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1. Who is the real hero of the novel Joseph Andrews?
2. How many marriages has Henry Dashwood had?
3. Is The Heart of Midlothian by Sir Walter Scott based on fact?
4. Who killed Mrs. Joe in Great Expectations?
5. What faults make Vanity Fair difficult to read?
6. Who is Abraham Durbeyfield in Tess of the D'urbervilles?
7. What is the main theme of Sons and Lovers?
8. What is the main theme of A Passage to India?
9. What does Stephen's father call him as a child in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man?
10. How is the beginning of the prologue A House for Mr Biswas unusual?
11. Sketch the character of Joseph Andrews.
12. Critics have claimed that the whole plot of Sense and Sensibility depends on the tension between what is concealed and what is shared with othersthe private and the public. Do you agree with this statement?
13. Sketch the character of Jeanie Deans.
14. Discuss Pip as both a narrator and a character.
15. Sketch the character of Rebecca Sharp.
16. How do nature and fate play a role in the novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles?
17. Sketch the character of Paul Morel.
18. What is Cyril Fielding's relationship with Indians at the beginning of the novel? How do his views of them change during and after the trial?
19. Sketch the character of Stephen Dedalus.
20. What is the significance of Hanuman House in A House for Mr Biswas?
21. Discuss the function of the 'digressions' in Joseph Andrews.
22. What significance does the novel's title, Great Expectations, have for the story? In what ways does Pip have 'great expectations'?
23. Paul's close relationship with his mother has provoked many Freudian and Oedipal readings of this novel. Is this type of reading valid? If not, what do you make of the relationship between Paul and his mother, which seems to be the one constant force throughout the novel?
24. Critically analyze the character of Shama in the novel A House for Mr Biswas.
25. What is Forster's primary critique of the British in India? What does he appear to think of the Empire in general?