Unit 3: Fiction Mock Tests
Comprehensive topic-wise practice tests covering novels and narrative theory from 18th century to contemporary fiction with detailed solutions
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." - Austen
Key Concepts: Novel vs Romance, Epistolary form, Picaresque tradition, Sentimentalism
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." - Tolstoy
Key Concepts: Omniscient narrator, Bildungsroman, Industrial novel, Serial publication
"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." - Woolf
Key Concepts: Stream of consciousness, Interior monologue, Epiphany, Fragmentation
"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." - García Márquez
Key Concepts: Metafiction, Pastiche, Hyperreality, Intertextuality
"The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it." - Naipaul
Key Concepts: Hybridity, Othering, Mimicry, Subaltern
"The morning sun was still low in the sky when Ammu came home." - Roy
Key Concepts: Indigenization, Nation and narration, Caste narratives, Feminist voices
"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect." - Kafka
Key Concepts: Epiphany, Economy of form, Twist endings, Minimalism
"The death of the author is the birth of the reader." - Barthes
Key Concepts: Fabula vs Syuzhet, Focalization, Diegesis, Unreliable narrator
"You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter." - Twain
Key Concepts: Unreliable narrator, Stream of consciousness, Frame narrative, Leitmotif
"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind." - Freud
Key Concepts: Ideological state apparatus, Gaze theory, Orientalism, Heteroglossia
