5L Christmas Quiz Victorian Age

The Houses of Parliament (aka Palace of Westminster)

was rebuilt during the Victorian Age in ...

• Gothic style

• Romanesque style

• Neoclassical style

Queen Victoria's reign was ___________ Elizabeth II's

• shorter than

• longer than

• as long as

A movement demanding universal male suffrage,

secret ballot

and electoral reforms

• Chartism

• Magna Charta

• McCarthysm

The first conflict reported in newspapers in nearly "real time",

thanks to the use of the telegraph

• Crimean War

• Opium Wars

• The Indian Mutiny

With the Crimean War, Britain wanted to limit the power of...

• Russia

• the USA

• Piedmont

British Prime Minister, who said that Victorian England

was inhabited by "two nations": "the rich and the poor"

• Disraeli

• Gladstone

• Churchill

Many Irish people emigrated to America because of...

• the potato famine

• the water drought

• the enclosure of lands

Together with The Brontes, one of the most famous Victorian female writers

• George Eliot

• George B. Shaw

• Lewis Carroll

The poem "The White Man's Burden" celebrates the American domination on ________________ after the Spanish American Wars

• the Philippines

• Japan

• India

Which is correct?

• Dickens gradually developed a more radical social view, but never became a revolutionary thinker

• Dickens gradually developed a more radical social view, until he became a revolutionary thinker

• Dickens' social view has always been revolutionary