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1
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years for the victorian era

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1832 - 1901

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longest reigning monarch, and best ruling

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queen victoria

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reason for the beginning and end of the victorian era

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began when sir walter scott died
ended when queen victoria died

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the object of victorian literature

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truthfulness in reflecting the practical problems of every day life

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age of:

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peace, prosperity, and progress

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6
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victorian era was an age of:

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prose

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7
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three great poets of the victorian era

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tennyson, browning, and arnold

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8
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“break break break” “in memorium” memorialized the death of who

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arthur henry hallam

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9
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theme of ulisys

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dont quit trying

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10
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what type of work is ulysis

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a dramatic monologue

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11
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locksley hall had a _____ view on the future

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optimistic

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12
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what is tennysons greatest poem and one of the greatest elegies

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in memorium

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13
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has been called one of the noblest stories of self-sacrifice in all literature

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enoch arden

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14
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who did annie lee married when enoch went out to sea

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phillip ray

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15
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the war of sense with soul, or the flesh with the spirit

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idylls of the king

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“the end is come, and i am shamed for ever”

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idylls of the king - tennyson

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17
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who was nobel in the idylls of the king

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king arthur

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18
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first poet laureate in the modern sense

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ben jonson

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19
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poet laureate office did not become official until the appointment of

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john dryden

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20
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who threw king arthurs sword into the lake

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sir bedivere

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21
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tender portrait of motherhood

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sweet and low

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22
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melancholy refletion on death

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tears, idle tears

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23
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who was the hero in the revenge

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sir richard grenville

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24
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what war was being fought in the revenge

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the spanish armada

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25
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what view on the future does locksley hall sixty years after have

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pessimistic

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26
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what has hurt the future of england in locksley hall sixty years after

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evolution

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27
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what poem did tennyson request always be placed at the end of his works

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crossing the bar

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28
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probably the finest love poems in our language and the best sonnet sequence since the renaissance

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sonnets from the portuguese

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29
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“but love me for love’s sake, that evermore thou mayst love on, through love’s eternity”

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sonnets from the portuguese poem 14

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30
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“because God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame”

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sonnets from the portuguese poem 26

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31
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sonnet describes how jesus must have looked at peter when peter denied him

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the look

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32
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what means soul in action

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dramatic monologue

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33
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who killed the duchess in my last duchess

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the duke

34
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young worker in the silk mills at asolo italy

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pippa

35
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“God’s in his heaven- all’s right with the world!”

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morning song - robert browning

36
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presents an optimistic view of old age as the climax of man’s experience

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rabbi ben ezra

37
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expresses a christian faith in eternal life and a firm belief in being reunited with his wife after death

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prospice - robert browning

38
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most famous literary romance of all time

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robert browning marrying elizabeth barrett

39
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matthew arnold laments that his age is not an age of faith but an age characterized by skepticism, unbelief, and conflicting views in the areas of science and theology

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dover beach - matthew arnold

40
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clough express the truth that God is the only source of stability and strength

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with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning

41
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what two enemies did christina rossetti write about

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the flesh, the world, and the devil

42
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poem reflects the face of Jesus Christ after the crucifixion

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the descent from the cross

43
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what type of poem is “thou art indeed just, Lord”

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a poem of despair

44
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in the windhover, what represents God

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a falcon

45
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a tender poem of a father’s love for his son, the comparison is made of God’s love for his children

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the toys - patmore

46
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“i am the master of my fate
i am the captain of my soul”

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invictus - william ernest henley

47
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“here lies where he longed to be;
home is the sailor, home from sea,
and the hunter home from the hill”

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requiem - stevenson

48
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poem sympathetic to english forces

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danny deever - kipling

49
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two men realize in respect the strength of the other

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the ballad of east and west - kipling

50
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written for queen victorias diamond jubilee

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recessional - kipling

51
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a satire on the british social structure

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the importance of being ernest - wilde

52
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tells a sad story of love and sacrifice

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the nightingale and the rose - oscar wilde

53
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expresses the feelings of a man in jail condemned to be hanged

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the ballad of reading gaol - oscar wilde

54
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who wrote the london coffee houses

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macaulay

55
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the first popular victorian novelist to capture a large reading audience was

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charles dickens

56
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who portrayed the lower middle class living int the city

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dickens

57
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who portrayed the upper middle class

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thackery

58
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who portrayed the common people of the country and villages

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eliot

59
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the most significant novel form to emerge form the period was:

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the novel or purpose or problem novel

60
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who developed the detective novel

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colllins

61
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one of the most beloved novels of all time

A

david copperfield

62
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what happened to david copperfields father

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died the day before david was born

63
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why did pergoty take david copperfield away

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his mother was getting married

64
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who wrote david copperfield

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charles dickens

65
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where did david and pegoty go when davids mother was getting married

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pegotys brothers house

66
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who all lived at pegotys brothers house

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emily, pegotys brother, ham,

67
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emily did not like the:

A

sea

68
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who wrote tony kytes, the arch-deceiver

A

thomas hardy

69
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woman who tony was originally enaged to

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milly

70
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who did tony see on the pathway and invited into his cart

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unity

71
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third woman who ended up in tonys cart

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hannah

72
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“wars come and go, but men still go on with their business”

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in time of “the breaking of nations”

73
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what scene did hardy have in mind for “in time of ‘the breaking of nations’”

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WWI

74
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what type of world is described in the darkling thrush

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gloomy, and pessimistic

75
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“till the spinner of the years
said “now!” and each one hears,
and consummation comes, and jars two hemisphere”

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the convergence of the twain - thomas hardy

76
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talks about a creates joyful singing, and the gloomy world

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on a darkling thrush

77
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talks about the loss of the titanic

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the convergence of the twain

78
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the treasury of david is a comment on:

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psalm 8

79
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who wrote the treasury of david

A

spurgeon

80
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who wrote great verses through the Bible

A

F. B. meyer

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