50+ MCQs on Victorian Age with Answers for UGC NET / SET Prepration

1. Who is considered the leading figure of American literature during the Victorian Age?
a) Edgar Allan Poe
b) Nathaniel Hawthorne
c) Walt Whitman
d) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

2. Which novel by Herman Melville, published in 1851, is considered one of the greatest American novels of all time?
a) “Moby-Dick”
b) “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
c) “The Scarlet Letter”
d) “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”

3. Who wrote the novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” which played a significant role in shaping public opinion about slavery before the Civil War?
a) Harriet Beecher Stowe
b) Louisa May Alcott
c) Emily Dickinson
d) Margaret Fuller

4. Which American writer was known for his transcendentalist beliefs and his essay “Self-Reliance”?
a) Ralph Waldo Emerson
b) Henry David Thoreau
c) James Fenimore Cooper
d) Washington Irving

5. Emily Dickinson, a prominent poet of the Victorian Age, was known for her unique style characterized by:
a) Lengthy epic poems
b) Stream-of-consciousness writing
c) Use of slant rhyme and dashes
d) Formal and structured verse

6. Which novel by Louisa May Alcott follows the lives of the four March sisters and is considered a classic of American literature?
a) “Little Women”
b) “Jane Eyre”50+ MCQs on Victorian Age with Answers for UGC NET
c) “Wuthering Heights”
d) “Pride and Prejudice”

7. Who wrote the novel “The House of the Seven Gables,” exploring themes of guilt, redemption, and the supernatural?
a) Nathaniel Hawthorne
b) Henry James
c) Mark Twain
d) Edgar Allan Poe

8. Which writer is best known for his collection of short stories, including “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”?
a) Edgar Allan Poe
b) Herman Melville
c) Nathaniel Hawthorne
d) Mark Twain

9. Which American writer was known for his regionalist and realist novels depicting life in the South, such as “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”?
a) Mark Twain
b) Henry James
c) Kate Chopin
d) Harriet Beecher Stowe

10. Who wrote the novel “The Portrait of a Lady,” exploring themes of independence and the role of women in society?
a) Henry James
b) Edith Wharton
c) Kate Chopin
d) Louisa May Alcott

11. Which American writer is best known for his frontier tales, including “The Last of the Mohicans” and “The Leatherstocking Tales” series?
a) James Fenimore Cooper
b) Washington Irving
c) Edgar Allan Poe
d) Ralph Waldo Emerson

12. Which writer is best known for his poetry collections such as “Leaves of Grass,” which celebrated the human body and the American spirit?
a) Walt Whitman
b) Emily Dickinson
c) Edgar Allan Poe
d) Robert Frost

13. Who wrote the novel “The Red Badge of Courage,” depicting the experiences of a young soldier in the American Civil War?
a) Stephen Crane
b) Walt Whitman
c) Henry James
d) Herman Melville

14. Which American writer explored themes of feminism and women’s rights in her novel “The Awakening”?
a) Kate Chopin50+ MCQs on Victorian Age with Answers for UGC NET
b) Harriet Beecher Stowe
c) Edith Wharton
d) Louisa May Alcott

15. Which writer is best known for his gothic horror tales, including “The Raven” and “The Pit and the Pendulum”?
a) Edgar Allan Poe
b) Nathaniel Hawthorne
c) Herman Melville
d) Henry James

16. Who wrote the novel “The Scarlet Letter,” exploring themes of sin, guilt, and redemption in Puritan society?
a) Nathaniel Hawthorne
b) Washington Irving
c) Henry David Thoreau
d) Ralph Waldo Emerson

17. Which writer is best known for his satirical novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” often considered one of the greatest American novels?
a) Mark Twain
b) Nathaniel Hawthorne
c) Henry James
d) Edgar Allan Poe

18. Which American writer is known for her novels exploring the lives of wealthy New York families, such as “The Age of Innocence”?
a) Edith Wharton
b) Louisa May Alcott
c) Emily Dickinson
d) Kate Chopin

19. Who wrote the poem “Song of Myself,” celebrating the individual and the diversity of American culture?
a) Walt Whitman
b) Emily Dickinson
c) Robert Frost
d) Edgar Allan Poe

20. Which American writer is best known for his detective fiction, including stories featuring the character C. Auguste Dupin?
a) Edgar Allan Poe
b) Nathaniel Hawthorne
c) Herman Melville
d) Washington Irving

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21. Which writer is best known for her novel “Little Men,” a sequel to “Little Women”?
a) Louisa May Alcott
b) Harriet Beecher Stowe
c) Kate Chopin
d) Edith Wharton50+ MCQs on Victorian Age with Answers for UGC NET

22. Who wrote the poem “Because I could not stop for Death,” exploring themes of mortality and the afterlife?
a) Emily Dickinson
b) Walt Whitman
c) Robert Frost
d) Edgar Allan Poe

23. Which American writer explored themes of isolation and the struggle for individuality in his novel “Bartleby, the Scrivener”?
a) Herman Melville
b) Nathaniel Hawthorne
c) Henry James
d) Mark Twain

24. Who wrote the novel “Ethan Frome,” depicting the tragic consequences of forbidden love in a small New England town?
a) Edith Wharton
b) Kate Chopin
c) Henry James
d) Nathaniel Hawthorne

25. Which writer is known for her short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” which critiques the treatment of women’s mental health in the Victorian era?
a) Charlotte Perkins Gilman
b) Harriet Beecher Stowe
c) Louisa May Alcott
d) Edith Wharton

26. Who wrote the novel “The Turn of the Screw,” a ghost story set in an English country house?
a) Henry James
b) Nathaniel Hawthorne
c) Edith Wharton
d) Mark Twain

27. Which American writer is known for his philosophical essays and lectures, including “Nature” and “Self-Reliance”?
a) Ralph Waldo Emerson
b) Walt Whitman
c) Henry David Thoreau
d) Edgar Allan Poe

28. Who wrote the novel “Benito Cereno,” exploring themes of slavery and the nature of evil?
a) Herman Melville
b) Nathaniel Hawthorne
c) Mark Twain
d) Henry James50+ MCQs on Victorian Age with Answers for UGC NET

29. Which writer is best known for his humorous tales of the American West, including “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”?
a) Mark Twain
b) Edgar Allan Poe
c) Nathaniel Hawthorne
d) Washington Irving

30. Who wrote the novel “Washington Square,” exploring themes of social class and family expectations in 19th-century New York?
a) Henry James
b) Edith Wharton
c) Louisa May Alcott
d) Harriet Beecher Stowe

31. Which American writer is known for his sea adventures, including “Typee” and “Omoo”?
a) Herman Melville
b) Nathaniel Hawthorne
c) Washington Irving
d) Edgar Allan Poe

32. Who wrote the novel “The Marble Faun,” exploring themes of sin and redemption in Renaissance Italy?
a) Nathaniel Hawthorne
b) Henry James
c) Edith Wharton
d) Louisa May Alcott

33. Which writer is best known for his realist novel “Sister Carrie,” depicting a young woman’s rise in Chicago society?
a) Theodore Dreiser
b) Edith Wharton
c) Henry James
d) Kate Chopin

34. Who wrote the novel “The Minister’s Black Veil,” exploring themes of guilt and hypocrisy in Puritan New England?
a) Nathaniel Hawthorne
b) Edgar Allan Poe
c) Herman Melville
d) Washington Irving

35. Which American writer is known for his novel “The Princess Casamassima,” exploring themes of social unrest and political radicalism?
a) Henry James
b) Edith Wharton
c) Nathaniel Hawthorne
d) Mark Twain

36. Who wrote the poem “O Captain! My Captain!” as an elegy for Abraham Lincoln?
a) Walt Whitman
b) Emily Dickinson
c) Robert Frost
d) Edgar Allan Poe

37. Which writer is best known for his satirical novel “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court”?
a) Mark Twain
b) Nathaniel Hawthorne
c) Henry James
d) Edgar Allan Poe

38. Who wrote the novel “The Bostonians,” exploring themes of feminism and the women’s suffrage movement?
a) Henry James50+ MCQs on Victorian Age with Answers for UGC NET
b) Edith Wharton
c) Louisa May Alcott
d) Harriet Beecher Stowe

39. Which American writer is known for his philosophical novel “Walden,” based on his experiences living in a cabin in the woods?
a) Henry David Thoreau
b) Ralph Waldo Emerson
c) Walt Whitman
d) Edgar Allan Poe

40. Who wrote the poem “The Road Not Taken,” exploring themes of choices and consequences?
a) Robert Frost
b) Emily Dickinson
c) Walt Whitman
d) Edgar Allan Poe

41. Which writer is best known for his novel “The Portrait of a Lady,” exploring themes of independence and the role of women in society?
a) Henry James
b) Edith Wharton
c) Kate Chopin
d) Louisa May Alcott

42. Who wrote the novel “Daisy Miller,” exploring themes of innocence and cultural differences between America and Europe?
a) Henry James
b) Nathaniel Hawthorne
c) Herman Melville
d) Mark Twain

43. Which American writer is known for his humorous tales of small-town life, including “Life on the Mississippi”?
a) Mark Twain
b) Nathaniel Hawthorne
c) Washington Irving
d) Edgar Allan Poe

44. Who wrote the poem “I Hear America Singing,” celebrating the diversity and vitality of American workers?
a) Walt Whitman
b) Emily Dickinson
c) Robert Frost
d) Edgar Allan Poe

45. Which writer is best known for his realist novel “An American Tragedy,” based on a true crime case?
a) Theodore Dreiser
b) Edith Wharton
c) Henry James
d) Kate Chopin

46. Who wrote the poem “The Raven,” a narrative poem known for its haunting refrain?
a) Edgar Allan Poe
b) Nathaniel Hawthorne
c) Herman Melville
d) Washington Irving

47. Which American writer is known for his novel “The House of Mirth,” exploring themes of social class and morality in New York society?
a) Edith Wharton50+ MCQs on Victorian Age with Answers for UGC NET
b) Louisa May Alcott
c) Harriet Beecher Stowe
d) Henry James

48. Who wrote the novel “My Ántonia,” exploring themes of immigration and the American frontier?
a) Willa Cather
b) Edith Wharton
c) Henry James50+ MCQs on Victorian Age with Answers for UGC NET
d) Kate Chopin

49. Which writer is best known for his humorous tales of the Mississippi River, including “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”?50+ MCQs on Victorian Age with Answers for UGC NET
a) Mark Twain
b) Nathaniel Hawthorne50+ MCQs on Victorian Age with Answers for UGC NET
c) Henry James
d) Edgar Allan Poe50+ MCQs on Victorian Age with Answers for UGC NET

50. Who wrote the novel “The Awakening,” exploring themes of female independence and sexual desire?
a) Kate Chopin
b) Harriet Beecher Stowe
c) Louisa May Alcott
d) Edith Wharton

Answer

1. b) Nathaniel Hawthorne
2. a) “Moby-Dick”
3. a) Harriet Beecher Stowe
4. a) Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. c) Use of slant rhyme and dashes
6. a) “Little Women”
7. a) Nathaniel Hawthorne
8. a) Edgar Allan Poe
9. a) Mark Twain
10. a) Henry James
11. a) James Fenimore Cooper
12. a) Walt Whitman
13. a) Stephen Crane
14. a) Kate Chopin
15. a) Edgar Allan Poe
16. a) Nathaniel Hawthorne
17. a) Mark Twain
18. a) Edith Wharton
19. a) Walt Whitman
20. a) Edgar Allan Poe
21. a) Louisa May Alcott
22. a) Emily Dickinson
23. a) Herman Melville50+ MCQs on Victorian Age with Answers for UGC NET
24. a) Edith Wharton
25. a) Charlotte Perkins Gilman50+ MCQs on Victorian Age with Answers for UGC NET
26. a) Henry James
27. a) Ralph Waldo Emerson50+ MCQs on Victorian Age with Answers for UGC NET
28. a) Herman Melville
29. a) Mark Twain50+ MCQs on Victorian Age with Answers for UGC NET
30. a) Henry James
31. a) Herman Melville
32. a) Nathaniel Hawthorne
33. a) Theodore Dreiser
34. a) Nathaniel Hawthorne
35. a) Henry James

36. a) Walt Whitman
37. a) Mark Twain
38. a) Henry James
39. a) Henry David Thoreau
40. a) Robert Frost
41. a) Henry James
42. a) Henry James
43. a) Mark Twain
44. a) Walt Whitman
45. a) Theodore Dreiser
46. a) Edgar Allan Poe
47. a) Edith Wharton
48. a) Willa Cather
49. a) Mark Twain
50. a) Kate Chopin