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Which of the following discoveries, theories, and events contributed to Victorians feeling less like they were a uniquely special, central species in the universe and more isolated ?
A. geology
B. evolution
C. discoveries in astronomy about stellar distances
D. all of the above
Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with____________?
A. nostalgia and ill-concealed envy.
B. bewilderment and visceral loathing.
C. admiration and elegiac sympathy.
D. bigotry and shallow triumphalism.
Which event did not occur as part of the rise of the British Empire under Queen Victoria ?
A. Between 1853 and 1880, 2,466,000 emigrants left Britain, many bound for the colonies.
B. In 1876, Queen Victoria was named empress of India
C. To save costs and maximize profits, the day-to-day government of India was transferred from Parliament to the private East India Company.
D. From 1830 to 1870, the sum total of investments abroad by British capitalists had risen from £ 300 billion to £ 800 billion.
Which of the following statements is not an accurate reflection of education during the English Renaissance ?
A. It was aimed primarily at sons of the nobility and gentry.
B. Its curriculum emphasized ancient Greek, the language of diplomacy, professions, and higher learning.
C. It was conducted by tutors in wealthy families or in grammar schools.
D. It was ordered according to the medieval trivium and quadrivium
How would “Natural Supernaturalism” be best characterized as a Romantic notion introduced by Carlyle ?
A. a form of animism in which objects in the natural world are believed to be inhabited by spirits
B. a spontaneous belief in the supernatural based upon a surprise encounter with a supernatural being
C. a process by which things that are familiar and thought to be ordinary are made to appear miraculous and new to our eyes
D. the experience of hallucinating contact with the supernatural world when taking opium
In which Dickens novel does Pip appear?
A. Bleak House
B. Great Expectations
C. A Tale of Two Cities
D. The Pickwick Papers
This famous neoclassical poet wrote on profound themes such as death, but he also had a lighter side. He once wrote an ode to a cat drowned in a tub of gold fishes ?
A. Alexander Pope
B. William Collins
C. Thomas Gray
D. Ben Jonson
In the late seventeenth century, a battle of the bookserupted between which two groups ?
A. abolitionists and enthusiasts for slavery
B. round-earthers and flat-earthers
C. the Welsh and the Scots
D. champions of ancient and modern learning
Which of the following discoveries, theories, and events contributed to Victorians feeling less like they were a uniquely special, central species in the universe and more isolated ?
A. geology
B. evolution
C. discoveries in astronomy about stellar distances
D. all of the above
Which best describes the general feeling expressed in literature during the last decade of the Victorian era ?
A. studied melancholy and aestheticism
B. sincere earnestness and Protestant zeal
C. raucous celebration mixed with self congratulatory sophistication
D. paranoid introspection and cryptic dissent
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