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Very Short Answer-Questions of the chapter 'Novels, Society and History'

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                                        Very Short Answer Type Questions

1. Who were gentlemanly classes?
Ans. People who claimed noble birth and high social position.

2. Name the novel which was written in the form of series of letters.
Ans. Pamela

3. Name the first novel to be serialized.
Ans. Pickwick Papers

4. Who were known as 'hands' in novel Hard Times? 
Ans. Industrial Workers

5. What was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans?
Ans. George Eliot

6. Who was Robinson Crusoe? 
Ans. Robinson Crusoe was an adventurer and a slave trader.

7. What was the main theme of the novels written by Joseph Conrad?
Ans. Joseph Conrad wrote novels which showed the darker side of colonial occupation.

8. Define the term Dastan.
Ans. Prose tails of heroism and adventure in Persian and Urdu, were known as Dastan.

9. Which novel published in 1889 was the first modern novel in Malayalam?
Ans. Indulekha

10. Kandukuri Viresalingam began translating an English novel into Telugu. Name the English novel.
Ans. Vicar of Wakefield

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