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Which relative did Elizabeth I have executed ?
A. Anne Boleyn
B. Mary I
C. Mary, Queen of Scots
D. Catherine of Aragon
What factors contributed to the increased popularity of nonfiction prose ?
A. a new market position for nonfiction writing and an exalted sense of the didactic function of the writer
B. a Puritanical distrust of fictions and a thirst for trivia
C. the forbiddingly high cost of threevolume novels and the difficulty of finding poetry in bookshops outside of London
D. the deconstruction of the truth-fiction dichotomy and an accompanying relativistic sense that every opinion was of equal value
By 1890, what percentage of the earth’s population was subject to Queen Victoria ?
A. 1%
B. 10%
C. 15%
D. 25%
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
Experimentation in which of the following areas of poetic expression characterize Victorian poetry and allow Victorian poets to represent psychology in a different way ?
A. the use of pictorial description to construct visual images to represent the emotion or situation of the poem
B. sound as a means to express meaning
C. perspective, as in the dramatic monologue
D. all of the above
Experimentation in which of the following areas of poetic expression characterize Victorian poetry and allow Victorian poets to represent psychology in a different way ?
A. the use of pictorial description to construct visual images to represent the emotion or situation of the poem
B. sound as a means to express meaning
C. perspective, as in the dramatic monologue
D. all of the above
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.
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