Which of the following Victorian writers regularly published their work in periodicals ?

A. Thomas carlyle
B. Matthew arnold
C. Charles dickens
D. All of the above.

the word renaissance means______________?

A. The rebirth of learning or knowledge
B. Reading of books
C. The time of astronauts
D. The study of art

Popular English adaptations of romances appealed primarily to____________________?

A. The royal family and upper orders of the nobility
B. The lower orders of the nobility
C. Agricultural laborers
D. The clergy

What is blank verse ?

A. Iambic pentameter in rhyming couplets
B. The verse form of the shakespearean sonnet
C. Free verse, without rhyme or regular meter
D. Unrhymed iambic pentameter

Restored to the throne in 1660, Charles II ruled_______________?

A. With an absolute prerogative his father would have envied.
B. Through a system of draconian military courts.
C. With deference to parliament’s legislative supremacy.
D. Only a small area around london and oxford.

Who wrote: “That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall / looking as if she were alive.” ?

A. Lord byron
B. Oscar wilde
C. Robert browning
D. William wordsworth

How would “Natural Supernaturalism” be best characterized as a Romantic notion introduced by Carlyle ?

A. A form of animism in which objects in the natural world are believed to be inhabited by spirits
B. A spontaneous belief in the supernatural based upon a surprise encounter with a supernatural being
C. A process by which things that are familiar and thought to be ordinary are made to appear miraculous and new to our eyes
D. The experience of hallucinating contact with the supernatural world when taking opium

Who were the \Two Nations\referred to in the subtitle of Disraeli’s Sybil (1845) ?

A. The rich and the poor
B. Anglicans and methodists
C. England and ireland
D. Britain and germany

In what year did England and Spain fight a famous sea battle ?

A. 1500
B. 1588
C. 1600
D. 1575

Edward King, a minor poet and a contemporary of Milton’s at Cambridge, was drowned at sea in 1637. Milton wrote an elegy for him. What was the title of this poem ?

A. Lycidas
B. Paradise lost
C. Ii penseroso
D. None of the above