George Eliot’s novel Romola is a________________?

Related Mcqs:

1. In analyzing T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Professor Hammer argues that Eliot creates something that might be called which of the following ?

   A. “A meditation on contradictions”
   B. “Overheard inner speech”
   C. “Implicit dialogue with the future”
   D. “Objective correlative”

2. ’George Eliot’ was the pen-name of______________?

   A. Mary Collins
   B. Marian Evans
   C. Lara Evans
   D. Clare Reeve

3. Given the popularity of the Gothic novel and the novel of purpose, which of the following novelists wrote fiction that is closer in subject matter to the novel of manners than it is to the writing of her own era ?

   A. Fanny Burney
   B. Mary Wollstonecraft
   C. Anna Letitia Barbauld
   D. Jane Austen

4. Maggie is the central character in George Eliot’s________________?

   A. Adam Bede
   B. Middle March
   C. The Mill on the Floss
   D. Silas Morner

5. Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise for utilizing a new \mythical method\in place of the old \narrative method\and demonstrates the use of ancient mythology in modernist fiction to think about \making the modern world possible for art\ ?

   A. Virginia Woolf’s The Waves
   B. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
   C. James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake
   D. James Joyce’s Ulysses

6. Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise for utilizing a new “mythical method” in place of the old “narrative method” and demonstrates the use of ancient mythology in modernist fiction to think about “making the modern world possible for art” ?

   A. Virginia Woolf’s The Waves
   B. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
   C. James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake
   D. James Joyce’s Ulysses

7. In Saul Bellow’s novel Herzog (1964), Moses Herzog is a________________?

   A. Christian
   B. Hindu
   C. Jew
   D. Afro-American

8. According to Dr. Frances Pritchett’s version of Shamsur Rahman Faruqi’s “The Historical Novel and the Historical Narrative”, what is the difference between a historical narrative and a historical novel ?

   A. A historical narrative and a historical novel are the same thing.
   B. A historical narrative tells only part of the story surrounding a historical event; a historical novel tells the whole story.
   C. A historical novel focuses on providing the reader with only the central truth of a historical event, while a historical narrative attempts to tell the entire truth of a historical event.
   D. Faruqi actually argues that historical novels do not exist.

9. In her text, “History of the Novel”, How does Dr. Agatha Taormina define the novel ?

   A. A narrative that emphasizes character development
   B. A narrative with a unified, plausible plot structure
   C. A narrative that conveys the illusion of reality
   D. All of these

10. Although Charles Johnson’s Oxherding Tales is based on his Buddhist beliefs, he meant the novel to be a reworking of an American genre, the slave narrative. In what way is the novel, despite its philosophical underpinnings, an exemplar of the slave narrative ?

    A. Its character’s movement from slavery to freedom.
    B. Its emphasis on Christian ideals.
    C. The novel’s sensationalist scenes of violence.
    D. Its didactic (teaching) tone of voice.