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Question
Middle class people had a little interest in romances and tragedies.
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False
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Solution
Middle class people had a little interest in romances and tragedies. - True
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| (a) Murasaki Shikibu | (1) Cervantes |
| (b) Novella | (2) Bankimchandra Chattopadhyaya |
| (c) Don Quixote | (3) Tale of Genji |
| (d) Rajmohan’s Wife | (4) New |
Pick out the odd element from the group.
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Complete the following statement:
In the eighteenth century, the middle class could get time for reading and discussing novels because _______.
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Style of the novel
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Eighteenth century gifted mankind with _____________
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Novel soon became dominant literary genre as it _____________
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Indian writers in English Novel initially wrote about the theme of _____________
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Gothic novel contains ________________
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Strike out the unnecessary Detective fiction is ____________.
A novel is relatively a _______ narrative.
English word ‘Novel’ is derived from the Italian word ______.
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- Murasaki Shikibu’s Tale of Genji
- Greek Romances
- The appearance of magazines and newspapers
- Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales
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- Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, Kiran Nagarkar
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Given below are some Novels in English literature. Arrange them in their order of their appearance.
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- Ecologues
- Pamela and Gulliver’s Travels
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Novel is recognized as the most dominant literary genre in modern times.
A Novel is relatively a short narrative.
‘Tale of Genji’ is described as world’s first novel.
Novel gave voice to the aspirations and longings of middle class.
Novella is greater in length than Novel.
Setting doesn’t affect plot or characters.
The struggle in between opposite forces in a story is called as conflict.
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| Column A | Column B |
| 1. Agatha Christie | a) stream of consciousness |
| 2. William James | b) crime fiction |
| 3. George Eliot | c) science-based novels |
| 4. Mary Shelly | d) psychological novels |
Match the following.
| Column A | Column B |
| 1. Virginia Woolf | a) gothic novels |
| 2. Mary Shelly | b) novel of manners |
| 3. Frances Burney | c) science-based novels |
| 4. Ann Radcliffe | d) stream of consciousness |
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| Column A | Column B |
| 1. Rise of the middle-class | a) 18th century literature characteristics |
| 2. The spirit of realism and denial of romanticism | b) Industrial Revolution |
| 3. Novel and periodical essay | c) Stories of ideal love and adventures |
| 4. The tales of Greek romances | d) Novel as a literary genre |
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| Column A | Column B |
| 1. The flow of thoughts | a) Bildungsroman novel |
| 2. The internal life of the protagonist | b) Stream of Consciousness |
| 3. The novel based on the life of the author | c) Psychological novel |
| 4. The growth of protagonist’s mind, spirit and characters | d) Autobiographical novel |
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| Column A | Column B |
| 1. Picaresque Novel | a) bears more than one layers of meaning. |
| 2. Historical Novel | b) speculative fiction |
| 3. Allegorical Novel | c) adventures of an eccentric protagonist |
| 4. Utopian Novel | d) set in an earlier period than of the writing. |
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The industrial revolution gave birth to _______.
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| (b) Jonathan Swift | (ii) Gulliver's Travels |
| (c) John Bunyan | (iii) Raja Mohan's Wife |
| (d) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay |
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Match the following items from column ‘A’ with those from column ‘B’:
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| (b) The Heart of Darkness | (ii) John Bunyan |
| (c) Frankenstein | (iii) Aphra Behn |
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Struggle between the opposite forces in the story is called ______.
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