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Novels, Society and History (Class X)

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Which of the following authors wrote the novel 'Pamela' in an epistolary form?

  1. Henry Fielding

  2. Walter Scott

  3. Samuel Richardson

  4. Charles Dickens

  5. Leo Tolstoy


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

This is the correct answer. In a novel written in an epistolary form, private and personal form of letters is used to tell the story. Samuel Richardson wrote the novel 'Pamela' in this form in the eighteenth century.

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?

  1. Sketches by ‘Boz’

  2. Pickwick Papers

  3. Tom Jones

  4. Pamela

  5. Germinal


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

This is the correct answer as Tom Jones was the novel written by Henry Fielding, which was sold at a price that was more than what a labourer earned in a week.

Which of the following books by Charles Dickens describes Coketown, a fictitious industrial town?

  1. Oliver Twist

  2. A Tale of Two Cities

  3. A Christmas Carol

  4. Hard Times

  5. No Thoroughfare


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

This is the correct answer. Coketown was a fictitious industrial town described in the novel Hard Times.

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

  1. a, b, c, d and e

  2. a, b and c

  3. a, b and d

  4. b, c, d and e

  5. a, b, c and d


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

This is correct as the new type of ideal man for adolescent boys was powerful, independent, assertive and daring.

Which of the following writers wrote novels that showed the darker side of colonial occupation?

  1. R. L. Stevenson

  2. Rudyard Kipling

  3. G. A. Henty

  4. Daniel Defoe

  5. Joseph Conrad


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

This is correct as Joseph Conrad 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?

  1. Mary Ann Evans

  2. Charlotte Bronte

  3. Jane Austen

  4. Helen Hunt Jackson

  5. Susan Coolidge


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

This is correct. Jane Austen wrote books like 'Pride and Prejudice' which showed that women were encouraged 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?

  1. Historical adventures for boys

  2. Colonisers who developed nations

  3. Love stories for adolescent girls

  4. The darker side of colonial occupation

  5. Rebellious heroines who overcame the odds


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This is correct. G. A. Henty’s historical adventure novels for boys were also wildly popular during the height of the British empire. They were about young boys who witness grand historical events.

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?

  1. Leo Tolstoy

  2. Charles Dickens

  3. Emile Zola

  4. Thomas Hardy

  5. George Eliot


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

This is correct. Hardy wrote the novel 'Mayor of Casterbridge' which reflects the change in the rural British Community.

Which of the following statements is incorrect about the hero of the famous novel Robinson Crusoe?

  1. He was an adventurer and slave trader.

  2. He was shipwrecked on an island.

  3. He treated coloured people as inferior creatures.

  4. He got involved in military action and showed courage.

  5. He made a native his slave.


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

No, as Robinson Crusoe did not get involved in any military action. This answer is correct as this statement is incorrect.

Premchand was an influential writer in which of the following languages?

  1. Hindi

  2. Urdu

  3. Bengali

  4. Hindi and Urdu

  5. Hindi and Bengali


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Premchand started writing in Urdu and then shifted to Hindi. He wrote in both the 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?

  1. Phulmoni

  2. Karuna

  3. Jonaki

  4. Manomati

  5. Mahakabi


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

This is the correct answer. The Asamya Bhasar Unnatisadhan brought out a journal called Jonaki.

Baba Padmanji’s 'Yamuna Paryatan' was the earliest novel in Marathi. What was it about?

  1. An imaginary romance narrative

  2. The biography of a tourist

  3. Plight of widows

  4. Tale of adventure and heroism

  5. The spread of colonial rule and its effect on a family


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

This is correct. Baba Padmanji’s Yamuna Paryatan used a simple style of storytelling to speak about the plight of widows.

Durgeshnandini was the first novel of which of the following authors?

  1. Premchand

  2. Rabindranath Tagore

  3. Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

  4. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

  5. Ramashankar Ray


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

This is correct. Bankim first read out his novel in a Jatra, in his room amid a group of literary friends who collected to read, discuss and judge literary works.

Who wrote the novel 'Chandrakanta' which contributed in popularising the Hindi language and the Nagari script among the educated people?

  1. Premchand

  2. Bharatendu Harishchandra

  3. Srinivas Das

  4. Devaki Nandan Khatri

  5. Bhisham Sahni


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

This is the correct answer as 'Chandrakanta' was written by Devaki Nandan Khatri.

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.

  1. a only

  2. b only

  3. c only

  4. a and c

  5. b and c


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This is the correct answer as this statement is incorrect. O. Chandu Menon started translating the novel 'Henrietta Temple', but then realised that a translation would not appeal to readers and eventually wrote the original novel 'Indulekha' in the manner of English novels.

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

  1. a, b, c, d and e

  2. a, b, c and d

  3. a, c, d and e

  4. b, c and d

  5. c, d and e


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

This is correct as Kabirlarai was a form of poetry contests that the old merchant elite of Bengal enjoyed along with musical soirees and dance performances.

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?

  1. Chandrakanta

  2. Pariksha Guru

  3. Sewasadan

  4. Saudamini

  5. Dugeshnandini


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

This is the correct answer. Premchand based his writings on the traditional art of Kissa-goi or storytelling. This was the first Hindi novel that drew the attention of readers towards social issues such as child marriage, dowry and the condition of women in society.

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