This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Periods > Victorian > Victorian Period – Quiz 50 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Victorian Period Quiz 50 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Private schools were heavily focused on subjects like maths. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 2. Who ran the other schools? A) Churches and charities. B) Local men. C) The soldiers. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Churches and charities. 3. The working class found a gradual representation for its requests and its rights through the: A) Tories. B) Independent Labour Party. C) Whigs. D) Liberal Party. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Independent Labour Party. 4. During this time, a large number of IRISH immigrants emigrated due to the ..... A) Great Famine. B) Plagues. C) Leprechaun Uprising. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Great Famine. 5. What is the definition of a concrete noun? A) A feeling, concept or idea. B) A person, place or thing that impacts one of our five senses. C) The definition of a word. D) The associated ideas or feelings of a word. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A person, place or thing that impacts one of our five senses. 6. Queen Victoria ruled Britain from 1837 till 1901? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. What do the initials A.H.H. in 'In Memoriam A.H.H. standard for? A) Andrew HarrisonHall. B) Arthur Harvey Hallam. C) Arthur Henry Hallam. D) Albert Hugh Hallam. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Arthur Henry Hallam. 8. What was the role of women during the Victorian era? A) Women had equal rights and opportunities as men. B) Women were primarily expected to be wives and mothers, and their role was limited to the domestic sphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Women were primarily expected to be wives and mothers, and their role was limited to the domestic sphere. 9. What was William Henry Fox Talbot's most famous invention? A) Medicines. B) Postage-stamp glue. C) Light-sensitive paper. D) Synthetic rubber. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Light-sensitive paper. 10. What revolution took place that lead to the development of huge factories, new machines and inventions during the Victorian Era? A) Independent. B) Industrial. C) Cultural. D) Popular. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Industrial. 11. What was the most dangerous about working in a cotton factory? A) Sorting the cotton. B) Cleaning up the mess. C) Making cotton threads. D) Fixing the machines. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fixing the machines. 12. What did Sir Humphrey Davy invent? A) The steam engine. B) The telephone. C) The electric lightbulb. D) The miner's safety lamp. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The miner's safety lamp. 13. Who doesn't belong to the Oxford Movement? A) John Henry Newman. B) John Keble. C) Benjamin Disraeli. D) Richard Froude. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Benjamin Disraeli. 14. In the novel Jane Eyre, by comparison with Pamela and Clarissa (S. Richardson), Jane becomes ..... A) More independent. B) More suffering. C) More beautiful. D) More submissive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) More independent. 15. What does textile mean? A) To work hard. B) To produce in mass amounts. C) A woven fabric. D) A city. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A woven fabric. 16. Which of the following is the BEST description of boarding schools during Victorian times? A) Boarding schools were harsh places where students were often beaten and humiliated. B) Boarding schools were lively places full of laughter and activity. C) Boarding schools were loving places where the staff made students feel at home. D) Boarding schools were impersonal places focused solely on education. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Boarding schools were harsh places where students were often beaten and humiliated. 17. The death of Hardy's first wife Emma in 1912 caught him by surprise and left him feeling A) Empty and cold prompting 5 years without any writing. B) Distraught, prompting an outpouring of poems, of which 'The Going' is the first. C) Guilty which caused him to go into hiding. D) Happy because he could remarry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Distraught, prompting an outpouring of poems, of which 'The Going' is the first. 18. Who has written the satirical realism novel "Vanity Fair" ? A) William Makepeace Thackjeray. B) Alfred Lord Tennyson. C) Charles Dickens. D) Carlyle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William Makepeace Thackjeray. 19. Choose the word or phrase that best defines the italicized word. "Sometimes a curly shepherd lad, /Or long-haired page in crimson clad ..... " A) Lady-in-waiting. B) Servant of royalty. C) Knight-in-training. D) Student of religion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Knight-in-training. 20. THey worked in the open markets in ..... A) The streets. B) The fields. C) Coal mines. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The streets. ← 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