Question 1

Who is the author of the novel 'Wuthering Heights'?

Accepted Answer

Emily Bronte

Answer

Jane Austen

Answer

Charlotte Bronte

Answer

Mary Shelley

Question 2

Which novel by Charles Dickens features the character Pip?

Accepted Answer

Great Expectations

Answer

A Tale of Two Cities

Answer

David Copperfield

Answer

Oliver Twist

Question 3

Who wrote the poem 'The Lady of Shalott'?

Accepted Answer

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Answer

William Wordsworth

Answer

John Keats

Answer

Robert Browning

Question 4

Which Victorian novelist is known for works such as 'Jane Eyre' and 'Villette'?

Accepted Answer

Charlotte Bronte

Answer

Emily Bronte

Answer

Thomas Hardy

Answer

George Eliot

Question 5

Who is the author of the novel 'Dracula'?

Accepted Answer

Bram Stoker

Answer

Oscar Wilde

Answer

Mary Shelley

Answer

Edgar Allan Poe

Question 6

Which Victorian poet wrote the poem 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'?

Accepted Answer

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Answer

Robert Browning

Answer

William Wordsworth

Answer

John Keats

Question 7

Who is the author of the novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?

Accepted Answer

Jane Austen

Answer

Charlotte Bronte

Answer

Mary Shelley

Answer

Emily Bronte

Question 8

Which Victorian poet wrote the poem 'Ulysses'?

Accepted Answer

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Answer

William Wordsworth

Answer

John Keats

Answer

Robert Browning

Question 9

Who is the author of the novel 'Frankenstein'?

Accepted Answer

Mary Shelley

Answer

Emily Bronte

Answer

Jane Austen

Answer

Charlotte Bronte

Question 10

Who is the author of the novel 'Middlemarch'?

Accepted Answer

George Eliot

Answer

Thomas Hardy

Answer

Jane Austen

Answer

Charles Dickens

Question 11

During the Victorian Era, how many works of prose fiction were published in Great Britain alone?

Accepted Answer

60000

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90000

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30000

Answer

10000

Question 12

What format were novels originally published in during the Victorian Era?

Accepted Answer

Three-volume

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Penny dreadfuls

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Serial

Answer

Single-volume

Question 13

Which of the following genres was NOT popular during the Victorian Era?

Accepted Answer

Romance

Answer

Detective fiction

Answer

Science fiction

Answer

Social problem novels

Question 14

Who was the proponent of industrial development and commissioned the Great Exhibition of 1851?

Accepted Answer

Prince Albert

Answer

William Thackeray

Answer

Charles Dickens

Answer

Queen Victoria

Question 15

What invention enabled printing on an industrial scale during the Victorian Era?

Accepted Answer

Rotary press

Answer

Printing press

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Typewriter

Answer

Photocopier

Question 16

What did Victorian poets focus on in their poetry?

Accepted Answer

Realism

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Responsibility

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Skepticism

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Romanticism

Question 17

Which city became a hub for literature during the Victorian Era?

Accepted Answer

London

Answer

New York

Answer

Rome

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Paris

Question 18

What was the legacy of Victorian writers?

Accepted Answer

Enormous changes of the period

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Neoclassical tradition

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Creation of literary modernism

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Romantic tradition

Question 19

What was the extent of the British Empire by the end of Victoria's reign?

Accepted Answer

About one-fifth of the earth's surface

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About half of the earth's surface

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The entire earth's surface

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About one-tenth of the earth's surface

Question 20

What did Victorian authors often reflect on in relation to the British Empire?

Accepted Answer

Imperial expansion

Answer

Scientific progress

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Political activism

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Industrial development

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