Extra Board-Style Practice • Set 5
Fresh practice questions • Textbook-based only
1 Choose the correct alternatives
(a) A historical novel is set in a period ______ than that of the writing.
(b) The autobiographical novel is based on the life of the ______.
(c) In an autobiographical novel, the author may change the places and ______ of characters.
(d) An autobiographical novel may or may not be in the ______ narration.
2 State whether the following statements are True or False
(a) An autobiographical novelist may avoid certain details of his or her life.
(b) A historical novel is necessarily based on the author's own life.
(c) The symbolic meaning of an allegory may be religious.
(d) The surface meaning of an allegorical novel is always identical to its symbolic meaning.
3 Complete the following statements
(a) The Gothic novel may contain terror, mystery, horror, thriller, supernatural elements, doom, death or ______.
(b) Gothic novels may also contain ______ buildings.
(c) An allegory is a story that bears more than one level of ______.
(d) The symbolic meaning of an allegory may be political, religious, historical or ______.
4 Match the following
| Column A | Column B |
|---|---|
| (a) Historical novel | (i) Life of the author |
| (b) Autobiographical novel | (ii) More than one level of meaning |
| (c) Allegorical novel | (iii) Earlier historical period |
| (d) Gothic novel | (iv) Terror and supernatural elements |
5 Choose the correct alternatives
(a) In the first half of the twentieth century, a cult of ______ magazines became popular.
(b) Fantastic fiction for general entertainment was printed on cheap ______ paper.
(c) The pulp fiction era provided a building ground for detective novels and ______.
(d) Pulp fiction was intended for the general ______ of the masses.
6 Complete the following statements
(a) Science fiction is a genre of ______ fiction.
(b) Science fiction deals with imaginative concepts such as futuristic setting and futuristic science and ______.
(c) Science fiction may deal with parallel ______.
(d) Science fiction may also deal with ______ life.
7 State whether the following statements are True or False
(a) Science fiction may explore the consequences of scientific innovations.
(b) Science fiction is restricted only to futuristic technology.
(c) Space travel is one of the imaginative concepts associated with science fiction.
(d) Time travel is mentioned as a concept in science fiction.
8 Answer in one sentence
(a) What kind of fiction is science fiction?
(b) What does science fiction often explore?
(c) What novel is considered the first novel based on science and technology?
(d) When did the science-fiction genre flourish according to the chapter?
9 Complete the following statements
(a) Detective fiction is a subgenre of ______ fiction and mystery fiction.
(b) In detective fiction, an investigator or a detective investigates a ______.
(c) The investigator may be either professional or ______.
(d) The crime investigated in detective fiction is often a ______.
10 Match the following
| Column A | Column B |
|---|---|
| (a) Futuristic setting | (i) Detective fiction |
| (b) Haunted buildings | (ii) Science fiction |
| (c) Investigator | (iii) Gothic novel |
| (d) Growth from childhood to adulthood | (iv) Bildungsroman |
11 Pick out the odd element from the group
(a) Space travel, Time travel, Extraterrestrial life, Social class.
(b) Terror, Horror, Mystery, Industrial Revolution.
(c) Crime fiction, Mystery fiction, Investigator, Novella.
(d) Historical novel, Autobiographical novel, Allegorical novel, Futuristic setting.
12 Choose the correct alternatives
(a) The German word ‘bildungsroman’ is concerned with the growth of the protagonist’s mind, spirit and ______.
(b) This growth is traced from childhood to ______.
(c) The fictional biography or autobiography concerned with such growth is called a ______.
(d) The word ‘bildungsroman’ indicates ______.