Wednesday, September 29, 2021

4.1 History of Novel

                      

1.       The major literary form Novel is ………….. century gift to English Literature.

a) sixteenth century                  b) seventeenth century

c) eighteenth century              d) nineteenth century

 

2.       A novel is a long narrative ………. describing intimate human experiences.

          a) verse fiction                          b) prose fiction

          c) poetic fiction                         d) epic fiction

 

3.       The English word ‘novel’ is derived from the ……………… word ‘novella’.

          a) Italian                                  b) Spanish

          c) Latin                                     d) German

 

4.       The Italian word ‘novella’ means ……………………

          a) precious                               b) old

          c) glamorous                            d) new                 

 

5.       The literary from ‘Novel’ has a history of about………. years.

          a) four thousand                        b) three thousand

          c) two thousand                      d) six thousand                        

 

6.       ‘The Canterbury Tales’ is written by ………

          a) Malory                                  b) Geoffrey Chaucer 

          c) Virgil                                    d) Murasaki Shikibu

 

7.       Choose the correct pair of the ‘novel and its writer’.

          a) Tale of Genji – Samuel Richardson

          b) Frankenstein- Merry Shelley

          c) The Wuthering Heights- Charlotte Bronte

          d) Evelina- Ann Radcliff  

 

8.       The world’s first novel ‘Tale of Genji’ is written by………

          a) Miguel de Cervantes             b) Daniel Defoe

          c) Samuel Richardson               d) Murasaki Shikibu

 

9.       The European novel is said to begin with a novel titled ……

          a) Don Quixote                        b) The Pilgrim’s Progress

          c) Oroonoku                             d) Robinson Crusoe

 

10.     The Spanish novel ‘Don Quixote’ is written by…….

          a) Miguel de Cervantes          b) Daniel Defoe

          c) Jonathan Swift                      d) Henry Fielding

 

11.     The 18th century new literature was characterized by …….

          a) passion and imagination        b) realism and denial of romanticism

          c) love and adventure                d) horror and mystery

 

12.     Increase in trade and commerce along with the Industrial Revolution gave rise to the ……

          a) elite class                             b) poor class

          c) middle class                        d) common class

 

12.     ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ is written by…….

          a) Aphra Behn                           b) Daniel Defoe

          c) Jonathan Swift                      d) John Banyan

                             

.13.    Gulliver’s Travel by Jonathan Swift is a ………..

          a) satire                b) parody               c) travelogue         d) epic

 

14.     Which of the following two novels initiated the plenteous and colourful tradition  

          of English novel?

          a) Robinson Crusoe, Mall Flanders              

          b) Pamela, Clarissa

          c) The Pilgrim’s Progress, Oroonoku        

          d) Gulliver’s Travel, Wuthering Height

 

15.     The novel, ‘Oroonoku’ is written by…….

          a) Aphra Behn                         b) Daniel Defoe

          c) Jonathan Swift                      d) John Banyan

 

16.     ‘Robinson Crusoe’ and ‘Mall Flanders’ are the novels written by

          a) Aphra Behn                          b) Daniel Defoe

          c) Jonathan Swift                      d) John Banyan

 

17.     A famous satire ‘Gulliver’s Travel’ is witten by……

          a) Aphra Behn                           b) Daniel Defoe

          c) Jonathan Swift                    d) John Banyan

18.     An Epistolary novel ‘Pamela’ written by Samuel Richardson is subtitled as……

          a) Virtue Rewarded                 b) Clarissa

          c) Mall Flanders                        d) Evelina

 

19.     The novels ‘Pamela’ and ‘Clarissa’ are ………….

          a) Historical novels                   b) Gothic novels

          c) Epistolary novels                 d) Allegorical novels

 

20.     Choose the correct pair of the name of an immigrant author and the nation.

          a) Salman Rushdie – India       b) V.S. Naipaul – Japan

          c) Kazuo Ishigura – Trinidad      d) none of the given

 

21.     The novel of manners ‘Evelina’ is written by ….

          a) Frances Burney                   b) Merry Shelley

          c) Jane Austen                         d) George Eliot

 

22.     The novelist Ann Radcliff mainly wrote ……..

          a) Realistic novels                    b) Gothic novels

          c) Autobiographical novels        d) Utopian novels

 

23.     Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein is a type of ……

          a) a) Realistic novel                      b) Gothic novel

          c) Autobiographical novel             d) Science fiction

 

24.     Emily Bronte’s The Wuthering Height is an example of a/an ……….

a)   Autobiographical novel         b) Epistolary novel

          c) Gothic novel                        d) Picaresque novel

 

25.     The novel …. ………. is written by Charlotte Bronte.

          a) The Wuthering Heights         b) Frankenstein

          c) Jane Eyre                            d) Evelina

 

26.     George Eliot was the pen name of ……………

          a) Jane Austen                         b) Virginia Woolf

          c) Mary Ann Evans                   d) Agatha Christie

 

27.     Choose the mismatched pair of the novelist and her type of writing.

          a) George Eliot – Psychological novels

          b) Virginia Woolf – Stream of Consciousness novel

          c) Emily Bronte      - Gothic novels

          d) Charlotte Bronte – Historical novels

 

28.     ………………. is the pioneer of Stream of Consciousness technique.

          a) George Eliot                        b) William James

          c) Margaret Atwood                  d) Toni Morison

 

29.     Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple are the evergreen detectives created by …..

          a) Agatha Christie                   b) Alice Walker

          c) Harper Lee                           d) Margaret Atwood

 

30.     ………….. created her own place by writing many novels based on crime.

          a) Agatha Christie                   b) Alice Walker

          c) Harper Lee                           d) Margaret Atwood

 

31.     The first Indian English novel ‘Rajmohan’s Wife’ is written by ………….

          a) Raja Rao                              b) Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay

          c) Mulkraj Anad                        d) R. K. Narayan

32.     ‘Rajmohan’s Wife’ written by Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay was serialized in …………. magazine.

          a) The Asian Quarterly                b) The Indian Field

          c) The Asian Field                       d) The Indian Quarterly

 

33.     Which of the following Indian novelists are known as the ‘Trio’ in Indian English literature?

          a) Amitav Ghosh, Vikram Seth, Upamanyu Chatterjee

          b) Anita Desai. Arun Joshi, Manohar Malgaonkar

          c) Salman Rushdie, Arvid Adiga, Kiran Nagarkar

          d) Mulkraj Anand, R.K. Narayan, Raja Rao

 

34.     Pick out the odd element from the group.

          a) Mulkraj Anand, R.K Narayan, Raja Rao, Manohar Malgaonkar

          b) Vikram Seth, Kiran Desai, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul

          c) Setting, plot, theme, conflict

          d) Realistic novel, Picaresque novel, Epistolary novel, Gothic novel

 

35.     A prose fiction which is longer than a short story and shorter than a novel is known as……….

          a) Novella                                b) Novel

          c) A long story                          d) Detective story

 

36.     Select the incorrect example of ‘novella’.

          a) The Heart of Darkness          b) Death of Venice

          c) Seize the Day                       d) Morte De Arthur


 

37.     Identify the element of novel by reading the following description

Description: It is a story, develops the theme and results from the conflict 

          a) Plot         b) Theme     c) Conflict    d) Setting

 

38.     Identify the element of novel by reading the following description

          Description: It is a central idea, it is a philosophical statement

          a) Plot         b) Theme    c) Conflict    d) Setting

 

39.     The plot consisting the interweaving of many subplots is known as…….

          a) Round plot                            b) Complex plot

          c) Simple plot                           d) Flat plot

 

40.     The main character to which the readers follow throughout the novel is ………. of the novel.

          a) Protagonist                         b) Antagonist

          c) Villain                                   d) Major character

 

41.     The protagonist is always in conflict with a character which is known as

          a) Protagonist                           b) Antagonist

          c) Villain                                   d) Major character

 

42.     The background in which the story takes place is ………. of the novel.

          a) conflict              b) theme                c) plot          d) setting

 

43.     The struggle between the opposite forces in the story is called………..

          a) setting               b) plot                   c) conflict       d) theme

 

44.     The language and the techniques used by the author for narration is known

          as……..

          a) style                 b) theme                c) plot          d) setting

 

45.     Choose the appropriate statement that describes the nature of ‘Epistolary Novel’.

1)   Story is developed through the exchange of letters

2)   Story includes terror, mystery, deaths and haunted buildings

3)   Story is based on the life of the author

4)   Story deals with the development of  the author


46.     Choose the appropriate statement that describes the nature of ‘Gothic Novel’.

1)   Story is developed through the exchange of letters

2)   Story includes terror, mystery, deaths and haunted buildings

3)   Story is based on the life of the author

4)   Story deals with the development of  the author


47.     Choose the appropriate statement that describes the nature of ‘Autobiographical Novel’.

1)   Story is developed through the exchange of letters

2)   Story includes terror, mystery, deaths and haunted buildings

3)   Story is based on the life of the author

4)   Story deals with the development of  the author


48.     Choose the appropriate statement that describes the nature of ‘Bildungsroman Novel’.

1)   Story is developed through the exchange of letters

2)   Story includes terror, mystery, deaths and haunted buildings

3)   Story is based on the life of the author

4)   A fictional biography or autobiography dealing with the development of  the author


49.     Utopian/ Dystopian novel depicts…….

          1) an imaginary community or society possessing the ideal qualities

          2) terror, mystery, deaths, supernatural, doom and haunted buildings

          3) flow of the thoughts in the sequence of their occurrences

          4) internal life of the protagonists as much as the external life

 

50.     Match the types of novel given in column A with their nature in column B.

Column A

Column B

i.             Realistic novel

ii.            Historical novel

iii.           Allegorical novel

iv.          Psychological novel

a.    Set in a period earlier than that of writing

b.    Gives the effect of realism

c.    Treats the internal life of the protagonist and other characters

d.    Surface meaning of such novel is different from the symbolic meaning

Ans: i. (b), ii. (a), iii. (d), iv. (c)

 

51.     Which of the following is not a type of novel?

1)   Realistic novel

2)   Utopian novel

3)   Psychological novel

4)   Imaginative  novel

 

52.     Choose the incorrect pair from the following.

1)   Background of the novel-                         setting

2)   Central idea in the novel-                         theme

3)   Struggle between the characters-         style

4)    Events that develop the theme -              plot


52.     ‘Frankenstein’ by Mary Shelley is an example of ……….. novel.

          1) Epistolary          2) Historical           3) Science            4) Gothic

 

54.     The phrase ‘Stream of Consciousness’ is coined by …………

          1) William James 2) Virginia Woolf    3) Ann Radcliff       4) Mary Shelley

 

55.     ………………..is a speculative fiction dealing with imaginative concepts such as

          futuristic setting, futuristic science and technology.

          1) Gothic novel                         2) Realistic Novel           

          3) Psychological novel              4) Science fiction

 

 

56.     Match the column A with column B.

         

Column A

Column B

1.    The Heart of Darkness

2.    The Turn of the Screw

3.    Billy Bud

4.    Death in Venice

a.    Henry James

b.    Herman Melville

c.    Thomas Mann

d.    Joseph Conrad

           Ans. 

               1. The Heart of Darkness          - (d) Joseph Conrad       

              2. The Turn of the Screw           - (a) Herny James

              3. Billy Bud                               - (b) Herman Melville

              4. Death in Venice                     - (c) Thomas Mann


57.     ‘Seize the Day’ is a novella written by …………

            1) Thomas Mann             2) Herman Melville

            3) Joseph Conrad            4) Saul Bellow

58.     The novella……………… is written by John Steinbeck.

          1) The Heart of Darkness          2) The Turn of the Screw         

          3) Pearl                                    4) Billy Bud

 

59.     The word ‘epistolary’ is originated from the ………..word ‘epistola’ which means a letter.

          1) Spanish             2) Italian                3) Latin       4) German


60.     The word ‘picaresque’ is originated from the ………..word ‘picaro’ which means a rogue.

          1) Spanish            2) Italian                3) Latin        4) German

 

61.     The word ‘bildungsroman’ is the ………..word which means ‘growth’.

          1) Spanish             2) Italian                3) Latin        4) German

 


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