This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Periods > Victorian > Victorian Period – Quiz 18 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Victorian Period Quiz 18 (57 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In what year did a law was introduced forbidding the use of boys for sweeping chimneys but was ignored? A) 1831. B) 1884. C) 1883. D) 1832. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1832. 2. Private schools weren't male-only and they didn't cost money to attend. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 3. Samuel Morse invented ..... A) A telegraph. B) A television. C) A telephone. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A telegraph. 4. The word era means (a) A) A a period in time. B) What you listen with. C) When something finishes. D) Another word for history. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A a period in time. 5. C2 Queens & Kings live there, lions fur around its face. A) Castlereagh. B) Castlemaine. C) Fort Main. D) Portland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Castlemaine. 6. Which is a PULL factor to cities? A) More jobs in the city. B) Less farming jobs. C) Less jobs in the city. D) More farming jobs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) More jobs in the city. 7. Thomas Hardy's novel about a woman named Bathsheba A) War of the Worlds. B) Bathsheba. C) Far From the Madding Crowd. D) The Importance of Being Earnest. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Far From the Madding Crowd. 8. When did Oliver's mother die? A) After his graduation. B) After his birth. C) When he was 4. D) When he was 9. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) After his birth. 9. Poor children received a very basic education in urban workhouses A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 10. What was the name of the Law that was introduced? A) The Rich Law. B) The Victorian Law. C) The Poorly Law. D) The Poor Law. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Poor Law. 11. What is the term Chinoiseries mean? A) Chocolate brown colours. B) Japanese design. C) Middle Eastern design. D) Mix of chair designs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Japanese design. 12. How did rich people in England feel about the poor? A) That the Poor were poor because they were lazy and deserved to be punished. B) That the Poor needed all the help they could get. C) That the Poor should be treated kindly. D) That the Poor deserved a long and enjoyable life with everything that they needed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) That the Poor were poor because they were lazy and deserved to be punished. 13. The British Empire covered ..... of all land on the Earth. A) A half. B) A quarter. C) A tenth. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A quarter. 14. What did the Factory Act of 1833 do? A) Provided financial help to the poor. B) Limited the working hours of children in factories. C) Banned children from working in factories. D) Introduced workhouses for the unemployed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Limited the working hours of children in factories. 15. The dark side of Victorian Britain was its ..... A) Economy. B) Underground. C) Poor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poor. 16. 'Winter' in the poem The Darkling Thrush symbolises ..... A) Peace ans serenity. B) Death and despair. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Death and despair. 17. What was 'green' in London? A) The fog. B) The buildings. C) A frog. D) The clouds. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The fog. 18. CHILDREN WERE PAID A) A lot of money. B) Very little money. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Very little money. 19. The Victorian period ended with the Queen's death in ..... A) 1921. B) 2022. C) 1901. D) 1999. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1901. 20. What is the definition of an abstract noun? A) A person, place or thing that impacts one of our five senses. B) An example of a symbol. C) The definition of a word. D) A feeling, idea or concept. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A feeling, idea or concept. 21. Children started to learn to write using a plate A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 22. What causes do not correspond to the appearance of socialism? A) Situation of the working class. B) Inhuman exploitation. C) Machinism. D) Sensitivity of capitalists. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sensitivity of capitalists. 23. The Elementary Education ACT saw the introduction of mandatory education for all children up to the age of 12. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 24. When was the first reform bill passed in both houses and made law in England? A) 1832. B) 1834. C) 1831. D) 1830. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1832. 25. British Prime Minister, who said that Victorian England was inhabited by "two nations": "the rich and the poor" A) Disraeli. B) Gladstone. C) Churchill. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Disraeli. 26. Which of the following is NOT evidence that workers were treated unfairly during the Victorian Age? A) Children as young as five often worked in factories. B) Employers were not required to give their workers any time off from work. C) Employers could pay their employees as little as they wanted. D) Workers labored for up to 16 hours a day. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Children as young as five often worked in factories. 27. Women's main role in Victorian society was to be a good wife and mother A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 28. How did the upper class view the poor in Victorian England? A) They believed the poor should be put into workhouses. B) They believed the poor were responsible for their own misfortune. C) They believed that the poor should be the concern of the church. D) They took pity on the poor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They believed the poor were responsible for their own misfortune. 29. Which of the following was a popular leisure activity during the Victorian Era? A) Going to the cinema. B) Playing video games. C) Playing cricket. D) Watching television. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Playing cricket. 30. How many times a week did the Victorians have a bath? A) 7. B) 5. C) 2. D) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1. 31. Which period is commonly considered as the Victorian Period? A) 1832-1899. B) 1820-1901. C) 1830-1920. D) 1832-1901. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1832-1901. 32. What did the Chartist movement demand? A) Abolition of the Corn Laws. B) Secret ballot. C) More voting rights. D) Workhouses for the poor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) More voting rights. 33. Who was the Queen of England during the Victorian Era? A) Anne. B) Victoria. C) Mary. D) Elizabeth I. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Victoria. 34. After the Borntes, femele characters were unrealistic, idealised and successful. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 35. When Magaret was 12 she worked at a ..... A) School. B) Farm. C) Company. D) Mill. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mill. 36. Choose the word or phrase that best defines the italicized word. "Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole/Unequal laws unto a savage race ..... " A) Collect. B) Sigh. C) Weep. D) Give out. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Give out. 37. B2 Matthew Dellavedova as a child A) Maryborough. B) Maldon. C) Avoca. D) Moonambel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Maryborough. 38. What was the main characteristic of the monarch's role during the Victorian era? A) Symbolic and ceremonial duties. B) Expansion of the electorate. C) Direct involvement in legislative power. D) Election of Prime Ministers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbolic and ceremonial duties. 39. Finish the sentence:Victorian teachers were very ..... A) Kind. B) Funny. C) Strict. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Strict. 40. Why did children make good factory and mine workers? (select 3) A) They were small enough to fit between the new machinery. B) They were cheap to employ. C) Families were grateful for the extra income. D) They were less likely to rebel against the factory hierarchy. E) All of these options. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) All of these options. 41. Queen Victoria reigned from? A) 1533-1603. B) 1952 to the present. C) 1603-1625. D) 1819-1901. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1819-1901. 42. At the beginning of the story, where did Oliver live in? A) Mr Sowerberry's house. B) An orphanage/ a workhouse. C) Mr Fagin's house. D) Mr Bumble's house. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An orphanage/ a workhouse. 43. What did the girls learn at home? A) To cook for their parents. B) To ride a horse. C) To sing, to play piano and to sew. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To sing, to play piano and to sew. 44. What is one thing the Victorians ate for BREAKFAST? A) Soup. B) Bread. C) Ramen. D) Eggs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Eggs. 45. Which statement is NOT true for Great Expectations? A) In that novel, Dickens explores the clash of social classes in Victorian England. B) Its major themes are affection, discipline and maturity which prove to be more important than social improvement. C) It is regarded as semi-autobiographical since Dickens resorted to his own experience to carefully depict the characters. D) The theme of social class is central to the plot and to the ultimate moral theme of the book. E) It was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round and upon its release, the novel received near universal acclaim. F) Like David Copperfield, the novel traces the psychological and moral development of a young boy, his transition from a rural environment to the London metropolis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Its major themes are affection, discipline and maturity which prove to be more important than social improvement. 46. What is one reason that Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol? A) To provide political and social commentary around the struggles of poor people in England. B) To create the best work of Christmas fiction. C) To impress his wife and children with his story-telling ability. D) To make enough money to get himself out of the workhouse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To provide political and social commentary around the struggles of poor people in England. 47. Which is not a dramatic monologue poem A) Sordello. B) Porphyria's Lover. C) My Last Duchess. D) Fra Lippo Lippi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sordello. 48. Which of these authors was NOT writing in the Victorian Period? A) Emily Bronte. B) J.K Rowling. C) Charles Dickens. D) Bram Stoker. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) J.K Rowling. 49. The number of people living in Britain ..... A) Quartered. B) Shrank from 60 million to 20 million. C) More than doubledfrom 16 million to 37 million. D) Halved. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) More than doubledfrom 16 million to 37 million. 50. What is an important effect of having a long reign of the queen? A) Gender equality. B) Political stability. C) Innovative industry. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Political stability. 51. Which animal did rich Victorians often have as pets? A) Hamsters. B) Parrots. C) Mice. D) Cats. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parrots. 52. WHAT DID POOR CHILDREN DO IN THE STREETS? A) They begged and stole. B) They played and had fun. C) They went shopping. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They begged and stole. 53. Children worked as scavengers. Which best describes a scavenger? A) Birds that would eat anything. B) Children would crawl in the machines in factories to pick the cotton. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Children would crawl in the machines in factories to pick the cotton. 54. During this time, economist John Stuart Mill called for an end to the formerly popular ....., or hands-off, style of economic policy, and called for gradual, steady social reform. A) Director. B) Protectionist. C) Mercantilist. D) Let it happen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Let it happen. 55. What WAS NOT a duty of a Victorian woman? A) Nurturing kids. B) Gardening. C) Raising babies. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gardening. 56. WHY DID POOR CHILDREN HAVE TO WORK? A) To help their families. B) To become rich. C) To learn a new job. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To help their families. 57. Did young Queen Victorian go to school? A) No. B) Yes. 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