1.A fragmentary unfinished novel entitled Emma was published in Cornhill
Magazine. Identify the author.
(1) Elizabeth Gaskell
(2) Charlotte Bronte
(3) Emily Bronte
(4) George Eliot
Answer: 2
2.The novel Mary Barton is written by :
(A)Mrs. Gaskell
(B) George Eliot
(C) Emily Bronte
(D) Dickens
Answer: A
3.Match the imaginary location with its creator :
1. Emily Bronte
2. Thomas Hardy
3. Lowood Parsonage
4. Charles Dickens
5. Wessex
6. Egdon Heath
7. Coketown
8. Charlotte Bronte
(A) 1-7 2-5 4-6 3-8
(B) 1-6 2-5 3-8 4-7
(C) 1-5 2-6 3-8 4-7
(D) 2-5 1-7 3-4 6-8
Answer: B
4. One of the most famous movements of direct address to the reader –
“Reader, I married him” – occurs in
(A) Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones
(B) Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre
(C) Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy
(D) George Eliot’s Middlemarch
Answer: B
5.Who among the following authors were greatly influenced by Thomas
Carlyle’s writings?
I. Charles Dickens
II. Elizabeth Gaskell
III. Emily Bronte
IV. Oscar Wilde
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) II and III
(3) I and IV
(4) I and III
Answer: 1
6.In Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, what does Mr. Brocklehurst accuse Jane
of when he visits Lowood School ?
(1) Laziness
(2) Stealing
(3) Lying
(4) Spying
Answer: 3
7. Select the matching pair
(A) Emily Bronte – Yorkshire Moors
(B)Hardy – Scotland
(C)Walter Scott – Ireland
(D)Mark Twain – Yoknapatawfa
Answer: A
8.Listed below are the titles of novels and the sources to which they are
aligned by readers.
Match them appropriately :
1. Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
2. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre
3. R.M. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island
4. Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations
I. Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs
II. J.M. Coetzee’s Foe
III. Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea
IV. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies
I II III IV
(A) 4 1 3 2
(B) 4 3 1 2
(C) 4 1 2 3
(D) 4 2 1 3
Answer: C
9.Match the correct pair :
(I) George Eliot
(II) Saki
(III) Emily Bronte
(IV) Mark Twain
1. Ellis Bell
2. Mary Anne Evans
3. Samuel Langhorne Clemens
4. H. H. Munro
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) 2 3 1 4
(B) 2 4 1 3
(C) 1 3 4 2
(D) 3 2 1 4
Answer: B
10. Here are sentences labelled Assertion (A) and Reason (R) :
Assertion (A) : While referring to Charlotte Bronte’s claim that she has excluded
public interest from her novels Graham Greene writes : ‘Public interest in her day
was surely more separate from public life… with us, however consciously
unconcerned we are, it obtrudes through the cracks of our stories terribly
persistent like grass through cement’.
Reason (R) : The decade of the “thirties was bristling with recurring economic and
political crisis like the Great Depression, Wall Street Crash, Unemployment, rise of
Hitler and Mussolini, series of murders, invasions and tensions; writers could not
remain unaffected.
In the light of (A) and (R) which of the following is correct ?
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Answer: A
11.Arrange the following women novelists in the chronological order (by
date of birth):
A. Anne Bronte
B. Jane Austen
C. Ann Radcliff
D. Fanny Burney
E. Maria Edgeworth
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. B, A, D, C, E
2. C, D, B, E, A
3. D, C, E, B, A
4. A, B, C, E, D
Answer: 3