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Fiction | Set 2

1. The Return of the Native was first published in

Correct : A. 1872

2. How does Diggory Venn obtain the inheritance money from Damon Wildeve?

Correct : C. He wins it at dice

3. Hard Times was first published in :-

Correct : B. 1854

4. What is the name of Sissy’s father’s dog?

Correct : C. Merrylegs

5. What is the main principle of Mr. Gradgrind’s philosophy?

Correct : A. Fact

6. . Mrs. Pegler is the mother of which character?

Correct : D. Bounderby

7. Who robs the bank in the novel Hard Times?

Correct : B. Tom

8. What is the common name for poor Coketown factory workers?

Correct : C. Hands

9. Sissy believes her father abandoned her for what reason?

Correct : A. Her own best interest

10. Which of the following characters dies during the course of the novel Hard Times?

Correct : B. Mrs. Gradgrind

11. Who is Kidderminster?

Correct : A. A circus worker who dresses up as Cupid

12. What does Rachael find that leads her to believe Stephen has been murdered?

Correct : C. His hat, abandoned in a field

13. How does Stephen in Hard Times die?

Correct : B. A fall into Old Hell Shaft

14. In the novel Hard Times, who runs the circus?

Correct : A. Sleary

15. About how much money is stolen from the bank in Hard Times?

Correct : A. 150 pounds

16. Which character in Hard Times is a Member of Parliament?

Correct : D. Gradgrind

17. What is Bounderby’s son’s name?

Correct : D. Bounderby has no son

18. In which city does most of the novel take place?

Correct : A. Coketown

19. From what does Mrs. Sparsit imagine Louisa falling?

Correct : B. A staircase

20. Who is the first character to speak in the novel?

Correct : D. Gradgrind

21. Why is Stephen unable to marry Rachael?

Correct : A. He is already married

22. How do the poor of Coketown attempt to improve their conditions?

Correct : C. By forming a union.

23. What is the name of Mrs. Sparsit’s aristocratic relative?

Correct : B. Lady Scadgers

24. What does Gradgrind hope Tom will be able to do after Stephen’s death?

Correct : A. Escape England

25. What is Bitzer’s defining characteristic?

Correct : A. His pale skin

26. Where does Louisa flee after Harthouse’s declaration of love?

Correct : B. Her father’s house

27. What are Sissy’s father’s first words after he returns to his daughter?

Correct : D. He never returns

28. What motivates Harthouse to become one of Gradgrind’s political disciples?

Correct : B. Boredom

29. Thomas Gradgrind was a man of

Correct : C. Facts

30. At the beginning of the story Mr Gradgrind calls the pupils by numbers. What number is Sissy Jupe?

Correct : B. twenty

31. Who is the first character to speak in the novel Hard Times?

Correct : B. Mr Gradgrind

32. _____ is the common name given to the poor Coketown factory workers

Correct : B. Hands

33. In Hard Times Thomas Gradgrind is described as a man of

Correct : A. facts and calculations

34. Stephen Blackpool could not divorce his wife because divorce was

Correct : C. denied by her wife

35. Dickens described the smoke of industrialized Coketown as

Correct : D. the deathly smoke

36. Dickens’ Hard Times is a novel of social protest which attacks

Correct : A. socialism

37. Hard Times is divided into three sections entitled

Correct : B. Sowing, Reaping and Garnering

38. Who offers the “correct” definition of a horse in Hard Times?

Correct : A. Mr. Sleary

39. At the beginning of the novel Hard Times, who is Sissy's “legal guardian”?

Correct : B. Mr. Choakumchild

40. What is Harthouse's nickname?

Correct : C. Kid

41. Why does Stephen Blackpool refuse to join the labour movement?

Correct : B. Out of loyalty to Mr. Bounderby

42. Mr. Bounderby is described as a

Correct : D. ‘Bully of imagination’

43. How does Gulliver put out the fire in the Empress' bed chamber?

Correct : C. He urinates on it

44. How do the Lilliputians decide who will take a high position in the court?

Correct : D. tight rope jumping contest

45. What is different about the Struldbrugs of Luggnagg?

Correct : A. They are immortal

46. The flying island that Gulliver visited was

Correct : B. Laputa

47. Why did Gulliver summon the shades of Rene Descartes and Pierre Gassendi to talk to Aristotle?

Correct : C. They were philosophers who revised many of Aristotle's theories.

48. Which of the human societies that he visits does Gulliver find most appealing?

Correct : A. Brobdingnag

49. Gulliver concludes his narrative by claiming that all the lands he visited belong by rights to

Correct : A. England

50. When Gulliver reaches the land of Brobdingnag he finds himself surrounded by a race of

Correct : D. superhumans

51. The first fantasy island that Gulliver visits on his travel is the island of

Correct : A. Brobdingnag

52. What is Gulliver’s profession before he begins his voyage

Correct : B. Surgeon

53. The great invention that Gulliver offered as a gift to the king of Brobdingnag was

Correct : B. Sewing machine

54. What countries does Swift satirize with Lilliput and Blefuscu?

Correct : A. Japan and France

55. How tall are the Lilliputians?

Correct : A. Five to Six inches

56. What is Gulliver's role on his first voyage?

Correct : D. Passenger

57. How does Gulliver get home from Blefuscu?

Correct : A. He doesn't

58. Which of the Lilliputians is the nicest to Gulliver?

Correct : C. The Emperor

59. Who raises the Lilliputian children?

Correct : C. Gulliver raises them while he's there

60. In his second voyage Gulliver landed on the Island of -

Correct : B. Brobdingnag

61. Gulliver did not surrender his ___________ to the Lilliputians.

Correct : D. sword

62. The highest title of honour given to Gulliver by the emperor was a/ an

Correct : D. Antelope

63. The ‘greatest danger’ that Gulliver faced in Brobdingnag was from a -

Correct : A. dwarf

64. The name Glubbdubdrib signifies the Island of the

Correct : A. modern philosophy

65. Luggnaggians are

Correct : A. person of quality

66. During his lifetime, what genre was Jonathan Swift most widely known for?

Correct : C. Fantasy

67. Which society is “endowed by nature with a general disposition to all Virtues”, in Gulliver’s Travels?

Correct : A. Brobdingnagians

68. How does Gulliver help the Lilliputians defeat Blefuscu?

Correct : D. By shooting their ships

69. How are the Yahoos described?

Correct : A. Hairy, dirty and deformed

70. What is the name of the captain who takes Gulliver on his ship after he was shot by New Hllanders?

Correct : B. Captain John Nicholas

71. Before Gulliver takes to the seas, what was his profession?

Correct : D. Lawyer