This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Periods > Victorian > Victorian Age – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Victorian Age Quiz 1 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The Irish Dramatic Movement was heralded by such figures as A) H. Drummond, Edward Irving and John Ervine. B) W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn. C) Oscar Wilde and his contemporaries. D) Jonathan Swift and his contemporaries. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn. 2. Which of the following terms is defined as the application of a scientific attitude of mind toward studying the Bible, seen as a mere text of history and not an infallibly sacred document? A) New Criticism. B) Critical Inquiry. C) Scientific Bibliology. D) Higher Criticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Higher Criticism. 3. The Oxford Movement was started by: A) The people of the Oxford area. B) The Scholars of the Oxford University. C) The clergymen of Oxford. D) The University Wits. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Scholars of the Oxford University. 4. Cocktown is an imaginary industrial town in the novelfirst A) Cranford. B) Hard Times. C) Ruth. D) Vanity Fair. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hard Times. 5. Which one is Gaskell's first novel? A) Mary Barton. B) Ruth. C) Cranford. D) North and South. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mary Barton. 6. The basic theme of Arnold's Literature and Dogma is: A) Contemporary literary criticism. B) Art and Literature. C) Theology. D) Social changes in the Victorian Age. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theology. 7. Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions? A) W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. B) George Bernard Shaw. C) Robert Corrigan. D) All but C. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All but C. 8. What was common amongst D.G Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Morris and Swinburne? A) They all belonged to the Oxford Movement. B) They were all painters. C) They were all Victorian Novelists. D) They all belonged to the Pre-Raphaelite School. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They all belonged to the Pre-Raphaelite School. 9. Who is the author of Aurora Leigh? A) Tennyson. B) Elizabeth Barret Browning. C) D. G. Rossetti. D) Christina Rossetti. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elizabeth Barret Browning. 10. Who were the "Two Nations" referred to in the subtitle of Disraeli's Sybil (1845)? A) The rich and the poor. B) Anglicans and Methodists. C) England and Ireland. D) Britain and Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The rich and the poor. 11. What is meant by 'Wessex'? A) The region where Bronte sisters lived. B) The region in which Hardy's novels are set. C) The home town of George Eliot. D) A county in Ireland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The region in which Hardy's novels are set. 12. Who was the leader of Pre-Raphaelite group of artists in England? A) D.G Rossetti. B) Swinburne. C) Christina Rossetti. D) Morris. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) D.G Rossetti. 13. The Charge of the Light Bridge is a poem by A) D.G Rossetti. B) Leigh Hunt. C) Tennyson. D) Arnold. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tennyson. 14. Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian era? A) A series of Factory Acts. B) The Custody Act. C) The Women's Suffrage Act. D) The Married Women's Property Rights Acts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Women's Suffrage Act. 15. What is common amongst Cardinal Newman, John Keble, Henry Newman and Stanley? A) They were all poets. B) They were all associated with Pre-Raphaelite School. C) They were all atheists. D) They were all associated with the Oxford Movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They were all associated with the Oxford Movement. 16. In 'In Memorium', Tennyson mourns the death of : A) Hugh Clough. B) Arthur Hallam. C) Lord Byron. D) Keats. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Arthur Hallam. 17. George Eliot's novel Romola is a: A) Gothic novel. B) Autobiographical novel. C) Historical novel. D) Picaresque novel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Historical novel. 18. Who was appointed as Poet-Laureate after William Wordsworth A) D.G Rossetti. B) Tennyson. C) Robert Browning. D) George Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tennyson. 19. Arnold's Culture and Anarchy deals with the subject of: A) Religion. B) Civilization. C) Tehology. D) Education. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Education. 20. Which one is the unfinished novel of Charles Dickens A) Dombey and Son. B) Little Dorrit. C) Our Mutual Friend. D) Edwin Drood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Edwin Drood. Next →Related QuizzesPeriods QuizzesVictorian Age Quiz 2Victorian Age Quiz 3Victorian Literature QuizVictorian Period Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books