Victorian Movement Test

Question 1

Most popular and important figure of the Victorian Movement

Answer 1

Charles Dickens

Question 2

Wrote Oliver Twist

Answer 2

Charles Dickens

Question 3

Wrote Great Expectations

Answer 3

Charles Dickens

Question 4

Wrote Jane Eyre

Answer 4

Charlotte Bronte

Question 5

Wrote Alice in Wonderland

Answer 5

Lewis Carroll

Question 6

Quit school at the age of 12

Answer 6

Robert Browning

Question 7

Spoke Greek, French, Latin, and Italian

Answer 7

Robert Browning

Question 8

Was part of the first couple of poetry

Answer 8

Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Question 9

Obsessed with King Arthur

Answer 9

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Question 10

Wrote “The Devil and the Lady” at age 14

Answer 10

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Question 11

Part of an underground society at Cambridge

Answer 11

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Question 12

Encouraged Tennyson to write

Answer 12

Arthur Henry Hallam

Question 13

Was engaged to Tennyson’s sister

Answer 13

Arthur Henry Hallam

Question 14

Wrote “The Charge of the Light Brigade”

Answer 14

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Question 15

12th poet laureate of England

Answer 15

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Question 16

Wrote about marrying outside your social class

Answer 16

The Brontes (Charlotte, Emily)

Question 17

Victorianism quote from your notes.

Answer 17

“Victorianism was a conservative response to the chaos and moral impunity of urban life.”

Question 18

What percentage of Victorians were literate?

Answer 18

90%

Question 19

What were 4 urbanization issues that Browning wrote about?

Answer 19

Closed quarters, poverty, violence, lack of hygiene

Question 20

What were 4 things that Victorian Literature did?

Answer 20

Entertained, Informed, Warned, and Reassured

Question 21

Know what the stories often were

Answer 21

focused on improving one’s social standing (financial or marrying up), stories of “moving up” were accompanied by making sure proper behavior was demonstrated (at the end issues with status quo led to satire and pieces that questioned why)

Question 22

What were Dickens characters like and what were they exposed to?

Answer 22

His characters showed descent people being neglected, abused, and exploited.

Question 23

What did Browning think of urban life?

Answer 23

He thought that urban life was numbing due to overstimulation. His works often related urban living to violence.

Question 24

define dramatic monologue

Answer 24

A single character delivers a speech addressed to a silent listener.

Question 25

Know 3 of the 5 levels of “My Last Duchess”

Answer 25

history, irony, psychological, theatrical

Question 26

Describe the Duke from “MLD”

Answer 26

A fascinating character with many facets to his personality. He is an arrogant monster who openly admits to having his last wife killed. He is a well-spoken, poetic man who appreciates art and beauty. He is a control freak, his defining characteristic. He’s in love with the idea of the women he has killed, not the women themselves. He can’t control the women, but he can control their portraits.

Question 27

Briefly explain the plot of “The Lady of Shallot”

Answer 27

A lady lives in a gray castle on the Island of Shalott, in the middle of a river that flows down to Camelot. No one sees her, but reapers can hear her singing. The Lady of Shalott spends her time weaving a magic web. She’s heard a whisper telling her that if she looks at Camelot, she will be cursed. As she weaves, she looks into a mirror in front of her that reflects the comings and goings of Camelot. What she sees, like funerals and young lovers, makes her discontent with the images in the mirror, and she gets tired saying, ‘I am half-sick of shadows.’ Sir Lancelot comes by riding to Camelot. He is described in great detail; he has a shield and armor, his helmet has a feather, and his saddle has jewels. He has ‘coal-black curls’, and he rides by the banks of the river singing ‘Tirra Lirra.’ The lady is so taken by Sir Lancelot that she stops her work and looks at Camelot. The mirror breaks and the Lady of Shalott realizes she is cursed.
The Lady of Shalott goes to the river, finds a boat, and writes “the Lady of Shalott” on the stern.. She enters the boat, and it begins to float downstream toward Camelot. She sings as she floats onward; others hear song. She freezes to death before she reaches the first house in Camelot.
Everyone is Camelot comes to look at the Lady of Shalott. They read her name, cross themselves, and find a parchment on her chest that explains the web and curse and to “fear not this is I, the Lady of Shalott”