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Treasure Island was written by
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Rudyard Kipling
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Thomas Hardy
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Charles Dickens
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R.L. Stevenson
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R.L. Stevenson
Novels began to be written in Europe in the
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sixteenth century
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seventeenth century
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eighteenth century
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nineteenth century
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seventeenth century
Love stories for adolescent girls first became popular in
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Britain
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the USA
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France
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Germany
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the USA
Which one of the following was seriaised in a magazine?
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Jane Eyre
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
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Pickwick Papers
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All the Year Round
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Pickwick Papers
The first proper modern novel was
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Chandrakanta
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Pariksha-Guru
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Indirabai
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Indulekha
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Pariksha-Guru
wrote Sultana’s Dream?
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Rokeya Hossein
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Jarabai Shinde
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Pandita Ramabai
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Devaki-Nandan Khatri
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Rokeya Hossein
Who is known as the pioneer of modern Hindi literature?
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Bharatendu Harishchandra
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Premchand
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Ismat Chugtai
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Dharmavir Bharati
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Bharatendu Harishchandra
The first historical novel written in Bangali was -
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Titash Ekti Nadir Naam
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Anguriya Binimoy
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Padmarag
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Saraswativijayam
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Anguriya Binimoy
What was meant by ‘Vernacular’?
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Stylish writing
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Classical language
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Literary language
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Language of the common people
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Language of the common people
What was expressing in the novel Ramona?
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Love stories
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Adventure stories
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Comedy stories
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None of these
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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.
Which was the novels that became a great hit in the late 19th century?
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Treasure Island
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Jungle Book
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Both a and b
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None of these
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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.
Who was the writer of the novel ‘Mayor of Casterbridge’?
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Charles Dickens
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Thomas Hardy
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Walter Scott
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None of these
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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.
What was the hero of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is?
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Merchant
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Washerman
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An adventurer and slave trader
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None of these
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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.
What do you mean by ‘serialised novel’?
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A cheap, illustrated novel
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A novel published in a magazine
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A format in which the story is published in instalments
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All of these
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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.
Which was the first major historical novel written in Assamese?
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Karuna
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Manomati
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Phulmoni
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None of these
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Rajanikanta Bardoloi wrote the first major historical novel in Assam called Manomati (1900). It is set in the Burmese invasion stories about old soldiers who had fought in the 1819 campaign.
Which was the Bengali novels translated into Assamese by missionaries?
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Phulmoni
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Karuna
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both a and b
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None of these
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The first novels in Assam were written by missionaries. Two of them were translations of Bengali including Phulmoni and Karuna.
Who was the writer of ‘Chandrakanta’?
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Chandu Menon
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Kandukuri Viresalingam
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Devaki Nandan Khatri
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None of these
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The writings of Devaki Nandan Khatri created a novel reading public in Hindi. His best-seller, Chandrakanta is a romance with dazzling elements of fantasy and is believed to have contributed immensely in popularising the Hindi language.
Which is the first proper modern novel in Hindi?
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Pariksha Guru
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Bharatendu Harishchandra
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Ramayana
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None of these
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Pariksha Guru, published in 1882, written by Srinivas Das of Delhi is the first proper modern novel in Hindi. It cautioned young men of well-to-do families against the dangerous influences of bad company and consequent loose morals.
Which was the earliest novel in Marathi?
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Mochongadh
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Muktamala
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Yamuna Paryatan
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None of these
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The earliest novel in Marathi was Baba Padmanji’s Yamuna Paryatan (1857), which used a simple style of storytelling to speak about the plight of widows.
Who was the writer of ‘Sevasadan’?
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Premchand
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Bankim Chandra
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Sarat Chandra
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None of these
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Premchand in 1916 wrote Sevasadan. Many critics think that his novel Sewasadan (The Abode of Service), lifted the Hindi novel from the realm of fantasy, moralising and simple entertainment.
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