Victorian Age
Victorian Age
Victorian Poetry
8. Which of the following poems of Tennyson won him the Chancellor’s medal at
Cambridge?
A) Timbuktu B) Lotos Eaters B) Ulysses D) Crossing the Bar
9. When Tennyson died, a copy of Shakespeare's play was found lying under the cover
of his bed. Which was the play ?
A) The Tempest B) Hamlet C) King Lear D) Cymbeline
10. Queen Guinevere is a character in one of the following poems of Tennyson. In
which of the following _________.
A) Timbuktu B) Lotos Eaters B) Ulysses D) Crossing the Bar
11. Queen Guinevere falls in love with one of the following Knights. Which of the
following?
A) Lancelot B) Galahad C) Merlin D) Bedivere
12. Tennyson idealized married life in ____________.
A) Maud B) The Prince C) Queen Man D) The Miller's Daughter
13. ”That God, whichever lives and loves, One God, one las one element, And one
far-off divine event”. These lines have been taken from __________.
A) In Memoriam B) Lotos Eaters B) Ulysses D) Crossing the Bar
14. ”Dear is the memory of our wedded lives, And dear the last embrace of our wives,
and their warm terms”. These lines have been taken from ________.
A) In Memoriam B) Lotos Eaters B) Ulysses D) Crossing the Bar
15. Tennyson has written a poem on the Tomb of a Mughal Emperor. On whose Tomb?
A) Shah Jahan B) Aurangzeb C) Babar D) Akbar
16. Tennyson has written a poem on a city of India. Which city?
A) Lucknow B) Delhi C) Jhansi D) Calcutta
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17. The only knight of the Round Table who remains alive after the passing of Arthur is :
A) Lancelot B) Galahad C) Merlin D) Bedivere
18. Tennyson’s Enoch Arden is _____________ .
A) a narrative B) a poem C) a tale D) a novelette
19. For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever” This line comes from :
A) The Brook B) The Song of Lotus C) The Beggar Maid D) Galahad
20. King Cophetua is a character in ___________ .
A) The Brook B) The Song of Lotus C) The Beggar Maid D) Galahad
21. ”We have but faith, we cannot know for knowledge is of things we see, And yet we
trust it comes from thee’ . These lines have been taken from:
A) In Memoriam B) Lotos Eaters B) Ulysses D) Crossing the Bar
22. How many parts are there in Maud: A Monodrama?
A) One B) two C) three D) four
23. The old order Changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfills Himself in many
ways . These lines have been taken from ____________ .
A) The Holy Grail B) The Round Table
C) The Coming of Arthur D) The Passing of Arthur
24. ”Man for the field and woman for the hearth, Man for the sword, and for the
needle she” . These lines have been taken from:
A) Ulysses B) The Princes C) Locksley Hall D) The Lady of Shallot
25. When was Tennyson born ?
A) 1809 B) 1812 C) 1817 D) 1827
26. Which was Tennyson’s first book published ?
A) Ulysses B) Morte D'Arthur C) Poems By Two Brothers D) None
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10. ”Through worlds I shall traverse not a few Much is to learn, much to forget, Ere
the time be come for taking you’. These lines have been taken from:
A) My Last Duchess B) Rabbi Ben Ezra C) Prospice D) Evelyn Hope
11. ”Fail I alone, in words wna deeds? Why all men strive and who succeeds” . These
lines have been taken from ___________ .
A) Last Ride Together B) Rabbi Ben Ezra
C) The Lost Leader D) Pippa Passes
12. Who was Andrea del Sarto on whom Browning has written a dramatic monologue?
A) a doctor B) an engineer C) a renowned painter D) a patient
13. " Who knows but the world may end tonight”? Line occurs in ________.
A) Last Ride Together B) Rabbi Ben Ezra
C) The Lost Leader D) Pippa Passes
14. Who was Rabbi Ben Ezra?
A) a doctor B) an engineer C) real Jewish Scholar D) a patient
15. Which one of the following is Robert Browning’s first work ?
A) Sordello B) Pauline C) The Ring and The Book D) None
16. Which technique is used by Robert Browning in My Last Duchess?
A) lyrical B) dramatic monologue C) Soliloquy D) None
17. How many rhyming couplets are used by Robert Browning in his poem ”My Last
Duchess”?
A) 24 B) 26 C) 28 D) 30
18. What is the setting place of the poem ”Sordello”?
A) Italy B) England C) America D) France
19. Which of the following poems was written by Browning?
A) Ode to Autumn B) Fra Lippo Lippi C) Ode to Skylark D) In Memoriam
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20. The Character Pompilia is taken from which one of the following works of Robert
Browning ?
A) Sordello B) Pauline C) The Ring and The Book D) Asolando
21. Who is the speaker of ”My Last Duchess”?
A) Duke of Ferrara B) Duke of Edinburgh
C) Duke of Somerset D) Duke of Clarence
22. At what age did Browning compose his first work?
A) 12 B) 15 C) 19 D) 23
23. " Ignorance is not innocence but sin” Who said the above line ?
A) Tennyson B) Mathew Arnold C) Robert Browning D) Thackeray
24. The Poem The Last Ride Together published in :
A) 1855 B) 1844 C) 1857 D) 1861
25. Who believes that ”God is in his heaven, all's right with the world”?
A) Shakespeare B) Milton C) Robert Browning D) Byron
26. Poetic style of Browning was charged with :
A) Obscurity B) Offensive C) Tragic D) Comic
27. What are the common features of Browning’s poetry ?
A) Reality B) Sadness C) Psychological Analysis D) Optimism
28. Browning revealed his mother very highly and called her :
A) divine woman B) brave woman C) charming woman D) rich woman
29. Browning 's wife Elizabeth Barret Browning died in _________.
A) 1845 B) 1855 C) 1861 D) 1864
30. Who influenced Browning the most?
A) Tennyson B) Byron C) Shakespeare D) Milton
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10. Arnold said about a poet ”With him is born our real poetry” Who is the poet
referred to?
A) Wordsworth B) Shelley C) Chaucer D) Dryden
11. What kind of work is Arnold’s Merope?
A) narrative poem B) elegy C) dramatic poem D) lyrical
12. Which poem won Arnold the Oxford Prize?
A) Thyrsis B) Cromwell C) Rugby Chapel D) Sohrab and Rustam
13. When was Matthew Arnold born ?
A) 1822 B) 1833 C) 1832 D) 1829
14. Rugby Chapel is a poem by Matthew Arnold in the memory of his
A) Mother B) Father C) Son D) Friend
15. Empedocles on Etna by Arnold Poem on :
A) Greek Theme B) French Theme C) Love Theme D) Roman Theme
16. Sohrab and Rustam by Arnold is on :
A) Greek Theme B) French Theme C) Persian Theme D) Roman Theme
17. Arnold’s Dover Beach depicts _____________.
A) modern condition B) medieval condition C) medieval life D) Dover City
18. Thyrsis by Arnold is an elegy on the death of ___________.
A) Tennyson B) Browning C) Clough D) James Thomson
19. According to Arnold Chaucer is a ________.
A) not a great classic B) great classic C) modernist D) great poet
20. Mathew Arnold died in ____________.
A) 1868 B) 1875 C) 1881 D) 1888
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Victorian Prose
21. To whom Thomas Carlyle called , " A Mass of Genuine Manhood " ?
A) Swift B) Daniel Defoe C) Dr.Johnson D) Arnold
22. How much time did it take to complete the history of Frederick The Great ?
A) 9 years B) 13 years C) 11 years D) 9 years
23. Thomas Carlyle had no faith in __________.
A) Science B) Folk lores C) Democracy D) Heroism
24. In which literature did Carlyle found , " A new Heaven and a new earth " ?
A) Italian B) German C) Greek D) Latin
25. Who wrote , " On The Choice of Books " ?
A) Ruskin B) Thomas Carlyle C) Tennyson D) Arnold
26. Thomas Carlyle matriculated in ___________.
A) 1809 B) 1812 C) 1816 D) 1811
27. Who is the author of , " The Life of Schiller" ?
A) Ruskin B) Thomas Carlyle C) Browning D) Arnold
28. In 1865, Carlyle was offered the rectorship at ___________ university.
A) Oxford B) Cambridge C) Edinburgh D) Munich
29. Thomas Carlyle published a translation of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's
apprenticeship in ____________.
A) 1821 B) 1824 C) 1829 D) 1831
30. Thomas Carlyle 's father was ____________ by profession.
A) lawyer B) teacher C) Mason D) architect
31. Thomas Carlyle had an aptitude for ____________.
A) Literature B) Maths C) Arts D) Painting
32. Who wrote, " Chartism " ?
A) Ruskin B) Thomas Carlyle C) Browning D) Arnold
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Victorian Novel
9. Charles Dickens novel A Tale of Two Cities can be considered as _______ novel
A) Psychological B) Historical C) Picaresque D) Regional
10. Which are the two cities dealt with in Dickens' novel A Tale of Two Cities?
A) Paris and Moscow B) New York and Washington
C) London and Paris D) Venice and Florence
11. Dickens' novel A Tale of Two Cities shows an influence of Carlyle’s ________.
A) Sartor Resartus B) The Life of Schiller C) French Revolution D) All
12. Dickens left one novel unfinished. Which of these?
A) Great Expectations B) Edwin Darood C) Oliver Twist D) Hard Times
13. Dickens said about one of the novels ”I like this the best” Which novel was
referring to :
A) Pickwick Papers B) Oliver Twist C) David Copperfield D) Hard Times
14. Charles Dickn’s Characters are generally ____________.
A) Round B) Flat C) Humorous D) Humanitarian
15. Who compared Dickens with Shakespeare in making ”A character as real as flesh
and blood”?
A) T.S.Eliot B) Mathew Arnold C) I.A.Richards D) F.R.Leavis
16. In which of Dickens novel a memorable character named Gradgrind appears :
A) Great Expectations B) Little Dorrit C) Oliver Twist D) Hard Times
17. Which of Dickens' novels do we find a character named Miss Pross?
A) Pickwick Papers B) Oliver Twist C) A Tale of Two Cities D) Hard Times
18. Which of the following novels is not written by Dickens?
A) Vanity Fair B) Little Dorrit C) Hard Times D) Our Mutual Friend
19. Charles Dickens born in :
A) 1809 B) 1812 C) 1816 D) 1819
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19. ”The great humorists of the world can be counted on the fingers of a hand, and
Dickens is of that choice company”’ Who says this?
A) T.S.Eliot B) Mathew Arnold C) George Sampson D) F.R.Leavis
20. Who has written the best biography of Charles Dickens ?
A) John Foster B) Arthur Adrian C) J.B.Priestley D) Edgar Johnson
24. ”His novels belong entirely to the humanitarian movement of the Victorian era ”
Who holds this view?
A) W.H.Hudson B) Mathew Arnold C) George Sampson D) F.R.Leavis
25. What problem has Dickens' Bleak House ?
A) Laws Delay B) Working Condition of Weare House
C) Abuse of Charity School D) Child Labour
26. Whose novel through lights on miseries on poor orphan children
A) Henry Fielding B) Jane Austen C) Dickens D) Thackeray
27. Lady Dedlock Character occurs in Dickens' ____________.
A) Pickwick Papers B) Bleak House C) A Tale of Two Cities D) Hard Times
28. The Last Book the Dickens wrote was :
A) Great Expectations B) Little Dorrit C) Oliver Twist D) Hard Times
29. Which character in Dickens' novel keeps waiting for ‘something to turn up’?
A) Sydney Carter B) Oliver Twist C) Pip D) Mr.Micawber
30. 4Who is the most furious character in Fagin’s Den in Dickens’s Oliver Twist?
A) Bill Sikes B) Doger C) Bates D) Chitting
31. " Philip Pirrpi " is a character in Charles Dickens' novel _________.
A) Great Expectations B) Little Dorrit C) Oliver Twist D) Hard Times
32. What is the common name for poor Cocktown factory workers?
A) Scum B) Cogs C) Hands D) Proles
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10. In one of the novels, Hardy says, ”Happiness is but an occasional episode in the
general drama of pain” ?
A) The Return of The Native B) Jude ; The Obscure
C) Tess of The D'urbervilles D) The Mayor of Casterbridge
11. In which novel does Sue Bridehead appear as a character?
A) The Return of The Native B) Jude ; The Obscure
C) A Pair of Blue Eyes D) The Woodlanders
12. In which novel does Giles Winterbourne appear as the hero?
A) The Return of The Native B) Jude ; The Obscure
C) A Pair of Blue Eyes D) The Woodlanders
13. Which of the following heroes writes his will before his death?
A) Angel Clare B) Michael Henchard C) Clym D) Jude Fawle
14. Eustacia Vye appears in ___________.
A) The Return of The Native B) Jude ; The Obscure
C) A Pair of Blue Eyes D) The Woodlanders
15. Gabriel Oak is a character in _________.
A) The Return of The Native B) Jude ; The Obscure
C) A Pair of Blue Eyes D) Far From The Madding Crowd
16. Hardy’s characters are types, though not without individuality. Whose view is
this?
A) Jean Brooks B) D.H.Lawrence C) H.C.Duffin D) David Council
17. Who is the rival of Michael Henchard in The Mayor of Casterbridge?
A) Gabriel Oak B) Clym C) Donal Farfrae D) Wildeve
18. Which of the following is a novel by Hardy?
A) A Laodicean B) The Antiquity C) Jonathan Wilde D) Hard Times
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28. Heart Insurgent’ is the name for which this novel of Hardy was published as a
serial in Harper’s New Monthly Magazines ?
A) The Return of The Native B) Jude ; The Obscure
C) Tess of The D'urbervilles D) The Mayor of Casterbridge
29. Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of _______________.
A) architecture B) engraver C) mason D) sculptor
30. According to Hardy , " Nature is ____________ for humans . "
A) productive B) destructive C) worthy D) worthless
31. Thomas Hardy is believed to be a _____________.
A) pessimist B) optimist C) rational D) altruist
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12. After finishing which novel , George Eliot dedicated the manuscript writing to , "
my beloved husband; George Henry Lewes " ?
A) The Lifted Veil B) Middlemarch C) Romola D) The Mill on The Floss
13. What is the sub_title of George Eliot 's " Silas Marinar " ?
A) The Study of Provincial Life B) The Radical
C) The Novel of Seduction D) The Weaver of Raveloe
14. Which novel of George Eliot is the pastoral novel set in a rural community of a
Hayslope, England?
A) Adam Bede B) Middlemarch C) Romola D) The Mill on The Floss
15. Which one is the sub_title of Eliot 's novel , " Middlemarch" ?
A) The Study of Provincial Life B) The Radical
C) The Novel of Seduction D) The Weaver of Raveloe
16. George Eliot 's novel , " Adam Bede" has been written in _________ volumes?
A) One B) two C) three D) four
17. The setting of the novel, " Adam Bede" is in ___________.
A) Florence. B) Ellastone C) London D) Treby Magma
18. Which novel is called , The Novel of Seduction " ?
A) Adam Bede B) Middlemarch C) Romola D) Felix Holt
19. Which novel is considered the most autobiographical of George Eliot?
A) Adam Bede B) Middlemarch C) Romola D) The Mill on The Floss
20. Who is the protagonist of the novel , " The Mill on The Floss " ?
A) Tom Tulliver B) Maggie Tulliver C) Dorothea Brooks D) none
21. In the novel , " The mill on The Floss" , the character of Tom Tulliver is based on :
A) Eliot's brother B) Eliot's friend C) Eliot's uncle D) Eliot's father
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