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ages era period Mcqs
161. Elizabeth Barretts poem The Cry of the Children is concerned with which major issue attendant on the Time of Troubles during the 1830s and 1840s ?
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A. the prudishness and old-fashioned ideals of her fellow Victorians

B. womens rights and suffrage

C. chartism

D. child labor
162. Dunstan is a character from the novel________________?
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A. Adam Bede

B. Emma

C. Silas Marner

D. Hard Times

163. Given the popularity of the Gothic novel and the novel of purpose, which of the following novelists wrote fiction that is closer in subject matter to the novel of manners than it is to the writing of her own era ?
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A. Mary Wollstonecraft

B. Fanny Burney

C. Jane Austen

D. Anna Letitia Barbauld

164. Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour. England hath need of thee. Indeed. But who was it, summoning his ghost ?
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A. Horatio Herbert Kitchener

B. William Wordsworth

C. William Blake

D. John Keats

165. Which language did young Elizabeth learn in secret ?
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A. Welsh

B. Gaelic

C. French

D. Esperanto

166. Which of the following authors promoted versions of socialism ?
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A. Edward FitzGerald

B. John Ruskin

C. all but c

D. William Morris

167. Which poet, critic and translator brought England a modern literature between 1660 and 1700 ?
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A. Dryden

B. Bunyan

C. Crabbe

D. Addison

168. Who were the \Two Nations\referred to in the subtitle of Disraelis Sybil (1845) ?
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A. Britain and Germany

B. England and Ireland

C. the rich and the poor

D. Anglicans and Methodists

169. When was John Milton born ?
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A. 22 April 1600

B. 9 December 1608

C. 19 August 1604

D. 6 June 1606

170. who is considered as the model of the people during the renaissance ?
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A. roman and greek

B. roman and french

C. greek and austrian

D. french and greek

171. Which rulers reign marks the approximate beginning and end of the Victorian era ?
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A. Queen Elizabeth I

B. King John

C. King Henry VIII

D. Queen Victoria
172. Elizabeths reign was longer than that of any other Tudor. When she died at the age of 69 in 1603, how many years had she reigned ?
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A. 45

B. 50

C. 40

D. 35

173. Which of the following English groups were supportive of the French Revolution during its early years ?
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A. Republicans

B. Liberals

C. Radicals

D. both B and C
174. Which event did not occur as part of the rise of the British Empire under Queen Victoria ?
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A. In 1876, Queen Victoria was named empress of India.

B. From 1830 to 1870, the sum total of investments abroad by British capitalists had risen from 300 billion to 800 billion.

C. Between 1853 and 1880, 2,466,000 emigrants left Britain, many bound for the colonies.

D. To save costs and maximize profits, the day-to-day government of India was transferred from Parliament to the private East India Company.
175. Queen Victoria succeeded to the throne of England after_____________?
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A. George III

B. George IV

C. Edward VII

D. William IV
176. Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions ?
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A. George Bernard Shaw

B. W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan

C. all but C

D. Robert Corrigan

177. Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things as They Are ?
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A. Mary Shelleys Frankenstein

B. William Godwins Caleb Williams

C. Sir Walter Scotts Waverley

D. Jane Austens Emma

178. By 1890, what percentage of the earths population was subject to Queen Victoria ?
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A. 10%

B. 25%

C. 1%

D. 15%

179. What did Thomas Carlyle mean by \Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe\ ?
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A. Abandon the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose found in Goethe.

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

C. Even a foreign author is better than a homegrown scoundrel.

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

180. Looking to the ancient past, many Romantic poets identified with the figure of the______________?
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A. skald

B. chorister

C. bard

D. troubadour