CBSE - Novels, Society and History

1 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

2 Novels, Society and History Give the pen-name and real name of the writer of the following lines and explain their significance.
"Fiction is a department of literature in which women can alter their kind, fully equal men .... No educational restrictions can shut women from the materials of fiction, and there is no species of art that is so free from rigid requirements."


(1)  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey - pen-name Susan Coolidge - claimed women could write as well as men.
(2)  George  Eliot,  real  name  Mary Ann  Evans,  believed  that  novels  gave  women  special opportunity to express themselves and every woman could write novels.
(3)  George Eliot, real name Mary Ann Evans, believed women were better novelists than men.
(4)  None of the above

3 Novels, Society and History Who wrote Chaa Maana Atha Guntha and why is it important?


(1)  An anonymous Oriya writer, who wrote the first novel on a rural issue for urban readers
(2)  Fakir Mohan Senapati wrote Oriya novels, dealing for the first time with the question of land and its possession
(3)  A pathbreaking novel, which made the rural issue a part of urban preoccupations
(4)  Both  (2) and  (3)

4 Novels, Society and History Which of the following is not a correct statement about Hindi novels novelists?


(1)  Pariksha Guru, published in 1882, written by Srinivas of Delhi is the first proper modern novel in Hindi
(2)  Chandrakanta, written by Devaki Nandan Khatri, contributed immensely in popularising Hindi language
(3)  Bharatendu Harishchandra had many novels translated and adapted from English into Hindi
(4)  Early Hindi novels were a serious reflection on the lives of ordinary people and social issues

5 Novels, Society and History Who among the following is the author of the novel Oliver Twist?    

(1)  R. L. Stevenson  
(2) Charles Dickens
(3) Thomas Hardy
(4) Leo Tolstoy

6 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

7 Novels, Society and History Who wrote Pickwick Papers, the first serialised novel?  

(1)  Richardsan  
(2) Charles Dickens
(3) Henry Fielding
(4) None of the above

8 Novels, Society and History An 'Epistolary' novel is :


(1)  A story written in the serial form  
(2)  A novel based on true historical events
(3)  A story written in the form of a series of letters
(4)  A story based on the adventures of the hero

9 Novels, Society and History In his novel Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy mourns :


(1)  The loss of traditional rural communities, loss of a more personalised world
(2)  The growing influence of the new order, running a business on efficient managerial lines
(3)  The old rural culture with its independent farmers dying out
(4)  Both  (1) and  (3)

10 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