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

Explanation:

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

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

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:
Samuel Richardson
Laurence Sterne
Tobias Smollett
Henry Fielding

Explanation:

Henry Fielding wrote Tom Jones, a picaresque comic novel.

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

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:
Lewis Carroll and others
Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
Various male names
George Eliot and others

Explanation:

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

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

Explanation:

George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans.

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

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:
William Thackeray
Anthony Trollope
George Eliot
Charles Dickens

Explanation:

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

Q. 'Mrs Dalloway' was written by:
Virginia Woolf
James Joyce
E.M. Forster
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:
Marcel Proust
Franz Kafka
Virginia Woolf
James Joyce

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?
Dante's Divine Comedy
Virgil's Aeneid
Homer's Odyssey
Milton's Paradise Lost

Explanation:

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

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

Explanation:

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

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

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:
Truman Capote
Harper Lee
Flannery O'Connor
Carson McCullers

Explanation:

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

Q. 'Lord of the Flies' was written by:
William Golding
George Orwell
Anthony Burgess
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
Aldous Huxley
H.G. Wells
Ray Bradbury

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:
Somerset Maugham
Rudyard Kipling
E.M. Forster
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 single monologue
A poem sequence
A series of letters
A diary of one day

Explanation:

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

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

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:
Follows a strict plot structure
Is written in Latin
Disguises real people as fictional characters
Focuses on a single day

Explanation:

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

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

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:
Victorian novelists
Augustan satirists
Modernist writers like Woolf and Joyce
Romantic poets

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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