Q.
The novel as a literary genre rose to prominence in which century?
16th century
20th century
14th century
18th century
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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
Laurence Sterne
Daniel Defoe
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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:
Henry Fielding
Samuel Richardson
Tobias Smollett
Laurence Sterne
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Explanation:
Henry Fielding wrote Tom Jones, a picaresque comic novel.
Q.
'Tristram Shandy' was written by:
Jonathan Swift
Laurence Sterne
Henry Fielding
Samuel Richardson
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Laurence Sterne wrote Tristram Shandy (1759–67), an experimental novel notable for digressions.
Q.
The Brontë sisters published their novels under the pen names:
Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
Various male names
George Eliot and others
Lewis Carroll and others
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Explanation:
Charlotte (Currer Bell), Emily (Ellis Bell), and Anne (Acton Bell) used male pseudonyms.
Q.
George Eliot was the pen name of:
Emily Brontë
Jane Austen
Mary Ann Evans
Charlotte Brontë
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Explanation:
George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans.
Q.
'Middlemarch' was written by:
Charles Dickens
Thomas Hardy
George Eliot
Anthony Trollope
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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:
Charles Dickens
George Eliot
Thomas Hardy
George Meredith
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Explanation:
Thomas Hardy wrote Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), a tragic novel about a rural woman.
Q.
'Great Expectations' is a novel by:
Charles Dickens
William Thackeray
George Eliot
Thomas Hardy
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Explanation:
Charles Dickens wrote Great Expectations (1860–61), a bildungsroman about Pip.
Q.
'Vanity Fair' was written by:
William Thackeray
Charles Dickens
Anthony Trollope
George Eliot
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Explanation:
William Makepeace Thackeray wrote Vanity Fair (1847–48), a satirical novel of Victorian society.
Q.
'Mrs Dalloway' was written by:
Virginia Woolf
D.H. Lawrence
E.M. Forster
James Joyce
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Virginia Woolf wrote Mrs Dalloway (1925), a modernist novel covering a single day in London.
Q.
'Ulysses' (1922) was written by:
Virginia Woolf
Marcel Proust
James Joyce
Franz Kafka
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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?
Milton's Paradise Lost
Dante's Divine Comedy
Homer's Odyssey
Virgil's Aeneid
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Explanation:
Ulysses parallels Homer's Odyssey, with each chapter corresponding to episodes.
Q.
'The Sound and the Fury' was written by:
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Faulkner
John Steinbeck
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Explanation:
William Faulkner wrote The Sound and the Fury (1929), set in the American South.
Q.
'The Grapes of Wrath' was written by:
Ernest Hemingway
John Steinbeck
F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Faulkner
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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:
Harper Lee
Flannery O'Connor
Truman Capote
Carson McCullers
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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
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Explanation:
William Golding wrote Lord of the Flies (1954), an allegory about boys stranded on an island.
Q.
'Brave New World' was written by:
Ray Bradbury
George Orwell
Aldous Huxley
H.G. Wells
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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:
Rudyard Kipling
Paul Scott
E.M. Forster
Somerset Maugham
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Explanation:
E.M. Forster wrote A Passage to India (1924), set during the British Raj.
Q.
An epistolary novel is written as:
A diary of one day
A poem sequence
A single monologue
A series of letters
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An epistolary novel is composed primarily of letters (e.g., Pamela, Dracula).
Q.
A bildungsroman is a novel about:
Detective investigations
Coming-of-age and personal growth
Historical events
A journey to a foreign land
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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
Is written in Latin
Disguises real people as fictional characters
Follows a strict plot structure
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Explanation:
A roman à clef ('novel with a key') masks real people behind fictional characters.
Q.
A picaresque novel typically features:
A philosophical debate
A single tragic event
A fixed setting only
A roguish hero's episodic adventures
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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
Augustan satirists
Victorian novelists
Modernist writers like Woolf and Joyce
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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
Historical romance
Detective fiction
Existentialist and absurdist fiction
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Explanation:
Absurdist fiction (Beckett, Kafka) shares with absurdist drama the theme of existential meaninglessness.