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Which best describes the minority of Evangelicals in the Church of England ?
A. A group of unattractive people relegated to the colonies to perform missionary work where they wouldn’t tarnish the aesthetics of the Church of England.
B. Also called Nonconformists or Dissenters, Evangelicals led the missionary movement in the colonies, advocated a Puritan moral code, and were responsible for the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire as early as 1833.
C. They were part of the High Church or the Catholicside of the church.
D. They were devout tractarians,as described by John Henry Newman.
Who was Edmund Spenser’s patron ?
A. The Earl of Leicester
B. Elizabeth
C. Lord Burleigh
D. Francis Bacon
What was a favorite entertainment in Elizabeth’s court ?
A. Swimming
B. Gambling
C. Jousting
D. Backgammon
The title Vanity Fair has been taken from_____________?
A. Paradise Lost
B. Divine Comedy
C. Utopia
D. Pilgrims Progress
George Eliot’s novel Romola is a________________?
A. Gothic novel
B. Autobiographical novel
C. Historical novel
D. Picaresque novel
Matthew Arnold;s Thyrsis is an elegy written on the death of______________?
A. Arthur Hallam
B. Milton
C. Edward King
D. Hugh Clough
What is meant by ’Wessex’ ?
A. The region where Bronte sisters lived
B. The region in which Hardy’s novels are set
C. The home town of George Eliot
D. A county in Ireland
Which ruler’s reign marks the approximate beginning and end of the Victorian era ?
A. King Henry VIII
B. Queen Elizabeth I
C. Queen Victoria
D. King John
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
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