period intro quiz Victorian

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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


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