A. Regency
B. Restoration
C. Romantic
D. Victorian
Related Mcqs:
- How does the following representative quotation from Brontë’s Jane Eyre reflect on Victorian social conventions? “You have nothing to do with the master of Thornfield, further than to receive the salary he gives you for teaching his protégée, and to be grateful for such respectful and kind treatment as, if you do your duty, you have a right to expect at his hands” ?
A. It reiterates the class divisions that kept both men and women from social mobility.
B. It suggests that women were increasingly accepted as professionals.
C. It indicates that British society had become much more egalitarian.
D. It reveals the stern consequences of the Industrial Revolution. - How many children were there in the Bronte family?
A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. 6 - What was the name of the Bronte sister’s only brother ?
A. Anderson
B. Branwell
C. Richard
D. Pearson - This famous neoclassical poet wrote on profound themes such as death, but he also had a lighter side. He once wrote an ode to a cat drowned in a tub of gold fishes ?
A. Alexander Pope
B. William Collins
C. Thomas Gray
D. Ben Jonson - Jane Austen wrote during this period________________?
A. Restoration
B. Victorian
C. Middle English
D. Regency - Which of the following poets wrote during the Victorian period but was not published until the 20th century ?
A. Christina Rossetti
B. Gerard Manley Hopkins
C. Elizabeth Barret Browning
D. Ted Hughes - Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict?
A. Boer War
B. Second World War
C. Korean War
D. First World War - Which of the following writers wrote about trench warfare during the Great War ?
A. Siegfried Sassoon
B. Isaac Rosenberg
C. Wilfred Owen
D. All of these answers - “A MANUSCRIPT was communicated to me during my travels in Italy, which was copied from the archives of the Cenci Palace at Rome, and contains a detailed account of the horrors which ended in the extinction of one of the noblest families of that city during the Pontificate of Clement VIII, in the year 1599.” All of the following state why this quotation from Perce Shelley’s “The Cenci” represents the Gothic EXCEPT_____________?
A. The placement of the action in the past and in a foreign country
B. The grandiose threatening setting that requires ingenious stagecraft
C. The focus on wrongdoing at the highest level of authority
D. The use of real historical resources by Shelley for the foundation of his play - Who wrote the poem ’The Seven Ages’ ?
A. John Milton
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. William Shakespeare
D. Edward Gibbon
