Victorian Literature: But Is it Victorian? Identifying Quotes Quiz
Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Victorian Literature? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Which author is this passage typical of? "'If you're an eel, sir, conduct yourself like one. If you're a man, control your limbs, sir! Good God!' said my aunt, with great indignation, 'I am not going to be serpentined and corkscrewed out of my senses!'"
George Eliot
Robert Browning
Charles Dickens
Mr. Dick
Q. What type of poem is the following? "Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, / Whene'er I passed her; but who passed without / Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands; / Then all smiles stopped together."
Lyric
Ballad stanza
Dramatic monologue
Sestina
Q. Which major Victorian poem is this from?: "[W]here my heart was used to beat / So quickly, waiting for a hand / A hand that can be clasp'd no more—"
"Aurora Leigh"
"In Memoriam, A.H.H."
"Idylls of the King"
"Goblin Market"
Q. Which author would have a philosophical aside like the following?: "If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence."
Charles Dickens
George Eliot
Henry James
Mr. Dick
Q. Which major Victorian question does the following passage from Aurora Leigh address?: "I would rather take my part/ With God's Dead, who afford to walk in white/ Yet spread His glory, than keep quiet here, / And gather up my feet from even a step,/ For fear to soil my gown in so much dust."
The Woman Question
Industrialization
Education
Sanitation