Literature in the Victorian Era: A Historical Overview

The Victorian Era is considered to be

• the greatest age of exploration.

• the golden age of the English novel.

• the golden age of English poetry.

• the golden age of scientific discovery.

Queen Victoria reigned for

• four decades

• five decades

• six decades

• seven decades

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Queen Victoria came to the throne

• during a time of political turmoil.

• during a mutiny in India.

• during the American Revolution.

• during the world's first industrial revolution.

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Novelists made their novels more affordable by

• serializing their novels in a series of installments.

• creating libraries where people could check-out a book.

• using inferior printing techniques.

• only writing one novel a year.

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Booklets that provided highly sensational stories were called

• soap operas

• novellas

• penny dreadfuls

• cheap sheets

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Victoria married

• Albert

• George

• William

• Henry

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The literature of the Victorian era was profoundly influenced by

• the development of the steam engine.

• the development of the printing press.

• the development of the women's movement.

• the development of science.

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Victorian poets developed their own style with a focus on

• love, death, and the afterlife.

• realism, skepticism, and a sense of responsibility.

• ancient Greece and Rome.

• religion.

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Which author brought Victorian London to life?

• Browning

• Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• Elliot

• Dickens

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By the end of Victoria's reign, the British empire extended

• from coast to coast.

• around the world.

• over one-fifth of the earth's surface.

• from the north to the south poles.

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