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Category: Victorian Age
The Battle of Baladava in the Crimean War finds its reference in the poem__________?
A. In Memorium
B. 1st September
C. Ultima Ratio Regum
D. The Charge of the Light Bridge
Which one of Gaskell’s novels has been called a Victorian Much Ado About Nothing ?
A. Cranford
B. North and South
C. Ruth
D. Mary Barton
What did Thomas Carlyle mean by “Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe” ?
A. Britain’s preeminence as a global power will depend on mastery of foreign languages.
B. Even a foreign author is better than a homegrown scoundrel.
C. Abandon the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose found in Goethe.
D. In a carefully veiled critique of the monarchy, Byron and Goethe stand in symbolically for Queen Victoria and Charles Darwin respectively.
Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions ?
A. W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
B. George Bernard Shaw
C. Robert Corrigan
D. all but C
What did Victorian journalists mean by terming certain women surplusor redundant ?
A. They remained unmarried due to a population imbalance between the sexes.
B. Their willingness to work for low wages resulted in a surplus of textiles, causing them to drop in price.
C. They were women writers who wrote frequently about similar topics.
D. They prostituted themselves as a way to make money in a market economy that didn’t provide extensive job opportunities to women.
Who was the leader of Pre-Raphaelite group of artists in England ?
A. D.G Rossetti
B. Swinburne
C. Christina Rossetti
D. Morris
Which of the following is a ceremony in which a sovereign is officially crowned ?
A. Investiture
B. Invocation
C. Gala
D. Coronation
What did Thomas Carlyle mean by Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe ?
A. Britain’s preeminence as a global power will depend on mastery of foreign languages.
B. Even a foreign author is better than a homegrown scoundrel.
C. Abandon the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose found in Goethe.
D. In a carefully veiled critique of the monarchy, Byron and Goethe stand in symbolically for Queen Victoria and Charles Darwin respectively.
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
’George Eliot’ was the pen-name of______________?
A. Mary Collins
B. Marian Evans
C. Lara Evans
D. Clare Reeve
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