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Q. The novel as a literary genre rose to prominence in which century?
20th century
18th century
14th century
16th century

Explanation:

The English novel rose in the 18th century, with Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding as pioneers.

Q. 'Pamela' (1740) was written by:
Henry Fielding
Daniel Defoe
Laurence Sterne
Samuel Richardson

Explanation:

Samuel Richardson wrote Pamela, an epistolary novel considered a landmark in the development of the English novel.

Q. 'Tom Jones' (1749) was written by:
Tobias Smollett
Samuel Richardson
Henry Fielding
Laurence Sterne

Explanation:

Henry Fielding wrote Tom Jones, a picaresque comic novel.

Q. 'Tristram Shandy' was written by:
Laurence Sterne
Henry Fielding
Samuel Richardson
Jonathan Swift

Explanation:

Laurence Sterne wrote Tristram Shandy (1759–67), an experimental novel notable for digressions.

Q. The Brontë sisters published their novels under the pen names:
George Eliot and others
Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
Various male names
Lewis Carroll and others

Explanation:

Charlotte (Currer Bell), Emily (Ellis Bell), and Anne (Acton Bell) used male pseudonyms.

Q. George Eliot was the pen name of:
Jane Austen
Mary Ann Evans
Emily Brontë
Charlotte Brontë

Explanation:

George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans.

Q. 'Middlemarch' was written by:
Thomas Hardy
Anthony Trollope
George Eliot
Charles Dickens

Explanation:

George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) wrote Middlemarch (1871–72), considered one of the greatest English novels.

Q. 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' was written by:
Thomas Hardy
George Eliot
George Meredith
Charles Dickens

Explanation:

Thomas Hardy wrote Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), a tragic novel about a rural woman.

Q. 'Great Expectations' is a novel by:
Thomas Hardy
George Eliot
Charles Dickens
William Thackeray

Explanation:

Charles Dickens wrote Great Expectations (1860–61), a bildungsroman about Pip.

Q. 'Vanity Fair' was written by:
Charles Dickens
Anthony Trollope
George Eliot
William Thackeray

Explanation:

William Makepeace Thackeray wrote Vanity Fair (1847–48), a satirical novel of Victorian society.

Q. 'Mrs Dalloway' was written by:
E.M. Forster
Virginia Woolf
James Joyce
D.H. Lawrence

Explanation:

Virginia Woolf wrote Mrs Dalloway (1925), a modernist novel covering a single day in London.

Q. 'Ulysses' (1922) was written by:
James Joyce
Marcel Proust
Virginia Woolf
Franz Kafka

Explanation:

James Joyce wrote Ulysses, a landmark Modernist novel set on a single day (June 16, 1904) in Dublin.

Q. Ulysses is structured around which classical work?
Homer's Odyssey
Virgil's Aeneid
Milton's Paradise Lost
Dante's Divine Comedy

Explanation:

Ulysses parallels Homer's Odyssey, with each chapter corresponding to episodes.

Q. 'The Sound and the Fury' was written by:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Steinbeck
William Faulkner
Ernest Hemingway

Explanation:

William Faulkner wrote The Sound and the Fury (1929), set in the American South.

Q. 'The Grapes of Wrath' was written by:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
William Faulkner
John Steinbeck

Explanation:

John Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath (1939), about Dust Bowl migrants during the Great Depression.

Q. 'To Kill a Mockingbird' was written by:
Carson McCullers
Truman Capote
Flannery O'Connor
Harper Lee

Explanation:

Harper Lee wrote To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), about racial injustice in the American South.

Q. 'Lord of the Flies' was written by:
Anthony Burgess
George Orwell
William Golding
Aldous Huxley

Explanation:

William Golding wrote Lord of the Flies (1954), an allegory about boys stranded on an island.

Q. 'Brave New World' was written by:
George Orwell
Ray Bradbury
Aldous Huxley
H.G. Wells

Explanation:

Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World (1932), a dystopian novel about a genetically engineered future society.

Q. 'A Passage to India' was written by:
E.M. Forster
Somerset Maugham
Rudyard Kipling
Paul Scott

Explanation:

E.M. Forster wrote A Passage to India (1924), set during the British Raj.

Q. An epistolary novel is written as:
A poem sequence
A diary of one day
A series of letters
A single monologue

Explanation:

An epistolary novel is composed primarily of letters (e.g., Pamela, Dracula).

Q. A bildungsroman is a novel about:
A journey to a foreign land
Historical events
Coming-of-age and personal growth
Detective investigations

Explanation:

Bildungsroman means a 'coming-of-age' novel focusing on the protagonist's psychological and moral growth.

Q. A roman à clef is a novel that:
Focuses on a single day
Disguises real people as fictional characters
Is written in Latin
Follows a strict plot structure

Explanation:

A roman à clef ('novel with a key') masks real people behind fictional characters.

Q. A picaresque novel typically features:
A fixed setting only
A philosophical debate
A roguish hero's episodic adventures
A single tragic event

Explanation:

A picaresque novel follows a roguish hero (picaro) through episodic adventures (e.g., Tom Jones, Don Quixote).

Q. Stream of consciousness as a narrative technique is most associated with:
Romantic poets
Victorian novelists
Modernist writers like Woolf and Joyce
Augustan satirists

Explanation:

Stream of consciousness is associated with modernists like Virginia Woolf and James Joyce.

Q. The 'theatre of the absurd' overlaps most with which novelistic mode?
Sentimental comedy
Existentialist and absurdist fiction
Historical romance
Detective fiction

Explanation:

Absurdist fiction (Beckett, Kafka) shares with absurdist drama the theme of existential meaninglessness.

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