This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Periods > Victorian > Victorian Period – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Victorian Period Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What definition would you give to the Industrial Revolution? A) The process of transition from hunting-gathering to food production. B) The process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing. C) The process of change of production where machine manufacturing is used only in heavy industry. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing. 2. Read these final lines from Gerard Manley Hopkins's "Pied Beauty." "Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)/With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;/He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:/Praise him." With which of these sentiments does Hopkins conclude his poem? A) Much in creation is imperfect, if not dangerous. B) All of creation serves as a reason to revere God. C) True beauty comes from things that remain constant. D) Everything has an opposite, and the right choices must be made. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) All of creation serves as a reason to revere God. 3. Chartism was active A) Between 1837 and 1847. B) Between 1870 and 1880. C) Between 1838 and 1848. D) Between 1800 and 1890. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Between 1838 and 1848. 4. Dickens' writing, in his lifetime was very A) Unsuccessful. B) Unpublished. C) Boring. D) Popular. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Popular. 5. What is the flag of England? A) . B) . C) . D) . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) . 6. Not only did Victoria speak German, English and French but she also learnt Hindustani. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. What does the word 'bleak' mean? A) Happy and content. B) Cruel, oppressive behaviour. C) Means sad in a thoughtful way. D) A bad situation that is unlikely to improve or a cold, unattractive place. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A bad situation that is unlikely to improve or a cold, unattractive place. 8. What did Queen Victoria advocate for in terms of social welfare? A) Improved working conditions. B) Higher taxes. C) Reduction of social programs. D) Privatization of healthcare. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Improved working conditions. 9. Which of these jobs was not carried out by Victorian children? A) Factory worker. B) Doctor. C) Chimney Sweep. D) Servant. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Doctor. 10. What was the major event that led to the start of the Victorian era? A) The American Revolution. B) The Industrial Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Industrial Revolution. 11. When did the Victorian Era occur? A) 1837-1901 CE. B) 1776-1863 CE. C) 1200-0 BCE. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1837-1901 CE. 12. What is a botanist? A) An expert of plants. B) An expert of animals. C) An expert of boats. D) An expert of planets. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An expert of plants. 13. What was a criterion of a person to be grouped in a middle class? A) Financially secure. B) Physically healthy. C) Politically active. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Financially secure. 14. Who is credited with the theory of evolution during the Victorian era? A) Sigmund Freud. B) Isaac Newton. C) Albert Einstein. D) Charles Darwin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Charles Darwin. 15. In regard to the setting of the Victorian novel it is observed that ..... A) There was a tendency towards rural and exterior settings. B) Urban and interior settings were more common. C) Both options are correct. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both options are correct. 16. Chapters in A Christmas Carol are called (also a musical term) A) Stanzas. B) Refrains. C) Staves. D) Staffs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Staves. 17. Why were workers in England hostile to machines and new technology? A) They did not know how to use these. B) They feared that they would lose their jobs and livelihood. C) The workers were too poor to buy new machines. D) They were scared of machines. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They feared that they would lose their jobs and livelihood. 18. The poor Victorians needed to go to ..... A) Public baths. B) Workhouses. C) Hiring Fairs. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Workhouses. 19. For those with wealth and influence, Victoria's reign was a time not only of change but of ..... A) Opportunities. B) Prosperity. C) Benefactors. D) Cruelty. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prosperity. 20. What was NOT a popular toy for wealthy Victorian children? A) Tin soldier. B) Rag doll. C) Rocking horse. D) Doll's house. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rag doll. 21. Which is not a feature of Mr Gradgrind? A) He quantifies human nature. B) Self-interest. C) He turns children into machines. D) Sympathy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sympathy. 22. How young were some children when they began working in Victorian factories? A) 16. B) 7. C) 4 or 5. D) 11. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 4 or 5. 23. How many questions are there in the mock exam for Mr Donovan? A) One. B) Two. C) Two but I only have to answer One. D) One poetry and one Hamlet question. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Two but I only have to answer One. 24. What is a "Dame" school? A) A church. B) A kind of school run by a local woman. C) A kind of school run by men. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A kind of school run by a local woman. 25. By the end of the Industrial Revolution, what increase had Great Britain seen in the number of cities? A) 5 up to 50. B) 9 up to 150. C) 2 up to 29. D) 8 up to 40. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2 up to 29. 26. What year did France and Britain declare war on Russia? A) 1854. B) 1954. C) 1654. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1854. 27. Children, men and women worked in factories. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 28. How did the English government help the starving people in Ireland? A) They set up soup kitchens. B) They didn't require them to pay taxes. C) They didn't help at all. D) They they gave them money to buy food. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They didn't help at all. 29. Emmeline Pankhurst was famous for A) Ending women's suffrage. B) Ending child labor. C) Ruling Britain in the Victorian Era. D) Fighting in support of women's suffrage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fighting in support of women's suffrage. 30. Before the factory Act of 1830s it was legal for children under the age of? to work in a factory. A) 9. B) 7. C) 5. D) 11. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 9. 31. What was NOT the cause of creating new British colonies? A) Trade routes. B) Growing European competition. C) Religious persecution. D) Increasing population. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Religious persecution. 32. Charles Dickens was a famous novelist who liked to write about what themes? A) Science fiction and the invasion of aliens. B) High-class gentrified country people courting and marrying. C) The difficulties of life in the lower and middle classes. D) Ghosts, vampires, and other paranormal gothic themes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The difficulties of life in the lower and middle classes. 33. Children were homeless in 1848 in England. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 34. Which crop was ruined in Ireland? A) Potato. B) Corn. C) Wheat. D) Squash. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Potato. 35. Families without income and starving ..... immigrants crowded into England's already squalid slums. A) German. B) French. C) Spaniards. D) Irish. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Irish. 36. What was seen as the ideal age for a chimney sweep? A) 5. B) 6. C) 4. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 6. 37. To increase the potential of the general population, ..... became mandatory during this time period. A) Pants. B) Education for children and teens. C) Military service. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Education for children and teens. 38. Who was the Queen during the Victorian period? A) Queen Elizabeth II. B) Queen Elizabeth. C) Queen Victoria. D) Anne Boleyn. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Queen Victoria. 39. What Centuary was the vicorian era A) 19th. B) 21 st. C) 20th. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 19th. 40. Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli declared Queen Victoria the " ....., " and India would not gain its independence until 1947. A) Empress of China. B) Empress of Dover. C) Empress of America. D) Empress of India. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Empress of India. 41. The foundations for the modern education system in Britain were laid in the first half of the 19th century. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 42. The Ten Hours Act was passed in A) 1846. B) 1842. C) 1847. D) 1852. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1847. 43. True or False:Queen Victoria was educated in French and Spanish when she was a child A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 44. Who was a sharp-eyed critic of England's social systems and was known for writing about darker themes and lives of the poor? A) Victor Hugo. B) Charles Dickens. C) Edgar Allan Poe. D) Lewis Carroll. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Charles Dickens. 45. What was the role of Queen Victoria in Britain's constitutional monarchy? A) She was the head of the elected Parliament. B) She had no influence in state affairs. C) She had direct involvement in governmental decisions. D) She subtly influenced state affairs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She subtly influenced state affairs. 46. In 1840, she married her ..... Prince Albert, from Germany, to whom she became deeply devoted. A) Brother. B) Cousin. C) Nephew. D) Friend. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cousin. 47. In which year did school become compulsory for children aged 5? A) 1879. B) 1870. C) 1880. D) 1881. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1880. 48. Which of these features is least likely to occur in a graphic novel? A) Wind, especially howling. B) Doors grating on rusty hinges. C) Baying of distant dogs. D) Uptown Funk. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wind, especially howling. 49. Which of the following did reforms NOT achieve during the Victorian Era? A) Women's right to vote. B) Less child labor. C) Public Education. D) Better working conditions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Women's right to vote. 50. A lot of children also worked in candy factories. A) True. B) False. C) Not stated. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 51. Why did the Industrial Revolution become so important? A) People didn't have to work very hard. B) It made the Queen smile. C) It changed transport and how things were made. D) Planes were invented. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It changed transport and how things were made. 52. How many children did Queen Victoria have? A) 7. B) 8. C) 9. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 9. 53. Charles Dickens invented the Victorian Christmas A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 54. During her reign, Great Britain had the world's most powerful ..... A) Army. B) Dance moves. C) Navy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Navy. 55. Morse code is a special code of ..... A) Sending boxes. B) Sending steam. C) Sending messages. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sending messages. 56. What was the name of the war betweeen France, Britain, and Russia? A) World War 2. B) Crimean War. C) Industrial Revolution. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crimean War. 57. Who informed young Victoria that her King uncle was no more? A) Archbishop of Canterbury. B) Lord Cunningham. C) Both of the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both of the above. 58. During this time, the British Empire had the world's most powerful ..... A) Army. B) Navy. C) Dance Moves. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Navy. 59. A 12 year old is accused of stealing an iPhone from a retail store. Which Court will their matter be heard in? A) Magistrates Court. B) Children's Court. C) County Court. D) Supreme Court. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Children's Court. 60. True or False ..... By the time of the rule of Queen Victoria, the monarch in Britain had no political influence on the country. A) False. B) True. 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