Special Brief Suggestion 19th Century Novel

Special Brief Suggestion 19th Century Novel

N.B: [এই সবগুলোই গুরুত্বপূর্ণ। এর মধ্যেও, অধিকতর গুরুত্বারোপ করতে ৩৮ প্রশ্নের পাশে ★★★ স্টার চিহ্ন দেওয়া হয়েছে। এই সাজেশানের পাশাপাশি বিগত বছরের প্রশ্ন গুলো পড়লে এই কোর্সে ব্রিফ এ সমস্যা হবে না ইনশাআল্লাহ।]

Pride and Prejudice 

1. What is Netherfield Park?  

Ans: Bingley’s rented estate.

2. Who represents Pride in Pride and Prejudice? ★★★

Ans: Darcy.

3. Who is Charlotte Lucas?

Ans: Charlotte Lucas is the eldest daughter in the Lucas family.

4. How many sisters are there in Darcy’s family?

Ans: One sister.

5. How many daughters did the Bennet family have? ★★★

Ans: Mr. and Mrs. Bennet had five daughters.

6. What is the name of Darcy’s estate?

Ans: Pemberley.

7. What is entailment? ★★★

Ans: Entailment is a legal term that means a property is bequeathed to a given person (in this case, a male heir).

8.  Write the first line of the novel “Pride and Prejudice.” ★★★

Ans: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

9. How many daughters are there in the Bennet family?

Ans: There are five daughters. They are Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine, and Lydia.

10. Where does the Bennet family live?

Ans. The Bennet family lives in the village of Longbourn, lying about a mile outside the small country town of Meryton.

11. Who is Mrs. Bennet?

Ans. Mrs. Bennet is the match-making mother of five marriageable daughters.

12. What are heirlooms?

Ans: Heirlooms are ornaments passed on from generation to generation in aristocratic families.

13. Which class does Mr. Collins represent? ★★★

Ans: Mr. Collins represents the working class.

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14. What is Meryton?

Ans: Meryton is the name of a town in Hertfordshire.

15. How old is Lydia?

Ans: Lydia is 15 years old.

16. Who is Lydia?

Ans: Lydia Bennet is the youngest daughter of the Bennets.

17. What was the original title of the novel “Pride and Prejudice?” ★★★

Ans: First Impressions.

18. How old is Jane? ★★★

Ans: 22.

19. Why is Miss Bingley jealous?

Ans: Because she knows Mr. Darcy likes Elizabeth and Miss Bingley likes Mr. Darcy.

20. Why did Wickham agree to marry Lydia? ★★★

Ans: Because Wickham was paid to marry her.

A Tale of Two Cities

1. What two cities are mentioned in A Tale of Two Cities? ★★★

Ans: London and Paris are mentioned in A Tale of Cities.

2. Who are the two persons who look alike in “A Tale of Two Cities?”

Ans: Carton and Darnay.

3. Who is Sydney Carton?

Ans: Sidney Carton is an assistant of Stryver.

4. What kind of novel is “A Tale of Cities?” 

Ans: Historical Novel.

5. What happened in Paris on July 14, 1789? ★★★

Ans: On July 14, 1789, the revolutionaries attacked the Bastille.

6. What is Saint Antoine?

Ans: It is the suburb of Paris where the Defarges live. Its residents are extremely poor.

7. Who is the protagonist of “Pride and Prejudice?” ★★★

Ans: Elizabeth Bennet.

8. What is a Tribunal?

Ans: It is the court that hears the cases of prisoners. It was very corrupt as most trials are shams.

9. Who is Celine Varens?

Ans: Celine Varens is a French opera dancer

10. What does the Cross- in -Hand signify? ★★★

Ans: It is an object of oil omen.

11. What is the guillotine? ★★★

Ans. The guillotine, an instrument for inflicting capital punishment by decapitation, was introduced in France in 1792.

12. What was the slogan of the French Revolution? ★★★

Ans. The slogan of the French Revolution was “liberty, equality, fraternity, or death.”

13. Who was Madame Defarge in the novel “A Tale of Two Cities?”

Ans: Madame Defarge was Earnest Defarge’s wife. She was cruel, embittered, and vengeful.

14. Who is Gaspard?

Ans: Gaspard is the father of the child who is run over by the Marquis’ carriage.

15. Who is Gabelle?

Ans: He is the chateau’s tax collector, postmaster, and caretaker.

16. Who is Barsad?

Ans: John Barsad is Miss Pross’ brother.

17. Who kills the Marquis?

Ans: Gaspard kills Marquis.

18. Who is Silenus?

Ans: Silenus (also spelled Silenos) is a rustic god of the forest, drunkenness and wine-making in Greek mythology.

19. Who is the Jackal? ★★★

Ans: Sydney Carton.

20. What was Dicken’s pseudonym? ★★★

Ans: Boz was Dickens’s pseudonym.

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21. What is the significance of Madam Defarge’s knitting in “A Tale of Two Cities?” ★★★

Ans: Her knitting symbolizes maintaining a register of the names of people to be punished for oppressing the masses.

22. What is the bank’s name mentioned in A Tale of Two Cities? ★★★

Ans: Tellson’s bank.

23. What is the Chateau?

Ans: In A Tale of Two Cities, the ‘chauteau’ is the home of the Monseigneur.

24. Who destroyed Mr. Manette’s shoemaking tools?

Ans: Mr. Lorry and Miss Pross.

25. Who is Lucie Manette?

Ans: The daughter of a shoemaker, Dr. Manette.

26. Who was the king of France at the time of the French Revolution? ★★★

Ans: King Louis XVI.

27. What is the significance of the lion and Jackal?

Ans: The lions also symbolize strength, authority, and dominance, reflecting the oppressive rule of the monarchy during the French Revolution. The jackals represent the revolutionary forces and the vengeful spirit of the oppressed masses.

Jane Eyre

1. How many years did Jane Eyre pass at Lowood School? ★★★

Ans: Jane spent eight years at London School. 

2. How did Jane try to Extinguish the fire?

Ans: She brings a basin of water and throws it over the fire to try to extinguish it.

3.  What kind of lady was Mrs. Reed?

Ans: Mrs. Red is a cruel woman.

4. In which school did Jane receive her education? ★★★

Ans: In Lowood School.

5. What is the red room in Jane Eyre?

Ans: The red room is the frightening chamber in which Mr. Reed died.

6. What is Bedlam?

Ans: It is a notorious asylum.

7. What is the Pilot? ★★★

Ans: Pilot is Mr. Rochester’s faithful dog.

8. Why did John give Jane a blow?

Ans. He gave her a blow and said that this was her punishment for speaking insolently to his mother and for her habit of hiding behind the curtains.

9.  Why is Jane imprisoned in the red room? ★★★

Ans: After a fight with her cousin, John Reed, Jane is imprisoned in the red room as punishment.

10. How does Jane save Rochester’s life? ★★★

Ans. Jane saves Rochester’s life by bed with water, and Mr. Rochester takes her hand and thanks her for saving his life.

11. Who runs Lowood School in the novel Jane Eyre? ★★★

Ans: Mr. Brocklehurst.

12. Who was Mr. Rochester’s first wife?

Ans: Bertha was Mr. Rochester’s first wife.

13. How did Helen Barnes die? ★★★

Ans: Helen Barnes died of consumption at last.

14. Who is the owner of Thronefield Manor?

Ans: Mr. Rochester is the owner of Thornfield.

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15. What is the name of Mr. Reed’s house? ★★★

Ans: Gateshead Hall.

16. What is Charlotte Bronte’s pseudonym name? ★★★

Ans: Currer Bell.

17. Who is Jane’s pupil at Thornfield?

Ans: Adèle Varens.

18. What is the full name of Rochester?

Ans: Edward Rochester.

19. Why was Jane afraid of the Red Room?

Ans: Jane is terrified of being left in the red room because the ghost of her dead uncle supposedly haunts it.

20. Who is Helen Burns? ★★★

Ans: Helen Burns is Jane’s friend at Lowood School.

Tess of D’Urbervilles

1. Who is Sorrow?

Ans: Sorrow is Tess’s son.

2. What is Prince? ★★★

Ans: Prince is the name of the old horse that belonged to the Durbeyfield family.

3. What is the name of Tess’ Village? ★★★

Ans: The name of Tess village is Marlott.

4. How did Tess die?

Ans: She was hanged as a punishment for murder.

5. Where does Tess fall in love with Angel? ★★★

Ans: Tess falls in love with Angel at the Talbothays Dairy.

6. Why did Tess murder Alec? ★★★

Ans: Alec has deceived her and torn her life to pieces, so she killed him.

7. Why was Tess hanged to death?

Ans: Tess was hanged to death for murdering Alec.

8. What is the subtitle of Tess of the D’Urbervilles? ★★★

Ans. “A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented.”

9. What is the relationship between Tess and sorrow?

Ans. Tess is the mother of sorrow. So, there is a mother-son relationship between them.

10. Why does Tess write a letter to Angel Clare before the marriage ceremony?

Ans. Tess writes a confessional letter to Angel, telling him of the past, and slips it under his door.

11. Why was Sorrow named so? ★★★

Ans. Sorrow is named so to represent the aftermath of Tess’s sin.

12. Who was Tess’ father? ★★★

Ans: Jack D’Urbeyfield was the father of Tess.

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13. Who was the natural father of Tess’ child?

Ans: Alec D’Urbervilles was the natural father of Tess’ child.

14. Who is Parson Tringham?

Ans: He is a clergyman in Marlott.

15. Where is the village of Marlott situated? ★★★

Ans: in the “Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor”.

16. Who is Liza Lu?

Ans: The second Durbeyfield child.

17. How was Prince killed? ★★★

Ans: Prince the rural horse is gored to death by a modern mail cart.

18. Who is Joan Durbeyfield?

Ans: Mother of Tess.

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