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Category: Victorian Age
Which of the following authors promoted versions of socialism ?
A. William Morris
B. John Ruskin
C. Edward FitzGerald
D. all but C
A poem that deals in an idealized way with Shepherds and rustic life is known as____________?
A. A Protestant Poem
B. A Petrarchan Sonnet
C. An extended metaphor
D. A pastoral poem
Who, among the following English playwrights, scripted the film Shakespeare in Love ?
A. Alan Bennett
B. Caryl Churchill
C. Tom Stoppard
D. Harold Pinter
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 selfcongratulatory sophistication
D. paranoid introspection and cryptic dissent
Staying alive was a difficult task for Elizabethans. Disease, infection, poverty, childbirth, and occupational accidents could all result in one’s untimely demise. Most people never reached the age of fifty. When an Elizabethan died, intricate rituals were followed. What was NOT a funeral custom ?
A. Long processionals
B. Mourning clothes
C. Strict simplicity
D. Tolling of church bells
Which of the following terms is defined as the application of a scientific attitude of mind toward studying the Bible, seen as a mere text of history and not an infallibly sacred document?
A. New Criticism
B. Critical Inquiry
C. Scientific Bibliology
D. Higher Criticism
Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill are characters from the novel____________?
A. Cranford
B. Hard Times
C. Emma
D. Great Expectation
Which of the following contributed to the growing awareness in the Late Victorian Period of the immense human, economic, and political costs of running an empire ?
A. the India Mutiny in 1857
B. the Boer War in the south of Africa
C. the Jamaica Rebellion in 1865
D. all of the above
Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?
A. Silas Marner
B. Emma
C. Hard Times
D. Adam Bede
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