What was Elizabeth’s close circle of advisers called ?

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Elizabeth Barrett’s poem The Cry of the Children is concerned with which major issue attendant on the Time of Troubles during the 1830s and 1840s ?

A. women’s rights and suffrage B. child labor C. chartism D. the prudishness and old-fashioned ideals of her fellow Victorians...

Why did the novel seem a genre particularly well-suited to women ?

A. It did not carry the burden of an august tradition like poetry. B. It was a popular form whose market women could enter easily. C. It was seen as a frivolous form where one shouldn’t make serious statements about society. D. all but C...

To whom did the Reform Bill of 1832 extend the vote on parliamentary representation ?

A. the working classes B. women C. the lower middle classes D. slaves...

Crime was ardently followed by punishment. Elizabethans had devised various ways to fine, humiliate, torture, and kill offenders. Which crime was punishable by death ?

A. Skipping church on Sunday B. A woman screaming at her husband in public C. Stealing a horse D. Public drunkenness...

Religion played a pivotal part in Elizabethan life. Protestants, Catholics, Puritans, and other religious groups jostled for power and survival in uncertain times. In 1559, an Act of Parliament was passed which determined the “supreme governor” of all things spiritual. Who was it ?

A. The Pope in Rome B. Each man was his own supreme governor C. The Archbishop of Canterbury D. Queen Elizabeth I...