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POPQUIZ ON THE VICTORIAN AGE
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Quiz on the Victorian Age
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1
Which genre was particularly popular in the Victorian Age?
The short story
The poem
The novel
The play
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What is a feature of Gothic fiction?
It's set in the Victorian Age
It's set in a brooding atmosphere of gloom & terror
It's literature describing Goths
It's literature written by Goths
3
How did the style in Victorian Literature change as the era drew to its end?
It turned more and more Romantic
It became grimmer and more realistic
It became absurd
It started idealising Victorian society
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Which were important themes in Victorian literature?
Antiquity
Religion
The Future
Class, social life and poor living conditions
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What characterised Victorian Society? More than one answer is correct
A strong awareness of class
Equal rights for all classes
A strong sense moral
Public indecency
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When was the Victorian Era?
1837-1901/1914
about 1880-1937
1730-1800
1864-1914
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Which words are often associated with Victorian society?
moralizing, prudish, repressed
experimental, modern, unified
innovative, democratic, equal
feudal, militant, provocative
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What was Victorian foreign politics like?
Expansive
Appreciative of other cultures
Defensive
Isolationist
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Which book IS NOT an example of the
Victorian
Gothic?
Stevenson's Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Tale
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto
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Which of these writers lived in the Victorian Age?
Jane Austin
Charles Dickens
William Shakespeare
Virginia Wolff
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When did Queen Victoria reign?
1830-1901
1780-1837
1837-1914
1837-1901
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Did women publish books in the Victorian Age?
No, never.
Yes, but they all used pseudonyms
Yes, but some used pseudonym to be taken seriously
There were as many female as male writers
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Which literary period came before the Victorian Age?
The Romantic Period
Modernism
The Renaissance
The Classical Period
