A. They remained unmarried due to a population imbalance between the sexes.
B. Their willingness to work for low wages resulted in a surplus of textiles, causing them to drop in price.
C. They were women writers who wrote frequently about similar topics.
D. They prostituted themselves as a way to make money in a market economy that didn’t provide extensive job opportunities to women.
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - 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 - Which of the following Victorian writers regularly published their work in periodicals ?
A. Thomas Carlyle
B. Matthew Arnold
C. Charles Dickens
D. all of the above. - What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?
A. The Romantics remained largely forgotten until their rediscovery by T. S. Eliot in the 1920s.
B. The Victorians were disgusted by the immorality and narcissism of the Romantics.
C. The Romantics were seen as gifted but crude artists belonging to a distant, semi barbarous age.
D. The Victorians were strongly influenced by the Romantics and experienced a sense of belatedness. - 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 - Which of the following comic playwrights made fun of Victorian values and pretensions ?
A. W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
B. George Bernard Shaw
C. Robert Corrigan
D. all but C - Which of the following contributed to the growing awareness in the Late Victorian Period of the immense human, economic, and political costs of running an empire ?
A. the India Mutiny in 1857
B. the Boer War in the south of Africa
C. the Jamaica Rebellion in 1865
D. all of the above - 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 - What was the relationship between Victorian poets and the Romantics ?
A. The Romantics remained largely forgotten until their rediscovery by T. S. Eliot in the 1920s.
B. The Victorians were disgusted by the immorality and narcissism of the Romantics.
C. The Romantics were seen as gifted but crude artists belonging to a distant, semibarbarous age.
D. The Victorians were strongly influenced by the Romantics and experienced a sense of belatedness. - 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