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Multiple Choice Questions of Novels, Society and History

MCQ for Class 10 History

31 MCQs of Novels, Society and History, Class 10

Q.1: Oliver Twist was written by
(a) Emile Zola
(b) Thomas Hardy
(c) Jane Austen
(d) Charles Dickens

Q.2: Jane Austin’s famous novel was
(a) Hard Times
(b) Pride and Prejudice
(c) Jane Eyre
(d) Jungle Book

Q.3: Which of the following novels was not written by Charles Dickens?
(a) Hard Times
(b) Germinal
(c) Oliver Twist
(d) Pickwick Papers

Q.4: Who wrote ‘Jungle Book’?
(a) Charlotte Bronte
(b) R. L. Stevenson
(c) Rudyard Kipling
(d) None of these

Q.5: The earliest Indian novel was written in which of the following language?
(a) Tamil
(b) Hindi
(c) Bengali
(d) Telugu

Q.6: The first modern novel in Malayalam
(a)Swarna Lekha
(b) Indu Lekha
(c) Sindu Lekha
(d) None of these

Q.7: Who is the pioneer of modern Hindi literature?
(a) Bharatendu Harishchandra
(b) Srinivas Das
(c) Devaki Nandan Khatri
(d) Munshi Premchand

Q.8: The first modern Hindi novel is:
(a) Parikhsha-Guru
(b) Godan
(c) Chandrakanta
(d) Sevasadan

Q.9: Which was the first novel written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee?
(a) Anandmath
(b) Sultana’s Dream
(c) Muktamala
(d) Durgeshnandini

Q.10: Which one of the following novel is written by Rokeya Hussein?
(a) Pariksha Guru
(b) Godan
(c) Anandmath
(d) Sultana’s Dream

Q.11: Which of the following novels deals with caste oppression?
(a) Sultana’s Dream
(b) Indu Lekha
(c) Saraswativijayam
(d) Godan

Q.12: Which was the first historical novel written in Bengal?
(a) Anandamath
(b) Anguriya Binimoy
(c) Sultana’s Dream
(d) Durgesh Nandini

Q.13: Who was the central character of Prem Chand’s Rangbhoomi?
(a) Tulsidas
(b) Surdas
(c) Kabirdas
(d) None of these

Q.14: Which of the following novel was not written by Munshi Premchand?
(a) Rangbhoomi
(b) Godan
(c) Sewasadan
(d) Pariksha-Guru

Q.15: Name the novel which was based on the effect of industrialization.
(a) Hard Times
(b) Oliver Twist
(c) Germinal
(d) Pickwick Papers

Q.16: What is an ‘epistolary novel’?
(a) Novel written in the series of letters.
(b) Novel based on a biographical account
(c) Novels written in poetic verse
(d) None of these.

Q.17: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. The above lines have been illustrated from the novel –
(a) Pride and Prejudice
(b) Mayor of Caster Bridge
(c) Pamela
(d) Treasure Island

Q.18: Who wrote ‘Hard Times’?
(a) Charles Dickens
(b) Walter scott
(c) Thomas Hardy
(d) Emile Zola

Q.19: What did “Kissa Goi” means—?
(a) The art of story telling
(b) Moralizing
(c) Slave Trade
(d) Vagabond

Q.20: The first novel to be serialized was—
(a) Hard Times
(b) Oliver Twist
(c) Pickwick papers
(d) Mayor of Caster Bridge

Q.21: The first Indian novel was written in—
(a) Malayalam
(b) Bhojpuri
(c) Punjabi
(d) Marathi

Q.22: The first modern novel in Malayalam is –
(a) Sevasadan
(b) Pariksha Guru
(c) Indulekha
(d) Rajesekhara

Q.23: Who is the author of ‘Pamela’?
(a) Leo Tolstoy
(b) Samuel Richardson
(c) Thomas Hardy
(d) Charles Dicken

Q.24: In which year was Emile Zola’s ‘Germinal’ published?
(a) 1584
(b) 1885
(c) 1886
(d) 1874

Q.25: Who wrote the famous novel ‘Jungle Book’?
(a) Rudyard Kipling
(b) R. L. Stevenson
(c) Hunt Jackson
(d) Jane Austen

Q.26: Who wrote ‘Pariksha Guru?’
(a) Srinivas Das
(b) Viresalingam
(c) Munshi Premchand
(d) Devki Nandan Khatri

Q.27: Who wrote ‘Kadambari’?
(a) Banabhatta
(b) Chandu Manan
(c) Raja Ravi Verma
(d) Munchi Prem Chand

Q.28: Which of the following novel represent colonialism as Heroic and Honorable?
(a) Pride and prejudice
(b) Mayer of Caster bridge
(c) Hard Times
(d) Treasures Island

Q.29: Hari and Dhania are famous characters of the novel—
(a) Godan
(b) Indulekha
(c) Rangbhomi
(d) Sewasadan

Q.30: The first historical novel written in Bangali was –
(a) Titash Ekti Nadir Naam
(b) Anguriya Binimoy
(c) Padmarag
(d) Saraswativijayam

Q.31: What was meant by ‘Vernacular’?
(a) Stylish writing
(b) Classical language
(c) Literary language
(d) Language of the common people

Answers of Novels, Society and History Class 10 MCQ

1. (d) Charles Dickens
2. (b) Pride and Prejudice
3. (b) Germinal
4. (c) Rudyard Kipling
5. (c) Bengali
6. (b) Indu Lekha
7. (a) Bharatendu Harishchandra
8. (a) Parikhsha-Guru
9. (d) Durgeshnandini
10. (d) Sultana’s Dream
11. (c) Saraswativijayam
12. (b) Anguriya Binimoy
13. (b) Surdas
14. (d) Pariksha-Guru
15. (a) Hard Times
16. (a) Novel written in the series of letters.
17. (a) Pride and Prejudice
18. (a) Charles Dickens
19. (a) The art of story telling
20. (c) Pickwick papers
21. (d) Marathi
22. (c) Indulekha
23. (b) Samuel Richardson
24. (b) 1885
25. (a) Rudyard Kipling
26. (a) Srinivas Das
27. (a) Banabhatta
28. (d) Treasures Island
29. (a) Godan
30. (b) Anguriya Binimoy
31. (d) Language of the common people

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