Which best describes the general feeling expressed in literature during the last decade of the Victorian era ?

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1. Which best describes the general feeling expressed in literature during the last decade of the Victorian era ?

   A. studied melancholy and aestheticism
   B. sincere earnestness and Protestant zeal
   C. raucous celebration mixed with selfcongratulatory sophistication
   D. paranoid introspection and cryptic dissent

2. The Jacobean era succeeds the ___________and precedes the Caroline era, and specifically denotes a style of architecture, visual arts, decorative arts, and literature that is predominant of that period ?

   A. Elizabethan era
   B. English Reformation
   C. England
   D. Tudor period

3. Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian era ?

   A. a series of Factory Acts
   B. the Custody Act
   C. the Women’s Suffrage Act
   D. the Married Women’s Property Rights Acts

4. Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian era ?

   A. a series of Factory Acts
   B. the Custody Act
   C. the Women’s Suffrage Act
   D. the Married Women’s Property Rights Acts

5. Which of the following describes the precolonial era’s literature styles ?

   A. Pamphlets, poetry, novels, short stories
   B. Novels, poetry, dramas, histories
   C. Literary magazines, poetry, novels, short stories
   D. Narratives and poetry

6. Experimentation in which of the following areas of poetic expression characterize Victorian poetry and allow Victorian poets to represent psychology in a different way ?

   A. the use of pictorial description to construct visual images to represent the emotion or situation of the poem
   B. sound as a means to express meaning
   C. perspective, as in the dramatic monologue
   D. all of the above

7. Experimentation in which of the following areas of poetic expression characterize Victorian poetry and allow Victorian poets to represent psychology in a different way ?

   A. the use of pictorial description to construct visual images to represent the emotion or situation of the poem
   B. sound as a means to express meaning
   C. perspective, as in the dramatic monologue
   D. all of the above

8. Which ruler’s reign marks the approximate beginning and end of the Victorian era ?

   A. King Henry VIII
   B. Queen Elizabeth I
   C. Queen Victoria
   D. King John

9. Which ruler’s reign marks the approximate beginning and end of the Victorian era ?

   A. King Henry VIII
   B. Queen Elizabeth I
   C. Queen Victoria
   D. King John

10. What best describes the subject of most Victorian novels ?

    A. the representation of a large and comprehensive social world in realistic detail
    B. a surrealist exploration of alternate states of consciousness
    C. the attempt of a protagonist to define his or her place in society
    D. A and C