Rise of the Novel and Literary Criticism

Which century is often considered the beginning of the rise of the novel in English literature?

• 14th Cen

• 16th Cen

• 18th Cen

• 20th Cen

Which author is commonly credited with writing one of the first English novels?

• a) Geoffrey Chaucer
  

• b) Daniel Defoe
  

• c) William Shakespeare
  

• d) Samuel Johnson

Which work is often considered the first true English novel?

• a) Robinson Crusoe

• b) Pamela

• c) Tom Jones

• d) The Pilgrim's Progress

Who wrote Pamela, one of the earliest examples of the novel form?

• a) Jonathan Swift

• b) Henry Fielding

• c) Samuel Richardson

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  d) Laurence Sterne

What is the key theme of Samuel Richardson's Pamela?

• a) Adventure

• b) Virtue rewarded

• c) Social class

• d) Tragic love

Which genre of novels became popular in the late 18th century and is characterized by elements of horror, mystery, and the supernatural?

• a) Realist novel

• b) Gothic novel

• c) Sentimental novel

• d) Epistolary novel

Who is the author of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, an experimental and unconventional early novel?

• a) Samuel Richardson

• b) Laurence Sterne

• c) Henry Fielding

• d) Tobias Smollett

Which novel by Henry Fielding is often seen as a parody of Samuel Richardson's Pamela?

• a) Joseph Andrews

• b) Tom Jones

• c) Shamela

• d) Clarissa

Which early novelist is known for their focus on realism and the everyday life of middle-class characters?

• a) Jonathan Swift

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  b) Henry Fielding

• c) Daniel Defoe

• d) Samuel Richardson

What narrative technique did Samuel Richardson use in Pamela and Clarissa that became popular in early novels?

• a) Omniscient narrator

• b) Stream of consciousness

• c) Epistolary form

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  d) First-person point of view