Free The Novel MCQs with Answers

• A. Emily Bronte
• B. Charlotte Bronte
• C. Anne Bronte
• D. Jane Austen

Explanation: Charlotte Brontë wrote “The Professor,” which was her first completed novel, although it was published posthumously.

• A. J. R. R. Tolkien
• B. Peter Jackson
• C. C. S. Lewis
• D. J. K. Rowling

Explanation: J. R. R. Tolkien wrote “The Lord of the Rings,” a high-fantasy novel presented in three volumes.

• A. Jane Austen
• B. Charlotte Bronte
• C. George Eliot
• D. Joseph Conrad

Explanation: Mary Anne Evans used the pen name George Eliot, under which she wrote major Victorian novels such as “Middlemarch” and “Silas Marner.” The…

• A. Sense and Sensibility
• B. Emma
• C. Persuasion
• D. All of these

Explanation: Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Persuasion are all novels by Jane Austen.

• A. stream of consciousness
• B. psycho-analysis
• C. Objective Co-relative
• D. Symbolism and Mysticism

Explanation: James Joyce is strongly associated with stream of consciousness, a technique that presents the continuous flow of a character’s thoughts…

• A. Mario Puzo
• B. Francis Ford Coppola
• C. Marlon Brando
• D. Mark Winegardner

Explanation: Mario Puzo wrote the novel The Godfather, published in 1969. Francis Ford Coppola directed its famous film adaptation, while Marlon Brando…

• A. Friendship and benevolence
• B. Bitterness and revenge
• C. Hatred and jealousy
• D. None of these

Explanation: In Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, the Houyhnhnms regard friendship and benevolence as important virtues and live according to reason.

• A. Play
• B. Novel
• C. Poem
• D. none of these

Explanation: Adam Bede is George Eliot’s first novel, published in 1859, and centres on the lives and moral choices of people in a rural English…

• A. The Hound of the Baskervilles
• B. The Sign of the Four
• C. The Valley of Fear
• D. A Study in Scarlet

Explanation: Sherlock Holmes first appeared in A Study in Scarlet (1887), which introduces both Holmes and Dr Watson.

• A. John Gay
• B. Sir Arthur Canon Doyle
• C. Dylan Thomas
• D. Somerset Maugham

Explanation: Sherlock Holmes was created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, whose surname is misspelled as “Canon Doyle” in the option.

• A. Jules Verne
• B. H. G. Wells
• C. Mark Twain
• D. Charles Dickens

Explanation: Jules Verne wrote this 1872 adventure novel about Phileas Fogg's wager to travel around the world in eighty days. H. G.

• A. Samuel Richardson
• B. Samuel Johnson
• C. Samuel Beckett
• D. None of the above

Explanation: Samuel Richardson is conventionally called the first modern novelist because Pamela and Clarissa developed psychological characterisation…

• A. Francis Bacon
• B. Geoffery Chaucer
• C. King Alfred the Great
• D. Henry Fielding

Explanation: Henry Fielding is commonly called the father of the English novel because of the scope, realism and narrative technique of works such as…

• A. Jane Austen
• B. Charles Dickens
• C. Sir Walter Scott
• D. Oliver Goldsmith

Explanation: The Talisman is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, set during the Third Crusade.

• A. 1000 years ago
• B. 1500 years ago
• C. 2000 years ago
• D. 3000 years ago

Explanation: Julius Caesar died in 44 BCE, so he lived roughly 2,000 years ago. The question is historical rather than literary, but option c is the…

• A. Jane Eyre
• B. Ramona
• C. Emma
• D. Rebecca

Explanation: Emma is Jane Austen’s novel about the clever but misguided Emma Woodhouse and her attempts at matchmaking.

• A. Thackeray
• B. Hardy
• C. Dickens
• D. W. Scott

Explanation: Charles Dickens is especially famous for making London a vivid setting and almost a character in his novels, including Oliver Twist, Bleak…

• A. Jules Verne
• B. Christopher Marlowe
• C. Charles Kingsley
• D. Thomas Hood

Explanation: Jules Verne wrote the adventure novel Around the World in Eighty Days, published in 1872.

• A. John Milton
• B. Charles Dickens
• C. John Webster
• D. Daniel Defoe

Explanation: Charles Dickens wrote both Hard Times and A Tale of Two Cities. Milton and Webster are chiefly associated with poetry and drama, while…

• A. The Luminaries
• B. Wolf Hall
• C. The White Tiger
• D. The Sea

Explanation: Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries won the 2013 Man Booker Prize. It was notable for making Catton the youngest winner at that time.