Test 3

Question 1

From where does the Victorian period gets its name?

Answer 1

Queen Victoria

Question 1

During which period did education became compulsory for children?

Answer 1

Late Victorian era 1880 with the further education act.

Question 2

T/F Although the novel was the most popular form of literature in the Victorian Period, the Victorians held poetry in a higher regard than the novel. They thought poetry was true literature.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

E. Browning’s “The Cry of the Children” compares the children to what?

Answer 3

young animals

Question 4

Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” is what type of poetry?

Answer 4

Dramatic Monologue

Question 5

What is the theme of Rosetti’s “Promises Like Pie-Crust”?

Answer 5

fear of commitment

Question 6

T/F In Kipling’s “—If” the true measure of a man is found in his heroic deeds, wealth, and/or fame.

Answer 6

False

Question 7

Who is telling the story in Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?

Answer 7

Limited Third Person Narrator

Question 8

What reason does Dr. Jekyll give to explain Mr. Hyde’s size?

Answer 8

Because the evil side of Jekyll, Hyde, has been repressed for many years.

Question 9

The delight Jekyll feels at becoming Hyde is compared to what?

Answer 9

delight like wine

Question 10

T/F Twentieth Century literature focuses on art for art’s sake (aestheticism), not on instruction.

Answer 10

True

Question 11

In Hardy’s “The Ruined Maid” what has happened to ‘Melia to cause her to be ruined?

Answer 11

She has become a mistress or a prostitute

Question 12

What is the overwhelming question about in Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”?

Answer 12

Asking a woman out

Question 13

What keeps Prufrock from asking the question?

Answer 13

He is filled with self-doubt about how he appears, is uncomfortable, and is worried about getting old.

Question 14

In Walcott’s “A Far Cry from Africa” why does the narrator have divided loyalties?

Answer 14

There are divided loyalties of the poet himself. Racially he is African but he is educated by Western thought.

Question 15

With what does the narrator in Heaney’s “Digging” dig?

Answer 15

a pen

Question 16

In the Heart of Darkness for whom is the group on the boat looking?

Answer 16

Kurtz

Question 17

In Conrad’s novel, ‘the heart of darkness’ can refer to several things. What are some of those things?

Answer 17

The jungle? The work of the company? The heart od the Blackman/white man? Marlow’s memory of Kurtz?

Question 18

In Woolf’s essay, why is it unfitting for a woman to write “about the passions”?

Answer 18

It is not culturally appropriate, it is something that historically and culturally has been given to men.

Question 19

In “Adam’s Curse” what are the things that require labor?

Answer 19

Poetry, beauty, love

Question 20

In Mansfield’s “The Garden Party” why does Laura believe that the dead man is happy at the end of the story?

Answer 20

There are no class distinctions in death

Question 21

T/F In Rhys’s “The Day They Burned the Books,” Eddie loves everything his mother loves and hates everything his father loves.

Answer 21

False

Question 22

In Gordimer’s “The Moment before the Gun Went Off,” what is worse than killing your own son?

Question 23

What are the “five inestimable blessings” Jonathan has in Achobe’s “Civil Peace”?

Answer 23

His ‘head’, his wife, and his three children

Question 24

In Waiting for Godot, what is a strong indicator of existence?

Answer 24

realtionships and humanity

Question 25

Based on Beckett’s depiction of Godot, how would you characterize Beckett’s understanding of God?

Answer 25

He’s somebody out there that might be true. he does not have a understanding of God being personal. Demonstrate people have a misunderstanding of who God is.

Question 26

T/F Because English literature is so popular worldwide and because English is the language of education in so many countries, it is not surprising that the top-selling authors in Great Britain represent an array of different nationalities and ethnicities.

Answer 26

False

Question 27

Which groups have power in deciding which works are included in a canon?

Answer 27

Editors, Culture, Education, Controversy

Question 28

“For, all day, the wheels are droning, turning; . . . / And all day, the iron wheels are droning, / And sometimes we could pray, / ‘O ye wheels,’ (breaking out in mad moaning)”

Answer 28

• Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “The Cry of he Children”

Question 29

“—E’en then would be some stooping; and I choose / Never to stoop.”

Answer 29

Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”

Question 30

“Let us be the friends we were, / Nothing more but nothing less: / Many thrive on frugal fare / Who would perish of excess”

Answer 30

Christina Rossetti, “Promises like Piecrust”

Question 31

“If you can fill the unforgiving minute / With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, / Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, / And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!”

Answer 31

Richard Kipling, “if—”

Question 32

“—‘You left us in tatters, without shoes or socks, / Tired of digging potatoes, and spudding up docks;”

Answer 32

Tomas Hardy, “The Ruined Maid”

Question 33

“ . . . he woke again to his good qualities seemingly unimpaired; he would even make haste, where it possible, to undo the evil done . . .”

Answer 33

Robert Louis Stevenson, ‘Dr. Jekyll and Hyde”

Question 34

“I have heard the mermaids, singing, each to each. / I do not think that they will sing to me”

Answer 34

T. S. Elliot, ‘The Love song of J. Afred Prufrock”

Question 35

“The violence of beast on beast is read / As natural law, but upright man / Seeks his divinity by inflicting pain.”

Answer 35

Derek Walcott, ‘A Far Cry from Africa”

Question 36

“Between my finger and my thumb / The squat pen rests”

Answer 36

Seamus Heaney, “Digging”

Question 37

“I discovered that if I were going to review books I should need to do battle with a certain phantom . . . I called her after the heroine of a famous poem, The Angel in the House.”

Answer 37

Virginia Woolf, “Profession for a women”

Question 38

“The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.”

Answer 38

Joseph Conrad, “the heart of darkness”

Question 39

“He bent down, pinched a sprig of lavender, put his thumb and forefinger to his nose and snuffled up the smell . . . Why couldn’t she have workmen for friends rather than the silly boys she danced with . . .”

Answer 39

Kathrine Mansfield, “the garden party”

Question 40

“. . . by a flicker in Mrs. Sawyer’s eyes I knew that worse than men who wrote books were women who wrote books—infinitely worse. Men could be mercifully shot: women must be tortured.”

Answer 40

Jean Rhys, “the Day they burned the books”

Question 41

“How will they ever know, when they file newspaper clippings, evidence, proof, when they look at the photographs and see his face—guilty! guilty! . . . How could they know that they do not know.”

Answer 41

Nadine Gordimer, “the moment before the gun went off”

Question 42

“Nothing puzzles God.”

Answer 42

Chinua Achabe, “Civil Peace”

Question 43

“They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more”

Answer 43

Samuel Beckett, “Waiting for Godot”

Question 44

“People are bloody ignorant apes.”

Answer 44

Samuel Beckett, the character of ESTRAGON in “Waiting for Godot”