The Victorian Period mcqs


6- Victorian Period And The 19th Century (1832-1901)

What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics?

A. The Romantics remained largely forgotten- ten until their rediscovery by T. S. Eliot in the 1920s.
B. The Victorians were disgusted by the immorality and narcissism of the Romantics.
C. The Romantics were seen as gifted but crude artists belonging to a distant, semibarbarous age.
D. The Victorians were strongly influenced by the Romantics and experienced a sense of belatedness.

D. The Victorians were strongly influenced by the Romantics and experienced a sense of belatedness.

What factors contributed to the increased popularity of nonfiction prose?

A. a new market position for nonfiction writing and an exalted sense of the didactic function of the writer
B. a Puritanical distrust of fiction and a thirst for trivia
C. the forbiddingly high cost of three-volume novels and the difficulty of finding poetry in bookshops outside of London
D. the deconstruction of the truth-fiction dichotomy and an accompanying relative- tic sense that every opinion was of equal value

A. a new market position for nonfiction writing and an exalted sense of the didactic function of the writer

The Oxford Movement was started by

A. The people of the Oxford area
B. The Scholars of the Oxford University
C. The clergymen of Oxford
D. The University Wits

B. The Scholars of the Oxford University