This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Periods > Victorian > Victorian Period – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Victorian Period Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, where did most people live? A) Cities. B) Neighborhoods. C) Small, rural communities. D) In the United States. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Small, rural communities. 2. What was the dominant religion in Victorian Britain? A) Anglican. B) Roman Catholic. C) Methodist. D) Presbyterian. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anglican. 3. Christmas has its roots in A) The African holiday, Kwanzaa. B) The Jewish holiday, Hanukkah. C) The pagan holiday, Saturnalia. D) The secular holiday, Festivus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The pagan holiday, Saturnalia. 4. Which novel of Dickens is a powerful critique of the workhouse era? A) Oliver Twist. B) Martin Chuzzlewit. C) David Copperfield. D) Alice in Wonderland. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oliver Twist. 5. Pick the odd one out. A) Under the Greenwood Tree. B) A Christmas Carol. C) Oliver Twist. D) A Tale of Two Cities. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Under the Greenwood Tree. 6. In what year did third-class travelers pay a penny for a mile? A) 1832. B) 1867. C) 1844. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1844. 7. What was students use instead of paper during lessons? A) Cloth. B) Slate. C) Newspaper. D) Leaves. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Slate. 8. When France created a pack to stop European countries from trading with Britain, how did this affect farming and food in Britain? A) Less competition higher prices for food. B) More competition lower prices for food. C) More competition higher prices for food. D) Less competition lower prices for food. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Less competition higher prices for food. 9. Elizabeth's husband's name was A) Charles. B) Harry. C) Edward. D) Phillip. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Phillip. 10. What its contributions based on your previous answer? A) Its navy helped to keep control of overseas countries and its cargo boats brought their different type of materials and products to Britain. B) Its military helped to keep control of overseas countries and its truck boats brought their different type of materials and products to Britain. C) Its police helped to keep control of overseas countries and its cargo boats brought their different type of fabrics and furnitures to Britain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Its navy helped to keep control of overseas countries and its cargo boats brought their different type of materials and products to Britain. 11. Who among the following did not help raising up poor victorian children? A) Nannies. B) Older siblings. C) Relatives. D) Parents. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nannies. 12. Which is the correct statement? A) The Victorians lived from 1870 to 1900. B) The Victorians lived from 1840 to 1900. C) The Victorians lived from 1837-1901. D) The Victorians lived from 1850 to 1905. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Victorians lived from 1837-1901. 13. Hardy believes in the philosophy of A) Character is Destiny. B) Man is the master of his own fate. C) Immanent Will. D) Free Will. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Immanent Will. 14. A Constitutional Monarchy is a government in which a monarch and an government share power. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 15. What impact did railways have on people's lives? A) Increased trade. B) Transformed the landscape. C) Improved transportation. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 16. Christmas crackers (package filled with sweets that snapped when pulled) originated during Victorian times A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 17. What is the famous phrase appeared in the preface to the Picture of Dorian Gray A) All happy families resemble on another but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. B) All art is quite useless. C) The best way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. D) It was best of times, it was worst of times. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) All art is quite useless. 18. Choose the word or phrase that best defines the italicized word. "Glory be to God for dappled things-/For skies of couple-color as a brinded cow ..... " A) Striped. B) Hushed. C) Crafted. D) Spotted. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spotted. 19. When did Queen Victoria marry? A) 1830. B) 1840. C) 1850. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1840. 20. Why did Tennyson dedicate the poem to Hallam? A) Hallam was a friend. B) Hallam was a close friend who represented the hope of life after death. C) Tennyson wanted to impress Queen Victoria. D) Tennyson needed the patronage of someone important. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hallam was a close friend who represented the hope of life after death. 21. Queen Victoria was only ..... years old when she began her reign in 1837. A) 18. B) Eight. C) Twenty. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 18. 22. Who did Queen Victoria marry? A) Florence Nightingale. B) Charles Dickens. C) Sir Robert Peel. D) Prince Albert. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prince Albert. 23. The privileged few of the upper or middle classes, went to 'public' schools A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 24. The Great Exhibition of 1851 A) Was housed at Kensington Palace. B) Was housed at Westminster Palace. C) Was housed at Crystal Palace. D) Was housed at Buckingham Palace. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Was housed at Crystal Palace. 25. The Elementary Education Act of was adopted in A) 1871. B) 1872. C) 1870. D) 1869. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1870. 26. Compulsory means A) Easy. B) Voluntary. C) Obligatory. D) Optional. E) Forbidden. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Obligatory. 27. Which novel of Dickens was based on the theme the travails of a good man? A) The Pickwick Papers. B) Oliver Twist. C) Nicholas Nickleby. D) Hard Times. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Pickwick Papers. 28. Who commissioned the Great Exhibition of 1851? A) Queen Victoria. B) Prince Albert. C) Queen Elizabeth II. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prince Albert. 29. If you were living in 1850, which of these foods might you eat? A) Cheerios. B) Bread. C) Hotdogs. D) Pizza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bread. 30. After 1867, children under 8 years old were no longer to do what? A) Work over 10 hours a day. B) Play with their friends. C) Work in factories. D) Go to school. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Work in factories. 31. Which essay was was part autobiography, part philosophical meditation? A) The French Revolution. B) Chartism. C) Tailor Resartus. D) The Signs of the Times. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tailor Resartus. 32. What happened to poor people? A) They were made to work harder and longer. B) They were helped by charitable organisations. C) Their children were made to work. D) They were put in prison. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They were put in prison. 33. How many years does queen Victoria rule United Kingdom? A) 45 years. B) 63 years. C) 72 years. D) 59 years. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 63 years. 34. Britain has known as the world's greatest ..... A) Great builder country. B) Shipbuilding country. C) Trade building country. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shipbuilding country. 35. Introduction of New Poor Law A) 1836. B) 1870. C) 1837. D) 1834. E) 1846. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1834. 36. Prince Albert was Queen Victoria's A) Brother-in-law. B) Distant relative. C) Cousin. D) Nephew. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cousin. 37. Victoria married A) George. B) William. C) Albert. D) Henry . Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Albert. 38. What were the consequences of the potato famine in Ireland? A) Deaths. B) Mass emigration to America. C) Abolition of the Corn Laws. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 39. Who is not a writer of the Victorian Age? A) Oscar Wilde. B) George Eliot. C) Lewis Carroll. D) Lord Byron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lord Byron. 40. Which best describes the British government during the Victorian Era? A) Conflicts between Victoria and Parliament led to the weakening of the monarchy. B) Victoria and Parliament agreed to give primary authority to the prime minister. C) Victoria modified the role of the monarch and strengthened the position of the prime minster. D) Parliament took Victoria's retirement from politics as an opportunity to establish a constitutional monarchy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Victoria modified the role of the monarch and strengthened the position of the prime minster. 41. Charles Dickens's novel, (a) was a response to the need for social reforms. A) Oliver Twist. B) A Hard TImes. C) A Christmas Carol. D) David Copperfield. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A Hard TImes. 42. Which was the most famous tract of John Ruskin? A) Chartism. B) The French Revolution. C) Modern Painters. D) The Stones of Venice. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Modern Painters. 43. The Boers were originally ..... colonists in the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. A) Dutch. B) German. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dutch. 44. CHILDREN'S WORK WAS USUALLY..... A) Safe. B) Dangerous and unhealthy. C) Healthy. D) Interesting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dangerous and unhealthy. 45. Who is this done by A) Tom and Jihu. B) Kevin and Tom. C) Jihu and Tommy. D) Ella and Jihu. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tom and Jihu. 46. Victoria's devotion to hard work and duty, her insistence on proper ....., and her support of British imperialism became the hallmarks of the Victorian period. A) Social class. B) Ideals. C) Behavior. D) Business. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Behavior. 47. Victorian values can be defined as ..... A) Traditional and useless. B) Rigid and strict. C) Strict and useless. D) Changeable and strict. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rigid and strict. 48. A prevalent disease during this time period, (a), was caused from drinking water that had been contaminated with sewage water. A) A cholera. B) Tuberculosis. C) Small pox. D) Malaria. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A cholera. 49. Which is NOT an example of imagery in the poem "To an Athlete Dying Young" ? A) The cheering marketplace. B) The laurel garland. C) The challenge cup. D) The gold medal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The gold medal. 50. "Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds." ~ George EliotTrue or False:George Eliot was a woman. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 51. Who is the most influential essayist of the Victorian period? A) George Eliot. B) Thomas Carlyle. C) John Ruskin. D) Thomas Hardy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thomas Carlyle. 52. An example of a summary offence is: A) Speeding. B) Manslaughter. C) Treason. D) Burglary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speeding. 53. Which of the following statements BEST sums up the Victorians' attitude toward the poor? A) The poor needed an education so that they could contribute to society and strengthen England. B) The poor brought poverty upon themselves and deserved to be punished for it, to be get rid of as the surplus population. C) The poor would band together and overthrow the government if something wasn't done. D) The poor deserved pity and charity, especially children who were being exploited. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The poor brought poverty upon themselves and deserved to be punished for it, to be get rid of as the surplus population. 54. What does Appellate Jurisdiction mean? A) The abiity to hear an appeal case. B) The right to always have a jury. C) The power to hear songs without accompaniment. D) Hearing a case for the first time. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The abiity to hear an appeal case. 55. Which statement is TRUE? A) Poor Victorians get separated when they go to workhouses. B) Poor Victorians work as a family in the workhouses. C) Poor Victorians were fed and bathed in the workhouses. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poor Victorians get separated when they go to workhouses. 56. What was the legacy of the Victorian era in British governance? A) Disruption of parliamentary democracy. B) Shift towards an autocratic system. C) Adaptation and endurance of the monarchy. D) Decreased importance of the monarchy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adaptation and endurance of the monarchy. 57. What was PE lesson called? A) Drill. B) Topic. C) Exercise. D) Challenge. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Drill. 58. Which aim doesn't Dickens have? A) Let the higher classes know about the poor. B) Arouse the reader's interest using exaggerating characters. C) Use adults as models and main characters. D) Give a moral example thanks to his characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Use adults as models and main characters. 59. Queen Victoria's reign was ..... Elizabeth II's A) Shorter than. B) Longer than. C) As long as. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shorter than. 60. Rise of the Chartist Movement A) 1834. B) 1837. C) 1836. D) 1846. E) 1870. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1836. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesPeriods QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesVictorian Period Quiz 1Victorian Period Quiz 2Victorian Period Quiz 3Victorian Period Quiz 5Victorian Period Quiz 6Victorian Period Quiz 7Victorian Period Quiz 8Victorian Period Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books