✅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
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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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Astrophel - Elegy on the death of Sidney
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
🗳 The sequel to Pather Panchali (1929) by Bibhutibhishan Bandyopadhyay is
Aparajita [15]
Mrinalini [1]
Ichamati [0]
Rajsimha [1]
👥 17 people have voted so far
Aparajita [15]
Mrinalini [1]
Ichamati [0]
Rajsimha [1]
👥 17 people have voted so far
🗳 Which indian writer has won the A. C. Benson medal?
E. M. Forster [0]
R. K. Narayan [5]
Anita Desai [2]
Jhumpa Lahiri [3]
👥 10 people have voted so far
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E. M. Forster [0]
R. K. Narayan [5]
Anita Desai [2]
Jhumpa Lahiri [3]
👥 10 people have voted so far
🚫 This poll is closed...
🗳 Sahitya Academy Award for best writings is giving in ____ Indian languages
21 [5]
23 [1]
24 [0]
19 [0]
👥 6 people have voted so far
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21 [5]
23 [1]
24 [0]
19 [0]
👥 6 people have voted so far
🚫 This poll is closed...