📝 QU̲I̲Z̲ #3
1. What drove William Cowper to break down and become a recluse?
a) ☑️ the conviction that he was damned forever
b) the loss of his fortune in the "South Sea Bubble"
c) the vindication of Newtonian physics
d) condemnation of his work by Jeremy Collier
e) his skewering in Pope's Dunciad
2. According to Samuel Johnson, "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for...:
a) love."
b) honor."
c) ☑️money."
d) his party."
e) fun."
3. Which of the following women exposed themselves to scandal by writing racy stories for the popular press?
a) Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mary Wroth, and Elizabeth Cary
☑️ b) Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, and Eliza Haywood
c) Anne Finch, Anne Killigrew, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
d) Rachel Speght, Katherine Philips, and Frances Burney
e) Mary Leapor, Mary Astell, and Mary Shelley
4. Horace's doctrine "ut pictura poesis" was interpreted to mean:
a) A picture is worth a thousand words.
b) Poetry is the supreme artistic form.
c) Art should hold a mirror up to nature.
☑️ d) Poetry ought to be a visual as well as a verbal art.
e) Paintings of poets should be prized over those of kings.
5. What was most frequently considered a source of pleasure and an object of inquiry by Augustan poets?
a) civilization
b) woman
c) God
d) alcohol
☑️ e) nature
6. What word did writers in this period use to express quickness of mind, inventiveness, a knack for conceiving images and metaphors and for perceiving resemblances between things apparently unlike?
☑️ a) wit
b) sprezzatura
c) naturalism
d) gusto
e) metaphysics
7. Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection?
☑️ a) the heroic couplet
b) blank verse
c) free verse
d) the ode
e) the spondee
8. Which poet, critic and translator brought England a modern literature between 1660 and 1700?
a) Addison
b) Bunyan
c) Crabbe
☑️ d) Dryden
e) Equiano
9. Which of the following is not an example of Restoration comedy?
a) Etherege's The Man of Mode
b) Wycherley's The Country Wife
c) Behn's The Rover
☑️ d) Marlowe's Doctor Faustus
e) Congreve's Love for Love
10. Which group of intellectual women established literary clubs of their own around 1750 under the leadership of Elizabeth Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu?
a) the Behnites
☑️ b) the bluestockings
c) the coteries of plenty
d) the Pre-Raphaelites
e) the tattlers and spectators
1. What drove William Cowper to break down and become a recluse?
a) ☑️ the conviction that he was damned forever
b) the loss of his fortune in the "South Sea Bubble"
c) the vindication of Newtonian physics
d) condemnation of his work by Jeremy Collier
e) his skewering in Pope's Dunciad
2. According to Samuel Johnson, "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for...:
a) love."
b) honor."
c) ☑️money."
d) his party."
e) fun."
3. Which of the following women exposed themselves to scandal by writing racy stories for the popular press?
a) Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mary Wroth, and Elizabeth Cary
☑️ b) Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, and Eliza Haywood
c) Anne Finch, Anne Killigrew, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
d) Rachel Speght, Katherine Philips, and Frances Burney
e) Mary Leapor, Mary Astell, and Mary Shelley
4. Horace's doctrine "ut pictura poesis" was interpreted to mean:
a) A picture is worth a thousand words.
b) Poetry is the supreme artistic form.
c) Art should hold a mirror up to nature.
☑️ d) Poetry ought to be a visual as well as a verbal art.
e) Paintings of poets should be prized over those of kings.
5. What was most frequently considered a source of pleasure and an object of inquiry by Augustan poets?
a) civilization
b) woman
c) God
d) alcohol
☑️ e) nature
6. What word did writers in this period use to express quickness of mind, inventiveness, a knack for conceiving images and metaphors and for perceiving resemblances between things apparently unlike?
☑️ a) wit
b) sprezzatura
c) naturalism
d) gusto
e) metaphysics
7. Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection?
☑️ a) the heroic couplet
b) blank verse
c) free verse
d) the ode
e) the spondee
8. Which poet, critic and translator brought England a modern literature between 1660 and 1700?
a) Addison
b) Bunyan
c) Crabbe
☑️ d) Dryden
e) Equiano
9. Which of the following is not an example of Restoration comedy?
a) Etherege's The Man of Mode
b) Wycherley's The Country Wife
c) Behn's The Rover
☑️ d) Marlowe's Doctor Faustus
e) Congreve's Love for Love
10. Which group of intellectual women established literary clubs of their own around 1750 under the leadership of Elizabeth Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu?
a) the Behnites
☑️ b) the bluestockings
c) the coteries of plenty
d) the Pre-Raphaelites
e) the tattlers and spectators
📝 QU̲I̲Z̲ #4
1. Elizabeth Barrett's poem The Cry of the Children is concerned with which major issue attendant on the Time of Troubles during the 1830s and 1840s?
a) women's rights and suffrage
✅ b) child labor
c) chartism
d) the prudishness and old-fashioned ideals of her fellow Victorians
e) insurrection in the colonies
2. Who were the "Two Nations" referred to in the subtitle of Disraeli's Sybil (1845)?
✅a) the rich and the poor
b) Anglicans and Methodists
c) England and Ireland
d) Britain and Germany
e) the industrial north and the agrarian south
3. Which event did not occur as part of the rise of the British Empire under Queen Victoria?
a) Between 1853 and 1880, 2,466,000 emigrants left Britain, many bound for the colonies.
b) In 1876, Queen Victoria was named empress of India.
✅c) To save costs and maximize profits, the day-to-day government of India was transferred from Parliament to the private East India Company.
d) From 1830 to 1870, the sum total of investments abroad by British capitalists had risen from £300 billion to £800 billion.
e) In 1867 the Canadian provinces were unified into the Dominion of Canada
4. Which best describes the minority of Evangelicals in the Church of England?
a) A group of unattractive people relegated to the colonies to perform missionary work where they wouldn't tarnish the aesthetics of the Church of England.
✅ b) Also called Nonconformists or Dissenters, Evangelicals led the missionary movement in the colonies, advocated a Puritan moral code, and were responsible for the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire as early as 1833.
c) They were part of the High Church or the "Catholic" side of the church.
d) They were devout "tractarians," as described by John Henry Newman.
e) They pertained to all three divisions of the Church of England: Low, Broad, and High
5. Which of the following best defines Utilitarianism?
a) a farming technique aimed at maximizing productivity with the fewest tools
✅ b) a moral arithmetic, which states that all humans aim to maximize the greatest pleasure to the greatest number
c) a critical methodology stating that all words have a single meaningful function within a given piece of literature
d) a philosophy dictating that we should only keep what we use on a daily basis.
e) a form of nonconformism
6. Which of the following terms is defined as the application of a scientific attitude of mind toward studying the Bible, seen as a mere text of history and not an infallibly sacred document?
a) New Criticism
b) Critical Inquiry
c) Scientific Bibliology
✅d) Higher Criticism
e) New Historicism
7. Which of the following authors promoted versions of socialism?
a) William Morris
b) John Ruskin
c) Edward FitzGerald
d) Karl Marx
✅ e) all but c
8. Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian era?
a) a series of Factory Acts
b) the Custody Act
✅ c) the Women's Suffrage Act
d) the Married Women's Property Rights Acts
e) the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act
9. Which contemporary discussions on women's rights did Tennyson's The Princess address?
a) the grueling working conditions for women in textile factories
b) the debate on women's suffrage
✅ c) the need to enlarge and improve educational opportunities for women, resulting in the establishment of the first women's college in London
d) the question of monarchical succession and if a woman should hold royal power
e) the establishment of a civil divorce court
10. What did Victorian journalists mean by terming certain women "surplus" or "redundant"?
1. Elizabeth Barrett's poem The Cry of the Children is concerned with which major issue attendant on the Time of Troubles during the 1830s and 1840s?
a) women's rights and suffrage
✅ b) child labor
c) chartism
d) the prudishness and old-fashioned ideals of her fellow Victorians
e) insurrection in the colonies
2. Who were the "Two Nations" referred to in the subtitle of Disraeli's Sybil (1845)?
✅a) the rich and the poor
b) Anglicans and Methodists
c) England and Ireland
d) Britain and Germany
e) the industrial north and the agrarian south
3. Which event did not occur as part of the rise of the British Empire under Queen Victoria?
a) Between 1853 and 1880, 2,466,000 emigrants left Britain, many bound for the colonies.
b) In 1876, Queen Victoria was named empress of India.
✅c) To save costs and maximize profits, the day-to-day government of India was transferred from Parliament to the private East India Company.
d) From 1830 to 1870, the sum total of investments abroad by British capitalists had risen from £300 billion to £800 billion.
e) In 1867 the Canadian provinces were unified into the Dominion of Canada
4. Which best describes the minority of Evangelicals in the Church of England?
a) A group of unattractive people relegated to the colonies to perform missionary work where they wouldn't tarnish the aesthetics of the Church of England.
✅ b) Also called Nonconformists or Dissenters, Evangelicals led the missionary movement in the colonies, advocated a Puritan moral code, and were responsible for the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire as early as 1833.
c) They were part of the High Church or the "Catholic" side of the church.
d) They were devout "tractarians," as described by John Henry Newman.
e) They pertained to all three divisions of the Church of England: Low, Broad, and High
5. Which of the following best defines Utilitarianism?
a) a farming technique aimed at maximizing productivity with the fewest tools
✅ b) a moral arithmetic, which states that all humans aim to maximize the greatest pleasure to the greatest number
c) a critical methodology stating that all words have a single meaningful function within a given piece of literature
d) a philosophy dictating that we should only keep what we use on a daily basis.
e) a form of nonconformism
6. Which of the following terms is defined as the application of a scientific attitude of mind toward studying the Bible, seen as a mere text of history and not an infallibly sacred document?
a) New Criticism
b) Critical Inquiry
c) Scientific Bibliology
✅d) Higher Criticism
e) New Historicism
7. Which of the following authors promoted versions of socialism?
a) William Morris
b) John Ruskin
c) Edward FitzGerald
d) Karl Marx
✅ e) all but c
8. Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian era?
a) a series of Factory Acts
b) the Custody Act
✅ c) the Women's Suffrage Act
d) the Married Women's Property Rights Acts
e) the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act
9. Which contemporary discussions on women's rights did Tennyson's The Princess address?
a) the grueling working conditions for women in textile factories
b) the debate on women's suffrage
✅ c) the need to enlarge and improve educational opportunities for women, resulting in the establishment of the first women's college in London
d) the question of monarchical succession and if a woman should hold royal power
e) the establishment of a civil divorce court
10. What did Victorian journalists mean by terming certain women "surplus" or "redundant"?
✅a) They remained unmarried due to a population imbalance between the sexes.
b) Their willingness to work for low wages resulted in a surplus of textiles, causing them to drop in price.
c) They were women writers who wrote frequently about similar topics.
d) They were divorced.
e) They prostituted themselves as a way to make money in a market economy that didn't provide extensive job opportunities to women.
11. Fill in the blanks from Tennyson's 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 _.
a) crop; scabbard; foot; agree
b) throne; scepter; soul; decree
c) school; scalpel; pen; set free
✅d) hearth; needle; heart; obey
e) field; sword; head; command
12. What best describes the subject of most Victorian novels?
a) the representation of a large and comprehensive social world in realistic detail
b) a surrealist exploration of alternate states of consciousness
c) a mythic dream world
d) the attempt of a protagonist to define his or her place in society
✅ e) a and d
13. Why did the novel seem a genre particularly well-suited to women?
a) It did not carry the burden of an august tradition like poetry.
b) It was a popular form whose market women could enter easily.
c) It was seen as a frivolous form where one shouldn't make serious statements about society.
d) It often concerned the domestic world with which women were familiar.
✅e) all but c
b) Their willingness to work for low wages resulted in a surplus of textiles, causing them to drop in price.
c) They were women writers who wrote frequently about similar topics.
d) They were divorced.
e) They prostituted themselves as a way to make money in a market economy that didn't provide extensive job opportunities to women.
11. Fill in the blanks from Tennyson's 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 _.
a) crop; scabbard; foot; agree
b) throne; scepter; soul; decree
c) school; scalpel; pen; set free
✅d) hearth; needle; heart; obey
e) field; sword; head; command
12. What best describes the subject of most Victorian novels?
a) the representation of a large and comprehensive social world in realistic detail
b) a surrealist exploration of alternate states of consciousness
c) a mythic dream world
d) the attempt of a protagonist to define his or her place in society
✅ e) a and d
13. Why did the novel seem a genre particularly well-suited to women?
a) It did not carry the burden of an august tradition like poetry.
b) It was a popular form whose market women could enter easily.
c) It was seen as a frivolous form where one shouldn't make serious statements about society.
d) It often concerned the domestic world with which women were familiar.
✅e) all but c
🗳 Find the odd one out with respect to Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians?
Cardinal Manning [0]
General Gordon [0]
Florence Nightingale [11]
Thomas Arnold [2]
👥 13 people have voted so far
🚫 This poll is closed...
Cardinal Manning [0]
General Gordon [0]
Florence Nightingale [11]
Thomas Arnold [2]
👥 13 people have voted so far
🚫 This poll is closed...
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🗳 Find the odd one out with respect to Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians? Cardinal Manning [0] General Gordon [0] Florence Nightingale [11] Thomas Arnold [2] 👥 13 people have voted so far 🚫 This poll is closed...
The correct answer is indeed Florence Nightingale as she was the only one praised in the work while the rest of them were attacked.
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Lycidas - Edward King
Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell
Elegy written in a country Churchyard - Richard West
Elegy to the Memory of Unfortunate Lady (Dedicated to an unknown Lady)
Adonais - Keats
Thyrsis - Arthur Hugh Clough
In Memorium - Arthur Henry Hallam
Rugby Chapel - M. Arnold's father
In Memory of W. B. Yeats - W. H. Auden
Lycidas - Edward King
Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell
Elegy written in a country Churchyard - Richard West
Elegy to the Memory of Unfortunate Lady (Dedicated to an unknown Lady)
Adonais - Keats
Thyrsis - Arthur Hugh Clough
In Memorium - Arthur Henry Hallam
Rugby Chapel - M. Arnold's father
In Memory of W. B. Yeats - W. H. Auden
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Rajsimha [1]
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Aparajita [15]
Mrinalini [1]
Ichamati [0]
Rajsimha [1]
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