Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 8

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 9

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 13

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 14

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 15

........................ 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,

Accepted Answer

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

Question 16

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 20

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

Accepted Answer

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

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