Deck 3: Literary and Philosophical Figures of the Victorian ERA: A Compilation of Titles

Question 1

The phrase Social Darwinism was first used in..............................

A)1856
B)1865
C)1882
D)1887

Answer 1

1887

Question 2

Social Darwinism was the name given to the theories of......................, an elitist philosopher.

A)herbert spencer
B)charles darwin
C)dickens,
D)thackeray

Answer 2

herbert spencer

Question 3

......................coined the phrase "survival of the fittest," and this was the essence of his thought on society.

A)herbert spencer
B)charles darwin
C)dickens,
D)thackeray

Answer 3

herbert spencer

Question 4

...................... justified the mass murder of the Jewish people during World War II as purging inferior genetics.

A)adolf hitler
B)stalin
C)lenin
D)mussolini

Question 5

Matthew Arnold is one of the great social voices of the ...................era.

A)victorian
B)tudor
C)stuart
D)windsor

Question 6

........................... wrote his autobiography Apologia (1865-66).

A)john henry newman
B)dickens,
C)trollope,
D)thackeray

Question 7

....................... wrote the popular hymns "Lead, Kindly Light" and "Praise to the Holiest in the Height" (taken from Gerontius).

A)john henry newman
B)dickens,
C)trollope,
D)thackeray

Question 8

.................. - was "the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced.

A)john clare
B)coleridge
C), shelley,
D)keats

Question 9

..................... of Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets.

A)alfred tennyson
B)carlyle
C)ruskin
D)matthew arnold

Question 10

.................. excelled at penning short lyrics, such as "Break, Break, Break", "The Charge of the Light Brigade", "Tears, Idle Tears" and "Crossing the Bar".

A)matthew arnold
B)carlyle
C)ruskin
D)alfred tennyson

Question 11

....................... was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.

A)dante
B)robert browning
C)paracelsus
D)wordsworth

Question 12

'The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems" was the first book of poetry penned by........................, which was published in 1849.

A)matthew arnold
B)christina rossetti
C)william wordsworth
D)henry james

Question 13

.....................published 'Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems' (1852) and 'Poems: A New Edition' (1853

A)g. k. chesterton
B)oscar wilde
C)george bernard shaw,
D)matthew arnold

Question 14

Apart from the poetry, ..................penned many prominent critical works, which includes 'Essays in Criticism' (1865), and 'Culture and Anarchy' (1869).

A)goethe
B)matthew arnold
C)william wordsworth
D)charles swinburne

Question 15

The Oxford movement was a movement of High Church members of the Church of ............................. which eventually developed into Anglo-Catholicism.

A)england
B)ireland
C)switzerland
D)usa

Question 16

The ..................movement's philosophy was known as Tractarianism after its series of publications, the Tracts for the Times, published from 1833 to 1841.

A)usa
B)ireland
C)switzerland
D)oxford

Question 17

...................... is a political philosophy or worldview founded on ideas of liberty and equality.

A)capitalism
B)liberalism
C)communalism
D)communism

Question 18

....................... rejected the notions, common at the time, of hereditary privilege, religion, absolute, and the Divine Right of Kings.

A)liberalism
B)capitalism
C)communalism
D)communism

Question 19

.................. literary success began with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick Papers.

A)isaac williams
B)robert wilberforce
C)charles dickens's
D)william palmer

Question 20

................... was an English novelist of the 19th century is famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society.

A)a. c. swinburne
B)john locke
C)william makepeace thackeray
D)george eliot

Question 21

In 1837, .......................came to London and became a regular contributor to Fraser's Magazine.

A)thackeray
B)john locke
C)a. c. swinburne
D)george eliot

Question 22

........................ is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles,

A)james joyce
B)t. s. eliot
C)w. h. auden
D)edward thomas

Question 23

..................... was an Anglo-American poet, best known for love poems such as "Funeral Blues,"

A)w. h. auden
B)isaac rosenberg,
C)wilfred owen
D)charles sorely

Question 24

..................... is perhaps best known for his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) and the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945).

A)george orwell
B)dylan thomas
C)samuel barclay beckett
D)charles sorely

Question 25

......................... is the process of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas and other aspects of culture.

A)arya samaj
B)commonwealth
C)nwo
D)globalization