Novels, Society and History Ramona and What Katy Did were :
(1) adventure stories about experiences of young boys
(2) love stories written for adolescent girls by American women writers
(3) novels about heroic deeds of colonisers in strange lands
(4) none of the above
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 2 Solution : -. |
Novels, Society and History Who among the following is the author of Pariksha Guru?
(1) Devkinandan Khatri
(2) Premchand
(3) Srinivas Das
(4) None of these
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 3 Solution : -. |
Novels, Society and History Who among the following is the author of the novel Mayor of Casterbridge?
(1) R. L. Stevenson
(2) Thomas Hardy
(3) Charles Dickens
(4)
Leo Tolstoy
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 2 Solution : -. |
Novels, Society and History The hero of which novel finds himself shipwrecked on an island, rescues a
native, makes him a slave and gives him the name Friday?
(1) Treasure Island
(2) Robinson
Crusoe
(3) Mayor of Casterbridge
(4)Pride and
Prejudice
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 2 Solution : -. |
Novels, Society and History New readership for the novel in the 18th century consisted of :
(1) The gentlemanly classes in England and France
(2) Lower middle-class people such as shopkeepers and clerks
(3) The traditional aristocratic and gentlemanly classes in England and France
along with new groups of lower middle-class people - clerks and shopkeepers
(4) Women and children
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 3 Solution : -. |
Novels, Society and History The first major historical novel written in Assamese is :
(1) Phulmoni by Portuguese missionaries
(2) Karuna by Portuguese
missionaries
(3) Manomati by Rajanikanta Bardoloi in 1900
(4) Durgeshnandini by Bankim
Chandra
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 3 Solution : -. |
Novels, Society and History Whose writings in Hindi created a novel reading public?
(1) Premchand
(2) Shrinivas
Das
(3) Devki Nandan Khatri
(4) Bhartendu
Harishchandra
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 3 Solution : -. |
Novels, Society and History Which of the following books is not written in Hindi?
(1) Pariksha Guru (published in 1882)
(2) Indirabai (published in
1899)
(3) Chandralekha
(4) Sevasadan
(published in 1916)
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 2 Solution : -. |
Novels, Society and History Which book by Charles Dickens has the tale of a poor orphan who lived in a
world of
petty criminals and beggars? [2010 (T-1)]
(1) Germinal
(2) Oliver Twist
(3) Hard Times
(4) Pickwick
Papers
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 2 Solution : -. |
Novels, Society and History Which of the following statements is not true about the themes of novels
for young boys?
(1) Novels for young boys portrayed rash, foolhardy young men, who
sought aimless adventure
(2) The novels portrayed men who were powerful, assertive, independent and
daring
(3) The novels were full of adventure set in places remote from Europe
(4) The heroic coloniser confronted 'natives', adapted to native life as well
as changed and developed them
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 1 Solution : -. |
