VICTORIAN QUIZ

 

Victorian Era

                                                                                                                                                                                          

1.      When did the Victorianism appear?

a)      Between the two World Wars.

b)      In the second half of the 17th century.

c)      In the first half of the 18th century.

d)      In the middle 19th century.

2.      When did the period of Queen Victoria’s rule finish?

a)      1911.

b)      1901.

c)      1891.

d)      1881

3.      In the early Victorian era the House of Commons was ruled by two parties. How were those parties called?

a)      Republicans and democrats.

b)      Labour Party and Conservatives.

c)      Whigs and Tories.

d)      Socialists and Populars.

4.      What of the following rights is not one of the main women rights which were accepted in the mid-Victorian period?

a)      Right to their property upon marriage.

b)      Right to be a priest.

c)      Right to fight for custody of their children upon separation.

d)      Right to divorce.

5.      Victorian era was considered the second golden age in English history. Which was the first golden age?

a)      Elizabethan era.

b)      Romantic era.

c)      Edwardian era.

d)      Richard era.

 

Victorian Poets

 

6.      What of the following authors was not one the novelists and poets of the Victorian literature?

a)      Charles Dickens.

b)      Lord Alfred Tennyson.

c)      Oscar Wilde.

d)      Thomas Morton.

7.      Gerard Manley Hopkins was a very religious man who was converted from Anglicanism to:

a)      Protestantism.

b)      Islamism.

c)      Evangelic Catholicism.

d)      Roman Catholicism.

8.      Alfred Tennyson became the Poet Laureate from 1850 until his death. What romantic poet was his predecessor in this position?

a)      Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

b)      Lord Byron.

c)      William Wordsworth.

d)      William Blake.

9.      Queen Victoria was an admirer of Tennyson poetry, and she gave him the title of:

a)      Poet Laureate.

b)      Baron.

c)      Count.

d)      Duke.

10.  Alfred Tennyson lived a period of his life in his residence of Freshwater, in the Isle of Wight. What of the following authors wrote this period of the poet’s life in a play of the same name?

a)      James Conrad.

b)      Virginia Woolf.

c)      Charlotte Brontë.

d)      Jonathan Swift.

11.  Dante Gabriel Rossetti was not only an important Victorian poet, he was also an excellent:

a)      Novelist.

b)      Journalist.

c)      Painter and illustrator.

d)      Theatre plays writer.

12.  In his later life, Rossetti became obsessed for exotic animals, specially for:

a)      Echidnas.

b)      Galapagos Iguanas.

c)      Koalas.

d)      Wombats.

13.  When Algernon Charles Swinburne was at university, he met one person who would be an important poet of his time and also one his best friends there. Who was that person?

a)      Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

b)      Robert Browning.

c)      Elizabeth Browning.

d)      Gerard Manley Hopkins.

14.  What type of drugs was Swinburne specially addicted?

a)      Opium.

b)      Cocaine.

c)      Heroine.

d)      Alcohol.

15.  What type of influence had the abolition of slavery on Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s life?

a)      Her family lost economical powers because they had a plantation.

b)      Slavery was the main topic of his poetry.

c)      He married with a black slave.

d)      None. That was irrelevant in her life.

 

Victorian Poems

 

16.  Elizabeth Browning most famous work is called…

a)      The Battle of Marathon.

b)      Sonnets from the Portuguese.

c)      Aurora Leigh.

d)      Wuthering Heights.

17.  How is structured what Gerard Manley Hopkins called “sprung rhythm”?

a)      Around feet with a variable number of syllables, with the stress always falling on the first syllable in a foot.

b)      Repeating groups of two or three syllables, with the stressed syllable falling in the same place on each repetition.

c)      Around feet with a pair of syllables, with the stress always falling on the last syllable in a foot.

d)      Repeating groups of two of three syllables, with the stress always falling on the last syllable in a foot.

18.  When Hopkins had worked with the “running rhythm” he became fascinated by the structure of…

a)      Beowulf.

b)      Anglo-Saxon tradition.

c)      The Homeric literature.

d)      The Holy Bible.

19.  What of the following authors wrote the work “Songs Before Sunrise”?

a)      Gerard Manley Hopkins.

b)      Robert Browning.

c)      Algernon Charles Swinburne.

d)      None of the previous.

20.  In 1829, Alfred Tennyson awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his early works. The piece was called…

a)      The Lady of Shalott.

b)      Timbuctoo.

c)      The Princes Ida.

d)      Twinbuctoo.

21.  Tennyson’s works gained the admiration of many important authors of his time. What of the following authors recognised the early talent of Tennyson?

a)      Charles Dickens.

b)      William Wordsworth.

c)      John Keats.

d)      Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

22.  After “Poems and Ballads”, Swinburne’s poetry was very concerned with…

a)      Philosophy and Politics.

b)      Nature.

c)      Dreams and Imagination.

d)      Drugs.

23.  Rossetti's poem "The Blessed Damozel" was an imitation of…

a)      Shelley.

b)      Keats.

c)      Blake.

d)      Dante.

24.  Christina Rossetti’s first published work was called…

a)      Nursery Rhyme Book.

b)      Goblin Market and other poems.

c)      Commonplace

d)      The Early Italian Poets.

25.  Tennyson tried to retell the legend of King Arthur in his narrative poems which were called…

a)      Returns a King.

b)      Between Camelot and Guinevere.

c)      Idylls of the King.

d)      Ata Morte d’Arthur.

 

 

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