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The Victorian Period: pp. 678-693 1.

When did Britains peaceful period (which began after Napoleons defeat at Waterloo) end? 2. By 1900, how many people outside Great Britain called Queen Victorian their queen-empress? 3. What did the Industrial Revolution create during the Victorian Period? 4. How did this change the socio-economic make up of Britain? 5. What did Thomas Babington McCauley consider to be signs of progress in London, England? 6. Why were the Hungry Forties given this name? 7. What did the British government find when they investigated working condition? 8. What was the Potato Famine? What were the results of this famine? 9. Why had English cities become so filthy? 10. What polluted the Thames River? 11. Why did violence break out at political rallies in the 1840s? 12. What were the people protesting against? 13. What happened to cause most middle-class Victorians to believe that things were better than in the past and were going to keep getting better? 14. What were the important reform bills? Explain each one. 15. Why were the factory acts important? What did they do? 16. When was free, compulsory education established? What was the result of this? 17. What was the position of women during this time period? How were they treated? 18. What was a middle class woman expected to do with her life? What about working-class women? 19. What jobs could an unmarried middle class woman get? 20. Why did many middle class women remain unmarried? 21. What were prudery and social order intended to do? 22. What were some of the intellectual advances of the Victorian Period? 23. What did Thomas Huxley write and lecture about? Explain why. 24. What doubts and questions did the voices of the Victorian age raise? 25. How was the success of a writer like Charles Dickens made possible? 26. Though Dickens novels usually had a happy ending, what were some of the most memorable scenes from his works? 27. In Dickens last novel, Our Mutual Friend, why did Dickens name a family the Veneerings? 28. What did Dickens attack in his works? 29. What did he view as the costs of progress? 30. What Romantic idea did the Victorian writers inherit? Explain the purpose of a poet. 31. By the middle of the 19th century, what did some of the Victorian writers feel saddened by? 32. What attitudes had become pervasive in the works of writers like Thomas Hardy and A.E. Housman? What kinds of stories did they tell?

The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling pp. 733-743 Vocabulary: Define the following words. They are in the story. 1. Genial 2. Divinity 3. Pickets 4. Distraught 5. Loose box 6. Bootjack 7. Hydrophobia 8. Punkah 9. Pinafore 10. Mahseer 11. Delusion 12. Dispassionately First Thoughts 1. Is Kiplings story as scary as other werewolf stories or movies you know? Why or why not? Shaping Interpretations 2. How many conflictsexternal and internaldid you find? Which conflicts resulted from cultural misunderstandings? 3. What about the victors in these conflicts? Were some conflicts left unresolved?

4. Compare the characterizations of Fleete, Strickland, and the narrator. How does point of view affect what you know about each character? 5. Who or what is the Silver Man? What details in the story support your interpretation? 6. What does this story reveal about the British presence in India? 7. What allusions to the Book of Revelation in the Bible are made in this story? Consider these allusions, and tell what you think the storys theme is. 8. Do you think the events of this story illustrate the paradox of progress? Explain why or why not. Challenging the Text 9. Do you think this story has something important to say to us today despiteor even because ofits racist elements? Cite details from the story to support your answer. 10. Critics have called this story nasty, poisonous, and even sadistic. Explain why you agree or disagree with these assessments. On page 744, answer Response and analysis: Reading Check: 1-4 Thinking Critically: 5, 6, 9, 10, 11 Extending and Evaluating: 12

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