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From What Story?
Who Wrote it?
100
Though World War I was a major cause of Modernism, its beginning happened twenty years before what event?
What is Queen Victoria's death?
100
The sole aim for most middle and upper-class women in 19th century Britain.
What is marriage?
100
This story may be about dangers of Victorian repression or a cautionary tale about the dangers of unrestricted pleasure.
What is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?
100
The crowd grew very still, and a deep, low, happy sigh, as of people who see the theatre curtain go up at last, breathed from innumerable throats.
What is "Shooting an Elephant?"
100
“It is not surprising that husbands and wives seem so little part of one another. It is surprising that there is so much love as there is. For there is no food for it.”
Who is Florence Nightingale?
200
This author refuses to sentimentalize the people and traditions of his county but effectively challenges many entrenched impressions of his culture, replacing simplistic stereotypes with portrayals of a complex society still suffering from a legacy of colonial oppression.
Who is Chinua Achebe?
200
Though Oxford allowed women to attend university in 1875, they were not allowed to ________until 1920.
What is to matriculate/graduate/receive a degree?
200
I was merely a musty victim of the expectations imperialism placed upon the white man.
What is the Elephant?
200
"The swaying movement of the car brought the match to and from the opened mouth. The lower teeth and gums were covered with clotted blood and a minute piece of the tongue seemed to have been bitten off."
What is "Grace"?
200
“But the temptation of a discovery, so singular and profound, at last overcame the suggestion of alarm.”
Who is Robert Louis Stevenson?
300
The term for the evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of British culture.
What is Eurocentrism?
300
This style of clothing from the 1840s physically restricted women’s movements so they were not able to do anything useful.
What is Crinoline?
300
This century witnessed the beginnings of a new paradigm between first the sexes, and later between different cultural groups.
What is the 20th century?
300
"I will not attempt to describe the sleep of glory and bliss which bathed my soul in paradise during the remaining hours of that memorable night. Words would be faint and shallow types of my enjoyment, or of the gladness that possessed my bosom when I woke."
What is "The Mortal Immortal"?
300
“Come now, to search your manhood/Through all the thankless years/Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom/The judgment of your peers!”
Who is Rudyard Kipling?
400
This poet was one of the Aesthetes and was considered a Dandy.
Who is Oscar Wilde?
400
A middle-class Victorian woman who reads too much, argues politics at the dinner table, "masculinizes" herself by learning too much, a woman no "sensible" man would want to marry.
What is a Blue Stocking?
400
Since the educational reforms of the Victorian Age had led to a rapid increase in literacy rates, and therefore a greater demand for literature or all sorts, the popular press of this era quickly developed to supply that demand.
What is the era of Modernism?
400
“Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pot which he digs for another.”
What is "The Speckled Band"?
400
“We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, in intellect.”
Who is Thomas Babington Macauley?
500
In contrast to the Romantic world view, the _______cares rather little for Nature, Being, or the overarching structures of history.
What is a Modernist?
500
In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft basically laid out the guidelines of this public system that is around much of the world today.
What is the public education system?
500
According to Peter Brooks in Mary Shelley and Gothic Feminism: A Case of “The Mortal Immortal,” the standard features of melodrama—hyperbolic figures, lurid, grandiose events, disguised identities, abductions, secret societies, and mysterious parentage is a version of ________.
What is the Female Gothic?
500
“Then, with peace sunk heavy on her heart, she went about making tidy the kitchen. She knew she submitted to life, which was her immediate master. But from death, her ultimate master, she winced with fear and shame.”
What is "The Odour of Chrysanthemums?"
500
I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my Life, and if it were indispensable for me to keep it up and never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first Chapter.”
Who is Jane Austen?