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Practise focused ages era period questions with marked answers for exam preparation and subject revision.

ages era period Mcqs
21. John Milton was 34 when he married Mary Powell. How old was she ?
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A. 48

B. 34

C. 17

D. 22

22. What was Elizabeths nickname for Sir Walter Raleigh ?
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A. Water

B. Winter

C. William

D. Waldimor

23. What does the phrase White Mans Burden, coined by Kipling, refer to ?
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A. the British need to improve technology and transportation in other parts of the world

B. the importance of solving economic and social problems in England before tackling the worlds problems

C. Britains manifest destiny to colonize the world

D. the moral responsibility to bring civilization and Christianity to the peoples of the world
24. Which of the following was probably not a stock phrase in eighteenth-century poetry ?
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A. shining sword

B. simian rivalry

C. checkered shade

D. verdant mead

25. Fill in the blanks from Tennysons The Princess. Man for the field and woman for the ..: Man for the sword and for the ___________ she: Man with the head and woman with the __________Man to command and woman to _____________?
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A. throne; scepter; soul; decree

B. school; scalpel; pen; set free

C. hearth; needle; heart; obey

D. crop; scabbard; foot; agree

26. In 1634 Milton wrote a masque. Whats the name of that masque ?
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A. Il Penseroso

B. Lycidas

C. Comus

D. The Masque of Blackness

27. Crime was ardently followed by punishment. Elizabethans had devised various ways to fine, humiliate, torture, and kill offenders. Which crime was punishable by death ?
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A. Stealing a horse

B. Public drunkenness

C. Skipping church on Sunday

D. A woman screaming at her husband in public

28. Who is the author of Aurora Leigh ?
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A. Tennyson

B. D. G. Rossetti

C. Christina Rossetti

D. Elizabeth Barret Browning
29. Spensers Epithalamion is____________?
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A. a wedding hymn

B. a narrative poem

C. an elegy

D. a sonnet

30. Which best describes the general feeling expressed in literature during the last decade of the Victorian era ?
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A. raucous celebration mixed with selfcongratulatory sophistication

B. sincere earnestness and Protestant zeal

C. paranoid introspection and cryptic dissent

D. studied melancholy and aestheticism
31. Arnolds Culture and Anarchy deals with the subject of_____________?
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A. Civilization

B. Education

C. Religion

D. Tehology

32. Who was the father of the Mary I_______________?
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A. Henry VI

B. George III

C. William

D. Henry VIII
33. Who in the Romantic period developed a new novelistic language for the workings of the mind in flux ?
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A. Jane Austen

B. Maria Edgeworth

C. Sir Walter Scott

D. Thomas De Quincey

34. Why did the novel seem a genre particularly well-suited to women ?
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A. It was a popular form whose market women could enter easily.

B. all but C

C. It did not carry the burden of an august tradition like poetry.

D. It was seen as a frivolous form where one shouldnt make serious statements about society.

35. How many years of happiness was Dr Faustus promised by the Devil ?
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A. 20

B. 28

C. 16

D. 24
36. What did Thomas Carlyle mean by Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe ?
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A. Even a foreign author is better than a homegrown scoundrel.

B. Britains preeminence as a global power will depend on mastery of foreign languages.

C. In a carefully veiled critique of the monarchy, Byron and Goethe stand in symbolically for Queen Victoria and Charles Darwin respectively.

D. Abandon the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose found in Goethe.

37. Which best describes the general feeling expressed in literature during the last decade of the Victorian era ?
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A. studied melancholy and aestheticism

B. raucous celebration mixed with self congratulatory sophistication

C. sincere earnestness and Protestant zeal

D. paranoid introspection and cryptic dissent

38. Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels ?
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A. Jane Austen and Charlotte Bront

B. Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

C. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

D. Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth
39. Which of the following is a typically Romantic poetic form ?
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A. the aubade

B. the figment

C. the fractal

D. the fragment
40. Who wrote: I would prefer not to. ?
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A. Edgar Allan Poe

B. Thomas Gray

C. Herman Melville

D. Henry David Thoreau