Victorian Age

A. a narrative poem
B. a sonnet
C. an elegy
D. a wedding hymn

A. Mary Collins
B. Marian Evans
C. Lara Evans
D. Clare Reeve

A. a farming technique aimed at maximizing productivity with the fewest tools
B. a moral arithmetic, which states that all humans aim to maximize the greatest pleasure to the greatest number
C. a critical methodology stating that all words have a single meaningful function within a given piece of literature
D. a philosophy dictating that we should only keep what we use on a daily basis.

A. Britain’s preeminence as a global power will depend on mastery of foreign languages.
B. Even a foreign author is better than a homegrown scoundrel.
C. Abandon the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose found in Goethe.
D. In a carefully veiled critique of the monarchy, Byron and Goethe stand in symbolically for Queen Victoria and Charles Darwin respectively.

A. Paris
B. Tokyo
C. London
D. Amsterdam

A. George IV
B. George III
C. William IV
D. Edward VII

A. H. Drummond, Edward Irving and John Ervine
B. W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn
C. Oscar Wilde and his contemporaries
D. Jonathan Swift and his contemporaries

A. the working classes
B. women
C. the lower middle classes
D. slaves

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.

A. a farming technique aimed at maximizing productivity with the fewest tools
B. a moral arithmetic, which states that all humans aim to maximize the greatest pleasure to the greatest number
C. a critical methodology stating that all words have a single meaningful function within a given piece of literature
D. a philosophy dictating that we should only keep what we use on a daily basis.