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What did the religious climate of the 19th century show?

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> Evangelicalism created England’s greatest missionary effect
England’s finest hymns
Evangelicalism tempered England’s colonial efforts with humanitarian concerns
Concerns of “high church” Anglicans and “broad church” liberals was offsetting the missions

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By the end of Victoria’s reign, What was England less able to meet and why?

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The trials of the new century because of her transition from a religious nation to an increasingly secularistic nation

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What did Darwin’s “Origin of Species” support?

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The theory of evolution of animals species from common origins

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What did Darwins “Origin of Species” do?

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created a receptive climate of Karl Marx’s theories

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Who were The Chartists?

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The radicals who organized mass demonstrations and presented Parliament with petitions demanding reform

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What missionary was send out to India by evangelicals in Victorian England?

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William Carey

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What missionary was send out to China by evangelicals in Victorian England?

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Hudson Taylor

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What missionary was send out to Africa by evangelicals in Victorian England?

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David Livingstone

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Where was William Carey a missionary to?

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India

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Where was Hudson Taylor a missionary to?

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China

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Where was David Livingstone a missionary to?

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Africa

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How long did the Oxford English Dictionary talk to complete?

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70 years

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What is possibly the most challenging work of scholarship even accomplished?

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The Oxford English Dictionary

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Who was the famous Victorian preacher who contributed greatly to the art of the sermon?

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Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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What did German Biblical scholars do?

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They had an even more devastating effect on orthodox Christianity of the Victorian period than Darwins ideas

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What are the years of the Victorian Period?

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1832-1914

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Rather than the writers, who were the true Victorian language innovators, both at home and abroad?

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The scientists

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Who had an even more devastating effect on orthodox Christianity of the Victorian period than Darwins ideas?

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German Biblical Scholars

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Who are the radicals who organized mass demonstrations and presented Parliament with petitions demanding reform?

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The Chartists

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What is the name of Thomas Carlyle’s autobiography?

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Sartorial Resartus

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What is the controlling image in “The Hero as Divinity”?

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that the hero is like lightning acting on kindling

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What were the two areas that Thomas Carlyle affected most?

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Religious Thought

Social Criticisms

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Where did John Henry Newman find religious satisfaction?

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In religious traditionalism

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What did Newman firmly oppose?

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All attempts to separate formal religion from public life, especially schools

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What was Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poetry deepened and enriched by?
the death of his best friend
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Who proceeded Alfred, Lord Tennyson as Poet Laureate?
William Wordsworth
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Who was Alfred, Lord Tennyson's main influence?
Thomas Carlyle
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What is the name of the work that is the personal record of the experience that shaped Tennyson into the poet prophet predicted by Carlyle?
"In Memoriam"
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What is mirrored in In Memoriam?
a celebration of the hero as a doubter and the instance on truths deeper than those which are grasped by reason
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What is also offered in, In Memoriam?
reassurance of immortality through mystic insight
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What does Tennyson express in Morte de Arthur?
Optimism concerning Victorian faith in human progress
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What is the "pilot" in Crossing the Bar?
the "divine and under Who is always guiding us"
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What is the basis for Tennyson's belief?
intuition rather than reason or revelation
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What does "Prospice" express?
Brownings faith in immortality
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What did Browning create?
the new poetic genre of dramatic monologue
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What is the quote from Robert Browning?
"Oh, to be in England/Now that April's there."
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What is Brownings view of creation closest to?
that of theistic evolution
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Who was the Victorian writer who had the most influence on modern literature?
Matthew Arnold
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In "Dover Beach" what is the only happiness in a meaningless world?
Faithful Love
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Who mostly affected Christina Rossetti's writings?
17th century Angelical devotional poets
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According to Rossetti's "Long Barren" what are the two elements that most closely relate?
Spiritual vitality and artistic creativity
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Who was an Oxford lecturer in mathematics?
Lewis Carrol
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Who was an ordained Angelical deacon?
Lewis Carrol
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Who was known for his treatises in symbolic logic?
Lewis Carrol
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What are most of Lewis Carrol's poems in the Alice book best described as?
Parodies
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What are the characteristics of an effective parody?
>A close relation in form and a distinct difference in the tone between the original and the parody
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What does "Child of the Pure Unclouded Brow" reflect?
Lewis Carrol's ability to compose serious verse
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Who taught sunday school as a youth and planned to enter the ministry?
Thomas Hardy
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Who studied architecture?
Thomas Hardy
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What was the fictional setting of Thomas Hardy's novels?
Wessex
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What does "The Dark Thrush" reflect?
the lingering pain of rejecting Christianity and the futility of trying to purge the miracles from Christianity
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What else does "The Dark Thrush" show?
shows the hopelessness of finding a replacement for the Christian faith
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What is presented as the chief cause of religious doubt in "The Respectable Burgher"?
Higher criticism
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What did Higher criticism do in"The Respectable Burgler"?
Presented as the chief reason for religious doubt
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What is the climax of "The Three Strangers"?
When the third stranger was apprehended by the villagers
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Why is it ironic that most of Hardy's early life was spent employed in physical restoration of churches?
Because he was antagonistic toward Christianity
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What did Hardy view peasantry as?
"Noble" rustics or contented pagans
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What was Thomas Hardy's first successful novel and what did it do?
"Far from the Madding Crowd" enabled him to support his family through his writings
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What are some characteristics of Hopkin's writing style?
>strong-stress meter >extreme condensation >unusual dictation >multiple meaning
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What is Hopkin's "sprung rhyme" is based on natural speech rhymes instead of syllable division and is like the rhyme pattern of what?
old english poetry
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By becoming a priest what happened to Hopkin's and who did he turn to?
He found he did not have the assurance he had been seeking while at Oxford and turned to Newman for spiritual struggles
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What year was A.E Housman born?
1859 >same as Francis Thompson >when Darwin's "Origin of Species" was published
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What does "To An Athlete Dying Young" show?
The praise for dying young and keeping his honor even in death
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What does "To An Athlete Dying Young" demonstrate?
That fame dies more quickly than beauty does
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What did Housman's poetry challenge?
> Gods justice | > His purposeful control of the universe
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What does the reluctance of the clock to strike in "Eight O'Clock" suggest?
Regret
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According to Thompson in "The Kingdom of God" why can't Modern man see the Angels?
Because mans unredeemed nature prevents him from seeing them
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What does the "The Hound of Heaven" show?
The masterfully recounts the the pursuit of the sinner by God
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Who was the last writer of British fiction and poetry to all levels of society?
Rudyard Kipling
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Who is the successor to Dickens?
Kipling
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What is "The conversion of Aurelian McGoggin"
A Tract
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Who did "The conversion of Aurelian McGoggin" seem to target?
Non religious zealots in general but a king of zealot who doesn't think of himself as religious
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According to the Doctor, what was McGoggin's conversion caused by?
Overwork

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