Unit 7 Test

Question 1

Statements about the religious climate of nineteenth-century England

Answer 1

The period’s evangelicalism produced England’s great missionary effect

Some of England’s finest hymns were produced

Evangelicalism tempered England’s colonial efforts with humanitarian concerns.

Question 2

By the end of Victoria’s reign, England was less able to meet the trials of the new century because of her transition from a religious

Answer 2

to an increasingly secularistic nation

Question 3

Darwin’s “Origin of Species” statements

Answer 3

supported the throw of evolution of animal species from common origins

created a receptive climate for Karl Marx’s theories

The work also devastated shallow religionists

Question 4

Thomas Carlyle

His spiritual autobiography is

Answer 4

Sartorial Resartus

Question 5

Thomas Carlyle

In “The Hero as Divinity” Carlyle’s controlling image is

Answer 5

that the hero is like lightning acting on your kindling

Question 6

John Henry Newman

found religious satisfaction in

Answer 6

religious traditionalism

Question 7

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

His poetry was deepened and enriched by the

Answer 7

death of his best friend

Question 8

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

_____ was the main influence upon his religious thought

Answer 8

Thomas Carlyle

Question 9

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In “Morte de Arthur”, Tennyson expresses _____concerning Victorian faith in human progress

Answer 9

Optimism

Question 10

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In “Crossing the Bar” the “pilot” is the

Answer 10

“divine and unseen Who is always guiding us.”

Question 11

Robert Browning

“Prospice” expresses Browning’s faith in

Answer 11

immortality

Question 12

He was the late-Victorian writer who had the most influence on modern literature.

Answer 12

Matthew Arnold

Question 13

Christina Rossetti

Her writing was affected most by

Answer 13

seventeenth-century Anglican devotional poets

Question 14

Christina Rossetti

According to “Long Barren” _____ _____ and _____ _____ are the two elements most closely related.

Answer 14

spiritual vitality

artistic creativity

Question 15

Lewis Carroll

Most of his poems in the Alice books are best described as

Answer 15

Parodies

Question 16

Lewis Carroll

_____ reflects his ability to compose serious verse.

Answer 16

“Child of the Pure Unclouded Brow”

Question 17

Thomas Hardy

The fictional setting for his novels is

Answer 17

Wessex

Question 18

Thomas Hardy

In “The Respectable Burgher,” the chief cause of religious doubt is presented as

Answer 18

Higher criticism

Question 19

Thomas Hardy

Climax of “The Three Strangers”

Answer 19

The apprehension of the third stranger by the villagers

Question 20

A.E. Housman

What event took place in the year 1859?

Answer 20

Darwin’s “Origin of Species” was published.

Question 21

Francis Thompson

“The Kingdom of God” Thompson says that modern man cannot see the Angels because

Answer 21

Man’s undreamed nature prevents him from seeing them.

Question 22

Rudyard Kipling

Was the last British writer of fiction and poetry to appeal to

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all levels of society

Question 23

Rudyard Kipling

He can be considered a successor to

Answer 23

Dickens

Question 24

Who were the chartist?

Answer 24

Were the radicals who organized mass demonstrations and presented Parliament with petitions demanding reform

Question 25

Missionaries sent out by evangelicals in Victorian England

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William Carey in India

Hudson Taylor in China

David Livingston in Africa

Question 26

The _____ took seventy years to complete and is possibly the most challenging work of scholarship ever accomplished.

Answer 26

Oxford English Dictionary

Question 27

_____ was the famous Victorian preacher who contributed greatly to the art of the sermon.

Answer 27

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Question 28

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

____ preceded him as poet laureate.

Answer 28

William Wordsworth

Question 29

Thomas Carlyle

His _____ and _____ had the greater impact on Victorian England

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Religious Thought

Social Criticism

Question 30

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

_____ is a personal record of the experience that shaped Tennyson into the poet-prophet predicted by Carlyle.

Answer 30

“In Memoriam”

Question 31

Quote to know word for word.

Answer 31

“Oh, to be in England / Now that’s April’s there.”

Question 32

Robert Browning created new poetic genre _____

Answer 32

Dramatic-Monologue

Question 33

In “Dover Beach” _____ is the only happiness in a meaningless world.

Answer 33

Faithful love

Question 34

Characteristics of an effective poetry

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A close relation in form between the original and the parody.

A distinct difference in tone between the original and the parody.

Question 35

It is ironic that Hardy spent much of his early life employed in the physical restoration of churches because he was

Answer 35

antagonistic towards Christianity

Question 36

Hardy viewed peasantry

Answer 36

as “Noble” rustics or contended pagans.

Question 37

Hopkin’s “Sprung rhythm” which is based on natural speech rhythms instead of syllable divisions, is like the rhythm pattern of

Answer 37

Old English Poetry

Question 38

Housman’s poetry challenges

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God’s justice

His purposeful control of the universe.

Question 39

_____________________ in “Eight O’Clock” suggests regret.

Answer 39

The reluctance of the clock to strike