Free The Novel MCQs with Answers

• A. Graham Greene
• B. Anthony Powell
• C. Evelyn Waugh
• D. William Golding

Explanation: Graham Greene combined Catholic concerns with experience as an intelligence officer and film critic, often placing morally troubled…

• A. Vanity Fair
• B. Mill on the Floss
• C. Northanger Abbey
• D. Pickwick Papers

Explanation: Thackeray subtitled Vanity Fair “A Novel without a Hero” because it presents a morally compromised society rather than a conventionally…

• A. Mary Collins
• B. Marian Evans
• C. Lara Evans
• D. Clare Reeve

Explanation: George Eliot was the pen-name of Marian Evans, more fully known as Mary Ann or Marian Evans.

• A. Silas Marner
• B. Emma
• C. Hard Times
• D. Adam Bede

Explanation: Dunstan Cass is the selfish and dishonest brother of Godfrey Cass in George Eliot’s Silas Marner.

• A. Paradise Lost
• B. Divine Comedy
• C. Utopia
• D. Pilgrims Progress

Explanation: William Makepeace Thackeray took the title Vanity Fair from John Bunyan’s allegorical work The Pilgrim’s Progress.

• A. Gothic novel
• B. Autobiographical novel
• C. Historical novel
• D. Picaresque novel

Explanation: Romola is set in Florence during the late fifteenth century and presents historical figures and events from that period.

• A. Hunnish epic
• B. Gothic fiction
• C. epistolary novel
• D. meta-novel

Explanation: Walpole's 1764 novel combined medieval setting, supernatural events, and terror, establishing the Gothic tradition.

• 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: Early novel critics attacked it on all three grounds: it attracted women readers, seemed easier to write than established genres, and…

• 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.

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• A. Anderson
• B. Branwell
• C. Richard
• D. Pearson

Explanation: Branwell Brontë was the only brother of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë.

• 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…

• 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.

• 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.

• 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…

• 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…

• 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.