The railway and its faster pace of life often worried Victorians, who feared it might have an effect on the nerves. Which of the following passages from The Signalman best illustrates the idea that 'nerves' or senses may be fooled or disrupted?

MCQs on the ways in which the Victorian novel came to grapple with ideas and issues of that time period. And the methods by which the novels of this age represented (and intervened in) social, political, scientific, philosophical, and cultural concerns.