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Quiz about Victorian Literature
Quiz about Victorian Literature

Victorian Literature Trivia Quiz

Questions on British (and Irish?) Victorian poets and novelists.

A multiple-choice quiz by oink. Estimated time: 6 mins.
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Author
oink
Time
6 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
990
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Difficult
Avg Score
5 / 10
Plays
2615
Last 3 plays: Guest 157 (9/10), Guest 106 (8/10), Guest 104 (2/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. Which Bronte wrote Wuthering Heights? Hint


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2. Which novel features the detecting skills of Sergeant Cuff? Hint


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Question 3 of 10
3. What poet wrote the lines 'Oh, to be in England, Now that April's there'? Hint


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Question 4 of 10
4. What novel bears the sub-title 'A Pure Woman'? Hint


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5. What novel has the alternative title, 'The Two Nations'? Hint


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Question 6 of 10
6. Which of these novels is set in large part in America? Hint


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7. Which poet asserted, 'each man kills the thing he loves'? Hint


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Question 8 of 10
8. Which Dickens novel features the London debtor's prison, the Marshalsea? Hint


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Question 9 of 10
9. Which poet wrote Modern Love? Hint


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Question 10 of 10
10. Which Victorian author's real name was Mary Ann Evans?

Answer: (First and last name)

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Most Recent Scores
Today : Guest 157: 9/10
Apr 20 2024 : Guest 106: 8/10
Apr 18 2024 : Guest 104: 2/10
Apr 18 2024 : Guest 106: 4/10
Apr 17 2024 : Guest 152: 6/10
Apr 15 2024 : Guest 182: 2/10
Apr 12 2024 : Guest 42: 1/10
Apr 12 2024 : Guest 50: 3/10
Apr 12 2024 : Guest 47: 5/10

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Which Bronte wrote Wuthering Heights?

Answer: Emily

 Charlotte wrote Jane Eyre, Shirley, and Villette. Anne wrote The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Agnes Grey.
2. Which novel features the detecting skills of Sergeant Cuff?

Answer: The Moonstone

 T.S.Eliot called Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone 'The first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels.'
3. What poet wrote the lines 'Oh, to be in England, Now that April's there'?

Answer: Robert Browning

 Those lines open the poem 'Home Thoughts from Abroad' (not one of Browning's better efforts, I think).
4. What novel bears the sub-title 'A Pure Woman'?

Answer: Tess of the d'Urbervilles

 In the Preface to later editions, Thomas Hardy complained that his most austere critics revealed 'an inability to associate the idea of the sub-title adjective with any but the artificial and derivative meaning which has resulted to it from the ordinances of civilization.'
5. What novel has the alternative title, 'The Two Nations'?

Answer: Sybil

 By future Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.
6. Which of these novels is set in large part in America?

Answer: Martin Chuzzlewit

 Charles Dickens shifted the action of the novel to America in order to try and boost flagging sales (all his novels were published first in instalments).
7. Which poet asserted, 'each man kills the thing he loves'?

Answer: Oscar Wilde

 In 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol.'
8. Which Dickens novel features the London debtor's prison, the Marshalsea?

Answer: Little Dorrit

 Charles Dickens's father spent some time in debtor's prison during Dickens's childhood.
9. Which poet wrote Modern Love?

Answer: George Meredith
10. Which Victorian author's real name was Mary Ann Evans?

Answer: George Eliot

Source: Author oink

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Literature   English   England   Literature by Region   Names   Charles Dickens   English People   London   British Literature   Prisons   Oscar Wilde   Jane Eyre   Poets   Thomas Hardy   Wuthering Heights   Oscar Wilde   George Eliot   Irish: Famous & Historical   Wilkie Collins   Robert Browning  

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