WorksheetsVictorian Literature Review
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 22mins
Which of the following is NOT true of the Victorian era?
The gulf between the rich and the poor widened.
The industrial revolution modernized life.
Religious doubts were on the rise.
The novel nearly disappeared as people turned toward poetry.
Novels in the Victorian era often appeared as serialized tales in magazines before being published as books.
true
false
Which of the following is NOT true of the Victorian novel?
They often tackled social problems of the day head-on.
They tended toward realism.
They often exhibited new narrative techniques like multi-plotted stories.
The were usually short.
The most famous English novelist of the Victorian Era is...
Charles Dickens
Emily Bronte
Lord Tennyson
Robert Browning
"Ulysses" by Lord Tennyson is about...
the Trojan War and its after effects.
making life count all the way until the very end.
the American Civil War hero.
old people being better than young people.
An allegory is...
a story in which characters and places stand for other things.
a poem in which a single speaker speaks inside a completely imagined dramatic moment.
a poem of 14 lines that divides into an octave and sestet.
a favorite device of Charles Dickens.
Which poem is an allegory?
"Porphyria's Lover"
"The Windhover"
"The Lady of Shalott"
"To An Athlete Dying Young"
This poet uses the receding tide as a symbol of society's loss of faith.
A.E. Housman in "When I was One-and-Twenty"
Matthew Arnold in "Dover Beach"
Tennyson in "Ulysses"
Gerard Manley Hopkins in "Spring and Fall"
Which poem is the most like "Is My Team Plowing"?
"God's Grandeur"
"Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?"
"The Lady of Shalott"
"Thou Art, Indeed, Just Lord"
Explain how those two poems are similar.
This poet is famous for mastering the dramatic monologue.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Robert Browning
Lord Tennyson
The excerpt we read from Jane Eyre examines...
schooling for poor children
gender roles in Victorian factories
the rise of the urban poor as a result of industrialization
the role of the church in working for justice
Gerard Manley Hopkins reflects typical Victorian writers with his highly devotional, religious poetry.
True
False
Eva's favorite (a) was the necklace her grandmother gave her.
verandah placebo trinket aversion
In his (a) pursuit of the truth, the detective didn't care how many bridges he burned.
dogged, averse, commenced, brigadoon
"All that glitters is not gold," an idiom that originated with Shakespeare, reminds us that even ugly things can be (a) , thereby deceiving us about their actual appearance or value.
self-possessed brooding gilded morose
This poem tells about a psychotic murderer.
"My Last Duchess"
"The Lady of Shalott"
"Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?"
"Porphyria's Lover"
After eating so many raspberry candies that he got sick from them, the boy developed an (a) to all things raspberry in the future.
aversion, dogged, brigadoon, pietistic
Who is Max DePree?
The school teacher in Jane Eyre
The man who stood up Miss Havisham in Great Expectations
A Christian business leader from Herman Miller
The poet laureate of Victorian England
This poem communicates its theme mostly through its dramatic shift in tone.
The Windhover
The Man He Killed
Ulysses
To An Athlete Dying Young
Which poem is NOT by Hopkins?
"God's Grandeur"
"When I Was One-and-Twenty"
"Pied Beauty"
"Spring and Fall"
Which poem contemplates death?
"Spring and Fall"
"Dover Beach"
"My Last Duchess"
"A Man's Requirements"
Which poet plays the most with sound devices?
Robert Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Thomas Hardy
In which poem do you find the following line:
"Thus, if thou wilt prove me, Dear,
Woman’s love no fable.
I will love thee—half a year—
As a man is able."
"A Man's Requirement"
"How I Do Love Thee, Let Me Count the Ways"
"God's Grandeur"
"To An Athlete Dying Young"
In which poem do you find the following line:
"Death closes all: but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks:
The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep
Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends,
'T is not too late to seek a newer world."
"The Lady of Shalott"
"Ulysses"
"Spring and Fall"
"My Last Duchess"
In which poem do you find the following line:
"Glory be to God for dappled things –
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow"
"God's Grandeur"
"Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?"
"Pied Beauty"
"The Windhover"
In which poem do you find the following line:
"O thou lord of life, send my roots rain."
"The Windhover"
"When I Was One-and-Twenty"
"Ulysses"
"Thou Art, Indeed, Just Lord"
What old but hard question does Hopkins ask in "The Art, Indeed, Just Lord"?
Why does pain exist?
Why do sinners prosper?
What is the meaning of it all?
Who really controls our actions?
From which poem comes the following lines:
"Now no matter, child, the name:
Sórrow’s spríngs áre the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:
It ís the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for."
"The Windhover"
"A Man's Requirement"
"Dover Beach"
"Spring and Fall"
From which poem comes the following plea:
"Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain"
"Spring and Fall"
"The Man He Killed"
"Dover Beach"
"Ulysses"
Who wrote Jane Eyre?
Charles Dickens
Emily Bronte
Charlotte Bronte
Thomas Hardy
Who wrote Great Expectations?
Charles Dickens
Emily Bronte
Charlotte Bronte
Thomas Hardy
We looked at a number of poets in this unit. Which poet or poems were the most interesting to you? Why?
Which poet does NOT reflect the Victorian loss of faith?
A.E. Housman
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Lord Tennyson
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Who wrote "Spring and Fall"?
Lord Tennyson
Charles Dickens
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Matthew Arnold
