MCQs of Victorian Period 1832-1901

Q. “There is nothing Oriental, nothing doubtful, nothing pessimistic in the whole range of Browning’s poetry. He is the voice of the Anglo-Saxon,” is said by?

a)     Rickett

b)    W.J. Long

c)     Scott

d)     Arnold

Q. Who had firm faith in the existence of God?

a)     Thomson

b)     Arnold

c)     Browning

d)     Rickett

Q. Who is the poet of wedded love?

a)     Thomas

b)     Arnold

c)     Browning

d)     Tennyson

Q. “Browning’s attitude towards love is happier and healthier, for his outlook on love is the outlook of a man who puts it in front of other thing in like, as a force sanctifying and strengthening the soul,” is said by?

a)     Hudson

b)     Scott

c)     Blake

d)    Rickett

Q. “Having surrendered the drama, Browning throws much of his dramatic material in the monologue form,” is said by?

a)     Rickett

b)     Scott

c)     Herford

d)     Sharp

Q. “Browning’s way of addressing his public, is a piquant mixture of chatter and song— He did not shape poetry that steeled to English essay. He informalized into, often lacking a formal beauty” is said by?

a)     Scott

b)    Rickett

c)     Sharp

d)     Ibsen

Q. Obscurity is a serious drawback of whose poetry?

a)     Arnold

b)    Browning

c)     Tennyson

d)     Herford

Q. “Browning isn’t obscure because he has such deep things to say, he has such new things to say,” is said by?

a)     Chesterton

b)     W.J. Long

c)     Herford

d)     Moody

Q. “20th century poets, who reacted against his somewhat jaunty optimism were nevertheless, able to profit by his psychological realism, his deliberately rough rhythms,” is said by?

a)     Moody and Lovett

b)     Scott and Rickett

c)     Long and Rickett

d)     Moody and Scott

Q. “Arnold is the greatest elegiac poet in our language, not in virtue merely thyss but in virtue of the whole temper of his muse,” is said by

a)     Scott

b)     Rickett

c)     Garrod

d)     Blake