Victorian Period Quiz 54 (20 MCQs)

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1. Samuel Morse invented .....

Correct Answer: A) A telegraph.

2. The word era means (a)

Correct Answer: A) A a period in time.

3. C2 Queens & Kings live there, lions fur around its face.

Correct Answer: B) Castlemaine.

4. What does the word 'melancholy' mean?

Correct Answer: A) Sad in a thoughtful way.

5. Which is a PULL factor to cities?

Correct Answer: C) More jobs in the city.

6. Thomas Hardy's novel about a woman named Bathsheba

Correct Answer: A) Far From the Madding Crowd.

7. When did Oliver's mother die?

Correct Answer: C) After his birth.

8. Poor children received a very basic education in urban workhouses

Correct Answer: A) True.

9. After whom is the Victorian Era named?

Correct Answer: D) Queen Victoria.

10. What was the name of the Law that was introduced?

Correct Answer: C) The Poor Law.

11. What is the term Chinoiseries mean?

Correct Answer: A) Japanese design.

12. How did rich people in England feel about the poor?

Correct Answer: A) That the Poor were poor because they were lazy and deserved to be punished.

13. The British Empire covered ..... of all land on the Earth.

Correct Answer: B) A quarter.

14. What did the Factory Act of 1833 do?

Correct Answer: B) Limited the working hours of children in factories.

15. The dark side of Victorian Britain was its .....

Correct Answer: C) Poor.

16. 'Winter' in the poem The Darkling Thrush symbolises .....

Correct Answer: B) Death and despair.

17. What was 'green' in London?

Correct Answer: A) The fog.

18. CHILDREN WERE PAID

Correct Answer: B) Very little money.

19. The Victorian period ended with the Queen's death in .....

Correct Answer: D) 1901.

20. What is the definition of an abstract noun?

Correct Answer: A) A feeling, idea or concept.