NOVELS, SOCIETY AND HISTORY

Q-1. Which was Munshi Prem chand best Known work-

a) Rangbhoomi

b) Godan

c) Ghare Baire

d) Indirabai

Ans. (d) Indrabai

Q-2. Which was the first historical novel written in Bengal?

a) Anandmath 

b) Sultana’s Dream

c) Durgesh Nandini

d) Anguriya Binimoy

Ans. (d) Anguriya Binimoy

Q-3. Novels like ……… exposed the condition of poor people under the colonial rule.

a) Godan 

b) Ananmath

c) Hard Times 

d) Pariksha Guru

Ans. (a) Godan

Q-4. Titash Ekti nadir Naam is written by ……………….

a) Prem Chand 

b) Gandhiji 

c) Advaita MALLA Burman

d) None of these

Ans. (c) Advaita MALLA Burman

Q-5. Godan was published in ………………….

a) 1934

b) 1936

c) 1938

d) 1940

Ans. (d) 1940

Q-6. Which of the following novels was not written by Charles Dickens?

a) Hard Times

b) Germinal 

c) Oliver Twist

d) Pickwick Papers

Ans. (b) Germinal

Q-7. Who is the pioneer of modern Hindi Literature?

a) Bhartendu Harishchandra

b) Shriniwas Das

c) Devaki Nandan Khatri

d) Munshi Prem Chand

Ans. (a) Bhartendu Harishchandra

Q-8. Charies Dickens wrote mainly about the emergence of-

a) Prim itivage

b) Industrial age

c) Stone age

d) All of them

Ans. (b) Industrial age

Q-9. Which of the following novels deal with caste oppression?

a) Sultan’s Dream

b) Indulekha

c) Saraswati vijayam

d) Pandmarag

Ans. (c) Saraswati vijayam

Q-10. Joseph Conrod published his first novel …………… in 1909.

a) Germinal 

b) Dastoevsky

c) Heart of Darkness

d) None of these

Ans. (c) Heart of Darkness

Q-11. French communist novelist Zola died in-

a) 1900

b) 1901

c) 1902

d) 1905

Ans. (c) 1902

Q-12. The communist manifesto was published in ……………

a) 1842

b) 1844

c) 1846

d) 1848

Ans. (d) 1848

Q-13. By whom was Pariskha Guru written?

a) Premchand

b) R.N. Tagore

c) Sriniwas Das

d) Bhudeb

Ans. (c) Sriniwas Das

Q-14. By whom was Pride & Prejudice written-

a) Gandhiji 

b) Nehru 

c) Jane Austen

d) None of these

Ans. (c) Jane Austen

Q-15. Which of the following is a correct match?

a) Rash sundari debi – Istri dharma vichar

b) Ram chadda – Amar tiban

c) Kashibaba – Chote aur Bade ka sawaal

d) Sudershan Chakra- Gulamgiri

Ans. (c) Kashibaba – Chote aur Bade ka sawaal

Q-16. The Novel that deals with Indian peasantry.

a) Godan

b) Rangbhoomi

c) Anand math

d) Padmarag

Ans. (a) Godan

Q-17. Who is the author of pride and prejudice?

a) Charlotte Bronte

b) William Hogarth

c) Samuel Richardson

d) Jane Asutin

Ans. (d) Jane Asutin

Q-18. Who was Charles Dickens?

a) King

b) Novelist

c) Revolutionary

d) Monk

Ans. (b) Novelist

Q-19. Who wrote the novel ‘Godan’?

a) Muhammad Basheer

b) Raindranath Tagore

c) Bhuded Mukhopadhyay

d) Premchand 

Ans. (d) Premchand

Q-20. In which text did Jyotiba Phule write about the injustices of Caste system?

a) Guamgiri

b) Amar Jivan

c) Indirabad

d) Indralekha

Ans. (a) Guamgiri

Q-21. Who among the following is the author of the novel “Hard Times?”

a) Leo Tolstoy

b) Thomas Hardy

c) Charles Dickens

d) Samuel Richardson

Ans. (c) Charles Dickens

Q-22. Which novel is known as the first modern novel of Malayalam?

a) Henrietta Temple

b) Pariksha Guru

c) Chandrakanta

d) Indulekha

Ans. (d) Indulekha