Victorian Period

Which ruler's reign marks the approximate beginning and end of the Victorian era?

• King Henry VIII
• Queen Elizabeth I
• Queen Victoria
• King John

Which city became the perceived center of Western civilization by the middle of the nineteenth century?

• Paris
• Tokyo
• London
• New York

By 1890, what percentage of the earth's population was subject to Queen Victoria?

• 1%
• 10%
• 25%
• 40%

What did Thomas Carlyle mean by "Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe"?

• Abandon the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose found in Goethe.
• Even a foreign author is better than a homegrown scoundrel.
• Leave England and emigrate to Germany.
• Britain's preeminence as a global power will depend on mastery of foreign languages.

To whom did the Reform Bill of 1832 extend the vote on parliamentary representation?

• the lower middle classes
• women
• the working classes
• landowners

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?

• the prudishness and old-fashioned ideals of her fellow Victorians
• insurrection in the colonies
• women's rights and suffrage
• child labor

Who were the "Two Nations" referred to in the subtitle of Disraeli's Sybil (1845)?

• England and Ireland
• the rich and the poor
• Britain and Germany
• the industrial north and the agrarian south

Which of the following novelists best represents the mid-Victorian period's contentment with the burgeoning economic prosperity and decreased restiveness over social and political change?

• Anthony Trollope
• Charles Dickens
• Oscar Wilde
• Friedrich Engels

Which event did not occur as part of the rise of the British Empire under Queen Victoria?

• In 1876, Queen Victoria was named empress of India
• Between 1853 and 1880, 2,466,000 emigrants left Britain, many bound for the colonies.
• In 1867 the Canadian provinces were unified into the Dominion of Canada.
• To save costs and maximize profits, the day-to-day government of India was transferred from Parliament to the private East India Company.

What does the phrase "White Man's Burden," coined by Kipling, refer to?

• the moral responsibility to bring civilization and Christianity to the peoples of the world
• the importance of solving economic and social problems in England before tackling the world's problems
• the British need to improve technology and transportation in other parts of the world
• Britain's manifest destiny to colonize the world