This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Periods > Victorian > Victorian Period – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Victorian Period Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Why were children used as chimney sweeps? A) To punish them. B) Because adults were lazy. C) Children were less likely to get ill. D) Children could fit up chimneys more easily. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Children could fit up chimneys more easily. 2. Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights is one of the first psychological novels. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 3. What was the purpose of the Workhouses in Victorian England? A) To provide jobs for the unemployed. B) To provide education for children. C) To provide shelter for the homeless. D) To punish the poor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To provide shelter for the homeless. 4. Photography was invented in 1839. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 5. What was a popular invention of the time? A) Telegraph. B) Both choices are correct. C) Rotary Press. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Telegraph. 6. Queen Victoria began her reign in ..... ? A) 1800. B) 1837. C) 2001. D) 1066. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1837. 7. True or FalseDuring the Victorian times, there were more rich people than poor people. A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) FALSE. 8. What characterized the political reforms during the Victorian era? A) Decreased parliamentary power. B) Limited role of political figures and movements. C) Influence of industrialization and social upheavals. D) Shift towards an autocratic system. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Influence of industrialization and social upheavals. 9. Students wrote in a book using a pen and blue-black ink from an inkwell A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 10. B2 A beautiful place where soldiers live A) Halls Gap. B) Queenscliff. C) Beaufort. D) Lexton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beaufort. 11. What can the Coroner's Court investigate? A) Unfair Judges and Magistrates. B) Burglaries. C) Coroners. D) The cause of fires. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The cause of fires. 12. Which is NOT an accomplishment during this time? A) Abolish slavery/ law restricting child labor. B) Secret ballots/improved housing. C) Working class men could vote. D) Summer Olympics took place. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Summer Olympics took place. 13. What did men start to wear in the 1880s for many activities, such as sailing? A) Jackets with breeches. B) Troduced blazers. C) Velvet tunics. D) Fauntleroy suits. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Troduced blazers. 14. Why was tuberculosis associated with feminine beauty during the 19th century? A) Because it made people physically stronger and more robust. B) Because it caused an increase in appetite and weight gain. C) Because it led to thinness, pale skin, and other symptoms seen as attractive. D) Because it had no influence on perceptions of beauty. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Because it led to thinness, pale skin, and other symptoms seen as attractive. 15. The air conditioning and drainage system were moderately maintained for the workers during the Industrial Revolution. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 16. Read these lines from Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott." "Willows whiten, aspens quiver, /Little breezes dusk and shiver/Through the wave that runs forever/By the island in the river/Flowing down to Camelot ..... " Toward whose home is the river flowing? A) Beowulf. B) King Arthur. C) The Wife of Bath. D) Grendel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) King Arthur. 17. The Duke suggests that talking to his wife about how her behavior upset him would be A) Time-consuming. B) Pointless. C) Rude. D) Degrading to him. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Degrading to him. 18. What new philosophies and religious movements emerged during the Victorian Age? A) Utilitarianism. B) Oxford Movement. C) Evangelicalism. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 19. The Queen during the Victorian Era was? A) Mary Queen of Scots. B) Queen Elizabeth II. C) Queen Elizabeth I. D) Queen Victoria. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Queen Victoria. 20. What shoes did men often wear in the 1880s? A) Lace-up boots. B) Flat black shoes. C) High heels. D) Dress shoes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) High heels. 21. Prince Albert suddenly died in A) June 1871. B) December 1864. C) June 1846. D) December 1861. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) December 1861. 22. Who was Mr Bumble? A) An important officer in the workhouse. B) A teacher. C) A doctor in London. D) Mr Brownlow's brother. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An important officer in the workhouse. 23. What was Queen Victoria's full name? A) Alexandria Victoria. B) Elizabeth Victoria. C) Anne Victoria. D) Mary Louise. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alexandria Victoria. 24. Women have to wear more colorful clothes than men. A) Correct. B) Incorrect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Correct. 25. What does the "Victorian Meme Machine" do with the jokes? A) It pairs them with current jokes. B) It tries to modernize them. C) It pairs them with appropriate images. D) It translates them. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It pairs them with appropriate images. 26. How old was Queen Victoria when she became queen? A) 19. B) 18. C) 29. D) 39. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 19. 27. Destitute means..... A) You have no money and no where to live. B) You belong to a Master. C) You are sad. D) You work in a mine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) You have no money and no where to live. 28. What did the Victorians use for light? A) Electricity. B) Candles and gas lamps. C) Nothing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Candles and gas lamps. 29. Prisoners had easier jobs than people living in the workhouses. A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) TRUE. 30. Queen Victoria died in 1902. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 31. THE VICTORIAN ERA CORRESPONDS A) GERMANY. B) FRACE. C) BRITAIN. D) SPAIN. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) BRITAIN. 32. The machines of this era were primarily powered by ..... A) Electric. B) Man-Power. C) Steam. D) Petrol. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Steam. 33. What famous Englishman said that he could remember the number of times his mother had hugged him? (Showing the lack of interactions parents had with children in wealthy families A) Charles Dickens. B) Winston Churchill. C) James Thompson. D) Charles Kingsley. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Winston Churchill. 34. He wrote novels and books to show the problems of the poor. A) Lord Shaftesbury. B) Charles Dickens. C) Members of the Parliament. D) Thomas John Barnardo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Charles Dickens. 35. Queen Victoria is? A) The 2nd longest reigning British monarch. B) The shortest monarch. C) The oldest monarch. D) The longest reigning British monarch. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The 2nd longest reigning British monarch. 36. The American Civil War was fought from 1871 to 1875. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 37. What is the wise man's advice in "When I Was One and Twenty" ? A) Use your imagination when it comes to love. B) Keep looking for the right person to love. C) Refuse to give away your affection. D) Refuse to give away your love for free. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Refuse to give away your affection. 38. What was the time frame of the Victorian Era? A) 1810-1845. B) 1678-1712. C) 1837-1901. D) 1964-1990. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1837-1901. 39. 'Drummer Hodge' portrays the man's death as being A) Heroic because he died in battle. B) Tragic because he died so young. C) Ironic and pointless as he wasn't even an armed soldier. D) A criticism of the British empire. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ironic and pointless as he wasn't even an armed soldier. 40. Lord Shaftesbury helped to stop adults from ..... A) Hitting young children at work. B) Working overtime. C) Using young children at work. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Using young children at work. 41. Where did the Industrial Revolution begin? A) France. B) Germany. C) Great Britain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Great Britain. 42. Which two cities does the title A Tale of Two Cities refer to? A) London and Rome. B) Paris and Finland. C) London and Paris. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) London and Paris. 43. THE BICAMERAL CHAMBER WAS COMPOSED A) PEASANTS AND MONKS. B) LORDS AND BOURGEOISES. C) COMMONS AND LORDS. D) COMMONS AND PEASANTS. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) COMMONS AND LORDS. 44. The portrait of Duchess was painted by ..... A) Neptune. B) Farris Smith. C) Fra Pandolf. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fra Pandolf. 45. WHO BROUGHT THE IDEA OF A DECORATED CHRISTMAS TREE TO BRITAIN? A) PRINZ ALBERT. B) PRINCE ALBERT. C) ALBERT INSTEAD. D) PRINCE ALBERT. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) PRINCE ALBERT. 46. When was the Victorian Era? A) 1600s-1700s. B) 1900s-2000s. C) 1700s-1800s. D) 1800s-1900s. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1800s-1900s. 47. Which of the following was a major social issue during the Victorian Era? A) Women's suffrage. B) Gun control. C) LGBT rights. D) Racial segregation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Women's suffrage. 48. What important event during the Victorian times happened in 1839. A) Photography was invented. B) Steam-powered machines were invented. C) Camera was invented. D) Britain became industrialized. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Photography was invented. 49. In Jane Eyre, the description of the boarding school for orphaned and impoverished girls ..... A) Shows that Jane was ungrateful. B) Shows that the boarding school was not a comfortable place. C) Shows that Helen had a reason to be homesick. D) Shows that the teachers were hungry and cold. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shows that the boarding school was not a comfortable place. 50. The Victorian woman writer known for her novel 'Pride and Prejudice' is Jane Austen. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 51. What important social reforms occurred in the 1830s? A) First Reform Act. B) Factory Act. C) Poor Law Amendment Act. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 52. Which of these is a collective noun? A) Cattle. B) Congregation. C) Automobiles. D) Them. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Congregation. 53. 'At An Inn' criticises Victorian hypocrisy regarding A) Social hierarchies. B) Friendship. C) Love outside of marriage. D) The role of women. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Love outside of marriage. 54. Which quality set the heroes apart from the ordinary human beings? A) Divine Idea. B) Extraordinary Idea. C) Humble Idea. D) Simple Idea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Divine Idea. 55. For how long did Queen Victoria last in the throne? A) 30 years exactly. B) Around 50 years. C) Around 60 years. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Around 60 years. 56. Whats the dangling bottom part of a tassel called? A) Feet. B) Short. C) Skirt. D) Sheet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Skirt. 57. The Victorian Era is named after ..... A) The word 'victory'. B) Queen Victoria. C) King Victor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Queen Victoria. 58. What is being defined below?The process of concentrating one's efforts to become an expert within a certain field. A) Nomadisation. B) Argriculturation. C) Specialization. D) Stream lining. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Specialization. 59. Teaching methods were mechanical and based on learning by memory and repetition A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 60. When did Dickens start his career as a journalist? A) In 1827. B) In 1831. C) In 1825. D) In 1845. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In 1831. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesPeriods QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesVictorian Period Quiz 1Victorian Period Quiz 2Victorian Period Quiz 3Victorian Period Quiz 4Victorian Period Quiz 6Victorian Period Quiz 7Victorian Period Quiz 8Victorian Period Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books