Fourth Sem - British History

     Social And Cultural History Of Britain

                             IV Sem 

Multiple-Choice Questions and Answers

1. The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 

20 June 1837 until her death, on 22 January........................

a)1801 b)1876 c)1897 d) 1901

2.The phrase Social Darwinism was first used in..............................

a)1856 b)1865 c)1882 d) 1887

3.Social Darwinism was the name given to the theories of......................, an elitist 

philosopher.

a) Herbert Spencer b) Charles Darwin c) Dickens, d) Thackeray

4. ......................coined the phrase “survival of the fittest,” and this was the essence of 

his thought on society.

a) Herbert Spencer b) Charles Darwin c) Dickens, d) Thackeray

5...................... justified the mass murder of the Jewish people during World War II as 

purging inferior genetics.

a) Adolf Hitler b) Stalin c) Lenin d) Mussolini

6. Matthew Arnold is one of the great social voices of the ...................era. 

a) Victorian b)Tudor c)Stuart d)Windsor

7....................... was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art 

patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist.

a) John Ruskin b) Tolstoy) George Eliot d) Dostoyevsky,

8........................... wrote his autobiography Apologia (1865–66).

a) John Henry Newman b) Dickens, c)Trollope, d)Thackeray 

9....................... wrote the popular hymns "Lead, Kindly Light" and "Praise to the 

Holiest in the Height" (taken from Gerontius).

a) John Henry Newman b) Dickens, c)Trollope, d)Thackeray

10.................. - was "the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. 

a) John Clare b) Coleridge c), Shelley, d)Keats

11..................... of Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of 

the most popular British poets.

a) Alfred Tennyson b) Carlyle c)Ruskin d)Matthew Arnold

12.................. excelled at penning short lyrics, such as "Break, Break, Break", "The 

Charge of the Light Brigade", "Tears, Idle Tears" and "Crossing the Bar". 

a) Matthew Arnold b) Carlyle c)Ruskin d) Alfred Tennyson 

13....................... was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic 

monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.

a) Dante b) Robert Browning ,c)Paracelsus,d) Wordsworth

14.’The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems” was the first book of poetry penned 

by........................, which was published in 1849. 

a) Matthew Arnold b)Christina Rossetti c)William Wordsworth d) Henry James

15. .....................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 

16.Apart from the poetry, ..................penned many prominent critical works, which 

includes ‘Essays in Criticism’ (1865), and ‘Culture and Anarchy’ (1869). 

a) Goethe b) Matthew Arnold c)William Wordsworth d) Charles Swinburne 

17.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

18.The ..................movement's philosophy was known as Tractarianism after its 

series of publications, the Tracts for the Times, published from 1833 to 1841.

a) USA b)Ireland c)Switzerland d) Oxford 

19...................... is a political philosophy or worldview founded on ideas 

of liberty and equality.

a) Capitalism b) Liberalism c)Communalism d)Communism

20....................... rejected the notions, common at the time, of hereditary 

privilege, religion, absolute, and the Divine Right of Kings.

a) Liberalism b)Capitalism c)Communalism d)Communism

21.The 17th-century philosopher ................... is often credited with founding 

liberalism as a distinct philosophical tradition. 

a) Thackeray b)A. C. Swinburne c) John Locked) George Eliot

22.................. literary success began with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick 

Papers. 

a) Isaac Williams b) Robert Wilberforce c) Charles Dickens's d) William Palmer

23................... was an English novelist of the 19th century is famous for 

his 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

24. In 1837, .......................came to London and became a regular contributor to

Fraser’s Magazine. 

a) Thackeray b) John Locke c) A. C. Swinburne d) George Eliot

25.During his stay at Punch, ................wrote Vanity Fair, the work which placed him 

in the first rank of novelists. 

a) A. C. Swinburne b) John Locke c) Thackeray d) George Eliot

26................, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the 

leading writers of the Victorian era.

a) George Eliot b) John Locke c) A. C. Swinburne d) Thackeray

27. ....................is the author of Adam Bede (1859),

a) George Eliot b) John Locke c) A. C. Swinburne d) Thackeray

28...................... was the author of, The Mayor of Caster bridge (1886),

a) A. C. Swinburne b) John Locke c) Thomas Hardy d) Thackeray

29................................, was an American writer who spent most of his writing career 

in Britain.

a) Thomas hardy b) Words worth c) Henry James d) Maurice Kinsley 

30........................ is an intellectual and art movement supporting the emphasis 

of aesthetic values more than social-political themes for literature, fine art, music and 

other arts.

a) Aestheticism b)Capitalism c)Communalism d)Communism

31......................... was humanist whose advocacy of “art for art’s sake” became a 

cardinal doctrine of the movement known as Aestheticism.

a) Walter Horatio Pater b)John Keble c)Charles Marriott d) Richard Hurrell Froude

32.................... began to write for the reviews and his essays on Leonardo da 

Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, Pico della Mirandola,and Michelangelo, 

a) Walter Horatio Pater b)John Keble c)Charles Marriott d) Richard Hurrell Froude

33......................... is remembered for his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, 

a) Oscar Wilde b)Walter Pater c) John Ruskin D) George Bernard Shaw

34.................. wrote Salome (1891) in French in Paris but it was refused a licence for 

England 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

35............................. wrote Man and Superman

a) George Bernard Shaw b)Karl Marx c) John Ruskin d) Oscar Wilde

36................... wrote his critique of capitalism, Das Kapital, over a period of almost 

30 years in the late 19th century.

a) Karl Marx b) Oscar Wilde c)Lenin d)Mao 

37. The Fabian Society, established in .........................in 1884,

a) Delhi b)Bagdad c)Beijing d) London 

38.........................., unlike Marxists, advocated a gradual, non-revolutionary transition 

to socialism based on humanist foundations.

a) Fabians b) Liberals c)Capitalists d)Communalists

39.The Fabian Society took its name, suggested by one of its founding members, 

Frank Podmore, from the Roman General, Quintus Fabius Cunctator, who avoided a 

frontal attack on ..................army in the third century B.C., but used delaying tactics. 

a) David Lloyd George’s b)William Gladstone’s c) H. H. Asquith’s d) Hannibal’s

40. After the Second world war, which highlighted that so many people were deprived 

and poor, the Liberal politician ....................identified five issues that needed to be 

tackled to make a better Britain.

a) Ramsay MacDonaldb) John Stuart Mill,c) Keynes d) William Beveridge

41. .........................was an English biologist known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his 

advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

a)Thomas Henry Huxley b) Samuel Wilberforce c) Robert Chambers d)Richard Owen

42.................. most notable science fiction work is The Time Machine (1895),

a) H. G. Wells’ b) Clement Attlee c) Harold Wilson d) James Callaghan.

43................. 1908 novel, A Room with a View, is his most optimistic work, 

a) E. M. Forster’s b)Tony Blair c) Gordon Brown d),Edward Thomas 

44..................... is best known for his 12-volume A Study of History (1934–1961). 

a) Arnold Joseph Toynbee b) W. B. Yeats c) Edward Martyn d),D.H Lawrence

45......................... is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the 

episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles, 

a) James Joyce b)T. S. Eliot c)W. H. Auden d) Edward Thomas

46..................... was an Anglo-American poet, best known for love poems such as 

"Funeral Blues,"

a) Wystan Hugh Auden b) Isaac Rosenberg, c) Wilfred Owen d) Charles Sorely

47..................... is perhaps best known for his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-

Four (1949) and the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945).

a) George Orwell b)Dylan Thomas c) Samuel Barclay Beckett d) Charles Sorely

48......................... is the process of international integration arising from the 

interchange of world views, products, ideas and other aspects of culture.

a) Arya Samaj b) Commonwealth c) NWO d) Globalization

49.The term ..................... refers to the emergence of a totalitarian government. 

a) NWO b) Commonwealth c) Globalization d) Arya Samaj

50.The Commonwealth was formally constituted by the London 

Declaration in.................., which established the member states as "free and equal”. 

a) 1949

51.The symbol of the Commonwealth is.............. who is the Head of the 

Commonwealth. 

a) Queen Elizabeth II b) Warren Hastings c) Jonathan Duncan d) Macaulay,

52.William James founded The Asiatic Society of ...................in 1784.

a) Bengal b)Madras c)Bombay d)Delhi

53....................., who is generally regarded as the architect of the system of education

in India during the British rule.

a) Thomas Babington Macaulay b) William James c) Swami Vivekananda, Swami

Dayanand Saraswati

54.Macaulay’s minutes was accepted and ................issued his proclamation inn march

1935 which set at rest all the controversies and led to the formulation of a policy

which became the corner stone of all educational programmes during the British

period in India.

a) Lord William Bentinck b) Queen Elizabeth II c) Jonathan Duncan d) Warren 

Hastings

55. Wood's Education Despatch formed the basis of the education policy of east India

Company's government in India since...........................

a) 1854 b)1864 c)1874 d)1884

56................., the founder of the Arya Samaj, gave the slogan, “India for the Indians”.

a) Lord William Bentinck b) Swami Dayanand Saraswati c) Raja Ram Mohan Roy d)

Subramanya Bharati

57................... famous book ‘Anand Math’, the Bible of modern Bengali patriotism,

provided very great inspiration to the people.

a) Rabindranath Tagore’s b) Bankim Chandra’s c)Lakshminath Bezbarua’s d)Vishnu

Shastri Chiplunkar;s

58. ...................was an Indian socio-educational reformer who was also known as 

‘Maker of Modern India’ and ‘Father of Modern India’ and ‘Father of the Bengal 

Renaissance.’

a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy b) Subramanya Bharati c)Bhartendu Harishchandra d) Altaf

Hussain Mali

59. Raja Ram Mohan Roy was the founder of the Brahmo Samaj at ...............in 1828.

a) Madras b) Kolkata c)Bombay d)Delhi

60.Noticeable magazines published by ....................were the Brahmonical Magazine, 

the Sambad KaumudiandMirat-ul-Akbar.

a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy b)Toru Dutt c),Sri Aurobindo d) Thomas Paine

61......................., Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful 

verse", he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.

a) Rabindranath Tagore b) Robert Graves, c)Ivor Gurney d) Siegfried Sassoon

62................................... founded, Visva-Bharati University.

a) Rabindranath Tagore b) Mrs Annie Besant, c)Mahadev Govind Ranade d)

Rousseau,

63.Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced) and Ghare-Baire (The Home and 

the World) are ......................his best-known works, 

a) Rabindranath Tagore’s b) Robert H. Ross c) Richard Aldington,d) Laurence 

Binyon

64."I am not a man of letters," wrote .................in one of his missives from jail to his 

daughter Indira, but of course he was.

a) Jawaharlal Nehru b) Ibn Battutah c) Marx, d)Oswald Spengler

65......................., Glimpses of World History, and The Discovery of India) know, and 

as The Oxford India Nehru, a selection of his most representative speeches and 

writings, again proves.

a) a) Jawaharlal Nehru b) Tolstoy c), Ruskin d)Plato

66....................... also known by the sobriquet as The Nightingale of India, was 

an Indian independence activist and poet. 

a) Sarojini Naidu b) Walter Scott,c) Jules Verne d)Goethe

67..................... served as the first governor of the Oudh from 1947 to 1949; the first 

woman to become the governor of an Indian state.

a) Sarojini Naidu b) Walter Scott,c) Jules Verne d)Goethe

68.Sarojini Naidu was the second woman to become the president of the Indian 

National Congress in ................................

a)1903 b)1910 c)1915 d)1925 

69........................... was an Indian writer in English, notable for his depiction of the 

lives of the poorer castes in traditional Indian society.

a) Mulk Raj Anand b) Ahmad Aliand Raja Rao, c) R. K. Narayan d) Graham Greene

70. .......................was an Indian writer, best known for his works set in the fictional 

South Indian town of Malgudi.

a) Raja Raob)Mulk Raj Anand c) R. K. Narayan d) Graham Greene

71...................... is a well-known Indian writer who writes in English as well as 

Malayalam, her native language.

a) Mulk Raj Anand b) Sarojini Naidu c) R. K. Narayan d) Kamala Surayya

72. ..................is considered to be one of the outstanding Indian poets writing in 

English, although her popularity in Kerala is based chiefly on her short stories and 

autobiography.

a) Kalyani b) Sarojini Naidu c)Sheela d) Kamala Das 

73.Much of ...............writing in Malayalam came under the pen name Madhavikkutty.

a) Kalyani b) Sarojini Naidu c) Sheela d) Kamala Das’ 

74. ................is the daughter of V. M. Nair, a former managing editor of the widely-

circulated Malayalam daily Mathrubhumi, 

a) Kamala Das b) Sarojini Naidu c) Balamani Amma d)Narayani 

75. ..................is the daughter of Nalappatt Balamani Amma, a renowned Malayali 

poetess. 

a) Kamala Das b) Sarojini Naidu c)Nalini d)Narayani

 

                            Answer Key

1.d              2.d                 3.a                  4.a

5.a              6.a                 7.c                  8.a

9.a            10.a               11.a               12.d

13.b          14.a               15.d               16.b

17.a          18.d               19.b               20.a

21.c          22.c                23.c               24.a

25.c          26.a                27.a               28.c

29.c          30.a                31.a               32.a    33.a          34.a                35.a               36.a

37.d          38.a                39.d               40.d

41.a          42.a                43.a               44.a

45.a          46.a                47.a               48.d

49.a          50.a                51.a               52.a    53.a          54.a                55.a               56.b

57.b          58.a                59.b               60.a

61.a          62.a                63.a               64.a

65.a          66.a                67.a               68.d

69.a          70.c                71.d               72.d

73.d          74.a                75.a