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2921. Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things as They Are ?
- A. Jane Austen's Emma
- B. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
- C. William Godwin's Caleb Williams
- D. Sir Walter Scott's Waverley
Explanation: William Godwin published Caleb Williams in 1794 with the alternative title Things as They Are.
Correct answer: William Godwin's Caleb Williams- A. Maria Edgeworth
- B. Sir Walter Scott
- C. Thomas De Quincey
- D. Jane Austen
Explanation: Jane Austen developed a flexible narrative style that closely presents shifting thoughts, impressions, and self-deceptions, especially…
Correct answer: Jane Austen- A. Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
- B. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- C. Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth
- D. Jane Austen and Charlotte BrontëLiterary Classics
Explanation: Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth are both strongly associated with the historical novel: Scott popularised the form, while Edgeworth…
Correct answer: Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth- A. a history of everyday life
- B. an instructional manual for manners
- C. a book of devotion
- D. a book of model letters
Explanation: Richardson was compiling a collection of model letters when he developed the idea of presenting a moral story through a young woman's…
Correct answer: a book of model letters- A. Fanny Burney
- B. Mary Wollstonecraft
- C. Anna Letitia Barbauld
- D. Jane Austen
Explanation: Jane Austen's fiction focuses on courtship, social manners, class, and domestic relationships, making it a classic example of the novel of…
Correct answer: Jane Austen- A. Anderson
- B. Branwell
- C. Richard
- D. Pearson
Explanation: Branwell Brontë was the only brother of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë.
Correct answer: Branwell- A. Vanity Fair
- B. Sense and Sensibility
- C. Pride and Prejudice
- D. Mansfield Park
Explanation: Becky Sharp is the ambitious, socially climbing central character of William Makepeace Thackeray’s “Vanity Fair.” The other novels feature…
Correct answer: Vanity Fair- A. New York City
- B. Stanford, Connecticut
- C. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- D. Boston, Massachusetts
Explanation: The Catcher in the Rye is set mainly in New York City, where Holden Caulfield wanders after leaving his preparatory school.
Correct answer: New York City- A. London and Rome
- B. Paris and Rome
- C. London and Paris
- D. Berlin and London
Explanation: Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities contrasts London and Paris during the period surrounding the French Revolution.
Correct answer: London and Paris- A. Too many of its readers were women.
- B. It required less skill than other genres.
- C. It lacked the classical pedigree of poetry and drama.
- D. all of the above
Explanation: Novel detractors commonly viewed the form as especially popular with women, less demanding to write than poetry or drama, and lacking the…
Correct answer: all of the above- A. Bleak House
- B. Great Expectations
- C. A Tale of Two Cities
- D. The Pickwick Papers
Explanation: Pip is the first-person narrator and central character of Great Expectations, whose moral and social development Dickens traces from…
Correct answer: Great Expectations- A. Jane Austen
- B. Charlotte Bronte
- C. Edith Wharton
- D. Emily Bronte
Explanation: The line appears at the end of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, when Jane announces her marriage to Rochester.
Correct answer: Charlotte Bronte- A. Sussex
- B. Hampshire
- C. Yorkshire
- D. Norfolk
Explanation: Jane Austen was born at Steventon Rectory in Hampshire in 1775. The name is correctly spelled Austen, not Austin, but Hampshire remains…
Correct answer: Hampshire- A. Henry Fielding
- B. Laurence Sterne
- C. Samuel Richardson
- D. Tobias Smollett
Explanation: Laurence Sterne wrote The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, which disrupts chronological narration through digression and follows the…
Correct answer: Laurence Sterne- A. Sense and Suspensibility
- B. Emma
- C. Pride and Prejudice
- D. Mansfield Park
Explanation: Jane Austen wrote Sense and Sensibility, not “Sense and Suspensibility”; she also wrote Emma, Pride and Prejudice, and Mansfield Park.
Correct answer: Sense and Suspensibility- A. George Orwell
- B. Virginia Woolf
- C. Evelyn Waugh
- D. Orson Wells
Explanation: George Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four, whose controlled language of Newspeak shows how language can shape thought and expose…
Correct answer: George Orwell- 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
Explanation: In his essay on Joyce, Eliot praised Ulysses for replacing straightforward narrative with a mythic structure that parallels ancient…
Correct answer: James Joyce's Ulysses2938. When was the ban finally lifted on D. H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, written in 1928?
- A. 1930
- B. 1945
- C. 1960
- D. 2000
Explanation: The ban on Lady Chatterley's Lover was lifted in Britain in 1960 after Penguin won the obscenity trial, allowing the novel to be published…
Correct answer: 1960- A. stream of consciousness
- B. free indirect style
- C. irresolute open endings
- D. narrative realism
Explanation: High-modernist novels commonly use stream of consciousness, free indirect style, and unresolved endings to challenge conventional…
Correct answer: narrative realism- A. novels
- B. plays
- C. the English
- D. publishers
Explanation: Henry James used the phrase “loose baggy monsters” for expansive nineteenth-century novels, especially works such as Tolstoy’s, whose…
Correct answer: novels