Free The Novel MCQs with Answers

• A. a novel of short length
• B. a novel personal feelings
• C. a Novella
• D. a novel of correspondence among the characters

Explanation: An epistolary novel tells its story through letters or other written communications exchanged by characters.

• A. Friendly
• B. Indifferent
• C. Vindictive
• D. None of these

Explanation: Hardy commonly presents Nature as indifferent to human hopes and suffering rather than as friendly or deliberately vindictive.

• A. Charles Dickens
• B. Homer
• C. Lord Tennison
• D. Ernest Hemingway

Explanation: For Whom the Bell Tolls is Ernest Hemingway’s novel about an American volunteer involved in the Spanish Civil War.

• A. Hemingway
• B. Virginia Woolf
• C. E.M. Forster
• D. D.H. Lawrence

Explanation: The Rainbow is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, tracing generations of the Brangwen family and their changing relationships with society.

• A. European
• B. Indians
• C. American
• D. None of theseRead Classic Poetry

Explanation: Gulliver comes to regard the Yahoos as a savage image of European human beings, especially when he compares their behaviour with that of…

• A. R. K. Narayan
• B. Edin Blyton
• C. Rudyard Kipling
• D. H. G. Wells

Explanation: The Jungle Book is a collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling, especially famous for its tales of Mowgli and the animals of the Indian…

• A. Oscar Wilde
• B. Joseph Conrad
• C. Thomas Hardy
• D. Rudyard Kipling

Explanation: Lord Jim: A Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad, exploring guilt, idealism and the consequences of a moment of cowardice.

• A. Pessimist
• B. Meliorist
• C. Mystic
• D. None of these

Explanation: Hardy’s tragic view of life, dominated by fate, suffering, and indifferent natural forces, leads critics to describe him as a pessimist.

• A. English novelist
• B. American Novelist
• C. Irish novelist
• D. French Novelist

Explanation: Émile Zola was a French novelist and the leading theorist of literary naturalism.

• A. Thomas More
• B. George Orwell
• C. Boris Pasternak
• D. Charles Dickens

Explanation: George Orwell wrote “Animal Farm,” a political allegorical novella that uses a farm rebellion to criticise the corruption of revolutionary…

• A. O' Henry
• B. R L Stevenson
• C. Ernest Hemingway
• D. Sir Walter Scott

Explanation: *Ivanhoe*, sometimes misspelled in the question as “Ivan Hoe,” is the historical novel written by Sir Walter Scott.

• A. Sons and Lovers
• B. Lady Chatterley's Lover
• C. Women in Love
• D. The Rainbow

Explanation: The government banned Lawrence’s *Lady Chatterley’s Lover* because of its explicit sexual content and language; the ban became a famous…

• A. H.G. Wells
• B. Blackmore
• C. T. S. Eliot
• D. Jane Austen

Explanation: R. D. Blackmore wrote the historical romance Lorna Doone, published in 1869. H. G.

• A. Francis Bacon
• B. Jane Austen
• C. Jonathan Swift
• D. None

Explanation: Love and Friendship is a humorous early short work by Jane Austen, written around 1790 when she was still a teenager.

• A. Oscar Wild
• B. Hardy
• C. George Eliot
• D. None of these

Explanation: Oscar Wilde wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray, his only novel, which explores aestheticism, moral corruption, and the desire for eternal…

• A. Hardy
• B. Eliot
• C. Oscar Wilde
• D. Dickens

Explanation: The question’s “Little Neil” refers to Little Nell, the young heroine of Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop.

• A. A Passage to India
• B. Paradise Lost
• C. Hamlet
• D. Doctor Faustus

Explanation: Adela Quested is one of the central characters in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India.

• A. Charles Lamb
• B. Jane Austen
• C. William Hazlitt
• D. Oliver Goldsmith

Explanation: Jane Austen is called an anti-romantic novelist because her novels subject romantic idealism to irony, social observation, and practical…

• A. the first half of 19th century
• B. the first half of 18th century
• C. the 2nd half of 18th century
• D. 19th century

Explanation: Henry Fielding published *The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling* in 1749, which falls in the first half of the eighteenth century.

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

Explanation: Maggie Tulliver is the passionate and tragic central character of George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss.