ENG 463 Final Exam Study Guide

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ENG 463: The Victorian Period

ENG 463 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE

The final exam will take place Thursday, May 3rd, from 1pm to 4pm. It will be worth 40 points: 10 points for Part One (quiz questions) and 30 points for Part Two (essay).

Part One: Quiz Questions (10 points; 1 point each for 10 questions from this list)

1. Mitchell names three events before 1837 that had a crucial impact on Victorian life. Name one.

2. Give (within five years) the dates for the Early, Mid, and Late Victorian periods.

3. Who were the Chartists?

4. What was the Crystal Palace?

5. Name one major social change that had occurred by the end of the Victorian period.

6. What is Bunburying?

7. What is the engraved object that Jack loses and Algy finds?

8. Why doesn't Lady Bracknell want Gwendolen to marry Jack?

9. True or False: According to Mitchell, in the Victorian period your income determined your social class.

10. Name the typical annual income (in pounds) of any occupation / class.

11. Name a kind of work that women did in the V. period.

12. Name a kind of work that children did.

13. T or F: Algy and Jack are brothers.

14. Miss Prism once accidentally put a baby into a handbag. What did she accidentally put in the perambulator (baby carriage)?

15. Jack admits that he smokes. Who says, "I am glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind. There are far too many idle men in London as it is."

16. Who was Samuel Smiles?

17. Describe a hansom cab.

18. Name three of the major technological changes in transportation or "the urban environment" that took place over the course of the Victorian period.

19. What is Cyril's basic point about the relationship between Art and Nature in "The Decay of Lying"?

20. How many "characters" are talking to each other in "The Decay of Lying"?

21. Describe Parliament.

22. Describe the workhouse.

23. Name one major change in the law in the Victorian period.

24. Complete this line: "Each man kills the thing he ___"

25. T or F: The narrator of "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" is hanged.

26. Describe a typical middle-class urban house.

27. Describe a typical working-class diet.

28. Describe either men's, women's, or children's clothing.

29. Who is Mrs. Cheveley?

30. Who, most probably, does the title "An Ideal Husband" refer to?

31. Describe in detail some Victorian customs concerning death and mourning.

32. Describe in detail some of the child care customs of the Victorian period.

33. Lady Chiltern writes a letter that says, "I want you. I trust you. I am coming to you." Who is the letter to?

34. Why does Sir Robert Chiltern refuse to give his permission for Lord Goring to marry Mabel?

35. Who says, "Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike": Sir Robert Chiltern, Lady Chiltern, or Mrs. Cheveley?

36. Identify and describe a Victorian law concerning elementary education.

37. Who was Dr. Thomas Arnold?

38. About what year did women start to be allowed to attend university?

39. Complete the following: "It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little ____ information."

40. Complete the following: "In examinations the ___ ask questions that the ___ cannot answer."

41. Name an extremely problematic Victorian contagious disease.

42. Who was Florence Nightingale?

43. Why doesn't Basil Hallward want to exhibit the picture of Dorian Gray?

44. Give any saying or adage of Lord Henry Wotton.

45. Why does Dorian Gray reject Sybil Vane?

46. What happens to Basil Hallward?

47. What recreational drug does Dorian Gray take?

48. Who kills Dorian?

49. Name two "private and family pastimes."

50. Name any holiday, sport, or recreation that began to take its current form in the Victorian period.

51. Who were "Dissenters," aka "Nonconformists"?

52. What was the Oxford Movement / Tractarianism?

53. Briefly explain the relationship between Evangelicalism and liberal social reform (of education, prisons, the slave trade, the treatment of insanity, the protection of animals, etc.).

54. Why, according to Wilde's play, does Salome have John the Baptist (Jokanaan) killed?

55. Name the "king" (the Tetrarch) in Salome.

56. Name three activities that would not have been considered "respectable" in the Victorian period.

57. Explain the ideology of "separate spheres."

58. According to Mitchell, how did the meaning of the term "gentleman" change in the course of the Victorian period?

59. Who is Willie Hughes?

60. How does Erskine die?

61. Who was Dr. David Livingstone?

62. Name three countries ruled by England in the Victorian period.

63. How did the concept of race change over the course of the Victorian period, according to Mitchell?

64. What does "Ave Imperatrix" depict as the main problem with imperialism?

65. What does the poem compare to "a brittle globe of glass" that "Lies in the hollow of thy hand"?

Part Two: Essay (30 points)

Based on our reading and discussion of Sally Mitchell's Daily Life in Victorian England, our reading and discussion of the works of Oscar Wilde, your reading of and about your Victorian author, and your reading of one or more of your classmates' wiki pages, write an essay that answers ONE of the following questions:

1. What important aspect of Victorian daily life does Sally Mitchell's book underemphasize or omit?

2. What is the most important similarity between daily life in contemporary America and daily life in Victorian England?

3. What is the most important difference between daily life in contemporary America and daily life in Victorian England?

4. How useful is Sally Mitchell's book in helping you understand Victorian literature?

5. How useful is Victorian literature in helping you understand Victorian daily life?

Be sure to explain your answer fully, and be sure to justify it thoroughly with evidence from the readings and discussions. You may propose an alternative question to me, but you must e-mail it to me and get it approved before the final exam.