Victorian Period Quiz 3 (60 MCQs)

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1. What definition would you give to the Industrial Revolution?
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?
3. Chartism was active
4. Dickens' writing, in his lifetime was very
5. What is the flag of England?
6. Not only did Victoria speak German, English and French but she also learnt Hindustani.
7. What does the word 'bleak' mean?
8. What did Queen Victoria advocate for in terms of social welfare?
9. Which of these jobs was not carried out by Victorian children?
10. What was the major event that led to the start of the Victorian era?
11. When did the Victorian Era occur?
12. What is a botanist?
13. What was a criterion of a person to be grouped in a middle class?
14. Who is credited with the theory of evolution during the Victorian era?
15. In regard to the setting of the Victorian novel it is observed that .....
16. Chapters in A Christmas Carol are called (also a musical term)
17. Why were workers in England hostile to machines and new technology?
18. The poor Victorians needed to go to .....
19. For those with wealth and influence, Victoria's reign was a time not only of change but of .....
20. What was NOT a popular toy for wealthy Victorian children?
21. Which is not a feature of Mr Gradgrind?
22. How young were some children when they began working in Victorian factories?
23. How many questions are there in the mock exam for Mr Donovan?
24. What is a "Dame" school?
25. By the end of the Industrial Revolution, what increase had Great Britain seen in the number of cities?
26. What year did France and Britain declare war on Russia?
27. Children, men and women worked in factories.
28. How did the English government help the starving people in Ireland?
29. Emmeline Pankhurst was famous for
30. Before the factory Act of 1830s it was legal for children under the age of? to work in a factory.
31. What was NOT the cause of creating new British colonies?
32. Charles Dickens was a famous novelist who liked to write about what themes?
33. Children were homeless in 1848 in England.
34. Which crop was ruined in Ireland?
35. Families without income and starving ..... immigrants crowded into England's already squalid slums.
36. What was seen as the ideal age for a chimney sweep?
37. To increase the potential of the general population, ..... became mandatory during this time period.
38. Who was the Queen during the Victorian period?
39. What Centuary was the vicorian era
40. Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli declared Queen Victoria the " ....., " and India would not gain its independence until 1947.
41. The foundations for the modern education system in Britain were laid in the first half of the 19th century.
42. The Ten Hours Act was passed in
43. True or False:Queen Victoria was educated in French and Spanish when she was a child
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?
45. What was the role of Queen Victoria in Britain's constitutional monarchy?
46. In 1840, she married her ..... Prince Albert, from Germany, to whom she became deeply devoted.
47. In which year did school become compulsory for children aged 5?
48. Which of these features is least likely to occur in a graphic novel?
49. Which of the following did reforms NOT achieve during the Victorian Era?
50. A lot of children also worked in candy factories.
51. Why did the Industrial Revolution become so important?
52. How many children did Queen Victoria have?
53. Charles Dickens invented the Victorian Christmas
54. During her reign, Great Britain had the world's most powerful .....
55. Morse code is a special code of .....
56. What was the name of the war betweeen France, Britain, and Russia?
57. Who informed young Victoria that her King uncle was no more?
58. During this time, the British Empire had the world's most powerful .....
59. A 12 year old is accused of stealing an iPhone from a retail store. Which Court will their matter be heard in?
60. True or False ..... By the time of the rule of Queen Victoria, the monarch in Britain had no political influence on the country.