Online Test of Chapter 8 Novels, Society and History Test 1 History (Social Science S.St)| Class 10th
Q.1- What was the first novel in English?
a. Rob Roy
b. Pamela
c. Tom Jones
d. None of these
Q.2- What do you mean by ‘serialised novel’?
a. A cheap, illustrated novel
b. A novel published in a magazine
c. A format in which the story is published in instalments
d. All of these
Q.3- What is expressing in the novel ‘Epistolary’?
a. A story written in the form of a series of letters
b. A story written in the serial form
c. A novel based on true historical events
d. None of these
Q.4- What was the hero of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is?
a. Merchant
b. Washerman
c. An adventurer and slave trader
d. None of these
Q.5- What was the first novel to be serialised in English?
a. Pickwick Papers
b. Ivanhoe
c. Tom Jones
d. None of these
Q.6- Who was the writer of the novel ‘Mayor of Casterbridge’?
a. Charles Dickens
b. Thomas Hardy
c. Walter Scott
d. None of these
Q. 7- What did Jane Austen portray in his Novel?
a. Women in urban England
b. Women in rural England
c. Women in genteel rural society
d. None of these
Q.8- Which was the novels that became a great hit in the late 19th century?
a. Treasure Island
b. Jungle Book
c. Both a and b
d. None of these
Q.9- ‘People think you a good woman, but you are bad – you are deceitful.’ These lines were taken from which novels?
a. Jungle book
b. Jane Eyre
c. Treasure Island
d. None of these
Q.10- What was expressing in the novel Ramona?
A. Love stories
b. Adventure stories
c. Comedy stories
d. None of these
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Question 1 of 10
1. Question
What was the first novel in English?
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Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones was the first novel in English. He was a novelist of the early eighteenth century, claimed he was ‘the founder of a new province of writing’ where he could make his own laws.
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Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones was the first novel in English. He was a novelist of the early eighteenth century, claimed he was ‘the founder of a new province of writing’ where he could make his own laws.
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Question 2 of 10
2. Question
What do you mean by ‘serialised novel’?
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A format in which the story is published in instalments, each part in a new issue of a journal. In 1836 a notable event took place when Charles Dickens’s Pickwick Papers was serialised in a magazine.
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A format in which the story is published in instalments, each part in a new issue of a journal. In 1836 a notable event took place when Charles Dickens’s Pickwick Papers was serialised in a magazine.
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Question 3 of 10
3. Question
What is expressing in the novel ‘Epistolary’?
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An ‘Epistolary’ novel is a story written in the form of a series of letters. The epistolary novel, on the other hand, used the private and personal form of letters to tell its story.
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An ‘Epistolary’ novel is a story written in the form of a series of letters. The epistolary novel, on the other hand, used the private and personal form of letters to tell its story.
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Question 4 of 10
4. Question
What was the hero of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is?
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The hero of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719) is an adventurer and slave trader. Shipwrecked on an island, Crusoe treats coloured people not as human beings equal to him, but as inferior creatures.
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The hero of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719) is an adventurer and slave trader. Shipwrecked on an island, Crusoe treats coloured people not as human beings equal to him, but as inferior creatures.
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Question 5 of 10
5. Question
What was the first novel to be serialised in English?
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The first novel to be serialised in English was Charles Dickens’ Pickwick Papers in 1836. Magazines were attractive since they were illustrated and cheap.
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The first novel to be serialised in English was Charles Dickens’ Pickwick Papers in 1836. Magazines were attractive since they were illustrated and cheap.
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Question 6 of 10
6. Question
Who was the writer of the novel ‘Mayor of Casterbridge’?
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In his novel Mayor of Caster bridge, Thomas Hardy mourns about the loss of traditional rural communities, loss of a more personalised world and the old rural culture with its independent farmers dying out.
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In his novel Mayor of Caster bridge, Thomas Hardy mourns about the loss of traditional rural communities, loss of a more personalised world and the old rural culture with its independent farmers dying out.
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Question 7 of 10
7. Question
What did Jane Austen portray in his Novel?
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The novels of Jane Austen give us a glimpse of the world of women in genteel rural society in early-nineteenth-century Britain. They make us think about a society which encouraged women to look for ‘good’ marriages and find wealthy or propertied husbands.
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The novels of Jane Austen give us a glimpse of the world of women in genteel rural society in early-nineteenth-century Britain. They make us think about a society which encouraged women to look for ‘good’ marriages and find wealthy or propertied husbands.
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Question 8 of 10
8. Question
Which was the novels that became a great hit in the late 19th century?
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Books like R.L. Stevenson’s Treasure Island (1883) or Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book (1894) became great hits. They aroused the excitement and adventure of conquering strange lands.)
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Books like R.L. Stevenson’s Treasure Island (1883) or Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book (1894) became great hits. They aroused the excitement and adventure of conquering strange lands.)
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Question 9 of 10
9. Question
‘People think you a good woman, but you are bad – you are deceitful.’ These lines were taken from which novels?
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“People think you a good woman, but you are bad – you are deceitful. I will never call you aunt as long as I live.” These lines are taken from Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, shows protest against hypocrisy of elders with startling bluntness, breaking the established norms of society.
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“People think you a good woman, but you are bad – you are deceitful. I will never call you aunt as long as I live.” These lines are taken from Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, shows protest against hypocrisy of elders with startling bluntness, breaking the established norms of society.
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Question 10 of 10
10. Question
What was expressing in the novel Ramona?
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Ramona express the love stories written for adolescent girls by American women writers. It also first became popular in the period of 1884, especially in the US.
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Ramona express the love stories written for adolescent girls by American women writers. It also first became popular in the period of 1884, especially in the US.