MCQ ON VICTORIAN PERIOD

 

Choose the correct option for each question on the Victorian Period, then open Show answer to check yourself. The full answer key is at the end of the post.

1. Queen Victoria’s reign began in:

1. 1832
2. 1837
3. 1851
4. 1901

Answer: (b) 1837

2. Queen Victoria died in:

1. 1887
2. 1897
3. 1901
4. 1910

Answer: (c) 1901

3. Who succeeded Wordsworth as Poet Laureate in 1850?

1. Browning
2. Tennyson
3. Arnold
4. Southey

Answer: (b) Tennyson

4. In Memoriam is Tennyson’s elegy for:

1. Arthur Hallam
2. Shelley
3. Keats
4. His father

Answer: (a) Arthur Hallam

5. “Nature, red in tooth and claw” occurs in:

1. In Memoriam
2. Ulysses
3. Maud
4. Locksley Hall

Answer: (a) In Memoriam

6. “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield” ends:

1. The Lotos-Eaters
2. Ulysses
3. Crossing the Bar
4. Tithonus

Answer: (b) Ulysses

7. Tennyson’s Idylls of the King is based on:

1. Greek myth
2. Arthurian legend
3. Norse sagas
4. Biblical stories

Answer: (b) Arthurian legend

8. “Sunset and evening star” begins Tennyson’s poem:

1. Crossing the Bar
2. Break, Break, Break
3. Mariana
4. The Princess

Answer: (a) Crossing the Bar

9. “My Last Duchess” is by:

1. Tennyson
2. Browning
3. Arnold
4. Rossetti

Answer: (b) Browning

10. “My Last Duchess” is an example of a:

1. Ode
2. Dramatic monologue
3. Sonnet
4. Ballad

Answer: (b) Dramatic monologue

11. The speaker of “My Last Duchess” is the Duke of:

1. Milan
2. Ferrara
3. Urbino
4. Florence

Answer: (b) Ferrara

12. “Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be” is from Browning’s:

1. Rabbi Ben Ezra
2. Andrea del Sarto
3. Fra Lippo Lippi
4. Porphyria’s Lover

Answer: (a) Rabbi Ben Ezra

13. “Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp” occurs in:

1. My Last Duchess
2. Andrea del Sarto
3. Pippa Passes
4. The Ring and the Book

Answer: (b) Andrea del Sarto

14. Browning’s The Ring and the Book (1868–69) is based on:

1. A Roman murder case
2. Arthurian legend
3. Greek myth
4. The French Revolution

Answer: (a) A Roman murder case

15. Sonnets from the Portuguese is by:

1. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
2. Christina Rossetti
3. Emily Brontë
4. Jean Ingelow

Answer: (a) Elizabeth Barrett Browning

16. “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways” is Sonnet number:

1. 14
2. 28
3. 43
4. 44

Answer: (c) 43

17. Aurora Leigh (1856) is a:

1. Verse novel
2. Play
3. Arthurian epic
4. Critical essay

Answer: (a) Verse novel

18. “Dover Beach” is by:

1. Hopkins
2. Matthew Arnold
3. Clough
4. Swinburne

Answer: (b) Matthew Arnold

19. The “Sea of Faith” is a famous image in:

1. Dover Beach
2. The Scholar-Gipsy
3. Thyrsis
4. Rugby Chapel

Answer: (a) Dover Beach

20. Culture and Anarchy (1869) is by:

1. Matthew Arnold
2. Carlyle
3. Ruskin
4. J. S. Mill

Answer: (a) Matthew Arnold

21. In Culture and Anarchy, Arnold calls the middle class the:

1. Barbarians
2. Philistines
3. Populace
4. Hellenes

Answer: (b) Philistines

22. Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was published in:

1. 1837
2. 1851
3. 1859
4. 1871

Answer: (c) 1859

23. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in:

1. 1830
2. 1848
3. 1859
4. 1870

Answer: (b) 1848

24. Which of these was NOT a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood?

1. John Everett Millais
2. William Holman Hunt
3. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
4. John Ruskin

Answer: (d) John Ruskin

25. Goblin Market (1862) was written by:

1. Christina Rossetti
2. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
3. Emily Dickinson
4. George Eliot

Answer: (a) Christina Rossetti

26. “Sprung rhythm” is associated with:

1. Gerard Manley Hopkins
2. Browning
3. Swinburne
4. Tennyson

Answer: (a) Gerard Manley Hopkins

27. Hopkins’s poems were first collected and published in:

1. 1889
2. 1918
3. 1900
4. 1930

Answer: (b) 1918

28. “All art is quite useless” appears in the preface to:

1. The Importance of Being Earnest
2. The Picture of Dorian Gray
3. Salome
4. Lady Windermere’s Fan

Answer: (b) The Picture of Dorian Gray

29. The Importance of Being Earnest was first performed in:

1. 1881
2. 1890
3. 1895
4. 1900

Answer: (c) 1895

30. Which was Dickens’s first novel?

1. Oliver Twist
2. Pickwick Papers
3. Nicholas Nickleby
4. Sketches by Boz

Answer: (b) Pickwick Papers

31. “Please, sir, I want some more” is spoken in:

1. David Copperfield
2. Oliver Twist
3. Hard Times
4. Bleak House

Answer: (b) Oliver Twist

32. Dickens dedicated Hard Times to:

1. Ruskin
2. Carlyle
3. Arnold
4. J. S. Mill

Answer: (b) Carlyle

33. Dickens’s semi-autobiographical novel is:

1. Great Expectations
2. David Copperfield
3. Bleak House
4. Little Dorrit

Answer: (b) David Copperfield

34. Pip is the hero of:

1. Great Expectations
2. Oliver Twist
3. Hard Times
4. Dombey and Son

Answer: (a) Great Expectations

35. “A Novel without a Hero” is the subtitle of:

1. Pendennis
2. Vanity Fair
3. Barry Lyndon
4. Henry Esmond

Answer: (b) Vanity Fair

36. Jane Eyre was published in:

1. 1837
2. 1847
3. 1857
4. 1867

Answer: (b) 1847

37. Wuthering Heights was written by:

1. Charlotte Brontë
2. Emily Brontë
3. Anne Brontë
4. George Eliot

Answer: (b) Emily Brontë

38. The Brontë sisters published their first work under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis and Acton:

1. Brown
2. Bell
3. Black
4. Barton

Answer: (b) Bell

39. George Eliot’s real name was:

1. Mary Ann Evans
2. Elizabeth Gaskell
3. Charlotte Yonge
4. Mary Braddon

Answer: (a) Mary Ann Evans

40. The subtitle of Middlemarch is:

1. A Study of Provincial Life
2. A Novel without a Hero
3. The Modern Prometheus
4. A Pure Woman

Answer: (a) A Study of Provincial Life

41. The subtitle of Tess of the d’Urbervilles is:

1. A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented
2. A Study of Provincial Life
3. The Modern Prometheus
4. A Romance of Wessex

Answer: (a) A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented

42. Which was Thomas Hardy’s last novel?

1. Tess of the d’Urbervilles
2. Jude the Obscure
3. The Return of the Native
4. Far from the Madding Crowd

Answer: (b) Jude the Obscure

43. Mary Barton (1848) is by:

1. Elizabeth Gaskell
2. George Eliot
3. Charlotte Brontë
4. Benjamin Disraeli

Answer: (a) Elizabeth Gaskell

44. Sybil, or The Two Nations (1845) is by:

1. Benjamin Disraeli
2. Elizabeth Gaskell
3. Charles Kingsley
4. Dickens

Answer: (a) Benjamin Disraeli

45. The Woman in White is by:

1. Mary Braddon
2. Wilkie Collins
3. Charles Dickens
4. Bram Stoker

Answer: (b) Wilkie Collins

46. Lady Audley’s Secret is by:

1. Mary Elizabeth Braddon
2. Wilkie Collins
3. Elizabeth Gaskell
4. Ouida

Answer: (a) Mary Elizabeth Braddon

47. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was published in:

1. 1859
2. 1876
3. 1886
4. 1897

Answer: (c) 1886

48. Dracula (1897) was written by:

1. Bram Stoker
2. Oscar Wilde
3. R. L. Stevenson
4. Arthur Conan Doyle

Answer: (a) Bram Stoker

49. The phrase “Condition of England” was popularised by:

1. Ruskin
2. Carlyle
3. Arnold
4. Dickens

Answer: (b) Carlyle

50. Unto This Last (1860) is by:

1. Carlyle
2. John Ruskin
3. J. S. Mill
4. Walter Pater

Answer: (b) John Ruskin

Answer key

Q	Ans	Q	Ans	Q	Ans	Q	Ans	Q	Ans
1	b	11	b	21	b	31	b	41	a
2	c	12	a	22	c	32	b	42	b
3	b	13	b	23	b	33	b	43	a
4	a	14	a	24	d	34	a	44	a
5	a	15	a	25	a	35	b	45	b
6	b	16	c	26	a	36	b	46	a
7	b	17	a	27	b	37	b	47	c
8	a	18	b	28	b	38	b	48	a
9	b	19	a	29	c	39	a	49	b
10	b	20	a	30	b	40	a	50	b