The Victorian Age

Question 0

Women could work as a:

Answer 0

Governess

Question 1

Typical Victorian terms: submissive, earnest, morality, domestic property. Name a term that is not Victorian:

Answer 1

Rebellious

Question 2

Published under the name Currer Bell:

Answer 2

Charlotte Bronte

Question 3

“I’ve read with excitement…manner of Childe Harold.” Who wrote this:

Answer 3

William Butler Yeats

Question 4

Lewis Carroll wrote:

Answer 4

Through the Looking Glass

Question 5

Universities granted ______ degrees to women

Answer 5

Twelve

Question 6

Mary Ann Evans

Answer 6

George Eliot

Question 7

Wrote about fruit and goblins

Answer 7

C. Rossetti

Question 8

“White Man’s Burden” by Kipling

Answer 8

The Brits moral responsibility to educate the world by colonizing it

Question 9

“Irish Question” in 1880s

Answer 9

Home Rule for Ireland

Question 10

Growing awareness to the immense running of the empire (four things):

Answer 10

The Boer War, The Indian Mutiny, The Irish Question, The Jamaica Rebellion

Question 11

“For despite his fascination…sense of the past.”

Answer 11

Lord Tennyson

Question 12

The French Lieutenant’s Woman

Answer 12

John Fowles

Question 13

Far From the Madding Crowd

Answer 13

Thomas Hardy

Question 14

The Way of All Flesh

Answer 14

Samuel Butler

Question 15

Who wrote “For what wears out…strongest souls.”?

Answer 15

Matthew Arnold

Question 16

Sordello

Answer 16

R. Browning

Question 17

Principles of Political Economy

Answer 17

John Stuart Mill

Question 18

Aurora Leigh

Answer 18

E. B. Browning

Question 19

New Poems

Answer 19

C. Rossetti

Question 20

Poems by Two Brothers

Answer 20

Lord Tennyson

Question 21

Far From the Madding Crowd

Answer 21

Thomas Hardy

Question 22

The public wanted poems that:

Answer 22

Had something to teach

Question 23

Literature and Dogma

Answer 23

M. Arnold

Question 24

The Kangaroo

Answer 24

D. H. Lawrence

Question 25

Commonplace

Answer 25

C. Rossetti

Question 26

Maud

Answer 26

Lord Tennyson

Question 27

Wives and Daughters

Answer 27

E. Gaskell

Question 28

Ballads and Sonnets

Answer 28

D. G. Rossetti

Question 29

“The Custody Act” in 1839:

Answer 29

Women could ask for custody of children under 7

Question 30

The “Catholic” side of the Church, tradition, ritual, authority:

Answer 30

The High Church

Question 31

London grew from two million to…

Answer 31

Six and a half million