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Victorian Age

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which play of Wilde was a harsh attack on the polished hypocrisy of the Victorian age ?

a)

Lady Windermere's Fan

b)

The Importance of Being Earnest

c)

A Doll's House

d)

A Little Princess

2.

Who is the most influential essayist of the Victorian period?

a)

Thomas Carlyle

b)

John Ruskin

c)

Thomas Hardy

d)

George Eliot

3.

Which essay was was part autobiography, part philosophical meditation?

a)

The Signs of the Times

b)

Chartism

c)

The French Revolution

d)

Sartor Resartus

4.

Which essay revived the concept of a leader?

a)

Sartor Resartus

b)

The Stones of Venice

c)

Heroes and Hero Worship

d)

Chartism

5.

Which quality set the heroes apart from the ordinary human beings?

a)

Extraordinary Idea

b)

Humble Idea

c)

Divine Idea

d)

Simple Idea

6.

Which was the most famous tract of John Ruskin?

a)

Chartism

b)

Modern Painters

c)

The Stones of Venice

d)

The French Revolution

7.

Beauty in living things was seen by Ruskin as

(a)  

8.

In which essay does Ruskin discuss about the fall of a culture?

a)

The French Revolution

b)

Chartism

c)

The Stones of Venice

d)

The Fall of India

9.

In which essay does Ruskin discuss that great architecture, like any great art, produced moral feelings?

a)

Unto this Last

b)

The Great Architecture

c)

The Secrets of Architecture

d)

The Seven Lamps of Architecture

10.

The aim of Ruskin through the essay 'Unto This Last' was to provide (a)  

11.

Who was a tireless chronicler of the flaws of the age and a sharp-eyed critic of England's social systems?

a)

Thomas Hardy

b)

Arthur Conan Doyle

c)

Charles Dickens

d)

George Eliot

12.

Which novel of Dickens was based on the theme the travails of a good man?

a)

Nicholas Nickleby

b)

Hard Times

c)

The Pickwick Papers

d)

Oliver Twist

13.

Which novel of Dickens is a powerful critique of the workhouse era?

a)

Oliver Twist

b)

Martin Chuzzlewit

c)

David Copperfield

d)

Alice in Wonderland

14.

Which novel of Dickens is about flawed moral values especially greed and hypocrisy?

a)

Martin Chuzzlewit

b)

Oliver Twist

c)

David Copperfield

d)

Nicholas Nickleby

15.

Which industrial novel, portrayed the conditions of education, exploitation and industry?

a)

Hard Times

b)

Oliver Twist

c)

Martin Chuzzlewit

d)

David Copperfield

16.

Which novel is a-kind of bildungsroman, as it traces the growth of the protagonist into a young man through various trials and tribulations?

a)

Martin Chuzzlewit

b)

Oliver Twist

c)

David Copperfield

d)

Tom Jones

17.

Which novel of Dickens saw the character of Pip?

a)

David Copperfield

b)

Peter Pan

c)

Great Expectations

d)

Little Dorrit

18.

Which novel of Dickens focused on prison conditions?

a)

A Tale of Two Cities

b)

Little Dorrit

c)

Edwin Drood

d)

Great Expectations

19.

The real name of George Eliot was (a)  

20.

The first works of George Eliot were published in (a)  

21.

Which work of George Eliot was described as a 'study of provincial life'?

a)

Felix Holt

b)

Middlemarch

c)

Daniel Deronda

d)

Tom Jones

22.

What is the name of the historical novel of George Eliot?

a)

Felix Holt

b)

Amos Barton

c)

Romola

d)

Middlemarch

23.

Which novel of Eliot was noted for its heavy religious theme?

a)

Silas Marner

b)

Adam Bede

c)

The Mill on the Floss

d)

Middlemarch

24.

Who were the three Bronte sisters?

(a)  

25.

Which was the only novel of Emily Bronte?

a)

Jane Eyre

b)

Villette

c)

Wuthering Heights

d)

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall