victorian era

Question 1

Years of Victorian Era

Answer 1

1832-1901

Question 2

When was universal adult suffrage passed?

Answer 2

1932

Question 3

What did school cost in 1891?

Answer 3

Free!

Question 4

Intended to control the licentiousness the Victorians associated with the revolutions of the 18th century

Answer 4

Prudery and social order

Question 5

What did the Victorians typically question?

Answer 5

Value of material things, authority, industry, and human life in relation to the natural world

Question 6

The belief that the environment is indifferent to its inhabitants

Answer 6

Naturalism

Question 7

How is Return of the Native a prime example of naturalism?

Answer 7

The heath’s great effects on the characters

Question 8

What did late century writers typically focus on?

Answer 8

The withdrawal from the divine and faith due to science

Question 9

2 consistent purposes of Victorian literature

Answer 9

1) To make readers wonder if reality is whole and satisfying

2) There is order in chaos and bleak reality

Question 10

What was the general nationalistic tone?

Answer 10

England is THE BEST

Question 11

What was the Victorian economy like?

Answer 11

Very prosperous

Question 12

What brought the standard of living up for the middle class?

Answer 12

Cheap, mass-produced goods

Question 13

What jobs were available to unmarried women?

Answer 13

Governess, school teacher

Question 14

What type of literature was most common in this era?

Answer 14

Novels

Question 15

Mary Ann Evans

Answer 15

aka George Elliot

Question 16

Marked by elements of the supernatural, love, violence, death

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Gothic

Question 17

What tone was Lord Alfred Tennyson known for?

Answer 17

Melancholy and chaos

Question 18

Writer who believed sadness and disorder taught that everything was part of a benevolent plan, making all losses good.

Answer 18

Tennyson

Question 19

What is the tone of Tears, Idle Tears by Tennyson?

Answer 19

Grieving, desperate and lonely

Question 20

What is the central idea in Tears, Idle Tears by Tennyson?

Answer 20

Nostalgia for a lost lover

Question 21

Poem in which Tennyson addresses the idea that modern science’s scrutiny of natural is a threat

Answer 21

The Eagle: A Fragment

Question 22

What is the central metaphor in The Eagle by Tennyson?

Answer 22

The Eagle as a thunderbolt, symbolizing the power and beauty of nature

Question 23

Poem in which Tennyson explores the idea that man understands God through Nature

Answer 23

Flower in a Crannied Wall

Question 24

What is the theme of Flower in a Crannied Wall by Tennyson?

Answer 24

The simplest form of nature holds the key to the mystery of God

Question 25

What is the curse in The Lady of Shallot by Tennyson? How does she get around it?

Answer 25

The Lady cannot look outside her tower to Camelot, but she looks at the reflection in the mirror.

Question 26

What ultimately happens to the Lady of Shallot?

Answer 26

She follows Lancelot in a boat and dies

Question 27

What is the central idea in Tennyson's Ulysses?

Answer 27

Though physical strength eventually fades, a sense of adventure and a hunger for knowledge never depletes

Question 28

What is Tennyson's purpose in Ulysses?

Answer 28

Moving forward and braving the struggles of life.

Question 29

What is the bar in Crossing the Bar symbolic of?

Answer 29

Death

Question 30

What is the hopeful end of Crossing the Bar by Tennyson?

Answer 30

He wishes for no one to mourn him, as he will soon see God

Question 31

What is the problem of the speaker in Dover Beach by Arnold?

Answer 31

The world's waning faith

Question 32

Which Victorian poet loved sound devices?

Answer 32

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Question 33

What is the surface problem in Spring and Fall by Hopkins?

Answer 33

The leaves falling, Margaret mourns

Question 34

What is the real problem in Spring and Fall by Hopkins?

Answer 34

Human mortality

Question 35

What is Pied Beauty by Hopkins about?

Answer 35

Praising God for all things spotted

Question 36

What is the theme of Pied Beauty by Hopkins?

Answer 36

Individuality is beautiful

Question 37

What is the tone of Pied Beauty by Hopkins?

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Praising, appreciative, exalting

Question 38

What form did Robert Browning prefer?

Answer 38

dramatic monologues

Question 39

What was Browning's chief concern in all his writing?

Answer 39

Subjective morality, people doing what they believe is right

Question 40

Form where a speaker addresses a listener who does not speak

Answer 40

Dramatic monologue

Question 41

Why does the speaker in My Last Duchess by Browning do to his wife?

Answer 41

Orders her death because she is too flirtatious

Question 42

When a poem mimics natural speech, what should you look for?

Answer 42

Iambic pentameter and enjambment

Question 43

When a thought is continued onto the next line without punctuation

Answer 43

Enjambment

Question 44

How is the title of Porphyria's Lover by Browning ironic?

Answer 44

He kills her

Question 45

What is the central idea to Porphyria's Lover by Browning?

Answer 45

God doesn't care what the speaker does, so long as he himself believes it is right

Question 46

Victorian writer whose style most closely resembles Poe.

Answer 46

Robert Browning

Question 47

What is the tone of The Darkling Thrush by Hardy?

Answer 47

Hopeless, gloomy, isolated

Question 48

Why does the speaker in The Darkling Thrush by Hardy continue?

Answer 48

If the bird can find reason to be joyful, it's the very least he can do.

Question 49

What is the tone of Channel Firing by Hardy?

Answer 49

Jocular

Question 50

What is the central idea of Channel Firing by Hardy?

Answer 50

Men have been warring pointlessly since the dawn of time

Question 51

What are the two most important devices in Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave by Hardy?

Answer 51

Anticlimax and point of view

Question 52

What are the primary tenets of Victorianism in One and Twenty by Houseman?

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Materialism and prudence

Question 53

What is the theme of When I Was One and Twenty by Houseman?

Answer 53

if you give away your heart, you will literally have to pay

Question 54

What is the extended metaphor in When I Was One and Twenty by Houseman?

Answer 54

Money and gems

Question 55

Poems that adapt the structure and spirit of traditional ballads to modern uses

Answer 55

Literary ballads