Demanding. D) Beautiful. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Too flirtacious. 47. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, manufacturing was done using hand tools and simple machines. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 48. A new Education Act was adopted in ..... A) 1944. B) 1942. C) 1945. D) 1943. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1944. 49. What were the dominant values in the Victorian period? A) Leisure and rationality. B) Work and rationality. C) Duty and work. D) Duty and leisure. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Duty and work. 50. Heathcliff is ..... A) A Byronic hero. B) A gothic villain. C) A Romantic hero. D) Both a Byronic and a Romantic hero. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both a Byronic and a Romantic hero. 51. Choose the correct definition for social classes. A) Distinct social groupings. B) Educational events for people at social gatherings. C) Required classes on behavior provided at the workhouses. D) A code word for Socialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Distinct social groupings. 52. Read the section "Victorian Values."Which selection from this section supports the conclusion that gender expectations could be difficult for Victorian men? A) Nowadays, we understand that both men and women can be emotional, intelligent and strong. Life was different during the Victorian era. It was normal for men and women to be treated differently. B) However, men do not get any help from their partner or children and have to pay for everything by themselves. This could be stressful, especially if a man's job did not pay very well. C) Women were expected to be mothers and housekeepers. They had to cook meals, keep the house clean and look after everyone. Working at home was not an exciting job. D) Most adults were expected to get married and have children. It was quite difficult to change the belief that the man is the breadwinner and the woman is the housekeeper. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) However, men do not get any help from their partner or children and have to pay for everything by themselves. This could be stressful, especially if a man's job did not pay very well. 53. Jacob is 14 years old. He has been charged with arson causing death. Which court will his matter be heard in? A) High Court. B) Supreme Court. C) Arson Court. D) Children's Court. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Supreme Court. 54. What happened in 1851? A) Great Plague occured. B) The great Jubilee happened. C) The coronation of Queen Victoria. D) Great Exhibition in Britain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Great Exhibition in Britain. 55. Which is not a theme in Jane Eyre A) Marriage as a relationship between equals. B) Death seen as a liberation of the spirit. C) Education. D) Need for affection. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Death seen as a liberation of the spirit. 56. What was a characteristic of the Victorian Age? A) Moral hypocrisy. B) Great poverty. C) Social injustices. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 57. What do pickpockets do? A) They steal from your house. B) They steal from your jacket or bag. C) They steal from your car. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They steal from your jacket or bag. 58. He based his theories (about work and the working class) upon research done in England A) Karl Marx. B) Jeremy Bentham. C) Rudyard Kipling. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Karl Marx. 59. What were the significant social and cultural changes during Queen Victoria's reign? A) Rise of mass media. B) Decline of the middle class. C) Emergence of new artistic movements. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 60. To improve the circumstances of the general population, ..... became mandatory during this time period. A) Handwashing. B) Education for children and young teens. C) Military service with benefits. D) Learning to break rocks. 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