Deck 11: Literary and Philosophical Figures of the 19th Century

Question 1

___________ 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

Answer 1

Robert Browning

Question 2

'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

Answer 2

Matthew Arnold

Question 3

___________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

Answer 3

Matthew Arnold

Question 4

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 5

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 6

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 7

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

A)Capitalism
B)Liberalism
C)Communalism
D)Communism

Question 8

___________ 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 9

The 17th-century philosopher ................... is often credited with founding liberalism as a distinct philosophical tradition.

A)Thackeray
B) A. C.Swinburne
C) John Lock
D)George Eliot

Question 10

................. 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 11

.................. 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 12

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 13

During his stay at Punch, ................wrote Vanity Fair, the work which placed him in the first rank of novelists.

A)A. C. Swinburne
B)John Locke
C)Thackeray
D)George Eliot

Question 14

..............., was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.

A)George Eliot
B)John Locke
C)A. C. Swinburne
D)Thackeray

Question 15

___________.is the author of Adam Bede (1859),

A)George Eliot
B)John Locke
C)A. C. Swinburne
D)Thackeray

Question 16

___________ was the author of, The Mayor of Caster bridge (1886),

A)A. C. Swinburne
B)John Locke
C)Thomas Hardy
D)Thackeray

Question 17

___________........., was an American writer who spent most of his writing career in Britain.

A)Thomas hardy
B)Words worth
C)Henry James
D)Maurice Kinsley

Question 18

___________. is an intellectual and art movement supporting the emphasis of aesthetic values more than social-political themes for literature, fine art, music and other arts.

A)Aestheticism
B)Capitalism
C)Communalism
D)Communism

Question 19

___________.. was humanist whose advocacy of "art for art's sake" became a cardinal doctrine of the movement known as Aestheticism.

A)Walter Horatio Pater
B)John Keble
C)Charles Marriott
D)Richard Hurrell Froude

Question 20

___________ began to write for the reviews and his essays on Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, Pico della Mirandola,and Michelangelo,

A)Walter Horatio Pater
B)John Keble
C)Charles Marriott
D)Richard Hurrell Froude

Question 21

___________.. is remembered for his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray,

A)Oscar Wilde
B)Walter Pater
C)John Ruskin
D)George Bernard Shaw

Question 22

................. wrote Salome (1891) in French in Paris but it was refused a licence for England due to the absolute prohibition of Biblical subjects on the English stage.

A)Oscar Wilde
B)Walter Pater
C)John Ruskin
D)George Bernard Shaw

Question 23

___________...... wrote Man and Superman

A)George Bernard Shaw
B)Karl Marx
C)John Ruskin
D)Oscar Wilde

Question 24

.................. wrote his critique of capitalism, Das Kapital, over a period of almost 30 years in the late 19th century.

A)Karl Marx
B)Oscar Wilde
C)Lenin
D)Mao

Question 25

The Fabian Society, established in . ___________..in 1884,

A)Delhi
B)Bagdad
C)Beijing
D)London