Top 550+ Solved Social and Cultural History of Britain MCQ Questions Answer
Q. .................. was an English novelist of the 19th century is famous forhis satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society.
a. A. C. Swinburne
b. John Locke
c. William Makepeace Thackeray
d. George Eliot
Q. In 1837, .......................came to London and became a regular contributor toFraser’s Magazine.
a. Thackeray
b. John Locke
c. A. C. Swinburne
d. George Eliot
Q. During his stay at Punch, ................wrote Vanity Fair, the work which placed himin the first rank of novelists.
a. A. C. Swinburne
b. John Locke
c. Thackeray
d. George Eliot
Q. ..............., was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of theleading writers of the Victorian era.
a. George Eliot
b. John Locke
c. A. C. Swinburne
d. Thackeray
Q. ....................is the author of Adam Bede (1859),
a. George Eliot
b. John Locke
c. A. C. Swinburne
d. Thackeray
Q. ..................... was the author of, The Mayor of Caster bridge (1886),
a. A. C. Swinburne
b. John Locke
c. Thomas Hardy
d. Thackeray
Q. ..............................., was an American writer who spent most of his writing careerin Britain.
a. Thomas hardy
b. Words worth
c. Henry James
d. Maurice Kinsley
Q. ....................... is an intellectual and art movement supporting the emphasisof aesthetic values more than social-political themes for literature, fine art, music and other arts.
a. Aestheticism
b. Capitalism
c. Communalism
d. Communism
Q. ........................ was humanist whose advocacy of “art for art’s sake” became acardinal doctrine of the movement known as Aestheticism.
a. Walter Horatio Pater
b. John Keble
c. Charles Marriott
d. Richard Hurrell Froude
Q. ................... began to write for the reviews and his essays on Leonardo daVinci, Sandro Botticelli, Pico della Mirandola,and Michelangelo,
a. Walter Horatio Pater
b. John Keble
c. Charles Marriott
d. Richard Hurrell Froude
Q. ........................ is remembered for his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray,
a. Oscar Wilde
b. Walter Pater
c. John Ruskin
d. George Bernard Shaw
Q. ................. wrote Salome (1891) in French in Paris but it was refused a licence forEngland due to the absolute prohibition of Biblical subjects on the English stage.
a. Oscar Wilde
b. Walter Pater
c. John Ruskin
d. George Bernard Shaw
Q. ............................ wrote Man and Superman
a. George Bernard Shaw
b. Karl Marx
c. John Ruskin
d. Oscar Wilde
Q. .................. wrote his critique of capitalism, Das Kapital, over a period of almost30 years in the late 19th century.
a. Karl Marx
b. Oscar Wilde
c. Lenin
d. Mao
Q. The Fabian Society, established in .........................in 1884,
a. Delhi
b. Bagdad
c. Beijing
d. London