Novels, Society and History Who wrote Sultana's Dream and what is its theme?
(1) Rokeya Hossein wrote a fantasy in English, where in a topsy-turvy world
women took the place of men
(2) Chandu Menon, about a modern, western-educated girl
(3) Hannah Mullens, a Christian missionary, about the plight of women
(4) Sailabala Ghosh Jaya, about her own life
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 1 Solution : -. |
Novels, Society and History Name the earliest novel in Marathi and describe its theme.
(1) Manjughosha by Naro Sadashiv, the theme is full of amazing events
(2) Yamuna Paryatan by Baba Padmanji, the theme is plight of widows
(3) Muktamala by Moreshwar Halbe, the theme is an imaginary 'romance' with a
moral purpose
(4) Mochongadh by R.B. Gunjikar
| 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 was not a women novelist?
(1) Jane Austen
(2) George Eliot
(3) Thomas Hardy
(4)
Charlotte Bronte
| 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 is an epistolatory novel in which much of the story
is told through an exchange of letters?
(1) Pickwick Papers
(2) Pamela
(3) Emma
(4) Jane Eyre
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 1 Solution : -. |
Novels, Society and History The reasons for the novel's popularity was/were that :
(1) The worlds created by them seemed real, absorbing and credible
(2) They allowed the pleasure of reading them in private, as well as publicly
discussing them with friends and relatives
(3) They were cheap and easily available
(4) both (1)
and (2)
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 4 Solution : -. |
Novels, Society and History Meyeli is :
(1) Bankim's Sanskritised prose mixed with a vernacular style
(2) The new style used by Bengali novel, a colloquial style associated with
urban life
(3) The simple Bengali used by the poor and illiterate
(4) The language associated with women's speech
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 4 Solution : -. |
Novels, Society and History Who said this and why?
"Because of our attitude to marriage and for several other reasons one finds in
the Hindus neither interesting views nor virtues. If we write about things that
we experience daily there would be nothing enthralling about them, so that if we
set out to write an entertaining book we are forced to take up with the
marvellous."
(1) Chandu Menon, defending his first novel Indulekha
(2) Marathi novelist, Naro Sadashiv, in defence of his novel, Manjughosha
filled with amazing events
(3) Devaki Nandan Khatri, in defence of his romance Chandrakanta, full of
fantasy
(4) Srinivas Das, defending his first novel Pariksha-Guru
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 2 Solution : -. |
Novels, Society and History The novel is considered a modern form of literature because :
(1) A mechanical invention, the printing press, gave birth to the novel, the
printed book made it popular
(2) It was popular in cities only which flourished in modern times
(3) It became really popular from the 18th century, though first published in
the 17th century
(4) Improved communications made the novel a new form of literature
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 1 Solution : -. |
Novels, Society and History The novels, Phulmoni and Karuna are :
(1) Bengali novels translated into Assamese by missionaries
(2) Two Assamese
journals published by students in 1888
(3) Original novels written in Bengali
(4) A historical novel in Bengali by Rajanikanta Bardoloi
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 1 Solution : -. |
Novels, Society and History A serialised novel is :
(1) Published in a number of volumes
(2) A novel published in a
magazine
(3) A format in which the story is published in instalments, each part in a new
issue of a journal
(4) A cheap, illustrated novel
| A. | Option 1 |
| B. | Option 2 |
| C. | Option 3 |
| D. | Option 4 |
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Option: 3 Solution : -. |
