Novels, Society and History (Class X)
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Number of Questions: 17 | |
Created by: Garima Pandit | |
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Which of the following authors wrote the novel 'Pamela' in an epistolary form?
Which of the following novels written by Henry Fielding was issued in six volumes priced at three shillings each, which was more than what a labourer earned in a week?
Which of the following books by Charles Dickens describes Coketown, a fictitious industrial town?
Which of the following were the qualities that novels for young boys idealised in a new type of man?
a. Powerful b. Assertive c. Aristocratic d. Independent e. Romantic
Which of the following writers wrote novels that showed the darker side of colonial occupation?
Women in the eighteenth century middle classes became readers as well as writers. Which of the following women writers wrote about the society which encouraged women to look for ‘good’ marriages and find wealthy or propertied husbands?
G. A. Henty’s novels were also wildly popular during the height of the British empire. What did he write about?
Which of the following writers wrote the novel 'Mayor of Casterbridge', through which we get the sense that the author mourns the loss of the more personalised world that was disappearing, even as he was aware of its problems and the advantages of the new order?
Which of the following statements is incorrect about the hero of the famous novel Robinson Crusoe?
Premchand was an influential writer in which of the following languages?
Assamese students in Kolkata in 1888 formed the Asamya Bhasar Unnatisadhan that brought out a journal to open up opportunities for new authors to develop the novel. What was this journal called?
Baba Padmanji’s 'Yamuna Paryatan' was the earliest novel in Marathi. What was it about?
Durgeshnandini was the first novel of which of the following authors?
Who wrote the novel 'Chandrakanta' which contributed in popularising the Hindi language and the Nagari script among the educated people?
Which of the following statements about the novel 'Indulekha' is/are incorrect?
a. It was a translation of 'Henrietta Temple' by Benjamin Disraeli. b. O. Chandu Menon, a sub-judge from Malabar, wrote it. c. It was the first modern novel in Malayalam.
Which of the following were the public forms of entertainment that the old merchant elite of Calcutta patronised?
a. Kissa-goi b. Kabirlarai c. Musical soirees d. Dance performances e. Jatra
Which of the following novels, based on the traditional art of Kissa-goi, was the first to draw attention of readers towards social issues such as child marriage, dowry and the condition of women in society?