Answer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (c) Cultures
\nLike the nation, the novel brings together many cultures.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 2.
\nThe most exciting element of the novel was the involvement of:
\n(a) Men
\n(b) Women
\n(c) Both (a) and (b)
\n(d) Animals<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (b) Women
\nThe most exciting element of the novel was the involvement of women in the eighteenth century.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 3.
\nThe novels of Jane Austen give us a glimpse of the world of women in rural society in:
\n(a) Early seventeenth century
\n(b) Early eighteenth century
\n(c) Early nineteenth century
\n(d) None of the above<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (c) Early nineteenth century
\nIn the early nineteenth century.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 4.
\nPride and prejudice was written by:
\n(a) Charles Dicken
\n(b) Jane Austen
\n(c) Walter Scott
\n(d) None of the above<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (b) Jane Austen
\nJane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 5.
\nJane Eyre was written by:
\n(\u0430) Charles Dicken
\n(\u0431) Jane Austen
\n(c) Walter Scott
\n(d) Charlotte Bronte<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (d) Charlotte Bronte
\nCharlotte Bronte wrote Jane Eyre.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 6.
\nGeorge Eliot was the pen-name of:
\n(a) Charles Dicken
\n(b) Jane Eyre
\n(c) Jane Austen
\n(d) Mary Ann Evans<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (d) Mary Ann Evans
\nMary Ann Evans pen-name was George Eliot.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 7.
\nTreasure Island was written in 1883 by:
\n(a) Charles Dicken
\n(b) Rudyard Kipling
\n(c) R.L. Stevenson
\n(d) Jane Austen<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (c) R.L. Stevenson
\nR.L. Stevenson wrote Treasure Island.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 8.
\nJungle book was written in 1894 by:
\n(a) Charles Dicken
\n(b) Rudyard Kipling
\n(c) R.L. Stevenson
\n(d) Jane Austen<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (b) Rudyard Kipling
\nRudyard Kipling wrote Jungle Book.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 9.
\nG.A. Henty\u2019s historical adventure novels was for:
\n(a) Girls
\n(b) Boys
\n(c) Women
\n(d) Soldiers<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (b) Boys
\nG.A. Henty\u2019s historical adventure novel was for boys.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 10.
\nThe novel Ramona was written by:
\n(a) Jane Austen
\n(b) G.A. Henty
\n(c) Helen Hunt Jackson
\n(d) Sarah C. Woolsey<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (c) Helen Hunt Jackson
\nHelen Hunt Jackson wrote Ramona which was a love story about adolescent girls.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 11.
\n\u2018What Katy did\u2019 was written by:
\n(a) Jane Austen
\n(b) G.A. Henty
\n(c) Helen Hunt Jackson
\n(d) Sarah C. Woolsey<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (d) Sarah C. Woolsey
\nSarah C. Woolsey wrote \u2018What Katy Did\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 12.
\nThe pen-name of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey was:
\n(a) Susan Coolidge
\n(b) George Eliot
\n(c) Susan Watt
\n(d) Helen H. Jackson<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (a) Susan Coolidge
\nSusan Coolidge was the pen-name of Sarah C. Woolsey.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 13.
\nHenrietta Temple was translated into Malayalam by:
\n(a) Chander Menon
\n(b) Benjamin Disraeli
\n(c) Ravi Verma
\n(d) Satyendranath Bisht<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (a) Chander Menon
\nChandu Menon translated Henrietta Temple into Malayalam.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 14.
\nThe first modern novel in Malayalam was:
\n(a) Hanrietta Temple
\n(b) Indukush
\n(c) Indujana
\n(d) Indulekha<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (d) Indulekha
\nIndulekha was the first modern novel in Malayalam.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 15.
\nPariksha-Guru was written by:
\n(a) Chandu Menon
\n(b) Srinivas Das
\n(c) Satyendranath Bisht
\n(d) Ravi Varma<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (b) Srinivas Das
\nSrinivas Das wrote Pariksha-Guru. This book cautioned young men against the dangerous influences of bad company and consequent loose morals.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 16.
\nNovel is born from print which is a:
\n(a) Scientific invention
\n(b) Modem invention
\n(c) Mechanical invention
\n(d) None of the above<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (c) Mechanical invention
\nNovel was born from print which no doubt was a mechanical invention.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 17.
\nThe novel first took firm root in England and:
\n(a) Russia
\n(b) USA
\n(c) India
\n(d) France<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (d) France
\nThe novel first took firm root in England and France.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 18.
\nThe novel which used the private and personal form of letters to tell its story was called:
\n(a) Epistolary novel
\n(b) Classic novel
\n(c) Ballad
\n(d) None of the above<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (a) Epistolary novel
\nThe epistolary novel used the private and personal form of letters to tell its story.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 19.
\nThe novel Pamela was written by:
\n(\u0430) Henry Fielding
\n(b) Walter Scott
\n(c) Samuel Richardson
\n(d) Tom James<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (c) Samuel Richardson
\nPamela was written by Samuel Richardson which was a story through an exchange of letters between two lovers.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 20.
\nThe novel Tom Jones was written by:
\n(\u0430) Henry Fielding
\n(b) Walter Scott
\n(c) Samuel Richardson
\n(d) None of the above<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (\u0430) Henry Fielding
\nTom Jones was written by Henry Fielding in 1749.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 21.
\nIn France publishers found that they could make super profits by:
\n(a) Selling the novels
\n(b) Hiring out novels for a week
\n(c) Hiring out novels for a day
\n(d) Hiring out novels by the hour<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (d) hiring out novels by the hour
\nIn France, publishers found that they would make super profits by hiring out novels by the hour.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 22.
\nPickwick Papers was written by:
\n(\u0430) Henry Fielding
\n(b) Walter Scott
\n(c) Charles Dickens
\n(d) Samuel Richardson<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (c) Charles Dickens
\nCharles Dickens wrote Pickwick Papers which was serialised in a magazine.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 23.
\nLeo Tolstoy wrote extensively on:
\n(a) Modern life and community
\n(b) Rural life and community
\n(c) Urban life and community
\n(d) None of the above<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (b) rural life and community
\nLeo Tolstoy wrote extensively on rural life and community.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 24.
\nThe novel Hard Times was written by:
\n(\u0430) Charles Dicken
\n(b) Walter Scott
\n(c) Samuel Richardson
\n(d) None of the above<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (\u0430) Charles Dicken
\nHard Times was written by Charles Dickens.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 25.
\nOliver Twist is the tale of a:
\n(a) A rich boy who lived in a world of fantasy
\n(b) Poor boy who lived in a world of petty criminals
\n(c) Poor orphan who lived in a world of petty criminals
\n(d) Middle class family who lived with his parents<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (c) poor orphan who lived
\nin a world of petty criminals
\nOliver Twist is a tale of an orphan boy who lived in the world of petty criminals.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 26.
\nGerminal a novel was written by:
\n(a) Emile Zola
\n(b) Charles Dickens
\n(c) Emile Scott
\n(d) None of the above<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (a) Emile Zola
\nEmile Zola\u2019s Germinal is the life of a young miner in France and explaining the grim condition\u2019s of miner\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 27.
\nThe vast majority of readers of the novel:
\n(a) Lived in villages
\n(b) Lived in towns
\n(c) Lived in the city
\n(d) None of the above<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (c) lived in the city
\nNovels could be bought by people who could afford them. Thus the vast majority of readers of the novels lived in cities.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 28.
\nThe novelist who wrote about traditional rural communities of England that were fast vanishing was:
\n(\u0430) Charles Dickens
\n(b) Henry Scott
\n(c) Leo Tolstoy
\n(d) Thomas Hardy<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (d) Thomas Hardy
\nThomas Hardy. At that time the old rural culture with its independent farmers was dying out.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 29.
\nThe Mayor of Casterbridge was written in:
\n(a) 1880
\n(b) 1884
\n(c) 1886
\n(d) 1888<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (c) 1886
\nThe Major of Casterbridge was written by Hardy in 1886.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 30.
\nNovels also draw from different:
\n(a) Styles of writing
\n(b) Styles of languages
\n(c) Styles of pictures
\n(d) None of the above<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (b) Styles of languages
\nNovels also draw from different styles of languages.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nWrite true (T) or false (F)<\/span><\/p>\n1. The first proper modern novel was written by Srinivas Das of Delhi.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n2. Pariksha-Guru was published in 1884.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n3. The world of colonial modernity seems to be both brightening and irresistible to the characters.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n4. The old world urged one to cultivate the \u2018healthy habit\u2019 of reading the newspapers.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n5. The writings of Devaki Nandan Khatri created a novel-reading public in Marathi.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n6. It was with the writing of Prem Chand that the Hind novel achieved excellence.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n7. Prem Chand started writing in Hindi and then shifted to Urdu.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n8. The novel Sewasadan deals mainly with the poor condition of women in society.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n9. In the nineteenth century, the early Bengali novels lived in three worlds.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n10. The first novels in Assam were written by missionaries.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n11. The most popular historical novelist in Tamil was R. Krishnamurthy.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n12. Chandu Menon portrayed Indulekha as a rural woman.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n13. Madhavan, the villain of the novel Indulekha was presented in ideal colours.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n14. The heroes and heroines in most of the novels were people who lived in the modem world.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n15. Under colonial rule, many of the English-educated class found new Western ways of living and thinking attractive.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n16. Within the new culture of print, novels soon became immensely popular.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n17. Detective and mystery novels often had to be printed again and again to meet the demand of readers.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n18. The novel also assisted in the spread of silent reading.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n19. Reading a novel, during that time, was wastage of time.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n20. Kathanjali started publication in 1939 and published short stories regularly.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n21. Some parents kept novels in the lofts in their houses, out of their children\u2019s reach.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n22. Rokeya Hossein started a girl\u2019s school in Calcutta.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n23. Jane Austen wro e a satiric fantasy in English ca’iied Si itana\u2019i Dream.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n24. The novel Padmarag showed the need for women to reform their condition by their own actions:<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n25. In the twentieth century, Sailabala Ghosh Jay a could no write novels because her husband was against this.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n26. Indirabai and Indulekha were written by members of the upper castes, and were primarily about upper caste characters.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n27. Pothevi Kunjamba a writer from Kerala, wrote a novel called Saraswativijayam in 1894.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n28. Advaila Malla Burman\u2019s Titash Ekti Nadir Naam is an epic about the Mallas.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n29. Vaikhom Muhammad Basheer was one of the early Muslim writers to gain wide re-known as a novelist in Hindi.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n30. Basheer\u2019s short novels and stories were written in the ordinary language on conversation.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nMatch the following<\/span><\/p>\n1.<\/p>\n
\n\n\nColumn-I<\/b><\/td>\n | Column-II<\/b><\/td>\n | Column-III<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n |