Praxis 0041: Victorian Literature

The Victorian Literature period spanned what time period?
A. 1815-1900
B. 1832-1901
C. 1785-1830
D. 1850-1920

Which author did NOT write during the Victorian period?
A. Jane Austen
B. Lewis Carroll
C. Charlotte Bronte
D. Thomas Hardy
E. Robert Louis Stevenson

Which author did NOT write during the Victorian period?
A. Robert Browning
B. H.G. Wells
C. Alfred Lord Tennyson
D. James Fenimore Cooper
E. Oscar Wilde

Which genre/style was NOT typical of the Victorian period?
A. romantic triangles
B. bigamous marriages
C. conflict between the common/poor and those in power
D. aristocratic villains
E. hard work and simple/no frills living

Which genre/style was NOT typcial of Victorian Literature?
A. dramatic monologues
B. detective novels
C. serialized novels
D. political novels
E. use of reason as opposed to faith alone

Which is NOT a reason that Victorian literature began to reach the masses?
A. trade and economic growth
B. paper becomes cheap
C. overwhelming technological advancements
D. industrial and business growth

Which work was NOT written by Charles Dickens?
A. A Tale of Two Cities
B. Great Expectations
C. The Sun Also Rises
D. The Pickwick Papers

Who wrote the famous lines:
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."
A. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
B. Charlotte Bronte
C. Lewis Carroll
D. Mary Shelley
E. Oscar Wilde

Who wrote The Lady of Shallott?
A. H.G. Wells
B. Thomas Hardy
C. Robert Browning
D. Charles Dickens
E. Alfred Lord Tennyson

"My Last Duchess" was a poem written by which Victorian author?
A. Victor Hugo
B. George Eliot
C. Herman Melville
D. Henry David Thoreau
E. Robert Browning

George Eliot was a penname for which author?
A. Louisa May Alcott
B. Marian Evans
C. Walt Whitman
D. Emily Dickinson
E. Harriet Jacobs

Whose wrote "The Origin of Species"?
A. H.G. Wells
B. Rudyard Kipling
C. Robert Louis Stevenson
D. Charles Darwin

Who wrote "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"?
A. Robert Loius Stevenson
B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. Nathanial Hawthorne
D. Henry David Thoreau

Robert Loius Stevenson did NOT write which work?
A. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
B. The Black Arrow
C. Treasure Island
D. The Picture of Dorian Gray

Algernon, Cecily, Jack, and Miss Prism are characters in which work?
A. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
B. Middlemarch
C. The Importance of Being Earnest
D. A Tale of Two Cities

Who wrote "The Importance of Being Earnest" and "The Picture of Dorian Gray"?
A. Rudyard Kipling
B. Lewis Carroll
C. George Eliot
D. Charles Dickens
E. Oscar Wilde

Which is NOT a work of Rudyard Kipling?
A. Pied Piper of Hamelin
B. The Widow at Windsor
C. The Jungle Book
D. Captain's Courageous
E. The Man Who Would Be King

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that snatch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
was written by which author?
A. Oscar Wilde
B. Lewis Carroll
C. Emily Dickinson
D. Nathaniel Hawthorne
E. Walt Whitman

Which sub-era was NOT in the Victorian era?
A. Transcendentalism
B. Age of Realism
C. Age of Reason
D. Naturalism 

Which American author did NOT write in the Victorian Era?
A. Jack London
B. Mark Twain
C. Frederick Douglas
D. Harriet Beecher Stowe
E. Joseph Conrad

Which work is not authored by Samuel Langhorne Clemens?
A. Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
B. Tom Sawyer
C. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
D. The Open Boat

Who wrote "The Red Badge of Courage" and openly attacked patriotism, individualism, and organized religion?
A. Joseph Conrad
B. Kate Chopin
C. Stephen Crane
D. Frederick Douglas
E. Jack London