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Q. The novel as a literary genre rose to prominence in which century?
14th century
18th century
20th 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
Samuel Richardson
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:
Henry Fielding
Samuel Richardson
Tobias Smollett
Laurence Sterne

Explanation:

Henry Fielding wrote Tom Jones, a picaresque comic novel.

Q. 'Tristram Shandy' was written by:
Samuel Richardson
Henry Fielding
Laurence Sterne
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:
Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
George Eliot and others
Lewis Carroll and others
Various male names

Explanation:

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

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

Explanation:

George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans.

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

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

Explanation:

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

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

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

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

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:
Harper Lee
Truman Capote
Carson McCullers
Flannery O'Connor

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
Ray Bradbury
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
Paul Scott
Rudyard Kipling
Somerset Maugham

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:
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
Disguises real people as fictional characters
Is written in Latin
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 fixed setting only
A roguish hero's episodic adventures
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:
Romantic poets
Victorian novelists
Augustan satirists
Modernist writers like Woolf and Joyce

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?
Historical romance
Existentialist and absurdist fiction
Sentimental comedy
Detective fiction

Explanation:

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

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