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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:
Daniel Defoe
Henry Fielding
Samuel Richardson
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:
Tobias Smollett
Henry Fielding
Laurence Sterne
Samuel Richardson

Explanation:

Henry Fielding wrote Tom Jones, a picaresque comic novel.

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

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
George Eliot 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:
Jane Austen
Emily Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
Mary Ann Evans

Explanation:

George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans.

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

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 Meredith
George Eliot
Thomas Hardy

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
William Thackeray
Charles Dickens
George Eliot

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:
D.H. Lawrence
E.M. Forster
Virginia Woolf
James Joyce

Explanation:

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

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

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
Milton's Paradise Lost
Homer's Odyssey
Virgil's Aeneid

Explanation:

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

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

Explanation:

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

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

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
Flannery O'Connor
Harper Lee
Truman Capote

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
Aldous Huxley
Anthony Burgess
George Orwell

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
H.G. Wells
Aldous Huxley
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:
E.M. Forster
Somerset Maugham
Paul Scott
Rudyard Kipling

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 diary of one day
A series of letters
A poem sequence

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
Detective investigations
Coming-of-age and personal growth
Historical events

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:
Disguises real people as fictional characters
Follows a strict plot structure
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 philosophical debate
A single tragic event
A roguish hero's episodic adventures

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?
Existentialist and absurdist fiction
Sentimental comedy
Detective fiction
Historical romance

Explanation:

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

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