period intro quiz Victorian
Which of the following is true?
Victorian novels often focused on social relations
Which author argued that nonfiction prose was "the special and opportune art of the modern world"?
Walter Pater
Queen Victoria is generally associated with which of the following?
domestic propriety
The Victorian period is often divided into which of the following?
early, mid, and late periods
What does fin de siecle mean?
end of the century
Queen Victoria was the first British monarch to do which of the following?
have her photograph taken
From what perspective did Higher Criticism approach the Bible?
history
What did the 1832 reform bill do?
it deregulated elections
The Chartists fought for which of the following?
working-class rights
Over the course of Queen Victoria's reign, London's population grew from about 2 million to
6 million
In 1876, Queen Victoria was named which of the following?
Empress of India
Which Victorian playwright was particularly associated with "the problem play"?
George Bernard Shaw
The Crystal palace was the centerpiece of what event?
Great Exhibition
What European city was the center of culture immediately prior to the Victorian period?
Paris
Which of the following is true?
Queen Victoria did not support voting rights for women
Which of the following authors was avowedly enthusiastic about Britain's fast paced economic and political growth?
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Which of the following had a major effect on Victorian narrative fiction?
serial publication
What was the subtitle of Benjamin Disraeli's 1845 novel, Sybil?
the two nations