Pre-romantic Novels MCQs

By: Prof. Dr. Fazal Rehman Shamil | Last updated: February 3, 2024

Who was known as “the man of feeling”?
(a) Sterne
(b) Walpole
(c) Henry Mackenzie
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Henry Mackenzie

Who is regarded as the father of the Gothic novels?
(a) Boswell
(b) Burke
(c) Walpole
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Walpole

Who is the author of Castle of Otranto?
(a) Clara Reeve
(b) Horace Walpole
(c) Radcliffe
(d) M. G. Lewis
Question’s Answer: Horace Walpole

The Man of Feeling is a work by
(a) Mackenzie
(b) Walpole
(c) Sterne
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Mackenzie

Henry Mackenzie pass away in the year
(a) 1835
(b) 1832
(c) 1831
(d) 1840
Question’s Answer: 1831

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
Question’s Answer: Gothic

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
Question’s Answer: Edward Gibbon

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was published in
(a) 1776
(b) 1775
(c) 1777
(d) 1778
Question’s Answer: 1776

Mrs. Radcliffe’s Mysteries of Udolpho came out in the year
(a) 1787
(b) 1790
(c) 1794
(d) 1770
Question’s Answer: 1794

Which books was writen by Mr Anne Radcliffe!
(a) A Sicilian Romance
(b) The Romance of the Forest
(c) The Mysteries of Udolpho
(d) All of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: All of A, B, and C

In the Memories we find an interesting reflection of whose personality
(a) Edmund Burke
(b) Edward Gibbon
(c) Dr. Johnson
(d) Robert Burns
Question’s Answer: Edward Gibbon

Gibbon’s history begins with the reign of Trozan in A.D. 98 and ends with
the fall of the Byzantine empire in
(a) 1453
(b) 1452
(c) 1451
(d) 1454
Question’s Answer: 1453

How many novels did Jane Austen write?
(a) 9
(b) 7
(c) 8
(d) 6
Question’s Answer: 6

Pride and Prejudice was published in
(a) 1810
(b) 1813
(c) 1806
(d) 1801
Question’s Answer: 1813

Which writer has given us the first history in English?
(a) Edmund Burke
(b) Dr Johnson
(c) William Blake
(d) Edward Gibbon
Question’s Answer: Edward Gibbon

Gibbon’s Memories appeared in the year
(a) 1770
(b) 1776
(c) 1796
(d) 1788
Question’s Answer: 1796

Gibbon’s first book A History of Switzerland appeared in:
(a) 1779
(b) 1760
(c) 1780
(d) 1770
Question’s Answer: 1770

Mansfield Park is a novel written by
(a) J. Galt
(b) Edgeworth
(c) Austen
(d) Scott
Question’s Answer: Austen

Austen’s Northanger Abbey was published in
(a) 1812
(b) 1818
(c) 1823
(d) 1832
Question’s Answer: 1818

Frank Churchill is a character in the novel
(a) Mansfield Park
(b) Adam Bede
(c) Emma
(d) Pamela
Question’s Answer: Emma

Jane Austen’s subject matter for her novels is
(a) Revenge
(b) Frustration
(c) Human nature
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Human nature

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man’s possession of a good fortune must be m want of a
wife,”In which novel of Austen does this sentence occur?
(a) Sense and Sensibility
(b) Pride and Prejudice
(c) Emma
(d) Persuasion
Question’s Answer: Pride and Prejudice

Harriet Smith is a character in the novel
(a) Mansfield Park
(b) Emma
(c) Hard Times
(d) Pamela
Question’s Answer: Emma