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Fiction and Short Story Questions and Answers

1.

Who is called the pioneer of the modern detective story?

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DSSSB PGT - 2023,

Answer: B

Edgar Allan Poe is called the pioneer of the modern detective story. His tale The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) introduced the detective C. Auguste Dupin and set the pattern that later writers followed. Hawthorne, Arthur Miller and Thoreau are known for other forms, so only Poe fits. Poe's three Dupin stories, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget and The Purloined Letter, set the pattern for the detective story with a brilliant amateur detective and a less clever narrator, which Conan Doyle later used with Sherlock Holmes.

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2.

"First Impression" was the original title of the novel:

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DSSSB PGT - 2023,

Answer: C

First Impressions was the original title of Pride and Prejudice. Jane Austen wrote it in 1796-97, and the publisher declined it; she revised it, and it came out in 1813 under the new name. Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights were written by the Bronte sisters, and Sense and Sensibility was first called Elinor and Marianne. The title First Impressions was used for the draft that Austen's father offered to a publisher in 1797, and he was refused, and she revised it before publishing it as Pride and Prejudice in 1813. Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights were both published in 1847.

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Which of the following characters are represented by the title "Pride and Prejudice"?

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DSSSB PGT - 2023,

Answer: A

The title stands for Elizabeth Bennet, whose prejudice is against Darcy, and Mr. Darcy, whose pride is the cause of his first offence. Pride is usually linked to Darcy and prejudice to Elizabeth, so the pair Miss Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy is right. Miss Havisham belongs to Great Expectations, and Mr. Collins is the clergyman of the novel, who is a figure of foolish pride but not the one the title describes.

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4.

In which year did Faulkner receive the Nobel Prize in Literature?

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DSSSB PGT - 2023,

Answer: B

The key is 1949. William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1949: the Swedish Academy reserved the award that year and announced it in November 1950, and he gave his acceptance speech in Stockholm in December 1950. Because the prize belongs to 1949, the options 1948, 1950 and 1951 are wrong, even though 1950 is the year he received it. The Swedish Academy gave the 1949 prize to Faulkner for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel, and he accepted it in December 1950 with the speech about the human heart in conflict with itself. So 1949 is the year of the prize.

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5.

Name the first Australian who won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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DSSSB PGT - 2023,

Answer: B

Patrick White was the first Australian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1973. Banjo Paterson was a balladeer who wrote Waltzing Matilda, John Flanagan is a children's author, and Derek Walcott is a Caribbean poet from Saint Lucia who won in 1992. So only White fits. White received the prize in 1973 for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature, and the novels Voss and The Tree of Man are among his best known. Banjo Paterson wrote The Man from Snowy River, and Derek Walcott, the 1992 winner, was from Saint Lucia.

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6.

"Not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society". Who is being described here by Jane Austen?

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DSSSB PGT - 2023,

Answer: D

The description 'Not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society' is Austen's portrait of Mr. Collins in Pride and Prejudice, the pompous clergyman who is Mr. Bennet's cousin and heir. Mr. Darcy is proud but intelligent, Mr. Bennet is sarcastic and clever, and Mr. Wickham is charming, so none of them is described as insensible.

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7.

Who defended Conrad in 1993 as a response to Achebe's critique of Heart of Darkness in her/his "Two Visions in Heart of Darkness"?

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DSSSB PGT - 2023,

Answer: D

Edward Said defended Conrad in the book Culture and Imperialism (1993), in a chapter called Two Visions in Heart of Darkness, answering Achebe's charge that Conrad was a racist. Said said that Conrad could see the imperial system but not beyond it. Spivak, Bhabha and Jeremy Hawthorn also wrote about colonial writing but the title is Said's. Said's chapter in Culture and Imperialism argues that Conrad was both an imperialist and an anti-imperialist, because he could see how the empire worked but could imagine no alternative to it. Achebe's lecture An Image of Africa (1975) had called Conrad a thoroughgoing racist.

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8.

Who is the author of "The Confidence Man"?

Exam Year(s)

DSSSB PGT - 2023,

Answer: B

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (1857) was written by Herman Melville, the author of Moby-Dick. It is a satirical novel set on a Mississippi steamboat on April Fools' Day. Emerson, Whitman and Pound were other American writers who did not write this novel. The Confidence-Man was Melville's last novel published in his lifetime, in 1857, and it is set on the steamer Fidele on April Fools' Day. Emerson wrote essays, Whitman wrote Leaves of Grass, and Pound wrote the Cantos, so none of them wrote this novel.

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9.

The title "Great Expectations" refers to:
I. Pip's desire for Estella's love
II. Pip's desire to become a great scholar of philosophy
III. Pip's expectations to achieve great fortune
IV. Pip's expectations to inherit Magwitch's property

Exam Year(s)

DSSSB PGT - 2023,

Answer: A

The key is I and III. The title Great Expectations refers to Pip's hopes: he expects to win Estella's love, and he expects a great fortune, which he believes comes from a secret benefactor. The idea that the fortune comes from Magwitch, option IV, is the truth he finds out later, and it is the source of his money, not what he expected. A desire to become a scholar of philosophy, II, is not part of the novel. So I and III is correct.

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10.

Earnest Hemingway was awarded with the Nobel prize in which year?

Exam Year(s)

DSSSB PGT - 2023,

Answer: B

Ernest Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954, for his mastery of the art of narrative as shown in The Old Man and the Sea, and for his influence on contemporary style. The year 1953 was Churchill's, 1949 was Faulkner's, and 1962 was Steinbeck's. Hemingway received the prize in 1954, the year after he had won the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea (1952, awarded 1953). The 1949 prize went to Faulkner and the 1962 prize to John Steinbeck, and 1953 is the year of Churchill's prize, so none of those is Hemingway's year.

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