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Victorian Age

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which period is commonly considered as the Victorian Period ?

a)

1830 -1920

b)

1832- 1899

c)

1832-1901

d)

1820-1901

2.

When was the first reform bill passed in both houses and made law in England ?

a)

1830

b)

1831

c)

1832

d)

1834

3.

Did women get voting rights during the time of Queen Victoria

a)

yes

b)

no

c)

don't know

4.

Which year did women get voting rights in England?

(Write 4 digit answer)

(a)  

5.

When did queen Victoria came to power?

(answer in 4 digit Arabic numerals)

(a)  

6.

What was the benefit of great reform act of 1832?

a)

gave voting rights to all men in

England

b)

Gave voting rights to women

c)

provided representation to industrial centers

d)

Gave voting rights to immigrants

7.

What were the major demands in People’s Charter ?

1. Annual parliaments

2. Universal suffrage (for Men)

3. Abolition of the property qualification for members of

the House of Commons

4. A secret ballot

a)

1 and 2

b)

1and 4

c)

2 , 3 and 4

d)

1, 2, and 3

e)

all the above

8.

Who is the lady known as the "Lady with the Lamp"?

(a)  

9.

Who doesn't belong to the Oxford Movement ?

a)

John Henry Newman

b)

John Keble

c)

Benjamin Disraeli

d)

Richard Froude

10.

In which year did Railway started in Victorian England?

(write the year in 4 digits

(a)  

11.

The first railway line was between

a)

Liverpool and Manchester

b)

Manchester and England

c)

Liverpool and England

d)

None of these

12.

Name the book translated by Mary Anns Evans that suspected the historicity of the Bible and its indubitable spiritual and moral legacy

(a)  

13.

Name Charles Darwin's landmark book in the history of scinence

(a)  

14.

Who has written the book Sartor Resartus ?

(a)  

15.

Who has said these lines, ‘Indian Empire will go, at any rate, some day; but this Shakespeare does not go, he lasts with us; we cannot give-up our Shakespeare.’

a)

Charles Dikens

b)

Tennyson

c)

Mary Ann Evans

d)

Carlyle

16.

Who has written the book ‘The Function of Criticism at the Present Time’?

(a)  

17.

Name the book by Charles Dickens that was written in the background of French Revolution?

(a)  

18.

Name the magazine in which women were able to publish their works at the time of aesthetic movement in Victorian England?

(a)  

19.

Name the narrative poem written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

(a)  

20.

Who has written the narrative poem "Goblin Market "?

a)

Christina Rossetti

b)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

c)

Alfred Lord Tennyson

d)

Robert browning

21.

Name the work written in Dramatic Monologue in which the Duke of Ferrara describes how he (probably) killed his last wife to the man who is arranging his next marriage,

(a)  

22.

Write the title of the elegy written in memory of his friend Arthur Henry Hallam

(a)  

23.

Who has written the children's classic Alice in Wonderland?

(a)  

24.

Name the novel written by Charlotte Bronte in Gothic tradition

(a)  

25.

Who has written the satirical realism novel "Vanity Fair" ?

a)

William Makepeace Thackjeray

b)

Alfred Lord Tennyson

c)

Charles Dickens

d)

Carlyle

26.

Name George Eliot's psychological realism novel that emphasizes on portraying the rich inner life of characters – their thoughts, feelings, motivations, anxieties, etc

(a)  

27.

Name a social realistic novel by Charles Dickes that focuses on the foibles, eccentricities, and remarkable characteristics of people, who are frequently caricatured. Often comic (and sometimes tragicomic)

(a)  

28.

Name the novel by Rudyard Kipling that celebrated the British rule in India

(a)  

29.

Name the novel by Joseph Conrad that speaks ostensibly about the empire under the colonizers in Congo

(a)  

30.

who owned the larges and mosst influential lending library in Victorian Britain

(a)