UA05MAENG02: Victorian Age - Short Questions

 UA05MAENG02: Victorian Age

1. The Lotos Eaters – Alfred Lord Tennyson

  1. Who wrote The Lotos Eaters? – Alfred Lord Tennyson

  2. In which year was The Lotos Eaters published? – 1832 (revised in 1842)

  3. What type of poem is it? – Narrative/lyrical poem

  4. Which age does it belong to? – Victorian Age

  5. What is the source of the poem’s theme? – Homer’s Odyssey

2. In Memoriam – Alfred Lord Tennyson

  1. Who wrote In Memoriam? – Alfred Lord Tennyson

  2. In which year was In Memoriam published? – 1850

  3. What type of work is it? – Long elegy in stanzas (lyrical elegy)

  4. To whom is it dedicated? – Arthur Henry Hallam

  5. Which literary age does it belong to? – Victorian Age

3. Enoch Arden – Alfred Lord Tennyson

  1. Who wrote Enoch Arden? – Alfred Lord Tennyson

  2. In which year was Enoch Arden published? – 1864

  3. What type of work is it? – Narrative poem (idyll)

  4. Which age does it belong to? – Victorian Age

  5. What is the main theme of the poem? – Love, sacrifice, and fate

4. Sartor Resartus – Thomas Carlyle

  1. Who wrote Sartor Resartus? – Thomas Carlyle

  2. In which year was Sartor Resartus published in book form? – 1836

  3. What type of work is it? – Philosophical prose, partly satire

  4. Which literary age does it belong to? – Victorian Age

  5. In which magazine was it first serialized? – Fraser’s Magazine

5. Men and Women – Robert Browning

  1. Who wrote Men and Women? – Robert Browning

  2. In which year was Men and Women published? – 1855

  3. What type of work is it? – Collection of dramatic monologues

  4. Which age does it belong to? – Victorian Age

  5. How many poems are in the collection? – 51 poems

6. Sonnets from the Portuguese – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  1. Who wrote Sonnets from the Portuguese? – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  2. In which year was it published? – 1850

  3. What type of work is it? – A sonnet sequence (love poetry)

  4. Which age does it belong to? – Victorian Age

  5. To whom were the sonnets addressed? – Robert Browning

7. Culture and Anarchy – Matthew Arnold

  1. Who wrote Culture and Anarchy? – Matthew Arnold

  2. In which year was it published? – 1869

  3. What type of work is it? – Prose (social criticism/essay)

  4. Which age does it belong to? – Victorian Age

  5. What idea is central in the book? – “Culture” as a moral and social ideal

8. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

  1. Who wrote David Copperfield? – Charles Dickens

  2. In which year was it published as a book? – 1850

  3. What type of work is it? – Novel (Bildungsroman)

  4. Which literary age does it belong to? – Victorian Age

  5. Which character is partly based on Dickens himself? – David Copperfield

9. Middlemarch – George Eliot

  1. Who wrote Middlemarch? – George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)

  2. In which year was it published? – 1871–72

  3. What type of work is it? – Realist novel

  4. Which age does it belong to? – Victorian Age

  5. What is its subtitle? – “A Study of Provincial Life”

10. The History of Henry Esmond – William Makepeace Thackeray

  1. Who wrote The History of Henry Esmond? – William Makepeace Thackeray

  2. In which year was it published? – 1852

  3. What type of work is it? – Historical novel

  4. Which age does it belong to? – Victorian Age

  5. Who is the narrator of the story? – Colonel Henry Esmond

11. The Pickwick Papers – Charles Dickens

  1. Who wrote The Pickwick Papers? – Charles Dickens

  2. In which year was it first published? – 1836–37

  3. What type of work is it? – Comic novel (picaresque)

  4. Which age does it belong to? – Victorian Age

  5. What was Dickens’s first great success? – The Pickwick Papers

12. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë

  1. Who wrote Wuthering Heights? – Emily Brontë

  2. In which year was it published? – 1847

  3. What type of work is it? – Gothic novel

  4. Which age does it belong to? – Victorian Age

  5. Under what pseudonym was it first published? – Ellis Bell

13. Past and Present – Thomas Carlyle

  1. Who wrote Past and Present? – Thomas Carlyle

  2. In which year was it published? – 1843

  3. What type of work is it? – Prose, social criticism/history

  4. Which age does it belong to? – Victorian Age

  5. What is the theme? – Criticism of industrial society

14. Modern Painters – John Ruskin

  1. Who wrote Modern Painters? – John Ruskin

  2. In which year was the first volume published? – 1843

  3. How many volumes were published in total? – Five

  4. What type of work is it? – Prose, art criticism

  5. Which age does it belong to? – Victorian Age

15. Unto This Last – John Ruskin

  1. Who wrote Unto This Last? – John Ruskin

  2. In which year was it published? – 1860 (in Cornhill Magazine)

  3. What type of work is it? – Social and economic essays

  4. Which age does it belong to? – Victorian Age

  5. Who was deeply influenced by it? – Mahatma Gandhi

16. Pippa Passes – Robert Browning

  1. Who wrote Pippa Passes? – Robert Browning

  2. In which year was it published? – 1841

  3. What type of work is it? – Verse drama

  4. Which age does it belong to? – Victorian Age

  5. What is the famous line from the poem? – “God’s in His heaven, all’s right with the world.”

17. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy

  1. Who wrote The Mayor of Casterbridge? – Thomas Hardy

  2. In which year was it published? – 1886

  3. What type of work is it? – Novel (tragedy)

  4. Which age does it belong to? – Victorian Age

  5. Who is the tragic hero of the novel? – Michael Henchard

18. The Cloister and the Hearth – Charles Reade

  1. Who wrote The Cloister and the Hearth? – Charles Reade

  2. In which year was it published? – 1861

  3. What type of work is it? – Historical novel

  4. Which age does it belong to? – Victorian Age

  5. What century is the story set in? – 15th century

General Wrap-Up (Review Questions)

  1. Which author wrote The Lotos Eaters, In Memoriam, and Enoch Arden? – Tennyson

  2. Who wrote Sartor Resartus and Past and Present? – Thomas Carlyle

  3. Who wrote Men and Women and Pippa Passes? – Robert Browning

  4. Who wrote Sonnets from the Portuguese? – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  5. Who wrote Culture and Anarchy? – Matthew Arnold

  6. Who wrote David Copperfield and The Pickwick Papers? – Charles Dickens

  7. Who wrote Middlemarch? – George Eliot

  8. Who wrote The History of Henry Esmond? – William Makepeace Thackeray

  9. Who wrote Wuthering Heights? – Emily Brontë

  10. Who wrote Modern Painters and Unto This Last? – John Ruskin

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