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Novels, Society and History

Question:

Who was the author of Mayor of Casterbridge ?

Answer:

Thomas Hardy.

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Novels, Society and History

Q 1.

Which novel supplied the adventurous text for the young English population ? [CBSE 2014]

Q 2.

Trace the history of novels of South India.

Q 3.

Name some important novelists who use to write for the young generation.
Or
Name some of the important novels for the young. [CBSE 2014]

Q 4.

Explain the themes and issues of the novels of Thomas Hardy. [CBSE 2011]

Q 5.

Who is the writer of the novel Germinal ? What was the theme of the novel ?

Q 6.

How most of the novels of the 19th century represented the true picture of the community and the society ?

Q 7.

Mention some important characteristics of novels which increased their popularity among the readers.

Q 8.

Name a novelist who has written about terrible effects of industrialisation on people's lives and character.

Q 9.

How most of the novels of the 19th century represented the true picture of the community and the society ?

Q 10.

Which was the first modern novel in Nalayalam ? [CBSE 2014]

Q 11.

Which was the first proper modem novel in Hindi ? What was its theme ?

Q 12.

Who wrote Saraswativijayam ? [CBSE 2014]

Q 13.

Explain the following:
a) Social changes in Britain which led to an increase in women readers
b) What actions of Robinson Crusoe make us see him as a typical coloniser.
c) After 1740, the readership of novels began to include poorer people.
d) Novelists in colonial India wrote for a political cause.

Q 14.

What was the reason for the popularity of the novel?

Q 15.

What did the novels in the nineteenth- century India mean to :
(a) Women
(b) Children
Or
What was the attitude of people in India in the 19th century towards women reading ? How did women responded to this ? [CBSE Sept. 2010, 2011]

Q 16.

"Social changes in Britain led to an increase in women readers". Explain.
Or
Explain the factors that led to women writing novels in Europe. [CBSE 2012]

Q 17.

What is a novel ?

Q 18.

Who was the author of Pariksha Guru ?

Q 19.

The Novel is about an epic about the Mallas, a community of fisherfolk who live off fishing in the river Titash. Identify the novel and the author.

Q 20.

Which was the first historical novel written in Bengal ?

Q 21.

Who wrote Anandmath ? [CBSE 2014]

Q 22.

What were the favourite themes to women novelists in India? Explain giving any three examples. [CBSE 2012]

Q 23.

Outline the changes in technology and society which led to an increase in the readers of the novel in the eighteenth century Europe. [CBSE Sept. 2013]

Q 24.

Discuss some of the social changes in nineteenth-century Britain which Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens wrote about.

Q 25.

Summarise the concern in both nineteenth-century Europe and India about women reading novels. What does this suggest about how women were viewed?

Q 26.

In what ways was the novel in colonial India useful for both the colonisers as well as the nationalists?

Q 27.

What was the reason for the popularity of the novel?

Q 28.

Write about the early Bengali novels.

Q 29.

How did serialisation of novels increase the popularity of novels and magazines ? [CBSE 2012]

Q 30.

How were the modem Indian novels useful for the Indians in day to day life. [CBSE 2013]
Or
"Indian novelists used the novel as a powerful medium to criticize the defects of the society."Justify the statement with the suitable examples. [CBSE 2013]
Or
Explain any three reasons for making the novel popular in India. [CBSE 2014]

Q 31.

How did the novels play a significant role in awareness about the India's glorious past. [CBSE 2013]
Or
How did novels inspire the freedom fighters? Explain with two examples. [CBSE 2011]

Q 32.

How did novels promote colonialism ? Explain with an example of a novel. [CBSE Sept. 2010]
Or
What kind of novels were written for young boys in the 19th century ? Explain. [CBSE Sept. 2010]
Or
How did novels make themselves relevant to young boys ? [CBSE Sept. 2011]
Or
Explain any five features of novels written for the young in the last stage of 19 th century. [CBSE 2012]

Q 33.

What do you mean by epistolary novel ? Give One example.
Or
State the meaning of epistolary novel. Give one example for this type of novel. [CBSE 2013]

Q 34.

"The novels bring together many cultures". Explain. [CBSE 2010, 11]
Or
How did the novels bring together different cultures ?

Q 35.

Who was Charlotte Bronte ? How has she presented the picture of a woman in her novels ?
Or
Describe the depiction of women in the novels of Charlotte Bronte. [CBSE 2013]
Or
In which way was women depicted in Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre'? [CBSE 2011]

Q 36.

What were the issues raised by the novel Indulekha written in Malayalam ? [CBSE Sept. 2010]
Or
What led Chandu Menon to write Indulekha ? [CBSE Sept. 2011,2014]

Q 37.

Explain the role of novelists in the field of social reforms in India with the help of any three examples. [CBSE Sept. 2010]

Q 38.

What are major differences between a novel and a manuscript ?

Q 39.

Who was another of Pamela a novel based on exchange of letters between two lovers.

Q 40.

Identify the person given in the image.

Q 41.

Who is the writer of the Novel Germinal ? What was the theme of the novel ?

Q 42.

Name a novelist who wrote about traditional rural communities of England that were vanishing.

Q 43.

Who were the author's of the following  novels  ?

Q 44.

Which was the first proper modem Hindi novel? Who was its author ?

Q 45.

Who is known as the pioneer of modem Hindi literature ?

Q 46.

How did the vernacular novels help Britishers to expand their rule in India ?

Q 47.

Name any two novelists of South India. Also mention the names of the novels written by them.

Q 48.

Which was the first modem novel in Malayalam? When was it published ?

Q 49.

Who is the author of the novel Sewasadan'? What is the importance of the novel for the Hindi literature ?

Q 50.

During the 19th century, the early Bengali novelists lived in two worlds'. Explain.