UGC NET (English ): 100 Questions & Answers of Unit – III: Fiction, Short Story
UGC NET (English ): 100 Questions & Answers of Unit – III: Fiction, Short Story
Unit – III: Fiction, Short Story
1. What 18th-century novel by Daniel Defoe tells the story of a castaway stranded on a remote island for 28 years? Robinson Crusoe.
2. Who wrote the epistolary novel Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740)? Samuel Richardson.
3. Which Fielding novel is considered a picaresque masterpiece of the 18th century following a foundling's adventures? Tom Jones.
4. Who authored the Gothic novel The Castle of Otranto (1764)? Horace Walpole.
5. What term describes a novel composed of letters written by characters, such as Richardson's Pamela? Epistolary novel.
6. Who wrote the Gothic novel The Mysteries of Udolpho? Ann Radcliffe.
7. Which Jane Austen novel features the spirited protagonist Elizabeth Bennet? Pride and Prejudice.
8. What Jane Austen novel explores the themes of sense versus sensibility through the Dashwood sisters? Sense and Sensibility.
9. Who wrote the Gothic masterpiece Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus? Mary Shelley.
10. Which Walter Scott historical novel romanticizes medieval Scottish history and the Robin Hood-like figure Locksley? Ivanhoe.
11. Who wrote the Victorian industrial novel Hard Times? Charles Dickens.
12. Which Charles Dickens novel is famous for its opening line 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'? A Tale of Two Cities.
13. Who wrote the psychological realist novel Middlemarch under a male pseudonym? George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans).
14. Which George Eliot novel tells the tragic story of Maggie and Tom Tulliver? The Mill on the Floss.
15. Who authored the Bronte sister novel featuring the passionate and destructive romance between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw? Emily Brontë (Wuthering Heights).
16. Which Charlotte Bronte novel follows an orphan girl who becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall? Jane Eyre.
17. Who wrote the late Victorian tragic novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles? Thomas Hardy.
18. Which Thomas Hardy novel concludes with the bleak subtitle A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented? Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
19. Who wrote the psychological horror novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? Robert Louis Stevenson.
20. Which Oscar Wilde novel explores aestheticism, morality, and a portrait that ages while the subject stays young? The Picture of Dorian Gray.
21. Who wrote the colonial adventure novel Heart of Darkness? Joseph Conrad.
22. Which Joseph Conrad novel features the corrupt ivory trader Kurtz in the Congo? Heart of Darkness.
23. Who wrote the modernist novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man? James Joyce.
24. Which James Joyce novel chronicles a single day (June 16, 1904) in Dublin through Leopold Bloom? Ulysses.
25. Who wrote the stream-of-consciousness novel Mrs. Dalloway (1925)? Virginia Woolf.
26. Which Virginia Woolf novel deals with the transience of time, memory, and an aborted family trip to a Scottish landmark? To the Lighthouse.
27. Who wrote the dystopian satirical novel Brave New World (1932)? Aldous Huxley.
28. Which George Orwell novel portrays a chilling totalitarian surveillance state governed by Big Brother? Nineteen Eighty-Four.
29. Who wrote the modernist novel A Passage to India? E.M. Forster.
30. Which E.M. Forster novel contains the famous epigraph Only connect? Howards End.
31. Who authored the dystopian novel Lord of the Flies, detailing schoolboys stranded on an uninhabited island? William Golding.
32. Which Virginia Woolf novel tells the fantastical, centuries-spanning biography of a poet who changes sex? Orlando: A Biography.
33. Who wrote the comic post-war academic novel Lucky Jim? Kingsley Amis.
34. Which post-colonial Nigerian novel by Chinua Achebe chronicles the collapse of traditional Igbo society due to British colonization? Things Fall Apart.
35. Who wrote the post-colonial magical realist novel Midnight's Children? Salman Rushdie.
36. Which South African novelist wrote Disgrace and Life & Times of Michael K? J.M. Coetzee.
37. Who wrote the modernist American novel The Great Gatsby? F. Scott Fitzgerald.
38. Which Ernest Hemingway novel depicts an aging Cuban fisherman's epic struggle with a giant marlin? The Old Man and the Sea.
39. Who wrote the American realist masterpiece The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? Mark Twain.
40. Which Herman Melville novel opens with the iconic line 'Call me Ishmael? Moby-Dick.
41. Who wrote the American modernist novel The Sound and the Fury? William Faulkner.
42. Which John Steinbeck novel details the plight of the Joad family migrating during the Great Depression? The Grapes of Wrath.
43. Who wrote the African American realist novel Native Son? Richard Wright.
44. Which Toni Morrison novel tells the haunting story of Sethe, an escaped slave haunted by her past? Beloved.
45. Who wrote the postmodern metafictional novel If on a winter's night a traveler? Italo Calvino.
46. Which Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel established magical realism as a global literary force through the Buendia family? One Hundred Years of Solitude.
47. Who wrote the foundational Russian realist novel War and Peace? Leo Tolstoy.
48. Which Fyodor Dostoevsky novel explores existential guilt, morality, and the murder of a pawnbroker? Crime and Punishment.
49. Who wrote the landmark French existentialist novel The Stranger (L'Étranger)? Albert Camus.
50. Which Franz Kafka novella features Gregor Samsa waking up transformed into a monstrous insect? The Metamorphosis.
51. Who wrote the short story collection Dubliners? James Joyce.
52. Which short story by James Joyce, included in Dubliners, concludes with snow falling faintly across Ireland? 'The Dead'.
53. Who is widely considered the pioneer of the modern detective short story, author of 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'? Edgar Allan Poe.
54. Who wrote the classic Gothic short story 'The Fall of the House of Usher'? Edgar Allan Poe.
55. Which Russian writer is celebrated as a master of modern psychological short fiction, author of The Lady with the Dog? Anton Chekhov.
56. Who wrote the short story 'The Overcoat,' a foundational text for Russian realist literature? Nikolai Gogol.
57. Which American short story writer is known for ironic twists and penning 'The Gift of the Magi'? O. Henry (William Sydney Porter).
58. Who wrote the famous American short story 'The Tell-Tale Heart'? Edgar Allan Poe.
59. Which 20th-century American writer wrote 'The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber'? Ernest Hemingway.
60. Who wrote the short story 'The Metamorphosis' (novella, often classified under short fiction)? Franz Kafka.
61. Which American short story writer is known for Southern Gothic tales like 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find'? Flannery O'Connor.
62. Who wrote the dystopian short story 'The Lottery,' capturing ritualistic scapegoating in a small town? Shirley Jackson.
63. Which modernist American writer authored 'The Snows of Kilimanjaro'? Ernest Hemingway.
64. Who wrote the post-World War II American short story 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish'? J.D. Salinger.
65. Which Argentine master of magical realism and short fiction wrote 'The Library of Babel'? Jorge Luis Borges.
66. Who wrote the short story 'The Garden-Party'? Katherine Mansfield.
67. Which modernist writer is celebrated for pioneering stream-of-consciousness in short stories like 'Prelude'? Katherine Mansfield.
68. Who wrote the acclaimed short story collection A Good Man Is Hard to Find? Flannery O'Connor.
69. Which Russian-American author wrote the controversial novel Lolita? Vladimir Nabokov.
70. Who wrote the Victorian social novel Middlemarch? George Eliot.
71. What term refers to a novel of education or spiritual development, such as Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man? Bildungsroman.
72. Who wrote the pioneering 17th-century Japanese travel journal and prose masterwork Narrow Road to the Deep North? Matsuo Basho.
73. What early 11th-century Japanese text written by Murasaki Shikibu is often considered the world's first novel? The Tale of Genji.
74. Who wrote the picaresque Spanish masterwork Don Quixote? Miguel de Cervantes.
75. What 18th-century French philosophical satire novel did Voltaire author? Candide.
76. Who wrote the psychological novel Notes from Underground? Fyodor Dostoevsky.
77. Which Leo Tolstoy novel features the tragic heroine Anna Karenina? Anna Karenina.
78. Who wrote the landmark American novel Moby-Dick? Herman Melville.
79. Which American realist writer authored The Portrait of a Lady and The Turn of the Screw? Henry James.
80. Who wrote the modernist novel To the Lighthouse? Virginia Woolf.
81. Which Virginia Woolf essay and conceptual framework emphasizes women's financial independence and writing space, closely tied to her fiction? 'A Room of One's Own'.
82. Who wrote the post-colonial novel Season of Migration to the North? Tayeb Salih.
83. Which Nigerian author wrote the post-colonial novel Purple Hibiscus? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
84. Who wrote the historical fiction novel Wolf Hall, chronicling Thomas Cromwell's rise in the Tudor court? Hilary Mantel.
85. Which post-modern American author wrote the massive encyclopedic novel Infinite Jest? David Foster Wallace.
86. Who wrote the landmark feminist speculative fiction novel The Handmaid's Tale? Margaret Atwood.
87. Which Caribbean-British author wrote Wide Sargasso Sea, a post-colonial response to Jane Eyre? Jean Rhys.
88. Who wrote the South Asian epic novel A Suitable Boy? Vikram Seth.
89. Which Japanese-British author wrote the post-war psychological novel The Remains of the Day? Kazuo Ishiguro.
90. Who wrote the magical realist novel Beloved? Toni Morrison.
91. What narrative perspective uses the pronoun 'I' and presents the story from the viewpoint of a character within the plot? First-person narration.
92. What narrative perspective features an all-knowing narrator who has access to the thoughts and feelings of multiple characters? Omniscient third-person narration.
93. What term describes the sequence of events that make up a story or novel? Plot.
94. What literary device uses descriptive language to appeal to the reader's senses? Imagery.
95. What structural technique interrupts the chronological sequence of a story to depict an earlier event or memory? Flashback.
96. What term describes the underlying central message, concept, or moral of a literary work? Theme.
97. What narrative technique mimics the continuous, chaotic flow of thoughts in a character's mind? Stream-of-consciousness.
98. What literary term defines the time and geographic location in which a story takes place? Setting.
99. What term describes the perspective or angle from which a story is narrated? Point of view.
100. What subgenre of fiction exaggerates futuristic technology, dystopian societal structures, or space exploration? Science fiction.
Unit – III: Fiction, Short Story
1. What 18th-century novel by Daniel Defoe tells the story of a castaway stranded on a remote island for 28 years? Robinson Crusoe.
2. Who wrote the epistolary novel Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740)? Samuel Richardson.
3. Which Fielding novel is considered a picaresque masterpiece of the 18th century following a foundling's adventures? Tom Jones.
4. Who authored the Gothic novel The Castle of Otranto (1764)? Horace Walpole.
5. What term describes a novel composed of letters written by characters, such as Richardson's Pamela? Epistolary novel.
6. Who wrote the Gothic novel The Mysteries of Udolpho? Ann Radcliffe.
7. Which Jane Austen novel features the spirited protagonist Elizabeth Bennet? Pride and Prejudice.
8. What Jane Austen novel explores the themes of sense versus sensibility through the Dashwood sisters? Sense and Sensibility.
9. Who wrote the Gothic masterpiece Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus? Mary Shelley.
10. Which Walter Scott historical novel romanticizes medieval Scottish history and the Robin Hood-like figure Locksley? Ivanhoe.
11. Who wrote the Victorian industrial novel Hard Times? Charles Dickens.
12. Which Charles Dickens novel is famous for its opening line 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'? A Tale of Two Cities.
13. Who wrote the psychological realist novel Middlemarch under a male pseudonym? George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans).
14. Which George Eliot novel tells the tragic story of Maggie and Tom Tulliver? The Mill on the Floss.
15. Who authored the Bronte sister novel featuring the passionate and destructive romance between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw? Emily Brontë (Wuthering Heights).
16. Which Charlotte Bronte novel follows an orphan girl who becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall? Jane Eyre.
17. Who wrote the late Victorian tragic novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles? Thomas Hardy.
18. Which Thomas Hardy novel concludes with the bleak subtitle A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented? Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
19. Who wrote the psychological horror novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? Robert Louis Stevenson.
20. Which Oscar Wilde novel explores aestheticism, morality, and a portrait that ages while the subject stays young? The Picture of Dorian Gray.
21. Who wrote the colonial adventure novel Heart of Darkness? Joseph Conrad.
22. Which Joseph Conrad novel features the corrupt ivory trader Kurtz in the Congo? Heart of Darkness.
23. Who wrote the modernist novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man? James Joyce.
24. Which James Joyce novel chronicles a single day (June 16, 1904) in Dublin through Leopold Bloom? Ulysses.
25. Who wrote the stream-of-consciousness novel Mrs. Dalloway (1925)? Virginia Woolf.
26. Which Virginia Woolf novel deals with the transience of time, memory, and an aborted family trip to a Scottish landmark? To the Lighthouse.
27. Who wrote the dystopian satirical novel Brave New World (1932)? Aldous Huxley.
28. Which George Orwell novel portrays a chilling totalitarian surveillance state governed by Big Brother? Nineteen Eighty-Four.
29. Who wrote the modernist novel A Passage to India? E.M. Forster.
30. Which E.M. Forster novel contains the famous epigraph Only connect? Howards End.
31. Who authored the dystopian novel Lord of the Flies, detailing schoolboys stranded on an uninhabited island? William Golding.
32. Which Virginia Woolf novel tells the fantastical, centuries-spanning biography of a poet who changes sex? Orlando: A Biography.
33. Who wrote the comic post-war academic novel Lucky Jim? Kingsley Amis.
34. Which post-colonial Nigerian novel by Chinua Achebe chronicles the collapse of traditional Igbo society due to British colonization? Things Fall Apart.
35. Who wrote the post-colonial magical realist novel Midnight's Children? Salman Rushdie.
36. Which South African novelist wrote Disgrace and Life & Times of Michael K? J.M. Coetzee.
37. Who wrote the modernist American novel The Great Gatsby? F. Scott Fitzgerald.
38. Which Ernest Hemingway novel depicts an aging Cuban fisherman's epic struggle with a giant marlin? The Old Man and the Sea.
39. Who wrote the American realist masterpiece The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? Mark Twain.
40. Which Herman Melville novel opens with the iconic line 'Call me Ishmael? Moby-Dick.
41. Who wrote the American modernist novel The Sound and the Fury? William Faulkner.
42. Which John Steinbeck novel details the plight of the Joad family migrating during the Great Depression? The Grapes of Wrath.
43. Who wrote the African American realist novel Native Son? Richard Wright.
44. Which Toni Morrison novel tells the haunting story of Sethe, an escaped slave haunted by her past? Beloved.
45. Who wrote the postmodern metafictional novel If on a winter's night a traveler? Italo Calvino.
46. Which Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel established magical realism as a global literary force through the Buendia family? One Hundred Years of Solitude.
47. Who wrote the foundational Russian realist novel War and Peace? Leo Tolstoy.
48. Which Fyodor Dostoevsky novel explores existential guilt, morality, and the murder of a pawnbroker? Crime and Punishment.
49. Who wrote the landmark French existentialist novel The Stranger (L'Étranger)? Albert Camus.
50. Which Franz Kafka novella features Gregor Samsa waking up transformed into a monstrous insect? The Metamorphosis.
51. Who wrote the short story collection Dubliners? James Joyce.
52. Which short story by James Joyce, included in Dubliners, concludes with snow falling faintly across Ireland? 'The Dead'.
53. Who is widely considered the pioneer of the modern detective short story, author of 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'? Edgar Allan Poe.
54. Who wrote the classic Gothic short story 'The Fall of the House of Usher'? Edgar Allan Poe.
55. Which Russian writer is celebrated as a master of modern psychological short fiction, author of The Lady with the Dog? Anton Chekhov.
56. Who wrote the short story 'The Overcoat,' a foundational text for Russian realist literature? Nikolai Gogol.
57. Which American short story writer is known for ironic twists and penning 'The Gift of the Magi'? O. Henry (William Sydney Porter).
58. Who wrote the famous American short story 'The Tell-Tale Heart'? Edgar Allan Poe.
59. Which 20th-century American writer wrote 'The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber'? Ernest Hemingway.
60. Who wrote the short story 'The Metamorphosis' (novella, often classified under short fiction)? Franz Kafka.
61. Which American short story writer is known for Southern Gothic tales like 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find'? Flannery O'Connor.
62. Who wrote the dystopian short story 'The Lottery,' capturing ritualistic scapegoating in a small town? Shirley Jackson.
63. Which modernist American writer authored 'The Snows of Kilimanjaro'? Ernest Hemingway.
64. Who wrote the post-World War II American short story 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish'? J.D. Salinger.
65. Which Argentine master of magical realism and short fiction wrote 'The Library of Babel'? Jorge Luis Borges.
66. Who wrote the short story 'The Garden-Party'? Katherine Mansfield.
67. Which modernist writer is celebrated for pioneering stream-of-consciousness in short stories like 'Prelude'? Katherine Mansfield.
68. Who wrote the acclaimed short story collection A Good Man Is Hard to Find? Flannery O'Connor.
69. Which Russian-American author wrote the controversial novel Lolita? Vladimir Nabokov.
70. Who wrote the Victorian social novel Middlemarch? George Eliot.
71. What term refers to a novel of education or spiritual development, such as Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man? Bildungsroman.
72. Who wrote the pioneering 17th-century Japanese travel journal and prose masterwork Narrow Road to the Deep North? Matsuo Basho.
73. What early 11th-century Japanese text written by Murasaki Shikibu is often considered the world's first novel? The Tale of Genji.
74. Who wrote the picaresque Spanish masterwork Don Quixote? Miguel de Cervantes.
75. What 18th-century French philosophical satire novel did Voltaire author? Candide.
76. Who wrote the psychological novel Notes from Underground? Fyodor Dostoevsky.
77. Which Leo Tolstoy novel features the tragic heroine Anna Karenina? Anna Karenina.
78. Who wrote the landmark American novel Moby-Dick? Herman Melville.
79. Which American realist writer authored The Portrait of a Lady and The Turn of the Screw? Henry James.
80. Who wrote the modernist novel To the Lighthouse? Virginia Woolf.
81. Which Virginia Woolf essay and conceptual framework emphasizes women's financial independence and writing space, closely tied to her fiction? 'A Room of One's Own'.
82. Who wrote the post-colonial novel Season of Migration to the North? Tayeb Salih.
83. Which Nigerian author wrote the post-colonial novel Purple Hibiscus? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
84. Who wrote the historical fiction novel Wolf Hall, chronicling Thomas Cromwell's rise in the Tudor court? Hilary Mantel.
85. Which post-modern American author wrote the massive encyclopedic novel Infinite Jest? David Foster Wallace.
86. Who wrote the landmark feminist speculative fiction novel The Handmaid's Tale? Margaret Atwood.
87. Which Caribbean-British author wrote Wide Sargasso Sea, a post-colonial response to Jane Eyre? Jean Rhys.
88. Who wrote the South Asian epic novel A Suitable Boy? Vikram Seth.
89. Which Japanese-British author wrote the post-war psychological novel The Remains of the Day? Kazuo Ishiguro.
90. Who wrote the magical realist novel Beloved? Toni Morrison.
91. What narrative perspective uses the pronoun 'I' and presents the story from the viewpoint of a character within the plot? First-person narration.
92. What narrative perspective features an all-knowing narrator who has access to the thoughts and feelings of multiple characters? Omniscient third-person narration.
93. What term describes the sequence of events that make up a story or novel? Plot.
94. What literary device uses descriptive language to appeal to the reader's senses? Imagery.
95. What structural technique interrupts the chronological sequence of a story to depict an earlier event or memory? Flashback.
96. What term describes the underlying central message, concept, or moral of a literary work? Theme.
97. What narrative technique mimics the continuous, chaotic flow of thoughts in a character's mind? Stream-of-consciousness.
98. What literary term defines the time and geographic location in which a story takes place? Setting.
99. What term describes the perspective or angle from which a story is narrated? Point of view.
100. What subgenre of fiction exaggerates futuristic technology, dystopian societal structures, or space exploration? Science fiction.