Unseen Prose Context 1880-1910

Question 1

when was the victorian period?

Answer 1

1837-1901

Question 2

when was the Edwardian period?

Answer 2

1901-1910

Question 3

when was first wave feminism?

Answer 3

1848-1920

Question 4

when did education become compulsory for children under 10?

Answer 4

1880

Question 5

when was jack the ripper around?

Answer 5

1988

Question 6

when was the second Boer war?

Answer 6

1899-1902

Question 7

when was the scramble for Africa

Answer 7

1884

Question 8

when did WW1 start

Answer 8

1914

Question 9

when was Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity published

Answer 9

1905

Question 10

when was Oscar Wilde’s trial

Answer 10

1895

Question 11

When was Jekyll and Hyde published

Answer 11

1886

Question 12

When did Nietzsche publish quote god is dead

Answer 12

1882

Question 13

‘Social progress can be measured by the social position…

Answer 13

of the female sex.’ Karl Marx

Question 14

‘The Proletarians have nothing to lose…

Answer 14

but their chains.’ Karl Marx

Question 15

‘Man could no longer be regarded as the Lord of Creation…

Answer 15

a being apart from the rest of nature.’ - ‘On the Origin of Species’ (1859) Darwin

Question 16

‘The British nation were haunted by fantasies of…

Answer 16

decay and degeneration.’ Ledger and Luckhurst on the fin de siecle

Question 17

‘Mankind with all its institutions and creations…

Answer 17

persisting in a dying world.’ Max Noradu’s Degeneration (1892)

Question 18

‘Dusk of nations, in which all suns and all stars…

Answer 18

are gradually waning.’