This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Periods > Victorian > Victorian Period – Quiz 28 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Victorian Period Quiz 28 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The practice of placing sprigs of greenery on windowsills and walls began during Victorian times A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 2. Who invented the pneumatic tyre? A) Isambard Kingdom Brunel. B) John Smith. C) Robert William Thomson. D) Harriett Jones. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Robert William Thomson. 3. Which book was NOT written by Charles Dickens? A) Vanity Fair. B) Oliver Twist. C) David Copperfield. D) Hard Times. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vanity Fair. 4. What was "The Woman Question" that caused controversy during the Victorian Era? A) Women wanting a new place in society and questioning their traditional role. B) When to get married. C) If divorce was a good idea when the husband committed adultery. D) To be or not to be. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Women wanting a new place in society and questioning their traditional role. 5. Where did most Victorian women work? A) In factories. B) In the home. C) In the palace. D) In the fields. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In the home. 6. At the end of Victorian times free schools for poor children were opened. A) True. B) False. C) Not stated. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. What topic in Victorian novels appealed most to readers? A) Stories about ancient myths and legends. B) Celebrations of romantic love. C) The awe-inspiring beauty of nature. D) Realistic portrayals of everyday people. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Realistic portrayals of everyday people. 8. The words that best describe the typical behavior of many Victorians are A) Defiant and angry. B) Genteel and showing decorum. C) Immoral and criminal. D) Eccentric and insane. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Genteel and showing decorum. 9. Which best describes the general feeling expressed in literature during the last decade of the Victorian era? A) Studied melancholy and aestheticism. B) Raucous celebration mixed with self-congratulatory sophistication. C) Paranoid introspection and cryptic dissent. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Studied melancholy and aestheticism. 10. Which novel of Eliot was noted for its heavy religious theme? A) Silas Marner. B) Adam Bede. C) The Mill on the Floss. D) Middlemarch. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adam Bede. 11. Which Victorian woman writer is known for her novel 'North and South'? A) Charlotte Bronte. B) Elizabeth Gaskell. C) Jane Austen. D) Emily Bronte. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elizabeth Gaskell. 12. What is a "ragged school" ? A) A school for rich children. B) A school to learn how to cook. C) A school for poor children and orphans. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A school for poor children and orphans. 13. When was queen victoria crowned? A) 28 june 1838. B) 12 August 1823. C) 1 January 0001. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 28 june 1838. 14. Which novel is original in the way it is written, moving backwords and forward in time, and in and out of the minds of the characters? A) Wuthering Hights. B) Jane Eyre. C) Middlemarch. D) North and South. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wuthering Hights. 15. "Better by far you should forget and smileThan that you should remember and be sad."Why does the poem not end in a rhyming couplet? A) The speaker realizes that humans are not perfect and neither is memoryAs we age, memories tend to fade. B) The speaker is still upset with her loverShe still expects him to remember her. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The speaker realizes that humans are not perfect and neither is memoryAs we age, memories tend to fade. 16. Science was performed with the 'abacus A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 17. The novel as an art form was still struggling to establish its aesthetic stature in early Victorian England A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 18. There were more female teachers than male teachers in Victorian times. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 19. An award is given every year to the student ..... has the highest grade-point average. A) Whom. B) Who. C) Which. D) That. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Who. 20. Which excerpt from Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush" most plainly expresses awe for its subject? A) "So little cause for carolings/Of such ecstatic sound ". B) "I leant upon a coppice gate/When Frost was spectre-gray ". C) "The tangled bine-stems scored the sky, /Like strings of broken lyres ". D) "The land's sharp features seemed to be/The Century's corpse outleant ". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "So little cause for carolings/Of such ecstatic sound ". ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesPeriods QuizzesVictorian Period Quiz 1Victorian Period Quiz 2Victorian Period Quiz 3Victorian Period Quiz 4Victorian Period Quiz 5Victorian Period Quiz 6Victorian Period Quiz 7Victorian Period Quiz 8Victorian Period Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books