9) High Victorian Literature

Question 1

What did High Victorian Literature reflect?

Answer 1

complexities of society and the moralistic tendencies of the era, addressed moral issues and critique of societal norms

Question 2

Which High Victorian Literature author was influenced by the Scottish Enlightenment?

Answer 2

Thomas Carlyle

Question 3

Thomas Carlyle

Answer 3

The French Revolution

Question 4

Elizabeth Gaskell

Answer 4

Mary Barton, North and South

Question 5

Which High Victorian author was a priest and saw literature as a religious mission?

Answer 5

Charles Kingsley

Question 6

Thomas Macaulay

Answer 6

The History of England

Question 7

William Makepeace Thackeray

Answer 7

Punch, The Book of Snobs, Vanity Fair

Question 8

What did Emily Bronte write?

Answer 8

novels and poetry

Question 9

What is the name of the only novel written by Emily Bronte?

Answer 9

Wuthering Heights

Question 10

Where did Emily Bronte grow up?

Answer 10

in the isolated Yorkshire moors

Question 11

How many siblings did Emily Bronte have?

Answer 11

five - she was five of six children

Question 12

Which novel follows the intertwined fates of two families: the Earnshaws and the Lintons?

Answer 12

Wuthering Heights

Question 13

What is the setting of Wuthering Heights?

Answer 13

Yorkshire moors

Question 14

Who is Heathcliff?

Answer 14

a foundling boy adopted by the owner of Wuthering Heights, falls in love with Catherine

Question 15

What is the name of a debut novel written by Charlotte Bronte?

Answer 15

The Professor

Question 16

Charlotte Bronte

Answer 16

The Professor, Jane Eyre, Shirley

Question 17

What is the name of the place where Jane lives with Rochester?

Answer 17

Thornfield

Question 18

Why didn’t Jane marry Rochester for the first time?

Answer 18

because he was already married, his wife was kept hidden due to her violent insanity

Question 19

How does Jane Eyre end?

Answer 19

Jane and Rochester reunite and they marry, however, Rochester lost his sight and a hand while trying to save his ex-wife from a fire she caused; over the time, Rochester regains partial sight, allowing him to see their first child

Question 20

What is the main topic of Charles Dickens’ works?

Answer 20

London

Question 21

Charles Dickens

Answer 21

Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations

Question 22

Which Dickens’ novels is set during the French Revolution?

Answer 22

A Tale of Two Cities

Question 23

Which of Dickens’ works was published in serialized form from 1860 to 1861?

Answer 23

Great Expectations

Question 24

What is the name of the main character in Great Expectations?

Answer 24

Pip

Question 25

With who did Pip fall in love?

Answer 25

Estella

Question 26

What are the themes of Great Expectations?

Answer 26

ambition, social class, guilt, redemption, the true meaning of being a gentleman

Question 27

George Elliot

Answer 27

Middlemarch, Mill on the Floss

Question 28

Who was Alfred Lord Tennyson?

Answer 28

a poet, one of the leading figures of Victorian Literature

Question 29

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Answer 29

In Memoriam, The Legends of Arthur, Ulysses, Charge of the Light Brigade

Question 30

When was Charge of the Light Brigade written?

Answer 30

1854

Question 31

What is Charge of the Light Brigade about?

Answer 31

a historical event that occurred during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War, a miscommunication among the British military commanders led to a disastrous cavalry charge against well-defended Russian positions in the valley of Balaclava

Question 32

How long is Charge of the Light Brigade?

Answer 32

relatively short, 6 stanzas

Question 33

Who were the Preraphaelites?

Answer 33

a brotherhood established in the half of the 19th century, reform of the art, rejection of “mechanistic approach”, they sought to return to the rich detail, intense colors and complex compositions

Question 34

Name the most important members of the Preraphaelit movement

Answer 34

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, J. E. Millais, W. H. Hunt

Question 35

What is the name of the Preraphaelit journal?

Answer 35

The Germ

Question 36

Which poet was interested in paganism, attacked Christian morality, and in his work Poem and Ballad criticized Christian narrowness?

Answer 36

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Question 37

Christina Rossetti

Answer 37

Goblin Market, In an Artist’s Studio

Question 38

What is In an Artist’s Studio and when was it written?

Answer 38

it is a sonnet written in 1856

Question 39

What is the structure of In an Artist’s Studio?

Answer 39

traditional sonnet form, 14 lines, consistent rhyme scheme ABBA ABBA CDCDCD