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SALTEnglishLitTest9
Preparation for English Lit Test on Victorian Era
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who was the Voice of Victorian England? | Tennyson |
| Which of Tennyson's poems contains the theme of the war of sense with soul, or the flesh with the spirit? | Idylls of the King |
| Which elegy by Tennyson is one of the three greatest in the English language? | In Memoriam |
| What was Tennyson's first public performance as poet laureate? | "Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington" |
| Which of Tennyson's poems relates one of the noblest stories of self-sacrifice? | Enoch Arden |
| What was Elizabeth Barrett Browning's most famous collection of poems? | Sonnets from the Portuguese |
| What was the greatest sorrow of Tennyson's life? | the death of Arthur Hallam |
| What was the most famous literary romance of all time? | Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning |
| Who wrote "My Last Duchess"? | Robert Browning |
| Who wrote "Dover Beach"? | Matthew Arnold |
| Which of Browning's poems expresses his faith in eternal life? | "Prospice" |
| Who devised the metrical system of sprung rhythm? | Gerard Manley Hopkins |
| What poem expresses Clough's satirical adaptation of the Ten Commandments? | The Latest Decalogue |
| Which poem compares a father's love for his son to God's love for his children? | The Toys |
| Who wrote "The Hound of Heaven"? | Francis Thompson |
| Who was England's longest-reigning monarch? | Queen Victoria |
| Who wrote the Origin of Species? | Charles Darwin |
| What was the first world's fair? | Great Exhibition |
| Which American preacher was greatly used by God in England? | Dwight L. Moody |
| Name three false ideas that began England's decline. | Darwinism, socialism, Modernism |
| Who coined the word "agnostic"? | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Who was the founder of Communism? | Karl Marx |
| What was the standard of international trade during the Victorian Era? | English pound sterling |
| Famous cricket player who became a missionary to Africa | C.T. Studd |
| The Father of Faith Missions | J. Hudson Taylor |
| Who founded the Salvation Army? | William Booth |
| Who created the modern nursing profession? | Florence Nightingale |
| What poem is always put at the end of Tennyson's works? | "Crossing the Bar" |
| A musical composition to honor the dead | "Requiem" |
| Victorian writer born in Bombay, India | Rudyard Kipling |
| Author of Barrack-Room Ballads | Rudyard Kipling |
| Author of "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" | Oscar Wilde |
| What philosophy was developed by Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill? | utilitarianism |
| Which prose writer used a clear style full of paradoxes and balanced sentences? | Thomas Babington Macaulay |
| How long did the Oxford English Dictionary take to complete? | over 70 years |
| Who was the first popular Victorian novelist? | Charles Dickens |
| What was the subject of "The Convergence of the Twain"? | The Titanic |
| The Prince of Preachers | Charles Haddon Spurgeon |
| Blind Scottish hymn writer | George Matheson |
| Influential leader in the Free Church of Scotland | Horatius Bonar |
| What was Charlotte Elliott's best known hymn? | "Just As I Am" |
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