Bibliography Quiz II

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1. In Jane Eyre, Blanche Ingram is

a. a beautiful young lady Rochester pretends to be in love with b. Jane Eyre’s best friend who dies at Lowood

School c. Rochester’s secret wife who is mad and locked up in the attic

2. In Silas Marner , the person who finds and steels Marner’s money from his house is

a. Eppie Cass b. Dunsey Cass c. Molly Farren

3. In Tennyson’s poem Ulyssees, the main character, Ulysses tells his old comrades that

a. they should be more polite with his wife Penelope b. he does not want to travel again c. they should all sail

away beyond the sunset

4. In Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold, the poet speaks about armies that

a. sail over to France at night b. are marching on the beach c. are fighting a battle at night

5. In The Stones of Venice: The Savageness of Gothic Architecture John Ruskin

a. finds the Gothic craftsmanship superior to modern industrial production b. rejects the Gothic style as savage

c. praises Gothic ornament for its precision and symmetry

6. Walter Pater remarks in Studies in the History of the Renaissance: La Gioconda that Leonardo DaVinci’s

masterpiece is comparable to

a. Dürer’s “Melancholia” b. Michaelangelo’s statue “David” c. Leonardo DaVinci’s selfportrait

7. Tess is arrested at Stonehenge for

a. having murdered Alec b. having murdered Angel c. having stolen from the D’Urberville’s mansion

8. In Culture and Anarchy (chapter 4) , Matthew Arnold attributes to Hebraism the view that

a. bodily desires prevent right thinking b. sin is an obstacle to human perfection c. things should be seen in

all their beauty

9.In In Harmony with Nature, Matthew Arnold argues that humanity is

a. part of nature b. inferior to nature c. superior to nature

10. In The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Cybil Vane

a. commits suicide because Dorian rejects her b. becomes a great actress because of her love for Dorian

c. gets married to Dorian and lives happily ever after

11. The Latest Decalogue by Clough presentsa. the ten commandments b. the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ c. the first ten years of Queen Victoria’s reign

12. In My Last Duchess by Robert Browning

a. the Duke has his wife killed b. the Duchess has the Duke’s mistress killed c. Fra Pandolf is killed for

insulting the Duchess

13. In Great Expectations, Miss Havishama. gives money to have Pip educated in London b. gives money to have Estella educated c. bribes AbelMagwich to go away to Australia

14. In Browning’s poem Prospice the speaker ends up

a. calling God “my Pilot” b. being terrified by death c. wishing to meet his beloved in the afterlife

15. In Swinburne’s poem The Garden of Proserpine, the character called Proserpine is

a. the wife of Hades/Pluto b. the dead wife of Swinburne c. a lost child turned into a ghost



Pre-Exam on the Victorian Literature Bibliography (IV)

1. St. John Rivers is Jane Eyre’s a./ brother b./nephew c./cousin

2.The feminine character in Rossetti’s Blessed Damozel isa./ speaking to herself b./ speaking to one of the lovers in heaven c./ silent

3. Before being banished from his village, Silas Marner is publicly accused of having

a./ stolen some money b./ become addicted to drugs c./ killed a horse

4. In Tennyson’s poem Mariana, the repeated line at the end of almost every stanza isa. “I would that he were here” b./ “I would that God were by me” c./ “I would that I were dead”

5. In Thomas Hardy’s poem Neutral Tones the poet is describinga./ the stormy sea b./ the beauty of his lost child c./ his lover

6. In The Savageness of Gothic Architecture, John Ruskin argues that the term “Gothic” when first

applied to the architecture of the North

a./ was meant to have a negative connotation b./ implied that Northern architecture had been invented

by the Goths c./ was connected to the dark atmosphere of Gothic novels

7. Alice gets into Wonderland by

a./ climbing up a bean stalk b./ falling into a white rabbit’s hole c./ through an enchanted door

8. In Dover Beach, the poet is addressing a./ God b./ his beloved c./ his scholarly friend

9. In Walter Pater’s La Gioconda, Leonardo da Vinci’s painting called Gioconda is compared in

sugestiveness with

a./ the “Melancholia” of Dürer b./ the “Primavera” of Botticelli c./ Bernini’s “Ecstasy of St Theresa

10. In Swinburne’s poem The Garden of Proserpine, the character called Proserpine is

a./ the wife of Hades/Pluto b./ the dead wife of Swinburne c./ a lost child turned into a ghost

11. When Mr. Earnshaw, the master of Wuthering Heights, comes back from the market, he brings with

him

a./ fruits for Nelly Dean b./ a fiddle for his son Hindley c./ Heathcliff

12. In Browning’s poem Prospice the speaker ends up

a./ calling God “my Pilot” b./ being terrified by death c./ wishing to meet his beloved in the afterlife

13. In Great Expectations, Estella is

a./ the true daughter of Miss Havisham b./ the daughter of a murderer c./ Pip’s cousin

14. The Latest Decalogue by Clough presents

a./ the ten commandments b./ the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ c./ the first ten years of Queen Victoria’s reig

15. How does Cleopatra enter the palace to meet Caesar?a./ through the window b./ rolled up in a carpet c. disguised as a beggar

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