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Victorian Literature Trivia Quiz

Questions on British (and Irish?) Victorian poets and novelists.

A multiple-choice quiz by oink. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
oink

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
990

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
5 / 10

Plays
2713

Last 3 plays: Guest 106 (4/10), Guest 167 (2/10), Guest 151 (3/10).

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Question 1 of 10

1. Which Bronte wrote Wuthering Heights? Hint

Branwell

Emily

Anne

Charlotte

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Question 2 of 10

2. Which novel features the detecting skills of Sergeant Cuff? Hint

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Edwin Drood

The Moonstone

Dracula

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Question 3 of 10

3. What poet wrote the lines 'Oh, to be in England, Now that April's there'? Hint

William Morris

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Robert Browning

Matthew Arnold

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Question 4 of 10

4. What novel bears the sub-title 'A Pure Woman'? Hint

Jane Eyre

Agnes Grey

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Mary Barton

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Question 5 of 10

5. What novel has the alternative title, 'The Two Nations'? Hint

North and South

Jude the Obscure

A Tale of Two Cities

Sybil

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Question 6 of 10

6. Which of these novels is set in large part in America? Hint

The Nether World

Martin Chuzzlewit

Middlemarch

The Woodlanders

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Question 7 of 10

7. Which poet asserted, 'each man kills the thing he loves'? Hint

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Oscar Wilde

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

George Meredith

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Question 8 of 10

8. Which Dickens novel features the London debtor's prison, the Marshalsea? Hint

Oliver Twist

Dombey and Son

Bleak House

Little Dorrit

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Question 9 of 10

9. Which poet wrote Modern Love? Hint

Oscar Wilde

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Algernon Charles Swinburne

George Meredith

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Question 10 of 10

10. Which Victorian author's real name was Mary Ann Evans?

Answer: (First and last name)

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Most Recent Scores

Dec 20 2024 : Guest 106: 4/10
Dec 18 2024 : Guest 167: 2/10
Dec 16 2024 : Guest 151: 3/10
Dec 16 2024 : Guest 87: 3/10
Dec 13 2024 : Guest 82: 6/10
Dec 12 2024 : Guest 86: 4/10
Dec 11 2024 : Guest 90: 3/10
Dec 04 2024 : Guest 71: 8/10
Dec 03 2024 : Guest 106: 6/10

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Which Bronte wrote Wuthering Heights?

Answer: Emily

Charlotte wrote Jane Eyre, Shirley, and Villette. Anne wrote The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Agnes Grey.

2. Which novel features the detecting skills of Sergeant Cuff?

Answer: The Moonstone

T.S.Eliot called Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone 'The first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels.'

3. What poet wrote the lines 'Oh, to be in England, Now that April's there'?

Answer: Robert Browning

Those lines open the poem 'Home Thoughts from Abroad' (not one of Browning's better efforts, I think).

4. What novel bears the sub-title 'A Pure Woman'?

Answer: Tess of the d'Urbervilles

In the Preface to later editions, Thomas Hardy complained that his most austere critics revealed 'an inability to associate the idea of the sub-title adjective with any but the artificial and derivative meaning which has resulted to it from the ordinances of civilization.'

5. What novel has the alternative title, 'The Two Nations'?

Answer: Sybil

By future Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.

6. Which of these novels is set in large part in America?

Answer: Martin Chuzzlewit

Charles Dickens shifted the action of the novel to America in order to try and boost flagging sales (all his novels were published first in instalments).

7. Which poet asserted, 'each man kills the thing he loves'?

Answer: Oscar Wilde

In 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol.'

8. Which Dickens novel features the London debtor's prison, the Marshalsea?

Answer: Little Dorrit

Charles Dickens's father spent some time in debtor's prison during Dickens's childhood.

9. Which poet wrote Modern Love?

Answer: George Meredith

10. Which Victorian author's real name was Mary Ann Evans?

Answer: George Eliot

Source: Author oink

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