Novels, Society and History: 10th SST

Question: What is a novel?

Answer: Novel is a modern form of literature born from print, a mechanical invention.

Question: What are major differences between a novel and a manuscript?

Answer:

1. Novel is born from print whereas manuscript is handwritten.
2. Manuscripts were difficult to prepare and there were only few readers whereas novels are easy to print and are widely read

Question: Name the countries where the novel first took firm roots.

Answer: The novel first took firm root in England and France.

Question: Who formed the readership for the novels?

Answer: New groups of lower-middle-class people such as shopkeepers, clerks, aristocrats and gentlemanly classes formed the new readership for the novels.

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

Answer: Samuel Richardson.

Question: What was impact of serialization of a novel?

Answer: It allowed readers to relish the suspense, discuss the character of a novel and live for weeks with its story.

Question: Who was the author of Pickwick Papers which was serialized in 1836?

Answer: Charles Dickens

Question: Name a novelist who has written about terrible effects of industrialization on people’s lives and character.

Answer: Charles Dickens

Question: Name any two most important novels written by Charles Dickens. What was the theme of the novels?

Ans: (i) Hard Times (ii) Oliver Twist
In both the novels, Dickens had written about the terrible effects of industrialization on people’s lives and character.

Question: Identify the person given in the image.

Answer: Leo Tolstoy.

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

Answer: Emile Zola, the French novelist wrote Germinal (1885). The novel is on the life of a young coalminer. In the novel, the writer tried his best to explain the harsh conditions under which the miners worked. It ends on a note of despair: the strike the hero leads fails, his coworkers turn against him and hopes are shattered.

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

Answer: Thomas Hardy

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

Answer:

1. In the 19th century, Europe entered the industrial age. Novelists such as Charles Dickens and Emile Zola wrote about the terrible effects of industrialisation on peoples lives and character.
2. British novelist Thomas Hardy wrote about traditional rural communities of England that were fast vanishing.

Question: Who was the author of Mayor of Caster-bridge?

Answer: Thomas Hardy

Question: Who was Leo Tolstoy?

Answer: He was a famous Russian novelist who wrote extensively on rural life and community.

Question: Which novel supplied the adventurous text for the young English population?

Answer: Under Drake’s Flag by G. A. Henty

Question: What was the theme of the novel Jane Eyre written by Charlotte Bronte?

Answer: He has shown the main character i.e. Jane as independent and assertive while girls of her time were expected to be quiet and well behaved.

Question: “It is a truth universally accepted acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife”. Name the novel and the author.

Answer: Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

Question: Name some important novelists who use to write for the young generation.
Or
Name some of the important novels for the young.

Answer:

1. R.L. Stevenson – Treasure Island
2. Rudyard Kipling – Jungle Book
3. Helen Hunt – Ramona
4. Sarah Chauncey Wolsey – What Katy Did

Question: Who is the author of the novel “Robinson Crusoe”?

Answer: Daniel Defoe.

Question: Name the novelist who showed the darker ‘ side of colonial occupation.

Answer: Joseph Conrad.

Question: Which was the first modern novel in Malayalam?

Answer: Indulekha