Unit 7

Question 1

The religious climate of the nineteenth-century showed:

Answer 1

The period’s evangelicalism produced England’s greatest missionary effect
Some of England’s finest hymns were produced
Concerns for social goals were displacing the mission of the church among “high church” Anglicans and “broad church” liberals

Question 2

By the end of Victoria’s reign, why was England less able to meet the trails of the new century ?

Answer 2

Of her high transition from a a religious to an increasingly secularistic nation

Question 3

What theory did Darwin’s “origin of species” supported ?

Answer 3

Evolution of animal species from common origins and created a receptive climate for Karl Marx’s theory

Question 4

What are the Chartists ?

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Missionaries sent out by evangelicals in Victorian England:

Answer 5

William Carey in India
Hudson Taylor in China
David Livingston in Africa

Question 6

What took seventy years to complete and is possibly the most challenging work of scholarship ever accomplished ?

Answer 6

The Oxford English Dictionary

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Question 8

What does today Victorianism in language suggests ?

Answer 8

A stifling obsession with rules of correctness

Question 9

The chief Victorian innovators in language, both at home and aboard, were who ?

Answer 9

Were not the writers who invested few words, but the scientists

Question 10

Who had a even more devastating effect on orthodox Christianity of the Victorian period than did Darwin’s ideas ?

Answer 10

German Biblical scholars

Question 11

What is Carlyle autobiography?

Answer 11

“Sartor Resartus”

Question 12

In “The Hero as Divinity” Carlyle’s controlling image is what ?

Answer 12

The hero is like lightning acting kindling

Question 13

Carlyle’s areas of what had the greatest impact on Victorian England ?

Answer 13

Religious thought and social criticism

Question 14

Why was Lord Tennyson’s poetry deepened and enriched ?

Answer 14

The death of his best friend

Question 15

How did William Wordsworth preceded Tennyson ?

Answer 15

As poet laureate

Question 16

Who was the main influence upon Tennyson’s religious thought ?

Answer 16

Thomas Carlyle

Question 17

What personal record of the experience that shaped Tennyson into the poet-prophet predicted by Carlyle ?

Answer 17

In Memoriam

Question 18

A celebration of the hero is what which are grasped by reason in the poem In Memorian ?

Answer 18

A doubter and the insistence on truths deeper than those

It also offers reassurance of immorality through mystic insight

Question 19

In Morte de Arthur, What did Tennyson express ?

Answer 19

Optimism concerning Victorian faith in human progress

Question 20

In Crossing the Bar, the “pilot” is what ?

Answer 20

The “divine and unseen Who is always guiding us”

Question 21

The basis of Tennyson’s beliefs is what ?

Answer 21

Intuition rather than reason or revelation

Question 22

Carroll was an what ?

Answer 22

Oxford lecturer in mathematics

Question 23

Carroll was a what ?

Answer 23

Ordained Anglican deacon

Question 24

What was Carroll known for ?

Answer 24

His treaties in symbolic logic

Question 25

Most of Carroll’s poems in the Alice books are best described as what ?

Answer 25

Parodies

Question 26

Characteristics of an effective parody:

Answer 26

A close relation in form between the original and the parody
A distinct difference in tone between the original and the parody

Question 27

“Child of the Pure Unclouded Brow” reflects Carroll’s ability to compose what ?

Answer 27

Serious verse

Question 28

What did Hardy do in his youth ?

Answer 28

Taught Sunday school and planned to enter the ministry

Question 29

What did hardy study ?

Answer 29

Architecture

Question 30

What is Hardy’s fictional setting for his novels ?

Answer 30

Wessex

Question 31

What does the “The Darkling Thrush” also show ?

Answer 31

The hopelessness of finding a replacement for the Christian Faith

Question 32

What is presented as the chief cause of religious doubt in “The Respectable Burgher” ?

Answer 32

Higher criticism

Question 33

The apprehension of which stranger by the villagers in “The Three Strangers” is the climax of the story ?

Answer 33

Third stranger

Question 34

What is it ironic about Hardy ?

Answer 34

He spent much of his early life employed in the physical restoration of churches because he was antagonistic toward Christianity

Question 35

How does Hardy view peasantry ?

Answer 35

“Noble” rustics or contended pagans

Question 36

What was the first successful novel and one which enabled him to support his family through Hardy’s writing ?

Answer 36

“Far From the Maddening Crowd”

Question 37

Who was born in 1859 and also when Darwin’s Origin of Species was published ?

Answer 37

Housman

Question 38

“To An Athlete Dying” shows what ?

Answer 38

Shows that the youth is praised for dying youth and keeps his honor even in death
It also demonstrates that fame dies more quickly than beauty does

Question 39

What does Housman’s poetry challenge ?

Answer 39

God’s justice and His purposeful control of the universe

Question 40

What does in “Eight O’Clock” suggests regret ?

Answer 40

The reluctance of the clocks to strike

Question 41

Kipling was the last British writer of fiction and poetry to appeal what ?

Answer 41

All levels of society

Question 42

Kipling to also considered a successor to who ?

Answer 42

Dickens

Question 43

“The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin” is a what ?

Answer 43

Tract (specific form of literature)

Question 44

“The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin” seems to target ?

Answer 44

Not religious zealots in general but a kind of zealot who dies not think of himself as religious

Question 45

According to the doctor, McGoggin’s conversion was caused by what ?

Answer 45

Overwork