MCQs of Victorian Period 1832-1901

Q. “Meanwhile, let’s bear in mind the intellectual force, the imaginative insight, fundamental sincerity—that inconsistencies and extravagancier notwithstanding—Ruskin has brought to bear upon every side of life,” is said by?

a)     Moody

b)    Rickett

c)     Lovett

d)     Arnold

Q. Macaulay’s essays are of two kinds—literary essays and?

a)     Critical Essays

b)     Imaginative Essays

c)     Comprehensive Essays

d)    Historical Essays

Q. Who contributed five biographies to “Encyclopedia Britannica”?

a)     Arnold

b)     Pater

c)     Macaulay

d)     Tolstoy

Q. “More than any other writer, he may be said by his essays to have popularized a taste for literature, and Macaulay’s history remains the most generally attractive piece of historical narrative in the language”, is said by?

a)     Hudson

b)     Rickett

c)     Tolstoy

d)     Macaulay

Q. “Poetry is the criticism of life”, is said by?

a)     Pater

b)    Mathew Arnold

c)     Tennyson

d)     Newman

Q. Who was the pioneer of the Oxford Movement?

a)     Macaulay

b)     Tennyson

c)     Newman

d)     Arnold

Q. “Newman’s style is beautiful with a limpid lucidity, a chartered eloquence, a gentle persuasiveness,” is said by?

a)     Rickett

b)     Moody

c)     Scott

d)     Newman

Q. “Nature made Stevenson an essayist and he cooperated with Nature, developing and strengthening the gifts with which he was endowed at birth,” is said by?

a)     Sharp

b)     Chesterton

c)     Scott

d)     Hugh Walker

Q. Who is called the romancer of London streets?

a)     Kingsley

b)     Collins

c)     Dickens

d)     Oliver

Q. Who is the pioneer of realism in 19th century novel?

a)     Kingsley

b)     Collins

c)     Hudson

d)    Dickens