Which of the following novelists best represents the mid-Victorian period’s contentment with the burgeoning economic prosperity and decreased restiveness over social and political change ?

A. Anthony trollope
B. Charles dickens
C. John ruskin
D. Friedrich engels

The Battle of Baladava in the Crimean War finds its reference in the poem__________?

A. In memorium
B. 1st september
C. Ultima ratio regum
D. The charge of the light bridge

Queen Victoria became the Empress of India in_____________?

A. 1843
B. 1854
C. 1892
D. 1876

By 1890, what percentage of the earth’s population was subject to Queen Victoria ?

A. 1%
B. 10%
C. 15%
D. 25%

What did Thomas Carlyle mean by \Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe\ ?

A. Britain’s preeminence as a global power will depend on mastery of foreign languages.
B. Even a foreign author is better than a homegrown scoundrel.
C. Abandon the introspection of the romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose found in goethe.
D. In a carefully veiled critique of the monarchy, byron and goethe stand in symbolically for queen victoria and charles darwin respectively.

To whom did the Reform Bill of 1832 extend the vote on parliamentary representation ?

A. The working classes
B. Women
C. The lower middle classes
D. Slaves

Who was appointed as Poet-Laureate after William Wordsworth ?

A. D.g rossetti
B. Tennyson
C. Robert browning
D. George eliot

Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy deals with the subject of_____________?

A. Religion
B. Civilization
C. Tehology
D. Education

Maud is a poem written by_________________?

A. Pope
B. Tennyson
C. Swineburne
D. Byron

Which one of Gaskell’s novels has been called a Victorian Much Ado About Nothing ?

A. Cranford
B. North and south
C. Ruth
D. Mary barton