English Unit 3 Quiz 3 Questions and Answers

Select all that apply.

Which of the following were Victorian essayists?

a. Charlotte Bronte
b. William Makepeace Thackery
c. George Eliot
d. Thomas Carlyle
e. Thomas Babington Macaulay
f. Mathew Arnold

Name the Victorian novelist who wrote Oliver Twist.

a. William Makepeace Thackery
b. Charles Dickens
c. George Eliot
d. Emily Bronte
e. Matthew Arnold
f. Charlotte Bronte

Name the Victorian novelist who wrote Vanity Fair.

a. Charles Dickens
b. George Eliot
c. Emily Bronte
d. Matthew Arnold
e. Charlotte Bronte
f. William Makepeace Thackery

Name the Victorian novelist who used a pen name.

a. Emily Bronte
b. Matthew Arnold
c. Mary Ann Evans
d. Charlotte Bronte
e. William Makepeace Thackery

Tennyson enjoyed the challenge of resolving personal and social conflicts.

a. True
b. False

“Crossing the Bar” offers evidence that Tennyson met death with the same sense of doubt that had characterized his life.

a. True
b. False

Robert Browning was more innovative than Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

a. True
b. False

Robert Browning’s poetry is generally more optimistic than Tennyson’s.

a. True
b. False

The word didactic most accurately describes Victorian and Neoclassical poetry rather than Romantic poetry.

a. True
b. False

The fact that most upsets the Duke was that his last Duchess did not appreciate _____.

a. his art collection
b. the beauty of nature
c. his title and heritage

In “Flower in the Crannied Wall,” the poet expresses a wish to understand better the mystery of _____.

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a. the growth of a flower in a wall
b. both natural and supernatural life
c. scientific developments

In “God’s Grandeur,” the poet symbolizes the alienation of man from the earth with the image of _____.

a. factories
b. a shoe
c. a total eclipse of the sun

Queen Victoria symbolizes the Victorian characteristic of _____.

a. prosperity
b. poverty
c. prudence

The Victorian poet whose poetry is most obscure is _____.

a. Robert Browning
b. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
c. Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“Low, low, breathe and blow . . . Over the rolling waters go.”

a. alliteration
b. sprung rhythm
c. assonance
d. metaphor

“Nature, red in tooth and claw/ With ravine, shrieked against his creed–

a. alliteration
b. sprung rhythm
c. assonance
d. metaphor

“There lives the dearest freshness deep down things.”

a. alliteration
b. sprung rhythm
c. assonance
d. metaphor

“The world is changed with the grandeur of God.”

a. alliteration
b. sprung rhythm
c. assonance
d. metaphor

called the rhythm of his (her) sonnets “sprung rhythm”

a. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
b. Gerard Manley Hopkins
c. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
d. Robert Browning

often regarded as spokesman of the Victorian Age

a. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
b. Gerard Manley Hopkins
c. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
d. Robert Browning

suffered from a spinal injury

a. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
b. Gerard Manley Hopkins
c. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
d. Robert Browning

as a young poet, admired Shelley

a. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
b. Gerard Manley Hopkins
c. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
d. Robert Browning

Select all that apply.

In a dramatic monologue: _____.

a. one person speaks to characters who do not respond verbally
b. two people converse
c. a definite setting and character development take place
d. nothing about the speaker is revealed
e. the speaker reveals his own personality and that of those to whom he speaks
f. plot and conflict are found

Identify five areas of emphasis that are characteristic of English Romantic philosophy.

a. artificiality
b. simplicity
c. reason
d. individualism
e. emotion
f. Greek
g. rules and restrictions
h. nature
i. social status
j. imagination

Identify five distinct characteristics of the Victorian Age.

a. scientific progress
b. conflict between science and religion
c. God-centered society
d. political, social, and spiritual poverty
e. Age of the Novel
f. material progress
g. reliance on God as source of all