Top 550+ Solved Social and Cultural History of Britain MCQ Questions Answer
Q. .......................... wrote his autobiography Apologia (1865–66).
a. John Henry Newman
b. Dickens,
c. Trollope,
d. Thackeray
Q. ...................... wrote the popular hymns "Lead, Kindly Light" and "Praise to theHoliest in the Height" (taken from Gerontius).
a. John Henry Newman
b. Dickens,
c. Trollope,
d. Thackeray
Q. ................. - was "the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced.
a. John Clare
b. Coleridge
c. , Shelley,
d. Keats
Q. .................... of Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one ofthe most popular British poets.
a. Alfred Tennyson
b. Carlyle
c. Ruskin
d. Matthew Arnold
Q. ................. excelled at penning short lyrics, such as "Break, Break, Break", "TheCharge of the Light Brigade", "Tears, Idle Tears" and "Crossing the Bar".
a. Matthew Arnold
b. Carlyle
c. Ruskin
d. Alfred Tennyson
Q. ...................... was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramaticmonologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.
a. Dante
b. Robert Browning
c. Paracelsus
d. Wordsworth
Q. ’The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems” was the first book of poetry pennedby........................, which was published in 1849.
a. Matthew Arnold
b. Christina Rossetti
c. William Wordsworth
d. Henry James
Q. .....................published ‘Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems’ (1852) and‘Poems: A New Edition’ (1853
a. G. K. Chesterton
b. Oscar Wilde
c. George Bernard Shaw,
d. Matthew Arnold
Q. Apart from the poetry, ..................penned many prominent critical works, whichincludes ‘Essays in Criticism’ (1865), and ‘Culture and Anarchy’ (1869).
a. Goethe
b. Matthew Arnold
c. William Wordsworth
d. Charles Swinburne
Q. The Oxford movement was a movement of High Church members of the Church of............................. which eventually developed into Anglo-Catholicism.
a. England
b. Ireland
c. Switzerland
d. USA
Q. The ..................movement's philosophy was known as Tractarianism after itsseries of publications, the Tracts for the Times, published from 1833 to 1841.
a. USA
b. Ireland
c. Switzerland
d. Oxford
Q. ..................... is a political philosophy or worldview founded on ideasof liberty and equality.
a. Capitalism
b. Liberalism
c. Communalism
d. Communism
Q. ...................... rejected the notions, common at the time, of hereditaryprivilege, religion, absolute, and the Divine Right of Kings.
a. Liberalism
b. Capitalism
c. Communalism
d. Communism
Q. The 17th-century philosopher ................... is often credited with foundingliberalism as a distinct philosophical tradition.
a. Thackeray
b. A.
c. Swinburne c) John Lock
d. George Eliot
Q. ................. literary success began with the 1836 serial publication of The PickwickPapers.
a. Isaac Williams
b. Robert Wilberforce
c. Charles Dickens's
d. William Palmer