Experimentation in which of the following areas of poetic expression characterize Victorian poetry and allow Victorian poets to represent psychology in a different way ?

A. The use of pictorial description to construct visual images to represent the emotion or situation of the poem
B. Sound as a means to express meaning
C. Perspective, as in the dramatic monologue
D. All of the above

Which of the following terms is defined as the application of a scientific attitude of mind toward studying the Bible, seen as a mere text of history and not an infallibly sacred document?

A. New criticism
B. Critical inquiry
C. Scientific bibliology
D. Higher criticism

What was the impact on literature of the Education Act of 1870, which made elementary schooling compulsory ?

A. The emergence of a mass literate population at whom a new mass-produced literature could be directed
B. A new market for basic textbooks which paid better than sophisticated novels or plays
C. A popular thirst for the “classics,” driving contemporary writers to the margins
D. A, b and c

Who was the mother of Elizabeth I ?

A. Catherine of aragon
B. Jane seymour
C. Catherine howard
D. Anne boleyn

Marriage was a social obligation, and for many families a topic of obsession. Betrothals were often arranged by parents, especially for the high-class. What criterion was considered the least important in deciding upon a suitable match ?

A. Property
B. Wealth
C. Lineage
D. Love

Which royal dynasty was established in the resolution of the so-called War of the Roses and continued through the reign of Elizabeth I ?

A. Tudor
B. Windsor
C. York
D. Lancaster

Horace’s doctrine “ut pictura poesis” was interpreted to mean______________?

A. A picture is worth a thousand words.
B. Poetry is the supreme artistic form.
C. Art should hold a mirror up to nature.
D. Poetry ought to be a visual as well as a verbal art.

In which of the following works is the social outcast represented and addressed ?

A. Mary wollstonecraft shelley’s frankenstein
B. William worsworth’s lyrical ballads
C. John keats’s “to autumn”
D. All but c

Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with_______________?

A. Nostalgia and ill-concealed envy.
B. Bewilderment and visceral loathing.
C. Admiration and elegiac sympathy.
D. Bigotry and shallow triumphalism.

The basic theme of Arnold’s Literature and Dogma is____________?

A. Contemporary literary criticism
B. Art and literature
C. Theology
D. Social changes in the victorian age