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| 1. "Victorian" refers to the period when Queen Victoria reigned over the British Empire. Which period was this? | |
| a) | 1700-1770 |
| b) | 1770-1830 |
| c) | 1830-1900 |
| d) | 1900-1970 |
| 2. Which attitude is not typical of Victorian lifestyle? | |
| a) | Secret pornography |
| b) | Irrational behaviour |
| c) | Double sexual morals, different for men and women |
| d) | Discipline |
| 3. The waspwaist is typical of Victorian fashion. | |
| a) | True |
| b) | False |
| 4. Which of the following quotes applies to D.H. Lawrence? | |
| a) | He favoured a return from the complexities, overintellectualism and cold materialism of modern life to the primitive, unconscious springs of vitality of the race. |
| b) | His graphic exposures of social evils and his powers of caricature and humour have won him a vast readership. |
| c) | He was distinguished for his gently ironic surveys of English ecclesiastical and political circles. |
| 5. Which word is missing in: "We can go wrong in our ... , but what the blood feels, and believes, and says, is always right." | |
| a) | souls |
| b) | minds |
| c) | hearts |
| d) | beliefs |
| 6. "Odour of Chrysanthemums". Which interpretation of the title is not to the point? | |
| a) | Even before the corpse is entered into the house, death is symbolically present. |
| b) | The vase breaks, Elizabeth clears the flowers... Meaning: no symbols of death are needed any more when death itself invades the house. |
| c) | Even if she has no money to spend, Elizabeth shows her devotion to her husband by decorating their miner's house with flowers. |
| d) | Odour means "smell" and the smell of death reaches every corner in such a small house. Miners' families cannot escape their miserable fate: they have no space nor privacy enough to live happily together. |
| 7. In "Odour of Chrysanthemums" Elizabeth is the one who doesn't cry but keeps on functioning while her mother-in-law is full of grief and cries. Which of the two women stands for Victorian morals and is therefore indirectly criticized by DHL? | |
| a) | Elizabeth |
| b) | The mother-in-law |
| c) | None |
| 8. Which of these sentences doesn't belong here? | |
| a) | Let me wipe him! |
| b) | Wheer will you have him? |
| c) | What a job, what a job, to be sure! |
| d) | Seems as if it was done on purpose. Shut him in, like a mousetrap. |
| 9. Elizabeth realizes her marriage was a poor one and she blames her husband for it. | |
| a) | True |
| b) | False |
| 10. Optical illusionists can be linked to D.H. Lawrence... | |
| a) | ... because, like DHL, they ridicule industrialism. |
| b) | ... because they show how easy it is to fool the mind. |
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