Literature!

- During Victorian age where could those who could not support themselves financially go to live?

• Local factories

• Towns’ suburbs

• Workhouses

Which of the following statements is true?

• Children under the age of 14 were not permitted to work in Britain in the 1840s

• Children of all ages worked long hours for a wage in Britain in the 1840s

• Children under the age of ten were not permitted to work in Britain in the 1840s

Charles Dickens was removed from school at a young age to work in which of the following?

• A textile mill

• A tailor’s

• A blacking factory

Charles Dickens had a career as which of the following?

• Journalist

• Politician

• Schoolteacher

Why does Scrooge feel sorry at the vision of his boyhood self?

• He remembrers how lonely he was

• Both

• He realises he might have given something to the carrolling boy who appeared at his door

In which era was Jane Eyre written?

• The Georgian

• The Regency

• The Victorian

What does Jane feel as a great and unjust restraint on her ability to determine her own future?

• Her age

• Her gender

• Both

Oscar Wild defined his life as

• an act of rebellion

• a work of art

• nonsense

According to Oscar Wild the art’s aim is

• to conceal the artist

• to express one’s feelings

• to prove a theory

Fill in the blanks in the starting part of “The Picture of Dorian Gray”. “The studio was filled with….. …. ….”

• the light of the moon

• the sound of the nightingale

• the rich odour of roses