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Novels, Society and History Class 10 MCQs Questions with Answers

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

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1. In his novel Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy mourns:

 The loss of traditional rural communities, loss of a more personalised world

 The growing influence of the new order, running a business on efficient managerial lines

 The old rural culture with its independent farmers dying out

 Both (a) and (c)

2. Who was the writer of the novel ‘Hard Times’?

 Thomas Hardy

 Jane Austen

 Charles Dickens

 None of these

3. New readership for the novel in the 18th century consisted of:

  The gentlemanly classes in England and France

 Lower middle-class people such as shopkeepers and clerks

 The traditional aristocratic and gentlemanly classes in England and France along with new groups of lower middle-class people – clerks and shopkeepers

 Women and children

4. Who was the writer of ‘Indulekha’?

 Chandu Menon

 Srinivas Das

 Raja Ravi Verma

 None of these

5. The serialised stories of the 19th century (1836 onwards) are compared to television soaps. Why?

 Like viewers of television soaps, serialisation allowed readers to relish the suspense

 They could discuss the characters of the novel as viewers of TV soaps today

  Readers could live for weeks with their stories as viewers do today

 All the above

6. Novels began to be written in Europe in the

 sixteenth century

 seventeenth century

 eighteenth century

 nineteenth century

7. Who was the writer of the novel ‘Mayor of Casterbridge’?

 Charles Dickens

 Thomas Hardy

 Walter Scott

  None of these

8. What do you mean by ‘serialised novel’?

 A cheap, illustrated novel

 A novel published in a magazine

 A format in which the story is published in instalments

 All of these

9. Who was the writer of ‘Sevasadan’?

 Premchand

 Bankim Chandra

 Sarat Chandra

 None of these

10. What actions of the hero of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe make us see him as a typical coloniser?

 The hero, Robinson Crusoe, is an adventurer and slave trader

 He treats coloured people as inferior creatures, even when ship wrecked on an island

  He rescues a native, makes him his slave, arrogantly calls him Friday, thinks the latter belongs to an inferior community

 All the above

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