This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Periods > Victorian > Victorian Period – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Victorian Period Quiz 8 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In Victorian Era ..... made the international travel faster. A) The plane. B) The steamship. C) The mobile phone. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The steamship. 2. What is the job of the inventor of the "Victorian Meme Machine" A) Journalist. B) Lecturer. C) Data Analyst. D) Librarian. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lecturer. 3. During Victoria's reign, the police force was ..... A) Asleep. B) Invented. C) Recovering flat screen TVs. D) Eating donuts in Krispy Kreme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Invented. 4. During the 19th century, there was a revolution ..... A) Because of a fiancial crisis. B) Because there was no food. C) Because people were angry at Victoria. D) Because of Monarchy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because of a fiancial crisis. 5. Why did Queen Victoria wear black for 40 years? A) To stop clothes fading due to pollution. B) To mourn the death of her husband. C) Because it was fashionable. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To mourn the death of her husband. 6. When queen Victoria born? A) May 24, 1819. B) January 22, 1901. C) April 30, 1800. D) December 20, 1743. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) May 24, 1819. 7. A1 Word for Hello, what cubbies are made of A) Woodford. B) Woods Point. C) Heywood. D) Woodend. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Heywood. 8. Most people moved to the ..... ? A) Villages. B) Abroad. C) Cities. D) Australia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cities. 9. Which of the following was NOT one of the major societal 'beliefs' during this time, according to the article? A) You must respect people who are 'above you' in status and wealth. B) You must respect the police and follow all laws. C) Everyone deserves the right to vote. D) Work is something everyone has to do, and it is good for your soul. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Everyone deserves the right to vote. 10. Not just in the United Kingdom, but also in the United States and other countries, nations were experiencing the technological benefits of the ..... A) IPhone. B) Renaissance. C) Industrial Revolution. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Industrial Revolution. 11. Victorian novels were weighty affairs, quite literally-so weighty that they typically had to be divided into ..... volumes. A) Three. B) One. C) Four. D) Two. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Three. 12. When was the period of Victorian Literature? A) 1798-1822. B) 1837-1901. C) 1701-1755. D) 1905-1934. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1837-1901. 13. They cleaned the machines in ..... A) The streets. B) Coal mines. C) Factories and mills. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Factories and mills. 14. Which novel from Charles Dickens was conceived as a social-protest novel whose aim was to reveal the cruel impact of the 19th century industrial society? A) Barnaby Rudge:A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty. B) Great Expectations. C) Hard Times. D) A Tale of Two Cities. E) David Copperfield. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hard Times. 15. What did the Tolpuddle Martyrs try to do? A) Ask for longer breaks. B) Ask for more pay. C) Ask for less work. D) Ask for compensation if they got hurt. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ask for more pay. 16. Author of "Vanity Fair?" A) William Makepeace Thackeray. B) Charles Dickens. C) Charles Kingsley. D) Elizabeth Gaskell. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William Makepeace Thackeray. 17. Who was the era named after? A) Queen Elizabeth II. B) Queen Mary I. C) Queen Victoria. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Queen Victoria. 18. What characterized the lives of the Working Class during the Victorian Era? A) Comfortable homes and access to education. B) High wages and job security. C) Extensive involvement in social and political reforms. D) Crowded urban areas, challenging living conditions, and limited access to education and healthcare. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Crowded urban areas, challenging living conditions, and limited access to education and healthcare. 19. When did the industrial revolution start A) 1430-1549. B) 1254-1675. C) 1760-1840. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1760-1840. 20. Who helped teachers with the teaching during the Victorian times? A) Teacher-student. B) Student-teacher. C) Teacher-pupil. D) Pupil-teachers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pupil-teachers. 21. When first double decker bus invented? A) 9999. B) 2023. C) 1850. D) 1984. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1850. 22. Holidays were only for the rich. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 23. The first "Railway station" was invented in? A) 1852. B) 1853. C) 1850. D) 1848. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1853. 24. From what period was late victorian fashion? A) 1870s-1890s. B) 1870s-1880s. C) 1800s-1850s. D) 1830s-1860s. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1870s-1890s. 25. The Queen reigned for ..... decades A) Four. B) Five. C) Six. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Six. 26. Corn Laws repealed by prime minister Robert Peel A) 1871. B) 1870. C) 1901. D) 1877. E) 1846. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) 1846. 27. Victoria's parents were the Duke of Kent (Prince Edward) and PrincessVictoria Mary Louisa of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 28. What was used to help develop the economy? A) Workhouses. B) Textile Mills. C) Child Labor. D) The Queen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Child Labor. 29. The masters were very kind. A) True. B) False. C) Not stated. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 30. Liberal Prime Minister A) Gladstone. B) Disraeli. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gladstone. 31. The Victorian era was from: A) 1200-1300. B) 1837-1901. C) 1890-1990. D) 1801-1810. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1837-1901. 32. Death of Queen Victoria A) 1870. B) 1901. C) 1871. D) 1837. E) 1877. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1901. 33. Most prominent writer from the Victorian Age A) Emily Bronte. B) William Makepeace Thackeray. C) Thomas Hardy. D) Charles Dickens. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Charles Dickens. 34. Who was Queen Victoria's first Prime Minister and political mentor? A) Lord Melbourne. B) William Gladstone. C) Benjamin Disraeli. D) Sir John Conroy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lord Melbourne. 35. Where are the memes published? A) In a book. B) In the British Library collections. C) In the newspapers. D) On the social medias. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) On the social medias. 36. Victoria published two books during her lifetime: "Leaves from the Journal of our Life in the Highlands" in 1868 and "More Leaves" in 1884 A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 37. Which country is Portugal? A) 2. B) 4. C) 3. D) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 4. 38. In 1878 the British government took control of the Suez Canal. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 39. What happened due to the Irish Potato famine? A) Crime increased. B) New techniques for growing crops was discovered. C) Massive Starvation. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Massive Starvation. 40. What is the rhyme scheme below? I love thee with a love I seemed to loseWith my lost saints. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. A) AABB. B) ABCB. C) Father. D) ABBA. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Father. 41. The conditions in the workhouses were ..... A) Friendly. B) Very modern. C) Harsh and strict. D) Destitute. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Harsh and strict. 42. At school girls were taught ..... and boys ..... A) Sewing and cooking / reading and sewing. B) Sewing and reading / sewing and cooking. C) Reading and arithmetic / sewing and cooking. D) Sewing and cooking /reading and arithmetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sewing and cooking /reading and arithmetic. 43. WHERE DID POOR VICTORIAN CHILDREN LIVE? A) On farms. B) In workhouses and orphanages. C) At schools. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In workhouses and orphanages. 44. True or False? Most Victorian children were able to attend school and get an education. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 45. Which Palace was Queen Victoria the first monarch to live in? A) Buckingham Palace. B) St James's Palace. C) Kensington Palace. D) Blenheim Palace. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Buckingham Palace. 46. Queen Victoria died at what age? A) 63 years. B) 18 years. C) 21 years. D) 81 years. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 81 years. 47. What was the Poor Law amendment? A) An amendment to an employee's working hours. B) An amendment to the law which meant the poor weren't receiving help so had to report to the Workhouses. C) An amendment to the law which meant the rich were to offer further support to the poor. D) An amendment to the way factories were run:giving more power to the rich business owners. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An amendment to the law which meant the poor weren't receiving help so had to report to the Workhouses. 48. What colour clothes did Queen Victoria wear after Prince Albert died? A) Grey. B) White. C) Blue. D) Black. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Black. 49. Who was forced to work at a very young age to help support their families? A) Children. B) Poor Victorian children. C) Rich Victorian children. D) Victorian children. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poor Victorian children. 50. The Victorian Era set the basis for the creation of literary modernism. A) Right. B) Wrong. C) Doesn't say. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Right. 51. What is an example of an invention that was made during the victorian era A) Cars. B) Corset. C) Anime. D) Fidgets. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Corset. 52. Who is considered one of the most prominent Victorian women writers? A) Charlotte Bronte. B) Virginia Woolf. C) Emily Dickinson. D) Jane Austen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Charlotte Bronte. 53. Who was on the throne during the Victorian era? A) King Henry VIII. B) King Albert. C) Queen Victoria. D) Queen Elizabeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Queen Victoria. 54. What were children's clothes typically made of? A) Cotton or wool. B) Taffeta or chiffon. C) Satin or cororoy. D) Broadcloth or tartan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cotton or wool. 55. Which novel of Dickens is about flawed moral values especially greed and hypocrisy? A) Martin Chuzzlewit. B) Nicholas Nickleby. C) David Copperfield. D) Oliver Twist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Martin Chuzzlewit. 56. What was used to make Britain the first industrialized nation? A) Coals and high technology. B) Water-powered engines. C) Steam-powered machines. D) Man power. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Steam-powered machines. 57. What did the Victorians write with? A) Feather and ink. B) Felt tip. C) Biro. D) Pencil. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Feather and ink. 58. Lord Shaftesbury wanted to bring in laws to stop what? A) Children being home-schooled. B) Children being used for cheap labour. C) Children living on the streets. D) Children being kept out of school. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Children being used for cheap labour. 59. How was fashion in the Victorian Era connected to societal changes? A) It had no connection to societal changes. B) Fashion primarily reflected men's roles in society. C) It reflected and responded to social and political changes. D) Fashion was solely focused on traditional values. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It reflected and responded to social and political changes. 60. T/F Slavery was abolished during this time and Child Labor Laws were passed. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesPeriods QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesVictorian Period Quiz 1Victorian Period Quiz 2Victorian Period Quiz 3Victorian Period Quiz 4Victorian Period Quiz 5Victorian Period Quiz 6Victorian Period Quiz 7Victorian Period Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books