Class 10th History Chapter – 8 Novels, Society and History
| Textbook | NCERT |
| Class | 10th |
| Subject | Social Science (History) |
| Chapter | 8th |
| Chapter Name | Novels, Society and History |
| Category | Class 10th Social Science History |
| Medium | English |
| Source | Last Doubt |
What is the history of novels?, What are the 4 types of novels?, What is historical novel in literature?, What is the concept of novel?, Who is father of novel?, What are the 7 elements of novel?, Why is it called a novel?, What are the 9 Elements of novel?, What is the theme of history of novel?, Why are historical novels important, What is a historical novel called
Class 10th History Chapter – 8 Novels, Society and History
Chapter – 8
Novels, Society and History
MCQ
(1) The first proper modern novel was? A. Chandrakanta Answer – (B) Pariksha-Guru |
(2) What was expressing in the novel Ramona? A. Love stories Answer – (A) Love stories |
(3) ________ wrote about the terrible effects of industrialisation on people’s lives and characters. His novel Hard Times (1854) describes Coketown, a fictitious industrial town, as a grim place. A. Mark Twain Answer – (B) Charles Dickens |
(4) Kandukuri Viresalingam (1848-1919) wrote an original ______ novel called Rajasekhara Caritamu in 1878. A. Tamil Answer – (C) Telugu |
(5) Who wrote Sultana’s Dream? A. Rokeya Hossein Answer – (A) Rokeya Hossein |
(6) In 1836, a notable event took place when ________ Pickwick Papers was serialised in a magazine. Magazines were attractive since they were illustrated and cheap. A. Charles Dickens’s Answer – (A) Charles Dickens’s |
(7) What was meant by ‘Vernacular’? A. Stylish writing Answer – (D) Language of the common people |
(8) Tolstoy was a famous _______ novelist who wrote extensively on rural life and community. A. Russian Answer – (A) Russian |
(9) Walter Scott remembered and collected popular ________ ballads which he used in his historical novels about the wars between clans. A. English Answer – (D) Scottish |
(10) Charles Dickens criticised not just the greed for profits but also the ideas that reduced _________ into simple instruments of production. A. Technology Answer – (D)Human beings |
(11) Dickens focused on the terrible conditions of urban life under industrial capitalism. His ___________ (1838) is the tale of a poor orphan who lived in a world of petty criminals and beggars. A. Oliver Twist Answer – (A) Oliver Twist |
(12) Emile Zola’s _________ (1885) on the life of a young miner in France explores in harsh detail the grim conditions of miners’ lives. It ends on a note of despair. A. Pickwick Papers Answer – (B) Germinal |
(13) The nineteenth-century British novelist Thomas Hardy, for instance, wrote about traditional ________of England that were fast vanishing. A. Aristocratic communities Answer – (C) Rural communities |
(14) By the nineteenth century, images of _______ reading silently, in the privacy of the room, became common in European paintings. A. Women Answer – (A) Women |
(15) Serialised is a format in which the story is published in instalments, each part in a new issue of a _________. A. Novel Answer – (C) Journal |
(16) Rudyard Kipling wrote the famous book titled _______ in 1894. A. Jane Eyre Answer – (C) Jungle Book |
(17) It was only later, in the twentieth century, that writers like _______ (1857-1924) wrote novels that showed the darker side of colonial occupation. A. Daniel Defoe Answer – (B) Joseph Conrad |
(18) The earliest novel in Marathi was Baba Padmanji’s Yamuna Paryatan (1857), which used a simple style of storytelling to speak about the plight of _______. A. Unemployed men Answer – (D) Widows |
(19) Chandu Menon wrote a delightful novel called Indulekha, published in 1889, was the first modern novel in _______. A. Malayalam Answer – (A) Malayalam |
(20) Treasure Island was written by _______. A. Rudyard Kipling Answer – (D) R.L. Stevenson |
(21) Durgeshnandini (1865) was the first novel written by ________. A. Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay Answer – (D) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay |
(22) Love stories for adolescent girls first became popular in _______. A. Britain Answer – (B) the USA |
(23) Novels began to be written in Europe in the _______. A. Sixteenth century Answer – (B) Seventeenth century |
(24) __________ historical adventure novels for boys were also wildly popular during the height of the British empire. They aroused the excitement and adventure of conquering strange lands. A. R.L. Stevenson’s Answer – (D) G.A. Henty’s |
(25) Mayor of Casterbridge was written by _________ in 1886. It is about Michael Henchard, a successful grain merchant, who becomes the mayor of the farming town of Casterbridge. A. Leo Tolstoy Answer – (D) Thomas Hardy |
(26) People had easier access to books with the introduction of circulating libraries in _____. A. 1840 Answer – (B) 1740 |
(27) Who is known as the pioneer of modern Hindi literature? A. Bharatendu Harishchandra Answer – (A) Bharatendu Harishchandra |
(28) The first historical novel written in Bangali was _______. A. Titash Ekti Nadir Naam Answer – (B) Anguriya Binimoy |
(29) Which one of the following was seriaised in a magazine? A. Jane Eyre Answer – (C) Pickwick Papers |
(30) The novel first took firm root in England and ______ . Novels began to be written from the seventeenth century, but they really flowered from the eighteenth century. A. Greece Answer – (C) France |
NCERT Solution Class 10th History All Chapters MCQ
- Chapter – 1 The Rise of Nationalism in Europe
- Chapter – 2 The Nationalist Movement in Indo-China
- Chapter – 3 Nationalism in India
- Chapter – 4 The Making of Global World
- Chapter – 5 The Age of Industrialisation
- Chapter – 6 Work, Life and Leisure
- Chapter – 7 Print Culture and the Modern World
- Chapter – 8 Novels, Society and History