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The task is to match the lettered items with the correct numbered items. Appearing below is a list of lettered items. Following that is a list of numbered items. Each numbered item is followed by a drop-down. Select the letter in the drop down that best matches the numbered item with the lettered alternatives.

a. 1832
b. 1833
c. 1807
d. 1837

1. Victoria becomes Queen
2. Passage of the First Reform Act (officially the "Representation of the People's Act")
3. The slave trade is abolished
4. Slavery itself is abolished throughout the British Empire

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Which of the following literary works does not draw attention to the issues of child labor and poverty in early Victorian Britain?

a. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "The Cry of the Children"
b. Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist
c. Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities
d. Robert Blincoe's Memoir
e. Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton

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Benjamin Disraeli was

a. An acclaimed novelist
b. Of Jewish family background but a practicing Anglican
c. Leader of the Conservative Party and twice Prime Minister
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
f. b and c

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Disraeli coined the phrase "the two nations" to refer to

a. The divide between north and south within Britain
b. The divide between rich and poor within Britain
c. Inequities between England and Scotland
d. Inequities between England and Ireland

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The Chartist movement advocated

a. Extending the franchise (i.e., the right to vote) to all males 21 years of age or older (with the exception of those either insane or in prison)
b. Extending the franchise to all adults
c. Increasing the amounts paid to Members of Parliament
d. Eliminating "rotten boroughs" so as to make all parliamentary constituencies roughly the same size
e. a and d
f. a, c, and d

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The Corn Laws

a. Were passed by Parliament in 1815 as a means of protecting consumers against the high prices charged by grain producers
b. Were the focus of widespread protests by powerful farming interests
c. Were repealed in 1846–but in such a way as to do little to alleviate the devastation caused by the Great Potato Famine in Ireland
d. Applied to the sale of corn (also referred to as maize) and not to the sale of grains such as wheat

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Photography was

a. Invented almost simultaneously in France by Louis Daguerre and in England by Henry Fox Talbot
b. Used by Roger Fenton and others to record images of the Crimean War
c. An art in which, during the Victorian era, women were acknowledged to be among the most accomplished practitioners
d. The subject of heated aesthetic disputes over the degree of "naturalism" that was appropriate to the new art
e. All of the above
f. All of the above except c

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Pre-Raphaelite painting placed particular value on

a. The beauty of landscapes, and especially of landscapes in areas such as the Lake District and the Scottish Highlands
b. Portraiture that not only represented a subject's features faithfully but also suggested the subject's place in society
c. Social realism
d. Sincerity and purity of line and colour

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The term "Gothic Revival," when used with reference to the Victorian era,

a. Is associated with the work of William Morris and John Ruskin
b. Denotes an aesthetic movement that found frequent expression in church design
c. Refers to a genre of 18th and 19th century fiction, among the best-known practitioners of which are Horace Walpole, Mary Shelley, and Wilkie Collins
d. All of the above
e. a and b
f. b and c

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a. War between the United States and the Philippine Islands
b. Elegy for a loved friend.
c. Conventional Victorian ideals of femininity
d. Prostitution

1. Augusta Webster's "A Castaway"
2. Coventry Patmore's "An Angel in the House"
3. Alfred, Lord Tennyson's In Memoriam
4. Rudyard Kipling's "The White Man's Burden"

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Thomas Carlyle and John Stuart Mill

a. Were close friends through much of the 1830s and 1840s
b. Were both prominent figures in the struggle to achieve better conditions for the black population in Britain's colonies
c. Were both prominent in the struggle for women's rights
d. Both adopted a utilitarian philosophy
e. All of the above

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In the Victorian era the phrase "the Great Game" was used with reference to

a. Great power politics, especially in the context of tensions between Britain and Russia in Central Asia
b. Political conflicts between the Liberal Party under William Gladstone and the Conservative Party under Benjamin Disraeli
c. Football (of the sort known in North America as "soccer"), a sport that became increasingly popular in the late Victorian period
d. A "game" played by fashionable young men of means in the late Victorian period, the object being the seduction of women of the same social class

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The term "New Woman novel" refers to

a. Early Victorian fiction by authors such as the Brontës and Elizabeth Gaskell, featuring strong and unconventional female characters, primarily in domestic settings
b. Late Victorian fiction that openly challenged gender conventions, including the sexual double standard and the many measures that restricted women from full participation in educational, economic, and political life
c. Fiction by authors such as Sarah Grand, Ella Hepworth Dixon, and Olive Schreiner and by male authors such as Thomas Hardy and George Gissing
d. Fiction relating specifically to the suffragist and suffragette movement
e. b and c
f. None of the above

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