Pre-romantic Novels MCQs

By: Prof. Dr. Fazal Rehman | Last updated: May 8, 2025

1. : Who was known as “the man of feeling”?
(A) Sterne
(B) Walpole
(C) Henry Mackenzie
(D) None of A, B, and C

2. : Who is regarded as the father of the Gothic novels?
(A) Boswell
(B) Burke
(C) Walpole
(D) None of A, B, and C

3. : Who is the author of Castle of Otranto?
(A) Clara Reeve
(B) Horace Walpole
(C) Radcliffe
(D) M. G. Lewis

4. : The Man of Feeling is a work by
(A) Mackenzie
(B) Walpole
(C) Sterne
(D) None of A, B, and C

5. : Henry Mackenzie passed away in the year
(A) 1835
(B) 1832
(C) 1831
(D) 1840

6. : Horace Walpole is credited with the starting of a new tradition named
(A) Science Fiction
(B) Gothic
(C) Both (a) & (b)
(D) None of A, B, and C

7. : Who said this: “I sighed as a lover but I obeyed as a son”?
(A) William Blake
(B) Robert Burns
(C) Edward Gibbon
(D) None of A, B, and C

8. : The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was published in
(A) 1776
(B) 1775
(C) 1777
(D) 1778

9. : Mrs. Radcliffe’s Mysteries of Udolpho came out in the year
(A) 1787
(B) 1790
(C) 1794
(D) 1770

10. : Which books were written by Mrs. Anne Radcliffe?
(A) A Sicilian Romance
(B) The Romance of the Forest
(C) The Mysteries of Udolpho
(D) All of A, B, and C

11. : In the Memoirs we find an interesting reflection of whose personality?
(A) Edmund Burke
(B) Edward Gibbon
(C) Dr. Johnson
(D) Robert Burns

12. : Gibbon’s history begins with the reign of Trajan in A.D. 98 and ends with the fall of the Byzantine empire in
(A) 1453
(B) 1452
(C) 1451
(D) 1454

13. : How many novels did Jane Austen write?
(A) 9
(B) 7
(C) 8
(D) 6

14. : Pride and Prejudice was published in
(A) 1810
(B) 1813
(C) 1806
(D) 1801

15. : Which writer has given us the first history in English?
(A) Edmund Burke
(B) Dr. Johnson
(C) William Blake
(D) Edward Gibbon

16. : Gibbon’s Memoirs appeared in the year
(A) 1770
(B) 1776
(C) 1796
(D) 1788

17. : Gibbon’s first book A History of Switzerland appeared in
(A) 1779
(B) 1760
(C) 1780
(D) 1770

18. : Mansfield Park is a novel written by
(A) J. Galt
(B) Edgeworth
(C) Austen
(D) Scott

19. : Austen’s Northanger Abbey was published in
(A) 1812
(B) 1818
(C) 1823
(D) 1832

20. : Frank Churchill is a character in the novel
(A) Mansfield Park
(B) Adam Bede
(C) Emma
(D) Pamela

21. : Jane Austen’s subject matter for her novels is
(A) Revenge
(B) Frustration
(C) Human nature
(D) None of A, B, and C