Victorian Literature: Victorian Obsessions: Themes and Symbols 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 theme gets attention in Middlemarch, Hard Times, and North and South?
Death
Renewal
Reform
Magic
Q. Which story did the Victorians love to re-imagine?
King Arthur
Joan of Arc
Gilgamesh
Don Quixote
Q. Which genre of Victorian novel dealt with workers' lives and the division of different social classes?
The Newgate novel
The Industrial novel
The silver fork novel
The vampire novel
Q. Which idealized figure made women out to be domestic goddesses?
The New Woman
The Angel in the House
Young factory workers
The ingénue
Q. What mode or genre tried to hold a mirror up to real life, and record it?
Realism
Historical novels
Gothic novels
Postmodernism