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Test 5

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1. Queen Victoria(1819-1901) came to the throne in______, at a time when the monarchy as an
institution was not particularly popular.
a. 1836b. 1837 c. 1838 d. 1839
2. A history of the Victorian age records a period of economic _______ and rapid change.
a. backwardness b. decline c. misery d. expansion
3. The growth of London and of other major cities in Great Britain marked a final stage in the
change from a way of life based on the land to a modern ______economy based on
manufacturing, international trade and financial institutions.
a. urban b. agricultural c. rural d. countryside
4. Beneath the public optimism and positivism the nineteenth century was also a century of
________and uncertainties.
a. clarity b. faith c. vision d. paradoxes
5. ‘The Victorian compromise’ implies a kind of _____standard between national success and the
exploitation of lower-class workers at home and of colonies overseas; a compromise between
philanthropy and tolerance and repression.
a. uniform b. modern c. double d. old
6. Tennyson’s, the Victorian poet, ________is personal, deeply felt, and in many ways simplifies
the worldview of the Romantic poets.
a. observationb. realization c. creativity d. experimentation
7. Tennyson turned to the myth of King ________ and the Knights of the Round Table as a source
of inspiration.
a. Spenser b. Arthur c. Henry d. Edward
8. Tennyson as a poet has capacity to bring together ______and sense, mood and atmosphere, to
make an appeal to the emotions of the reader.
a. voice b. sound c. sane d. reason
9. Arnold’s The Scholar-Gypsy (1853) is a pastoral of the Oxford countryside which reached a wide
readership with its observation of ‘the strange _____of modern life’.
a. disease b. landscape c. scene d. site
10. Arnold starts from ________observation rather than philosophical reflection, and stresses the
importance of seeing ‘things as they really are’.
a. social b. political c. mental d. psychological
11. Culture, seen as a striving towards an ideal of human perfection, is regarded by Arnold as the
opposing spirit to barbarism, philistinism, and the consequent_________ .
a. crimes b. civilization c. materialism d. anarchy
12. In some anthologies, Hopkins is classified as a ‘Modern’ twentieth century poet; in others he is
classified as a late _________ poet.
a. Victorian b. Romantic c. Modern d. Irish
13. _______ despair in verse reaches its climax in the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
a.Victorian b. Romantic c. Modern d. Irish
14. ________was a highly original poet, bringing a new energy into his wrestling with doubt,
sensuality, and the glories of nature.
a.Tennyson b. Arnold c. Hopkins d. Browning
15. _______develops the dramatic monologue to its greatest heights.
a. Browning b. Keats c. Shelley d. Hardy
16. Browning met Elizabeth Barrett in 1845, and eloped with her the following year to _______,
where they lived until her death in 1861.
a. Germany b. Spain c. Russia d. Italy
17. Browning examines ‘between the lines’ a wide range of moral scruples and problems,
________and attitudes.
a. characters b. fields c. views d. ideas
18. In My Last Duchess (1842), Browning’s poem of love and violence, the ________reveals to
a diplomatic emissary the true situation behind the façade of polite words.
a. writer b. duke c. speaker d. dramatist
19. Browning believes that “God’s in his _______ , All’s right with the world!”
a. world b. heaven c. home d. temple
20. Many of his poems have Renaissance settings which enabled Robert Browning to explore
differences and continuities between _______and Modern worlds.
a.Victorian b. Romantic c. Augustan d. Renaissance
21. Disraeli’s political novels give us one of the main ‘labels’ of the _______ age.
a. Romantic b. Augustan c. Victorian d. Rational
22. Charlotte Bronte’s novel, ________, is a a novel of love, mystery and passion which poses
profound moral and social questions.
a. Jane Eyre b. Adam Bede c.Tess d. Wuthering Heights
23. Emily Brontë’s only novel, _______ (1847), contains a degree of emotional force and
sophisticated narrative structure not seen before in the history of the English novel.
a. Jane Eyre b. Adam Bede c.Tess d. Wuthering Heights
24. The Brontë sisters opened up new ______for the form of the English novel and for the
portrayal of women in fiction.
a. Houses c. centres c. points d. possibilities
 25. The Victorian novel is rich in linguistic ________as the genre explores differences in social
class and expands the boundaries of nationhood and social identity.
a. uniformity b. simplicity c. change d. variation
26. _______recognised her worth, and published much of Elizabeth Gaskell’s writing in his
magazines Household Words and All the Year Round.
a. Trollope b. Thackeray c. Dickens d. Hardy
27. The _______novelist, Elizabeth Gaskell’s social concern, her realistic use of character,
setting, and speech, and her pleas for humanity and reconciliation have been restored in
recent years.
a. Modernist b. Victorian c. Augustan d. Romantic
28. The naturalist novelist, George Gissing’s novels show a concern and sympathy for the
deprived which is not far removed from _______.
a. Trollope b. Thackeray c. Meredith d. Hardy
29. Charles Dickens(1812_1870) was a son of a __________ clerk.
a. navel b. municipal c. shipping d. port
30. Dickens married the daughter of his newspaper editor, ________ Hogarth who bore him 9
children.
a. Katherine b. Mariana c. Mary d. Ellen
31. Dickens had a love affair with a London actress________ that affected his family life.
a. Ellen Turner b. Ellen Seth c. Ellen Robert d. Ellen Herbert
32. Oliver Twist (1837–38) highlighted the problems of poor _______who after the Poor Law Act of
1833 ended up in the workhouse, or at the mercy of crooks like Fagin and Bill Sykes.
a. city women b. city men c. city children d. citizens
33. _______ asks the workhouse master, ‘Please, Sir, I want some more.’
a. David b. Oliver c. Tom d. Sidney
34. Bildungsroman refers to a novel of_______.
a. growing up b. love c. mystery d. buildings
35. In the 1840s, Dickens described increasingly realistically the society of his time, but with a faith
and optimism in the semi-autobiographical _______(1849–50).
a. Oliver Twist b. Hard Times c. The Trial d. David Copperfield
36. ‘The great expectations’ designed for Pip were that he was to be sent to London and be educated
into a ______with financial aid from a mysterious benefactor.
i. graduate b. learned c. skilled d. gentleman
37. Pip mistakenly thought that ________was his benefactor.
a. Havisham b. Maggie c. Jude d. Poyser
38. Pip was only a snob when he was supposed to be in great expectations. But he acted as a
________ when he owned nothing.
a. graduate b. learned c. starved d. gentleman
39. The ever present possibility of _______and necessity of sacrifice are the dominant concerns of
the novel, A Tale of Two Cities.
a. love b. crime c. resurrection d. religiosity
40. A French aristocrat by birth, ________chooses to live in England because he cannot bear to be
associated with the cruel injustices of the French social system.
a. Charles Darnay b. Sydney Carton c. Defarge d. Evremonde
41. ______ becomes a Christ-like figure, a selfless martyr whose death enables the happiness of his
beloved and ensures his own immortality.
a. Charles Darnay b. Sydney Carton c. Defarge d. Evremonde
42. Madame ______ secretly knits a register of the names of the revolution’s intended victims.
a. Pross b. Defarge c. Lucie d. Emma
43. Doctor Manette is transformed from an insensate ______who mindlessly cobbles shoes into a
man of distinction.
a. prisoner b. doctor c. worshiper d. revolutionary
44. In 1789, the peasants in Paris storm the Bastille and the French Revolution begins and the
_______ murder aristocrats in the streets.
a. prisoners b. doctors c. worshipers d. revolutionaries
45. Sydney Carton meets his death at the_________, and the narrator confidently asserts that Carton
dies with the knowledge that he has finally imbued his life with meaning.
a. Guillotine b. court c. residence d. home
46. In the final scene of Great Expectations, Pip and Estella, after a separation of many years, meet
again on the desolate property where Miss ______'s house once stood.
a. Havisham b. Estella c. Lucy d. Jessica
47. ________(1854), subtitled For These Times, is the most familiar of Dickens’s ‘state of the
nation’ novels, perhaps because it is one of his shortest.
a. Oliver Twist b. Hard Times c. The Trial d. David Copperfield
48. _______ contains a picture of the industrialised English Midlands which emphasises the
dehumanising aspects of the Industrial Revolution.
a. Oliver Twist b. Hard Times c. The Trial d. David Copperfield
49. Mr. Gradgrind, the_________, insists on ‘facts’ at the expense of imagination.
a. Journalist b. critic c. scholar d. educator
50. The opening sentence of ___________ is , “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it
was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness . . .”
a. Tess of the d’Urberville b. The Great Expectations c. Hard Times d. A Tale of
Two Cities
51. Charles Darnay remembers these words of the dying prisoner, Gabelle, “For the love of______,
of justice, of generosity, of the honour of your noble name!”
a. my wife b. revolution c. Heaven d. equality
52. Sydney Carton is sometimes introduced as a hero of the __________ novel for his failed
adventures in life before his ultimate success.
a.Romantic b.picaresque c. historical d. semi-autobiographical
53. Education, one of Dickens’s concerns throughout his life, finds a memorable embodiment in Mr
_______ in his novel, Hard Times.
a.Higgins b. Henry c. Matthew d. Gradgrind
 54. The novels of Anthony Trollope offer considerable insight into the _____ of society in
Victorian England.
a. conflict b. progress c. structure d. system
55. _____ was the most industrious of writers, the most prolific since Scott, writing every day
while at the same time maintaining a career and travelling all over the country and abroad as
a Post Office civil servant.
a. Trollope b. Austen c. Dickens d. Hardy
56. Trollope wrote two great ____of interconnected novels: the Barsetshire novels (1855–67), set
in a fully realised West Country area, and the Palliser novels (1864–80).
a. novels b. books c. series d. biographies
57. Trollope’s novels trace the rise and fall of _______characters, shading in their ideals and
aspirations with a gentle irony, rather than with the social concern.
a. Romantic b. Victorian c. Augustan d. American
58. Barchester Towers explores the conflict of High and Low _________ .
a. society b. church c. language d. English
59. In his ornate, wordy style and his sensitivity to issues of class, Thomas Hardy (1840_1928)
seemed a characteristic ________ novelist.
a. Romantic b. Victorian c. Augustan d. American
60. Hardy was apprenticed to an_______ and he worked in an office, which specialized in
restoration of churches.
a. poet b. novelist c. astronomer d. architect
61. Setting is of crucial importance in Hardy's novels, and his finest novels are all set in the region of
_______, which is based upon Hardy's own native corner of England.
a. Wessex b. Midlands c. Essex d. Nottinghamshire
62. Controversy over the moral stance of his later novels Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891) and Jude
the Obscure (1896) led Hardy to abandon writing novels, and to concentrate on_______.
a. poems b. designing c. acting d. architecture
63. The Return of the Native takes the tract of windswept upland in Hardy's Wessex known as
______as one of its central themes--and, arguably, as its central character.
a. Eustacia b. Clym c. landscape d. Egdon Heath
64. The "Native" of the novel's title, Clym goes abroad to work as a _______merchant in Paris, but
comes home when he realizes that his ambition is not towards material wealth.
a. diamond b. cloth c. food d. sweets
65. Wildeve and Eustacia die and Clym become a _________ in the end of the novel.
a. preacher b. merchant c. trader d. farmer
66. The central event of Tess of the D’Urbervilles is the rape of Tess and the_____ this produces in
her in the face of social conventions which expect her to remain chaste.
a. sin b. guilt c. marriage d. pleasure
67. Angel Clare carries Tess across the room, murmuring, “My poor, poor Tess, my dearest darling
Tess! So sweet, _______, so true!’”
a. so good b. so bitter c. so bad d. so cute
68. Tess’s marriage with Angel Clare is disturbed because of her past and Angle Clare leaves for
_________.
a. India b. Australia c. Italy d. Brazil
69. The narrator of Tess utters, “Justice was done, and the President of the Immortals, in
_________phrase, had ended his sport with Tess.”
a. Aeschylean b. Aristotlean c. Kantian d. Athenian
70. The narrator of The Return of the Native comments on irony that “Often a drop of irony into an
indifferent situation renders the whole______”.
a. truth b. piquant c. passive d. drama
71. Eustacia says to her husband Clym Yeobright, “"If you had never returned to your native place,
Clym, what a _______it would have been for you!”
a. loss b. blessing c. failure d. tragedy
72. George Eliot was born in _____ at the estate of her father’s employer in Chilvers Coton,
Warwickshire.
a. 1819 b. 1829 c. 1839 d. 1849
73. While living in Coventry, Mary Ann Evans(George Eliot) met ______and Caroline Bray, who
led her to question her faith by introducing her to new religious and political ideas.
a. David b. Michael c. Charles d. Charlotte
74. Through her work on the Westminster Review, she met several prominent philosophers and
theologians of the time, including Herbert_______.
a. Spencer b. Reed c. Lewes d. Stone
75. Herbert Spencer introduced George Eliot to George______, a drama critic and philosopher.
a. Lewes b. Henry c. Heath d. Henry Lewes
76. Lewes and Eliot fell in love but could not marry because Lewes already had a wife, so in a rather
_________move for the age, Eliot and Lewes later lived together.
a. Social b. normal c. ordinary d. scandalous
77. George Eliot (née Mary Ann Evans) took a male name partly in order to rise above the
‘______novels’ syndrome.
a. mystery b. historical c. silly d. autobiographical
78. In the works of George Eliot, the English novel reached new depths of social and
_________concern, and moral commitment.
a. apolitical b. political c. ideological d. philosophical
79. George Eliot’s novels are largely set in the realistically presented location of the _______area of
her childhood – Warwickshire.
a. Wessex b. Midlands c. Essex d. Nottinghamshire
80. ________’s characters tend to be ordinary, unheroic people caught up in circumstances which
are greater than any individual.
a. Emily Bronte b. Charles Dickens c. George Eliot d. Thomas Hardy
81. The narrator of the novel __________ asserts that “Our deeds determine us, as much as we
determine our deeds.”
a.Adam Bede b. Middlemarch c. The Mill on the Floss d. Romola
82. Dorothea Brooke is the protagonist of George Eliot’s novel, __________ .
a. Middle March b. Romola c. Adam Bede d. Mill on the Floss
83. Middlemarch was a _____in the Midlands in 1832, at the time of the First Reform Act.
a. Movement b. Act c. town d. capital
84. George Eliot’s last novel, _________, moves on to grander themes of dedication in the
professional, artistic and nationalistic senses, following Gwendolen Harleth’s career through
disillusionment to self-sacrifice.
a. Daniel Deronda b. Romola c. Adam Bede d. Mill on the Floss
85. The fight for a Jewish nation, and a wider worldview than English provincial life, are keynotes of
Eliot’s novel, __________.
a. Daniel Deronda b. Romola c. Adam Bede d. Mill on the Floss
86. In her novel, Adam Bede, the portrayal of ______as a positive social force possibly stems from
Eliot’s own rejection of some organized religions.
a. Calvinists b. Baptists c. Methodists d. Protestants
87. The more sophisticated, socialite characters of Adam Bede laugh at the Methodists and take a
haughty view toward________, whereas the simpler villagers are attracted to the gentle love with
which she preaches.
a. Gowendolen b. Dinah Morris c. Hetty Sorel d. Maggie Tulivar
88. Dinah’s love transforms Hetty in jail because she comforts and listens to Hetty and does
not________ her.
a. love b. like c. judge d. praise
89. Adam’s dog, Gyp, loves his master and Gyp’s condition reflects Adam’s love of the
________and his desire to help and care for those who depend on him.
a. helpless b. powerful c. strong d. helping
90. A group of related words that lacks either a subject or a predicate or both is called a
________.
a. clause b. phrase c. constituent d. marker
91. Active voice indicates that the ________is acting—doing something.
a. subject b. verb c. object d. compliment
92. Two or more words with very closely related meanings are called________.
a. synonyms b. hyponyms c. antonyms d. prototype
93. ________ forms may differ in terms of formal versus informal uses.
a. synonymous b. hyponyms c. antonyms d. prototype
94. Two forms with opposite meanings are called ________.
a. synonyms b. hyponyms c. antonyms d. prototype
95. When the meaning of one form is included in the meaning of another, the relationship is
described as _______.
a. synonymy b. hyponymy c. antonymy d. prototype
96. When two or more different (written) forms have the same pronunciation, they are described
as_________, e.g bare, bear.
a. homonyms b. collocation c. polysemy d. homophones
97. _______ means one form (written or spoken) word has two or more unrelated meanings.
a. homonyms b. collocation c. polysemy d. homophones
98. _________ can be defined as one form (written or spoken) having multiple meanings that are all
related by extension.
a. homonyms b. collocation c. polysemy d. homophones
99. Using one of these words to refer to the other is an example of metonymy.
a. homonyms b. collocation c. polysemy d. metonymy
100. By portraying the narrator as a character, Eliot presents a ______perspective because the
narrator is a real person who is judgmental throughout the story.
a.moral b. social c. intellectual d. conventional