FBQ1: Prose is derived from the Latin word ____________ Answer: prosa FBQ2: Fictum, the Latin word for fiction means _________ Answer: Created FBQ3: Prose fiction is a fictional work that is presented in _________form Answer: narrative FBQ4: The dominant form of prose fiction is _________________ Answer: the novel FBQ5: Scholars that refer to the Bible as forerunner of modern prose fiction use the book of _____ as point of reference Answer: Genesis FBQ6: One writer whose work contributed to prose fiction, Giovanni Boccaccio was a(n)________ Answer: Italian FBQ7: Boccaccio’s collection of hundred stories has the title ___________ Answer: Decameron FBQ8: Chaucer, veering from French and Latin, wrote The Canterbury Tales in _____________ Answer: Middle English FBQ9: Homer’s epics, the_____ and ____ translated into French prose encouraged modern novel Answer: Iliad and Odyssey FBQ10: “The Epic of ______” is acclaimed as the first great heroic narrative in the literary world Answer: Gilgamesh FBQ11: In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer is credited with having drawn on real life for his _____ Answer: characters FBQ12: Verisimilitude is something that has the quality of _______ Answer: truth FBQ13: Characters in gothic prose fiction are mainly______ characters Answer: stock FBQ14: Novels in which the writer features a mixture of realism and fantasy is _________novel Answer: magic realism FBQ15: Bildungsroman in German means ___________ Answer: novel of formation FBQ16: An early novel written by Chinua Achebe with complex plot is ________ Answer: No Longer At Ease FBQ17: ____is a fictional prose narrative longer than a novelette but shorter than a novel Answer: A novella FBQ18: Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities based on the French Revolution is a ______novel Answer: historical FBQ19: An _____novel is one written as a series of documents Answer: epistolary FBQ20: Early gothic novels were set in ______________ Answer: Medieval period of the Dark Ages FBQ21: A _____plot in most cases presents the adventure of the hero from the beginning to the end Answer: simple FBQ22: A plot structure that does not follow the simple and complex mode is a ______plot Answer: subverted FBQ23: “Picaresque” used in classifying a novel type is from the Spanish word____________ Answer: picaresca FBQ24: The hero of a picaresque novel is ……….. Answer: roguish FBQ25: Two types of social/sociological novel are: industrial and …… Answer: moral FBQ26: The historical novel Ivanhoe was written by …………….. Answer: Walter Scott FBQ27: …………wrote The Mayor of Casterbridge Answer: Thomas Hardy FBQ28: The basic plot of the _____novel is manipulated to evoke terror and horror Answer: Gothic FBQ29: The writers of novel on magic/magical realism feature a mixture of ___ and ______ Answer: realism and fantasy FBQ30: The rendering and ordering of the events and actions of a story is called____ Answer: plot FBQ31: A prose in which the writer focuses on one incident, has a single plot and setting, a small cast and covers a short period of time is a___________ Answer: short story FBQ32: _____is a central dominating idea about human experience in a literary work Answer: Theme FBQ33: ______is how the idea is presented in form of language use. Answer: Style FBQ34: Author of So Long A Letter, Mariama Ba is from _______ Answer: Senegal FBQ35: Jane Austen author of Pride and Prejudice is a(n) ______novelist. Answer: English MCQ1: Chichidodo is a bird featured in Armah’s The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born that hates …..yet survives on maggots Answer: Excrements MCQ2: The main characters in The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born does not include …. Answer: Kambili MCQ3: Many African countries followed the path of post-independence Ghana where ….and greed of the elite became rampant Answer: Corruption MCQ4: Ayi Kwei Armah was born in Takoradi, Ghana and attended ….University Answer: Havard MCQ5: Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy in Pride and Prejudice is haughty and is excessively …. Answer: Proud MCQ6: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is presented in the … point of view Answer: Third person MCQ7: Jane Austen’s first novel is titled …. Answer: Sense and Sensibility MCQ8: Ramatoulaye in So Long a Letter is a(n) ….. Answer: Widow MCQ9: Mariama Ba’s focus in So Long a Letter is on the challenges of women in ….marriages Answer: Polygamous MCQ10: When a prose writer deviates from using the standard language in a part of his novel, he/she is said to be exercising …… Answer: Poetic licence MCQ11: Non-standard English which may be used in prose fiction does not include….. Answer: None of these MCQ12: Use of non-standard English in prose fiction is ….. as a poorly written prose fiction Answer: Not the same MCQ13: In prose fiction , ………is the emotion, mood or general feeling the reader gets when reading the work Answer: Atmosphere MCQ14: The attitude of a writer towards the idea/subject he or she presents in a work is the ….. Answer: Writer’s tone MCQ15: A literary style in which the writer may manipulate characters, actions and setting to convey a double meaning is …….. Answer: Allegory MCQ16: A character in prose fiction which exhibits particular attributes by which an individual, group or race is known is a … Answer: Stereotype MCQ17: Okonkwo in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is an example of a ……character Answer: Flat MCQ18: Geoffrey Chaucer’s literary works do not include......... Answer: La caccia di Diana MCQ19: Prose fiction is similar to history as both ........ Answer: Are narrative projects MCQ20: Prose fiction is different from history as........... Answer: History is based on facts MCQ21: One of the old forms of poetry which contributed to origin of prose fiction is........ Answer: The epic MCQ22: Themes treated in the Gothic novel includes ………. Answer: Death and decay MCQ23: Features of the psychological novel include the________ technique Answer: Stream of consciousness MCQ24: The major criticism against epistolary novel is ………………… Answer: Letters within letters might confuse readers MCQ25: Social/sociological novel focuses on impact of …….and social conditions of a period on characters and conditions around them Answer: Economic MCQ26: Chinua Achebe’s novel titled……… is a political novel Answer: A Man of the People MCQ27: Which of the following novels best fits the magic/magical realism categorization? Answer: The Famished Road by Ben Okri MCQ28: A good or classical example of the Bildungsroman is ……….. Answer: Dicken’s David Copperfield MCQ29: A common theme in Ngugi wa Thiongo’s novels is ………….. Answer: Possession and dispossession of land MCQ30: Early English Literature novels which feature the major characters’ names as title of novel do not include ……… Answer: Robinson Crusoe MCQ31: One of the novels of Chinua Achebe which has a simple plot is ……….. Answer: Things Fall Apart MCQ32: The …………written in the 11th Century Japan has often been considered as the first psychological novel. Answer: The Tale of Genji MCQ33: In contemporary usage the short story is not longer than 20,000 words and not shorter than ……. Answer: 1000 words MCQ34: A prose fiction in which incidents and events are closely knit and strung together in linear sequence is said to have a ……….plot Answer: Simple MCQ35: A ……….is a starkly brief narrative used to enforce some moral and spiritual truth Answer: Parable and fable