MCQ Questions for Class 10 History Chapter 8 Novels, Society and History with Answers

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Q1. The similarity between Chandu Menon of Kerala and Kandukuri Viresalingam of Andhra Pradesh is that :

(a) they both wrote their first novels in their own mother tongue
(b) they were both sub-judges in their own states
(c) they both first attempted to translate English novels into their mother tongues
(d) none of the above

(c) they both first attempted to translate English novels into their mother tongues


Q2. Who was the first novelist to portray the darker side of colonial occupation?

(a) Rudyard Kipling
(b) Daniel Defoe
(c) Joseph Conrad
(d) G.A. Henry

(c) Joseph Conrad


Q3. Who wrote Sevasadan and when?

(a) Bankim Chandra in 1865
(b) Sarat Chandra in 1888
(c) Premchand in 1916
(d) Bharatendu Harishchandra in 1882

(c) Premchand in 1916


Q4. Ramona and What Katy Did were:

(a) adventure stories about experiences of young boys
(b) love stories written for adolescent girls by American women writers
(c) novels about heroic deeds of colonisers in strange lands
(d) none of the above

(b) love stories written for adolescent girls by American women writers


Q5. Name the earliest novel in Marathi and describe its theme.

(a) Manjughosha by Naro Sadashiv, the theme is full of amazing events
(b) Yamuna Paryatan by Baba Padmanji, the theme is plight of widows
(c) Muktamala by Moreshwar Halbe, the theme is an imaginary ‘romance’ with a moral purpose
(d) Mochongadh by R.B. Gunjikar

(b) Yamuna Paryatan by Baba Padmanji, the theme is plight of widows


Q6. Treasure Island was written in 1883 by:

(a) Charles Dicken
(b) Rudyard Kipling
(c) R.L. Stevenson
(d) Jane Austen

(c) R.L. Stevenson


Q7. Jungle book was written in 1894 by:

(a) Charles Dicken
(b) Rudyard Kipling
(c) R.L. Stevenson
(d) Jane Austen

(b) Rudyard Kipling


Q8. G.A. Henty’s historical adventure novels was for:

(a) Girls
(b) Boys
(c) Women
(d) Soldiers

(b) Boys


Q9. The novel Ramona was written by:

(a) Jane Austen
(b) G.A. Henty
(c) Helen Hunt Jackson
(d) Sarah C. Woolsey

(c) Helen Hunt Jackson


Q10. ‘What Katy did’ was written by:

(a) Jane Austen
(b) G.A. Henty
(c) Helen Hunt Jackson
(d) Sarah C. Woolsey

(c) Helen Hunt Jackson


Q11. The pen-name of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey was:

(a) Susan Coolidge
(b) George Eliot
(c) Susan Watt
(d) Helen H. Jackson

(d) Helen H. Jackson


Q12. Henrietta Temple was translated into Malayalam by:

(a) Chander Menon
(b) Benjamin Disraeli
(c) Ravi Verma
(d) Satyendranath Bisht

(a) Chander Menon


Q13. The first modern novel in Malayalam was:

(a) Hanrietta Temple
(b) Indukush
(c) Indujana
(d) Indulekha

(a) Hanrietta Temple


Q14. Pariksha-Guru was written by:

(a) Chandu Menon
(b) Srinivas Das
(c) Satyendranath Bisht
(d) Ravi Varma

(b) Srinivas Das


Q15. Novel is born from print which is a:

(a) Scientific invention
(b) Modem invention
(c) Mechanical invention
(d) None of the above

(c) Mechanical invention


Q16. Novels began to be written in Europe in the

(a) sixteenth century
(b) seventeenth century
(c) eighteenth century
(d) nineteenth century

(b) seventeenth century


Q17. Which one of the following was seriaised in a magazine?

(a) Jane Eyre
(b) The Mayor of Casterbridge
(c) Pickwick Papers
(d) All the Year Round

(c) Pickwick Papers


Q18. The first proper modern novel was

(a) Chandrakanta
(b) Pariksha-Guru
(c) Indirabai
(d) Indulekha

(b) Pariksha-Guru


Q19. Who wrote Sultana’s Dream?

(a) Rokeya Hossein
(b) Jarabai Shinde
(c) Pandita Ramabai
(d) Devaki-Nandan Khatri

(a) Rokeya Hossein


Q20. Who is known as the pioneer of modern Hindi literature?

(a) Bharatendu Harishchandra
(b) Premchand
(c) Ismat Chugtai
(d) Dharmavir Bharati

(a) Bharatendu Harishchandra


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