Tuesday, July 27, 2010

15 Qns on Ch-8,NOVELS By Harsita

Q-1 Who was the Indian writer who used the novel to propogate his ideas about society among a wider readership?
 Ans- Viresalingam

Q-2 Indulekha, the main character of a novel written by Chandu Menon, was educated in which languages?
 Ans- English and Sanskrit

Q-3 Which two types of novel were most popular in Tamil in the early decades of twentieth century?
 Ans- Detective and mystery novels

Q-4 Which two novels had main characters belonging to upper-caste?
 Ans- Indulekha and Indirabai

Q-5 Who was the Bengali female writer who started a girls school?
 Ans- Rokeya Hossien

Q-6 Which novel written by Rokeya Hossein showed the need for women to reform?
 Ans- Padmarag

Q-7 Which lower caste writer from kerala wrote Saraswativijayam?
 Ans- Potheri  Kunjambu

Q-8 Which novel was the first historic novel written in Bengal and who wrote it?
Ans- Bhudeb mukhopadhyays Anguriya Binimoy

Q-9 Who wrote "Anandmath" and in which year?
 Ans- Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in 1882

Q-10 Which novel is about life of Mallas,a community of fisherfolk and who wrote it?
 Ans- Advaita Malla Burmans Titash Ekti Nadir Naam

Q-11 Which early Muslim writer gained popularity as a Malayalam novelist?
 Ans- Vaikkom Muhammad Basheer

Q-12 Who were the main characters of Premchands novel godan?
 Ans- Hori and Dhania

Q-13 Traditional stories written about past in India are called ___________?
 Ans- Puranic stories

Q-14 Premchands which novel tells about the life of peasants during great depression?
 Ans- Godan

Q-15 What is a satire?
 Ans- A form of representation by writing, drawing, painting etc. that critises society in a clever manner.   

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