A. Vanity Fair
B. Middlemarch
C. Wuthering Heights
D. Oliver Twist
Related Mcqs:
- Which of th following novels is called a “Novel without a hero” ?
A. Vanity Fair
B. Mill on the Floss
C. Northanger Abbey
D. Pickwick Papers - The term ‘the Palliser Novels’ is used to describe the political novels of ______________?
A. Charles Dickens
B. Anthony Trollope
C. W. H. White
D. B.Disraeli - Who is praised as a hero by Carlyle in his lecture on the ‘Hero as King’ ?
A. Johnson
B. Cromwell
C. Shakespeare
D. Luther - How is “Jane Eyre” different from the novels of the first wave of English Gothic novels ?
A. Its protagonist is at risk for sexual transgression.
B. It is a Bildungsroman.
C. It explains strange phenomena.
D. The theme of imprisonment is prominent. - ‘Hero and Hero worship’ was written by______________?
A. Ruskin
B. Carlyle
C. Mill
D. None of these - 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 - According to Dr. Mark Canada’s “An Introduction to the Novel”, Richard Chase identifies which of the following as a main difference between novels and romances ?
A. The language in which they are written
B. The way they view reality
C. The way they are structured
D. The type of people who write them - What quality does the Gothic novel of the 18th and early 19th centuries share with the majority of English novels of the same time period ?
A. Realism
B. An epistolary format
C. A focus on the individual
D. An English setting - Neo-Slave narratives are contemporary novels written about slavery. Toni Morrison’s Beloved is about the ghost of a baby the character Sethe murdered to keep her from being recaptured by their master. The opening chapter of the novel represents the neo-slave narrative by its________________?
A. Discussion of race relations in the North and South.
B. Condemnation of the plantation myth.
C. Examination of the psychological damage of slavery.
D. Insistence on desegregation. - How does this quotation from Behn’s Oroonoko most suggest its status as an early novel: “I do not pretend, in giving you the history of this Royal Slave, to entertain my reader with adventures of a feigned hero, whose life and fortunes fancy may manage at the poet’s pleasure.” ?
A. It focuses on a royal hero.
B. It denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism.
C. It focuses on adventures.
D. It connects to poetry.
