TEST – VICTORIAN LITERATURE

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1.Robert Browning’s tragedy ‘Strafford had been conceived and written in the mid-1830s at
the earnest request of one of the great Victorian actors:
(A) W. C. Macready
(B) Gerald Bulworker
(C) Bulwer Lytton
(D) Charles Reade
2. Which of the following is not a work of Browning?
(A) Paraceleus
(B) Porphyria’s Lover
(C) A Grammarian Funeral
(D) The Brook
3. “Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband of stick in his coat-” Robert
Browning wrote these lines about Wordsworth in:
(A) Sordello
(B) The Last Ride Together
(C) The Lost Leader
(D) Prospice
4. “God’s in His heaven, All’s right with the world.”
These lines appear in Robert Browning’s:
(A) The Last Ride Together
(B) Porphyria’s Lover
(C) Rabbi Ben Ezra
(D) Pippa Passes
5. Fra Lippo Lippi is a/an :
(A) elegy
(B) dramatic romance
(C) dramatic monologue
(D) allegory
 6. Fra Lippo Lippi is a/an:
(A) Italian painter
(B) German sculptor
(C) Greek philosopher
(D) French revolutionary
7. Browning had implicit faith in:
(A) friendship
(B) soul
(C) God
(D) nature
8. Home They Brought Their Warrior Dead is a poem composed by:
(A) Lord Tennyson
(B) Robert Browning
(C) P. B. Shelley
(D) Lord Byron
9. The longest poem in the English language written by Robert Browning is:
(A) Sordello
(B) The Last Ride Together
(C) Evelyn Hope
(D) The Ring and the Book
10. Which one of the following poems written by Robert Browning has the following lines:
“O World as God had made it! ......and love is duty:”
(A) Sordello
(B) Andrea Del Sarto
(C) The Guardian Angel
(D) The Last Ride Together
11. Mathew Arnold is best known for his:
(A) poetry
(B) drama
(C) novel
 (D) criticism
12. Who said about Shakespeare
“Other abide our question. Thou art free.
We ask and ask
Thou smilest and art still,
Out-topping knowledge....” ?
(A) Robert Browning
(B) Matthew Arnold
(C) A.H. Clough
(D) Alfred Tennyson
13. What is Browning’s philosophy of life?
(A) robust optimism
(B) pessimism
(C) mysticism
(D) realism
14. Who knows but the world may end tonight”:
These lines occur in:
(A) Porphyria’s Lover
(B) Rabbi Ben Ezra
(e) The Last Ride Together
(D) My Last Duchess
15. What does ‘del Sarto’ in Andrea del Sarto mean?
(A) Son of a tailor
(B) son of a duke
(C) wife of a duke
(D) beloved of a duke
16. “O World as God has made it all is beauty.
The cuardian Angel And knowing this is love, and love is duty.
Who wrote these lines:
(A) A. L. Tennyson
 (B) Mathew Arnold
(C) A. H. Clough
(D) Robert Browning
17. ‘Poetry is a criticism of life’. The poet who preached this is :
(A) Robert Browning
(B) Mathew Arnold
(C) Lord Tennyson
(D) A.H. Clough
18. “In the domain of criticism we are still living in the age of Matthew Arnold.” Who said
this about Matthew Arnold?
(A) F. R. Leavis
(B) T. S. Eliot
(C) Wismatt
(D) Tilotson
19. The Ring and the Book consists of:
(A) 10,000 lines
(B) 12.000 lines
(C) 18.000 lines
(D) 21.000 lines
20. “Rabbi Ben Ezra is the embodiment of all that is deepest in Browning’s philosophy of
religion and morality.” Who said this?
(A) Cazamion
(B) Leigh Hunt
(C) Hugh Walker
(D) Rickett
21. Which of the following belongs to Browning?
(A) The Seraphim
(B) Ferishtah’s Fancies
(C) Pacchiatrotto
(D) All the above
22. “It is better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all.” These lines are
composed by:
(A) Milton
(B) Tennyson
(C) Homer
(D) Spenser
23. Elizabeth Barret was a/an :
(A) singer
(B) poet
(C) actor
(D) advocate
24. Mrs. Browning died in :
(A) 1861
(B) 1862
(C) 1863
(D) 1864
25. Name the poem that illustrates the renaissance enthusiasm for Greek learning:
(A) Rabbi Ben Ezra
(B) Prospice
(C) A Grammarian Funeral
(D) My Last Duchess
26. Which of the following poems is a tribute to Mrs. Browning?
(A) My Last Duchess
(B) One Word More
(C) The Last Ride Together
(D) Pippa Passes
27. Bishop Bloegram’s Apology by Browning is an:
(A) dramatic monologue
(B) ballad
(C) epistle
 (D) allegory
28. Browning has composed Prospice. What does ‘Prospice’ mean?
(A) Optimistic view
(B) Tooking forward
(C) Godly look
(D) pessimistic view
29. Duke of Ferrara occurs in:
(A) Dr. Faustus
(B) Absalom and Achitophel
(C) Morte d’ Arthur
(D) My Last Duchess
30. In a Balcony by Robert Browning is a:
(A) poem
(B) novel
(C) story
(D) play
31. Browning is considered as the father of:
(A) love poems
(B) dramatic monologues
(C) closet dramas
(D) poetic-plays
32. Matthew Arnold is a/an :
(A) egoist
(B) pessimist
(C) optimist
(D) mystic
33. Who is the author of Merope, A Tragedy?
(A) Matthew Arnold
(B) Robert Browning
(C) Elizabeth Barret Browning
 (D) Lord Tennyson
34. Which of the following is a narrative in epic style?
(A) The Scholar Gypsy
(B) Friendship’s Garland
(C) Rugby Chapel
(D) Sohrab and Rustam
35. Sohrab and Rustam is written in:
(A) Ottava rima
(B) Spenserian stanza
(C) Blank verse
(D) Heptameter
36. Who wrote Culture and Anarchy, playfully dividing English society into three constituent
classes-a Barbarian aristocracy, a Philistine bourgeoisie and an unlettered ‘Populace’?
(A) A. H. Clough
(B) Matthew Arnold
(C) John Ruskin
(D) A. H. Auden
37. Rugby Chapel by Arnold is written on the death of his :
(A) friend
(B) daughter
(C) father
(D) wife
38. Name the elegy by Arnold on the death of Arthur Clough:
(A) Rugby Chapel
(B) The Scholar Gypsy
(C) The Memorial Verses
(D) Thyrsis
39. In which poems of Arnold do these lines appear?
“Most men eddy about
Here there eat and drink
 Are raised aloft, are hurl’d in the dust
Striving blindly, achieving nothing
And then they die-perish.”.
(A) The Scholar Gypsy
(B) Dover Beach
(C) Rugby Chapel
(D) In Isolation
40. The Princess (1847) is written by Tennyson in a
(A) romantic style
(B) mock-heroic style
(C) epic style
(D) comic style
41. Shakespeare by Matthew Arnold is a/an:
(A) ode
(B) lyric
(C) sonnet
(D) epic
42. How many poems are there in Tennyson’s The Idylls of the King?
(A) 12
(B) 11
(C) 10
(D) 9
43. Identify the poet about whom it can be said that he is the greatest poet among English
critics and the greatest critic among English poets:
(A) S.T. Coleridge
(B) John Dryden
(C) Alexander Pope
(DJ Matthew Arnold
44. The last poem which Tennyson wrote in anticipation of his death is:
(A) The Dreamer
 (B) Lockley Hall
(C) Crossing the Bar
(D) Oenone
45. ‘Sohrab and Rustam is taken from:
(A) Alam Ara
(B) Roshanara
(C) Babarnama
(D) Shahnama
46. who advocated disinterestedness in literary criticism?”
(A) T.S. Eliot
(B) Alexander Pope
(C) Matthew Arnold
(D) William Wordsworth -
47. Which of the following works of Elizabeth Barret Browning was published in Cornhill
Magazine in 1860:
(A) The Cry of the Children
(B) Aurora Leigh
(C) Casa Guidi Windows
(P) A Musical Instrnment
48. Which of the following is not a work of Charles Darwin?
(A) The Voyage of the Beagle
(B) American Addresses
(C) On the Origin of Species
(D) The Descent of Man
49. Identify the writer who visited India :
(A) Macaulay
(B) Carlyle
(C) Ruskin
(D) Walter Pater
50. A picaresque novel is :
 (A) A story told through a series of letters exchanged
(B) A story of a rascal who lives by his/her wits
(C) A narrative depicted through pictures
(D) All the above
51 The poems: ‘Palace of Art’ and ‘A Dream of Fair Women’ were written by
(a) Rossetti (b) Browning
(c) Arnold (d) Alfred Tennyson
52. George Eliot wrote under the pseudonym of a man. Who was the man?
(a) G.H. Lewes (b) G.B. Shaw
(c) G. Tillotson (d) W. Allen
53. The Oxford Movement in the Victorian period started in the early
(a) 1830s (b) 1840s
(c) 1850s (d) 1860s
54. Life of Charlotte Bronte, one of best biographies is written by
(a) Mrs. Gaskell
(b) Charles Reade
(c) Anthony Trollope
(d) George Eliot
55. Name of the novelist who wrote Jane Eyre (1847) is -
(a) Emily Bronte
(b) Charlotte Bronte
(c) Thackeray
(d) Anthony Trollope
56. “Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers” appears in the work of
(a) Shakespeare (b) Milton
(c) Wordsworth (d) Tennyson
57. The leading philosopher and ardent advocate of the extension of democracy who wrote
the essay On Liberty is
(a) George Eliot (b) Matthew Arnold
(c) John Stuart Mill (d) Thomas Hughes
58. What is the title of Ruskin’s digressive and evasive autobiography?
(a) Essays on Myself
(b) Praeterita
(c) Loss and Gain
(d) Apologia Pro Vita Sua
59. Who is the author of volumes of essays such as Modern Painters, Stores of Venice, etc.?
(a) A.H. Clough
(b) Matthew Arnold
(c) Hopkins
(d) Ruskin
60. Whom does Dorothea marry in the end in Middlemarch?
(a) Casaubon (b) Lydgate
(c) Ladislaw (d) Fred Vincy
61. Middlemarch published in 1871-72 which is very closely related to the determining spirit
of the age, is set in the years
(a) 1829-32 (b) 1839-42
(c) 1849-52 (d) 1859-62
62. Who wrote Essays on Milton?
(a) Carlyle (b) Macaulay
(c) Charles Reade (d) Mrs. Gaskell
63. Arnold reflects his despair at common human testing in the following lines: “Most men
eddy about Here there — eat and drink Are raised aloft, are hurl’d in the dust Striving
blindly, achieving nothing And then they die — perish.” In which poem do these lines
occur?
(a) The Scholar Gipsy
(b) Dover Beach
(c) Rugby Chapel
(d) In Isolation
64. Who gave up the criticism of art for criticism of society, saying, “no one could go on
painting pictures in a burning house”?
 (a) Rossetti (b) Ruskin
(c) Carlyle (d) Arnold
65. Apologia Pro Vita Sua is the spiritual autobiography of
(a) Henry Newman
(b) Lewis Caroll
(c) John Keble
(d) Lockhart
66. A name connected with the Oxford Movement, he is the author of the novel Fabiola.
Identify him from among the following:
(a) W.G. Ward
(b) Henry Newman
(c) Cardinal Wiseman
(d) Charlotte Young
67. Who is the author of poems such as The Blessed Domozel, Sister Helen, A last Confession
and Rose Mary?
(a) Swinburne (b) Tennyson
(c) Morris (d) Rossetti
68. “Man for the field and woman for the hearth Man for the sword and for the needle she,
Man to command and woman to obey All else confusion” This is an extract from
Tennyson’s poem, in which he displays Victorian conservatism. Name the poem.
(a) The Mary Queen
(b) The Northern Farmer
(c) Village Wife
(d) The Princess
69. The Reform Bill in which the power was passed from aristocracy to the middle classes,
came into being in
(a) 1832 (b) 1836
(c) 1833 (d) 1838
70. Which of the following work of Thomas Carlyle has central figure Herr Teufelsdrock?
(a) Sartor Resartus
 (b) Past and Present
(c) The Life of Schiller
(d) Ik the Great
71. Matthew Arnold’s “Switzerland” comprises ..........poems.
(a) six (b) seven
(c) eight (d) nine
72. Which of the following represents rural background?
(a) Ramola (1863)
(b) The Mill on the Floss (1860)
(c) Scenes of Clerical Life (1857)
(d) Adam Bede (1859)
73. Which work is considered a dissertation than a novel?
(a) Emilia in England (1864)
(b) Vittoria (1867)
(c) Daniel Deronda (1876)
(d) Ramola (1863)
74. Who is known for the ‘Condition of England’ novel?
(a) George Eliot
(b) Ann Bronte
(c) Meredith
(d) Benjamin Disraeli
W.M. Thackeray was born in
(a) Oxford (6) Kolkata
(c) Paris (d) Virginia
75. The Egoist is a novel by—
(a) W.H. Thakceray
(b) Anthony Trollope
(c) George Meredith
(d) George Eliot
76. Hardy’s novels are known as
(a) Waverly novels
(b) Malgudi novels
(c) Wessex novels
(d) Lake novels
77. Which of the following volumes of Browning is best known?
(a) Dramatic Lyrics (1842)
(b) Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845)
(c) Men and Women (1855)
(d) The Ring and the Book (1869)
78. Gaskell’s unfinished novel is
(a) North and South
(b) Sylvias Lovers
(c) Mary Barton
(d) Wives and Daughters
79. Gaskell’s Cranford (1853) is less a novel than a series of
(a) papers (b) speeches
(C) poems (d) characters
80. Bleak House (1852) is a critique of
(a) The Law courts
(b) The school system
(c) The industry
(d) The rich class
81. Dickens’s Hard Times (1854) is a critique of
(a) Romanticism
(6) Law courts
(C) Public schools
(d) Science and industry
82. Becky Sharp and Amelia Sadley figure in
 (a) The Rose and The Ring (1855)
(b) Rebecca and Rowena (1850)
(c) The Virginians (1857-59)
(d) Vanity Fair (1847-48)
83. Who among the following is not of the Bronte sisters?
(a) Emily (b) Mary
(c) Charlotte (d) Anne
84. Which of the following novels is considered the best of Thackrey?
(a) The Book of Snobs (1849)
(b) The History of Pendennis (1848-50)
(c) Vanity Fair (1847-48)
(d) The History of Henry Esmond (1852)
85. Meredith is best known by which of the following?
(a) The Amazing Marriage (1895)
(b) The Tragic Comedians (1880)
(c) The Egoist (1879)
(d) Sandra Belloni (1864)
86. George Meredith is a great .......... novelist of the Victorian Age.
(a) historical. (b) social
(c) psychological (d) political
87. Meredith’s novels express his attitude towards life.
(a) pessimistic (b) optimistic
(c) nihilistic (d) opportunistic
88. Erewhon is a well-known novel written by
(a) Samuel Butler
(b) George Gissing
(c) Arnold Bennett
(d) None of the above
89. Butler’s Erewhon stands for the country
 (a) America (b) England
(c) New Zealand (d) India
90. The title of Butler’s Hudibras has been taken from
(a) The Faerie Queene
(b) Paradise Lost
(c) The Pilgrim’s Progress
(d) The Shoemaker’s Holiday
91. Who wrote The Importance of Being Earnest, mocking at the mid-victorian confidence
and earnestness?
(a) Oscar Wilde (b) Dickens
(c) G.B. Shaw (d) Carlyle
92. Which famous character is always “waiting for something to turn up”?
(a) Mme Defarge (b) Quilp
(c) Pecksniff (d) Micawber
93. Dickens has attacked some legal or social evil in most of his novels, Identity.
A. Oliver Twist 1. Imprisonment for Debt
B. Bleak House 2. Workhouse
C. Little Dorrit 3. Chancery Courts
D. Nicholas 4. Exploitation of Pupils
Nickleby
Codes:
A B C D
(a) 2 3 1 4
(b) 4 1 3 2
(c) 3 2 1 4
(d) 1 4 2 3
94. We find the character of Mr. Bumble in
(a) Oliver Twist
(b) Nicholas Nickleby
 (c) Martin Chuzzlewit
(d) David Copperfield
95. Matthew Arnold preached the value of
(a) Hebraism
(b) Hellenism
(c) Philistinism
(d) None of the above
96. Arnold’s “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time” makes out a case for
(a) the importance of critical activity for the creative output.
(b) the value of criticism for market economy.
(c) the function of criticism as aesthetic experience.
(d) the function of criticism as “touch stone”.
97. Arnold’s “touch-stone” method values
(a) All literary pieces
(b) Only the best writing
(c) Only English Writers
(d) Only Greek classics
98. Arnold’s view of culture is best described by
(a) Light and dark
(b) Sweet and dark
(c) Light and sweetness
(d) Dark and sweet
99. Who wrote Marius, the Epicurean
(a) T.S. Eliot
(b) Ezra Pound
(c) Matthew Arnold
(d) Walter Pater
100. Who says, “To feel the virtue of the poet or the painter, to disengage it, to set it forth-
these are three stages of the critic’s duty”?
 (a) Joseph Addison (b) S.T. Coleridge
(c) Walter Pater (d) T.S. Eliot
101. Which play of Wilde has the subtitle A Trivial Comedy for Serious People?
(a) The Importance of Being Earnest
(b) Lady Windermere’s Fan
(c) A Woman of No Importance
(d) None of the above
102. Who established ‘Old Mortality Club”?
(a) Keats
(b) Shelley and others
(c) Rossetti
(d) Pater and others
103. Who is of the view that “Great art has the soul of humanity in it”?
(a) Keats and ads to this?
(b) Shelley
(c) Coleridge
(d) Pater
104. Which of the following is written in verse?
(a) A Pair of Blue Eyes
(b) The Dynasts
(c) Under the Greenwood Tree
(d) Desperate Remedies
105. The subtitle of The Dynasts is
(a) An Epic-Drama of The War With Napoleon
(b) The Story of the Oaks
(c) After the Civil War
(d) The Saga of a Royal Family
106. How many acts does The Dynasts boast of?
(a) Three (b) Five
 (c) Seven (d) Nineteen

107. “On Liberty” was written by

(a) Carlyle (b) Rousseau
(c) Newman (d) J. S. Mill
108. The Origin of Species came out in
(a) 1857 (b) 1859
(c) 1858 (d) 1860
109. Uncle Remus is a fictional character created by
(a) Harriet Beecher Stowe
(b) Joel Harris
(c) Rudyard Kipling
(d) Lewis Carroll
110. The name of the magazine concerning the cause of the Pre-Raphaelites is
(a) Jenny (b) The Germ
(c) Goblin Market (d) The House of Life
111. “Sister Helen” is a poem by
(a) John Ruskin (b) Christina Rossetti
(c) D.G. Rossetti (d) Matthew Arnold
112. The title Vanity Fair has been taken from -
(a) Euphues (b) Paradise Lost
(c) Utopia (d) Pilgrim’s Progress
113. Which one is Gaskell’s first novel?
(a) Mary Barton
(b) Ruth
(c) Cranford
(d) North and South
114. Dunstan is a character from the novel
(a) Silas Marner (b) Hard Times
 (c) Emma (d) Adam Bede
115. Which movement revived under Whitefield and Wesley?
(a) Oxford Movement
(b) Pre-Rephalite
(c) Methodist
(d) Chicago
116. “The Three Way Fairers” is a dramatization of a piece of fiction by Thomas Hardy. Which
story is it?
(a) Far From The Madding Crowd
(b) Tess
(c) The Three Strangers
(d) Jude the Obscure