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Category: Ages, era, period
Which of the following Victorian writers regularly published their work in periodicals ?
A. Thomas Carlyle
B. Matthew Arnold
C. Charles Dickens
D. all of the above
In Marlowe’s play, what was the name of the Jew of Malta ?
A. Lazarus
B. Solomon
C. Barabas
D. Shylock
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
What major new prose genre emerged in the Jacobean era ?
A. the novel
B. the sermon
C. the familiar essay
D. the diary
An important feature of the Renaissance was an emphasis on________________?
A. alchemy and magic
B. the literature of Greece and Rome
C. chivalry of the Middle Ages
D. the teaching of St. Thomas Acquinas
Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions ?
A. W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
B. Oscar Wilde
C. Robert Corrigan
D. all but C
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
Which of the following was not considered a type of the alienated, romantic visionary ?
A. Prometheus
B. Satan
C. Cain
D. George III
Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798, thus demonstrating the “spirit of the age,” which, in an era of revolutionary thinking, depended on a belief in the limitless possibilities of the poetic imagination ?
A. Mary Wollstonecraft and William Blake
B. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy B. Shelley
C. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D. Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt
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