Question 1

Charles Dickens published his most famous novel &#34;A Tale of Two Cities&#34; in the year &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#10;A)1858&#10;B)1860&#10;C)1859&#10;D)1863

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Charles Dickens published "A Tale of Two Cities" in 1859. It is one of his most famous works, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.

Question 2

All the novel of Charles Dickens depicts the&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#10;A)Story of aristocrats&#10;B)Story of Monarchs&#10;C)Predicament of poor and oppressed&#10;D)British wars and colonial expansion

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Charles Dickens is renowned for his novels that vividly depict the predicament of the poor and oppressed, often highlighting the social injustices of 19th-century England.

Question 3

Among the following novels which is not written by Charles Dickens?&#10;A)Great Expectations&#10;B)The Old Curiosity Shop&#10;C)Vanity Fair&#10;D)A Christmas Carol

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Vanity Fair is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, not Charles Dickens. The other options are all works by Dickens.

Question 4

Charles Dickens died in the year&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#10;A)1870&#10;B)1875&#10;C)1868&#10;D)1864

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Charles Dickens died on June 9, 1870.

Question 5

William Thackeray, famous English novelist of the 19th century was born in&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#10;A)London&#10;B)Glasgow&#10;C)Calcutta&#10;D)Bombay

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William Thackeray was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata), India, on July 18, 1811.

Question 6

William Thackeray's monumental novel was&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#10;A)Henry Esmond&#10;B)The New comes&#10;C)The Virginians&#10;D)Vanity Fair

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William Thackeray's monumental novel is "Vanity Fair." It is considered his masterpiece and is most famous for its portrayal of early 19th-century British society.

Question 7

Famous English writer Oscarwilde was born in &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; in the year 1854.&#10;A)Wales&#10;B)Dublin&#10;C)Suffolk&#10;D)London

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Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1854. He was a prominent playwright, poet, and author known for his wit and flamboyant style.

Question 8

Who wrote &#34;The Soul of Man under Socialism?&#34;&#10;A)Karl Marx&#10;B)Engels&#10;C)Oscarwilde&#10;D)T.S. Elliot

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"The Soul of Man under Socialism" is an essay by Oscar Wilde in which he expounds a libertarian socialist worldview and a critique of charity, while advocating for a more egalitarian society.

Question 9

&#34;The Picture of Dorian Gray&#34;, a famous 19th century English novel was written by&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#10;A)Charles Dickens&#10;B)William Thackeray&#10;C)Oscarwilde&#10;D)Mathew Arnold

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"The Picture of Dorian Gray" is a novel by Oscar Wilde, first published in 1890. It is his only novel and is known for its themes of aestheticism, moral duplicity, and the pursuit of beauty.

Question 10

The &#34;Pre?Raphaelite Brotherhood&#34; was a group of&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#10;A)English working class&#10;B)Political Radicals&#10;C)English Painters, Poets and Critics&#10;D)English Journalists

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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of English painters, poets, and critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. They aimed to reform art by rejecting what they considered the mechanistic approach first adopted by Mannerist artists who succeeded Raphael and Michelangelo. Their belief was in a return to the abundant detail, intense colors, and complex compositions of Quattrocento Italian art.

Question 11

William Holman Hunt and Gabriel Rossetti were associated with&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#10;A)Chartist movement&#10;B)Enfranchisement movement&#10;C)Pre?Raphaelite Brotherhood&#10;D)Oxford movement

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The answer of William Holman Hunt and Gabriel Rossetti were...

Question 12

The &#34;Pre?Raphaelites&#34; popularised their ideas among the English people through the publication of a periodical named&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#10;A)The Grace&#10;B)The Germ&#10;C)Raphael&#10;D)The Jewel

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The answer of The &#34;Pre?Raphaelites&#34; popularised their ideas among the...

Question 13

___________was a great leader of abolition of slave trade in England in the 19th century.&#10;A)E.B. Pusey&#10;B)Harrell Froude&#10;C)William Wilberforce&#10;D)Richard Cobden

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The answer of ___________was a great leader of abolition of...

Question 14

British Parliament passed the &#34;Slavery Abolition Act&#34; in the year&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#10;A)1835&#10;B)1833&#10;C)1831&#10;D)1830

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The answer of British Parliament passed the &#34;Slavery Abolition Act&#34;...

Question 15

William Wilberforce was died in the year&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#10;A)1833&#10;B)1831&#10;C)1841&#10;D)1843

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The answer of William Wilberforce was died in the year&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#10;A)1833&#10;B)1831&#10;C)1841&#10;D)1843...

Question 16

First World War broke out in the year&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#10;A)26th August 1914&#10;B)28th July 1914&#10;C)13th January 1915&#10;D)16th Jan. 1915

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The answer of First World War broke out in the...

Question 17

Which among the following country was not included in the &#34;Triple Entente&#34;?&#10;A)United Kingdom&#10;B)France&#10;C)Russia&#10;D)Germany

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The answer of Which among the following country was not...

Question 18

Which among the following country was not included in the &#34;Triple Alliance&#34;?&#10;A)Germany&#10;B)Austria?Hungary&#10;C)France&#10;D)Italy

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The answer of Which among the following country was not...

Question 19

The issue over Alsace?Lorraine was closely associated with&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#10;A)First World War&#10;B)Second World War&#10;C)Gulf War&#10;D)Cold War

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The answer of The issue over Alsace?Lorraine was closely associated...

Question 20

The problem of the Alsace?Lorraine was between the countries of&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#10;A)England &Germany&#10;B)France &Germany&#10;C)Italy &England&#10;D)Russia &Germany

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The answer of The problem of the Alsace?Lorraine was between...

Question 21

After which battle of 1870 that France was forced to surrender the provinces of Alsace? Lorraine to Germany?&#10;A)Battle of Sedan&#10;B)Crimean War&#10;C)War of Roses&#10;D)Franco?Prussian war

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The answer of After which battle of 1870 that France...

Question 22

Arch Duke Francis Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro?Hungarian throne, was killed in the year&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#10;A)28th July 1914&#10;B)28th August 1914&#10;C)28th June 1914&#10;D)22nd June 1915

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The answer of Arch Duke Francis Ferdinand, the heir to...

Question 23

Who was the murderer of Arch Duke Francis Ferdinand and his wife Sophie?&#10;A)Gemoes Detrie&#10;B)Gavrilo Principe&#10;C)Jordan York&#10;D)Semoge Ditte

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The answer of Who was the murderer of Arch Duke...

Question 24

Expand WSPU&#10;A)Women's Social and Political Union&#10;B)Worker's Social and Political Union&#10;C)Women's Suffrage and Political Union&#10;D)World Social and Political Union

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The answer of Expand WSPU&#10;A)Women's Social and Political Union&#10;B)Worker's Social...

Question 25

The &#34;Suffragettes&#34; worked in England for the&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#10;A)Right for the Industrial workers to vote&#10;B)Right for peasants to vote&#10;C)Right for layman to vote&#10;D)Right for women to vote

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The answer of The &#34;Suffragettes&#34; worked in England for the&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#10;A)Right...

Deck 19: 19th and Early 20th Century English Literature and History