U8 L9 Victorian Variety

Question 1

When did the ‘Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations’ occur?

Answer 1

1851

Question 2

Where did the ‘Great exhibition’ take place?

Answer 2

London’s Crystal Palace

Question 3

Why did the ‘Great Exhibition’ take place?

Answer 3

tribute progress from Industrial Revolution

Question 4

What was Charles Dicken’s novel ‘Hard Times’ about?

Answer 4

evils brought by industrial progress

Question 5

What was the major Victorian principle?

Answer 5

practical

-hard work was an honorable means of success

Question 6

How was England prosperous in the 19th century?

Answer 6

• long peace

- greatest commercial empire (expanded)

Question 7

What was the field that gave major contributions to the Victorian golden age?

Answer 7

science

Question 8

What did inventions and intellectual developments revolutionize?

Answer 8

• industry
• medicine
• communication
• transportation
• traditional philosophies and beliefs

Question 9

Did some scientific theories lead to confusion among common people?

Answer 9

yes

Question 10

Many sincere people believed they only had what 3 alternatives?

Answer 10

• live in doubt
• reject science
• abandon faith

Question 11

How did the first and second half of the Victorian Age differ?

Answer 11

1- progress, peace, confidence, optimism

2- doubt

Question 12

Reforms in 19th cent England came slowly or quickly?

Answer 12

slowly

Question 13

The social and economic ills of Victorian Eng were rooted in what?

Answer 13

political poverty

Question 14

Did the lower class have the right to vote?

Answer 14

no

Question 15

The Victorian Era is characterized by political conflicts between which 2 parties?

Answer 15

• liberal Whig

- conservative Tory

Question 16

When did Parliament extend franchise to urban laborers and agricultural workers?

Answer 16

U- 1867

A-1885

Question 17

Which church gave little aid to people’s spirituality?

Answer 17

Anglican

Question 18

The Anglican Church seemed to be dominated by what?

Answer 18

Eng Govt

Question 19

What were the small religious groups that struggled to keep faith alive in England?

Answer 19

• followers of Wesley’s Methodism
• Fundamentalists
• Oxford Movement

Question 20

Who are the leaders of the Oxford MOvement?

Answer 20

• EB Pusey
• John Keeble
• John Henry Newman

Question 21

What did the Oxford movement try to do?

Answer 21

• reinforce early Christianity doctrine

- restore Anglican Church to original spiritual leadership

Question 22

When did England establish itself as a democarcy?

Answer 22

1911

Question 23

The Victorian Age of Variety and contrasts demanded what?

Answer 23

prudence

Question 24

What does prudence mean?

Answer 24

• ability to judge soundly

- act sensibly

Question 25

When did Queen Victoria succeed the throne?

Answer 25

18

Question 26

How long did Queen Victoria rule?

Answer 26

64 years

Question 27

As a child, what virtues were imbued on Victoria?

Answer 27

- piety | - proper social conduct

Question 28

Victoria was the mother of how many children?

Answer 28

9

Question 29

Why did Victoria's subjects respect her?

Answer 29

- capable sovereign | - dedicated wife and mother

Question 30

The Victorian writers were ()

Answer 30

contemporary

Question 31

Victorians looked to the () rather than the past, and sought ways to ()

Answer 31

- present | - comment on and improve it

Question 32

What are the characteristics of the typical Victorian writer?

Answer 32

- realistic - objective - didactic - moralistic - purposeful RODMP

Question 33

what does didactic mean?

Answer 33

intended to teach

Question 34

What does imbue mean?

Answer 34

fill mind, inspire

Question 35

The Romantic Age was an age of () while the Victorian Age was an age of ()

Answer 35

- poetry | - prose

Question 36

How were Victorian essayists different?

Answer 36

- personality - backgrounds - subjects - styles PBSS

Question 37

How were Victorian essayists similar in their goal?

Answer 37

analyze and help solve problems of their day

Question 38

What was the dominant literary form of the Victorian Age considered to be?

Answer 38

novel

Question 39

Was the public able to easily access novels in the 19th century?

Answer 39

yes

Question 40

What are some of Charles Dickens' work?

Answer 40

- Oliver Twist - David Copperfield - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities

Question 41

How was William Makepeace Thackeray similar and different to Dickens?

Answer 41

S-purpose | D- approach

Question 42

Where did Thackeray draw his subjects from?

Answer 42

- middle class | - expose their hypocrisies and inequalities

Question 43

What are some of Thackeray's well known works?

Answer 43

- Vanity Fair | - A Novel without a Hero

Question 44

What was the pen name Mary Ann Evans wrote under?

Answer 44

George Eliot

Question 45

What are Mary Ann Evans/George Eliot's well known works?

Answer 45

- Adam Bede - Mill on the Floss - Silas Marner

Question 46

Who do the Bronte Sisters consist of and what are their well known works?

Answer 46

- Emily (Wuthering Heights) - Anne - Charlotte (Jane Eyre)

Question 47

Poets of the Victorian Age frequently experienced what? why?

Answer 47

- identity problem - not confident fulfill roles - isolated form society they were supposed to improve

Question 48

Victorian poetry is characterized by the development of what?

Answer 48

- symbols - dramatic monologue - interest in tragedy - Romantic interest in nature and mdieval

Question 49

Victorian poetry depends on themes related to which contemporary subjects?

Answer 49

- sciences - technology - religion - reform