Homework activity

When did Queen Victoria come to the throne?

• 1840

• 1867

• 1837

• 1851

What characterised the Victorian Era?

• Political stability

• Great contradictions

• Strict morality

• All three answers

What was considered "not proper" in the Victorian middle class values?

• Hard work and perseverance

• Gambling and certain other activities

• Family and home

Victorian poets developed their own style with a focus on

• love, death, and the afterlife.

• realism, skepticism, and a sense of responsibility.

• 
  religion.

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.

  
  

How is the Victorian Era considered?

• 
  the industrial war

• golden age of the English work

• golden age of the English novel

• Queen Victoria birthday

Many authors published in the ___ to make their stories more affordable.

• newspapers

• magazines

• books

• telegraph

Where was Robert Louis Stevenson born?

• Dublin, Ireland

• 
  Paris, France

• London, England

• Edinburgh, Scotland

What heavily influenced Stevenson's writing?

• His happy childhood

• His travels across South America

• The tragic deaths of his loved ones

• The two opposing "sides" of his home city

Why did Stevenson decide to live an eccentric life during the bohemian period?

• 
  To escape the police

• To escape Victorian society

• To escape the family

• To escape poverty