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
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
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
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
b)
Sonnets from the Portuguese.
c) Aurora Leigh.
d)
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
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
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
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.
Academic
year 2007/2008
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López
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