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English · UNIT 01 · MOCK TEST

Mock 13 – Victorian Age (Part 3)

Unit 1: British Literature · 21 questions · about 25 minutes. Press End Mock any time to see your score and the correct answers.

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Q1.

What is the predominant emotion in Browning's 'Cristina'?
Q2.

Which of the following statements about the dramatic monologue are correct?

  1. A. It allows reciprocal dialogue with the speaker.
  2. B. Nineteenth-century poets fully exploited the form.
  3. C. Robert Langbaum's The Poetry of Experience discusses the dramatic monologue.
  4. D. The speaker's self-absorption makes him the only one who speaks.
  5. E. In Browning, speaker and listener share the same footing in the exchange.
Q3.

Which character–novel pair is correct?
Q4.

Which of the following poems are pastoral elegies?

  1. A. Lycidas
  2. B. 'In Memory of W. B. Yeats'
  3. C. Adonais
  4. D. Thyrsis
  5. E. In Memoriam A. H. H.
Q5.

'Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, / And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.' These lines from 'Locksley Hall' reflect:
Q6.

Match List I with List II:

List I: AuthorList II: Work
A. O. HenryI. 'The Last Suttee'
B. Rudyard KiplingII. 'Beauty'
C. Oscar WildeIII. 'At Verona'
D. Ralph Waldo EmersonIV. 'Hard to Forget'
Q7.

Statement I: W. H. Auden called The Importance of Being Earnest perhaps the only pure 'verbal opera' in English. Statement II: Wilde understood the various arts that combine to make theatre possible.
Q8.

Who among the following were Poets Laureate of England?

  1. A. Alfred Austin
  2. B. Robert Bridges
  3. C. Theodore Watts-Dunton
  4. D. Oscar Wilde
Q9.

Which of the following statements about the Tractarian (Oxford) Movement are true?

  1. A. It spread across the whole world.
  2. B. Its other leaders were John Henry Newman and R. H. Froude.
  3. C. It began with John Keble's sermon of 1833.
  4. D. Pusey gave the movement cohesion, fame and a name.
  5. E. W. G. Ward's Ideal of a Christian Church was praised by the Oxford Convocation.
Q10.

Who attacked the Pre-Raphaelites, especially D. G. Rossetti, in 'The Fleshly School of Poetry'?
Q11.

Who wrote a postmodern reworking of Great Expectations under the same title?
Q12.

Arrange the following journals in chronological order:

  1. A. Longman's Magazine
  2. B. The Cornhill Magazine
  3. C. Blackwood's Magazine
  4. D. Bentley's Miscellany
Q13.

'Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. / The honest thief, the tender murderer…' From which Browning poem?
Q14.

Match List I with List II:

List I: First lineList II: Poet
A. 'Courage!' he said, and pointed toward the landI. G. M. Hopkins
B. I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave!II. Alfred Tennyson
C. I caught this morning morning's minionIII. D. G. Rossetti
D. Look in my face; my name is Might-have-beenIV. Matthew Arnold
E. The sea is calm tonightV. Robert Browning
Q15.

Which Dickens character appears as a ghost?
Q16.

Which of the following are works by George Gissing?

  1. A. New Grub Street
  2. B. Agnes Grey
  3. C. The Odd Women
  4. D. Mary Barton
Q17.

Who was the first editor of The Cornhill Magazine?
Q18.

In Browning's 'Caliban upon Setebos', Setebos is:
Q19.

Which two of the following were published in 1859?

  1. A. On the Origin of Species
  2. B. A Tale of Two Cities
  3. C. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  4. D. Silas Marner
Q20.

Which two of the following poems are by Robert Browning?

  1. A. 'Locksley Hall'
  2. B. 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin'
  3. C. 'The Lady of Shalott'
  4. D. 'Two in the Campagna'
Q21.

Which journal publishes articles exclusively on critical theory?
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