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​                    Joseph    Andrews
​Who is Lady Booby? UOS 2015-18
Lady Booby, the villainess of the story, is a middle-aged lectures and wife of Sir Thomas Booby. After the death of her husband she holds the control of Booby estate. She has lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews and makes him her footman.
​Who is Fanny? UOS 2015
Fanny Goodwill is a humble but beautiful dairy maid who is engaged to Joseph Andrews and loves him fiercely. She is an orphan who has been brought up on the Booby estate. In the recent past she was fired by Mrs. Slipslop.
​Who is Parson Adams and what is his role?  OR Who is Mr. Abraham Adams? UOS 2018
Parson Adams is a learned clergyman of Lady Booby’s parish estate. He has studied Latin and Greek. He has upright character and Christian charity. He serves himself as a picaresque companion for Joseph. He is a poor man and he is the firm pivot of the novel’s moral influence.
​Who is Parson Barnabas and what is his role? UOS 2014-16
Parson Barnabas is a high-Church Anglican clergyman. He takes pleasure is drinking punch. He disagrees with Parson Adams and believes Clergy people should not live in luxury
​Who is Betty? UOS 2016-17
She is a Chamber-maid in Tow-Wouse inn. She recommends of Joseph’s treatment and takes herself as Joseph’s nurse. She is also lustful and her association with him ends badly.
​Who is Squire Booby?
Squire Booby is the nephew of Sir Thomas and Lady Booby. He marries the servant Pamela Andrews. Squire Booby is a good man who frees Joseph from jail and accepts him as an equal. Because of class pride, however, he objects to Joseph's marriage to Fanny.
​Who is Mr. Wilson?
Mr. Wilson is a former rake and now a country squire whom Joseph Andrews meets on his journeys. Mr. Wilson offers Joseph Andrews, Parson Adams, and Fanny Goodwill hospitality.
Who is beau didapper? UOS 2016
Didapper is a rough, provoked by by Lady Booby to rape Fanny Goodwill so that Joseph’s marriage might be affected. Beau Didapper only has one role in Joseph Andrews: to cause mischief for Fanny and Joseph that will benefit Lady Booby
​Who were the real parents of Joseph?
Mr. and Mrs. Wilson were the real parents of Joseph
Who is Mrs. Slipslop?  UOS 2016-17-19
Slipslop is a foil and also a coarse echo of Lady Booby; she is vain and proud. She acts as she was one of the gentry, and she is sexually attracted to Joseph Andrews.
Who is Peter Pounce? 2019
Lady Booby's steward, a stingy, uncharitable man who on one occasion saves Fanny from rape but plans to enjoy her himself. He also loans oat money to the servants at exorbitant interest rates.
Who is Pamela Andrews?
Pamela Andrews is Joseph’s virtuous and beautiful sister, from whom he derives inspiration for his resistance to Lady Booby’s sexual advances. She is also a servant in the household of a predatory Booby.
What are the major themes of Joseph Andrews?
The helplessness and power of goodness, affection, vanity, charity and religion, hypocrisy and charity, town and country, class and birth, reality verses appearances etc are the major themes of Joseph Andrews.
Who is Surgeon in Joseph Andrews?
The Surgeon is a comic character in the novel. He tells Joseph that he will die soon due to his injuries.
Who is Parson Trulliber?
Parson Trulliber is a hypocritical country parson and he is a hog dealer. He is completely lacking the virtue of charity. He parsons only on Sunday
What different services were performed by Joseph for Sir Thomas Booby?
Joseph performed the different services for Sir Thomas as stable boy and then footman to Sir Thomas’ wife Lady Bobby.
Who is Mrs.Gammar Andrews? (parents of Fanny and Joseph Andrews)
Mrs. Gammar Andrews is the mother of Pamela Andrews and Fanny Goodwill. She has raised Joseph Andrews as her own son, although he is not. She lost Fanny when she was 18 months old and reclaims her at the end of the novel.


        
    PRIDE AND PREJUDICE 
Who is Mr.Collins? UOS 2013-16-17-19
Mr. William Collins is a distant cousin of Mr. Bennet who is a clergyman by profession and manages the estate of his patron Lady Catherine de Bourgh.
Who is Mrs.Bennet?  UOS 2017-18
Mrs. Bennet is a miraculously tiresome character. She is mother of five unmarried daughters who can go to any limit to get her daughters married to the wealthy suitors.
What do you know about Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy in Jane Austen’s novel, Pride and Prejudice? 2018
Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy is one of the central characters of the novel.  He is of proud and snobbish nature. At first, he rejects Elizabeth’s beauty by terming her merely “tolerable.” But his character changes and he secretly helps Bennet’s family to protect their honour by forcing Wickham to marry Lydia who has eloped with each other.
Who is Mr.Bennet?
Mr Bennet the patriarch of the Bennet family, a gentleman of modest income with five unmarried daughters. Mr. Bennet has a sarcastic, cynical sense of humor. Though he loves his daughters, he often fails to provide a secure financial future for his wife and daughters.

Who is Charlotte Lucas in Novel? Pride and Prejudice UOS 2015-2019
Charlotte Lucas is Elizabeth’s sensible and intelligent friend. He does not view love as the most vital component of a marriage.He takes marriage for security than love.
Who is Jane Bennet?
Jane Bennet is the eldest and most beautiful Bennet sister. Jane is more reserved and gentler than Elizabeth. She falls in love with Bingley.
Who is Charles Bingley? UOS 2015
Charles Bingley is Darcy’s wealthy best friend. He is genial, well-intentioned gentleman. He is married to Jane Bennet and is the brother of Louisa Hurst and Caroline Bingley. He is blissfully uncaring out class differences.
Who is Lydia Bennet? Why did she elope? UOS 2016
The youngest Bennet sister, she is gossip, immature and self-involved. Unlike Elizabeth, Lydia flings herself headlong into romance. She elopes with Wickham as a result of his black magic of persuasive power. 
Who is Miss Caroline Bingley?
Miss Bingley is Bingley’s snobbish sister who befriends Jane and later snubs her. She attempts to attract Darcy’s attentions and is jealous when Darcy is instead drawn to Elizabeth.


What kind of Woman is Lady Catherine De Bourgh?
She is Darcy’s arrogant aunt, who dominates Mr. Collins and entertains hopes that her daughter will marry to Darcy.
Who is George Wickham?
George Wickham is a handsome and personable fortune hunter to whom Elizabeth is initially attracted. He eventually runs off with and is forced to marry Lydia.
Who is Colonel Fitzwiliam?
He is Darcy’s well-mannered and pleasant cousin, who is interested in Elizabeth, but who needs to marry someone with money.
Who is Mrs. Hurst?
Mrs. Hurst is Bingley’s snobbish sister. She spends most of her time gossiping with Caroline.


        A Tale of Two Cities 
Who is Miss Prose? UOS 2016- 2019
Miss Prose is the servant who raised Lucie. She is loyal to her mistress. Miss Prose is a comic character. She at the end of novel quarrel with Madam Defarge and Madam Defarge was killed by her own pistol shot.
Who is Jerry Cruncher? UOS  2015-17
Jerry Cruncher is an old employer in Tillson’s Bank. He called himself a “Resurrection-Man,” because he digs up dead bodies and sells them to scientists. He gains his income through digging up the graves and selling the dead bodies to medical scientists.
Who is Jarvis Lorry?
Jarvis Lorry is a banker who works out of Tellson's bank, which has a branch in Paris. When Lucie Manette becomes an orphan after her father is mysteriously imprisoned in the Bastille and her mother dies, Lorry brings her back to England to be raised there.
Where was Mr.Javrish Lorry traveling ? UOS 2018
Mr.Javrish Lorry was traveling towards Parish during the callous French Revolution to protect the branch and important documents of Tillson’s Bank in Paris 1792.


Where was Alexander Manette imprisoned and how long? UOS 2018
He is Lucie's father and a brilliant physician, during French Revolution he was imprisoned in Bastille for 18 years.
Why  Alexander Manette was imprisoned?Dr. Alxander Manette was imprisoned because he knew about the crimes committed by the Evermonde brothers and had attempted to expose them to the authorities.
Who is Madame Therese Defarge?
Madame Defarge is a fictional character in the novel. She is  Earnest Defarge’s wife. Unlike her husband, she proves unrelentingly blood-thirsty, and her lust for vengeance knows no bounds. She is a cruel and vindictive lady who exacts revenge against the Evermonde family.
What is the role of Sydney Carton in “A Tale of Two Cities”?  UOS2015
Sydney Carton is a central character in Charles Dickens' novel A Tale of Two Cities. Sydney Carton is a lawyer who looks like Charles Darnay and who lives in a fog of apathy and alcohol. He wasted his great potential and mysteriously lost a woman he loved. Now he's a drunk and a lawyer who takes no credit for his work. Carton has no hope for his life.
Who is Charles Darnay?
Charles Darnay is a French aristocrat. Darnay renounces his family name of St. Evrémonde and moves to England, where he works as a tutor and eventually marries Lucie Manette.  Charles believes in the revolutionary ideal of liberty, but is not a radical revolutionary. He is put on trial during the Revolution for the crimes of his family.
What is the significance of knitting in A Tale of Two Cities? UOS 2017-19
Madam Defarge’s Knitting through a needle and a thread on a piece of cloths determine the fate of the victims of the so called newly established republic. Her knitting is a symbol of cold-bloodedness and cruelty.
Who is Lucie Manette?A young French woman who grew up in England, Lucie was raised as a ward of Tellson’s Bank because her parents were assumed dead.
Who is Ernest Defarge
Ernest Defarge was owner of a wine-shop in a Paris. She was leader of the Jacquerie (a roving band of peasants) during the French Revolution. She formerly worked as a servant for Doctor Manette.


​      The Mill on the Floss
Write the names of four novels of George Eliot.
Ans. Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1863), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871-72) and Daniel Deronda (1876) are the novels of George Eliot.
Who is Philip Wakem?
Philip Wakem is Son of the lawyer. He has been deformed in a childhood accident and is highly sensitive about it. An artist of moderate talent, he falls in love with Maggie when they meet at the school Philip and Tom attend together.
Who is Sir Stephan Wakem? UOS 2018
Mr. Waken is a lawyer who represents Mr. Pivart against Mr. Tulliver in court in their dispute over water rights. He eventually ends up buying Tulliver's mill and hiring him back as a tenant to manage it. He is Philip Wakem's father.
What are the major themes of 'The Mill on the Floss'?          
Loss of innocence, the difficulty of choice, the claim of the past upon present identity, the importance of sympathy, the effect of society upon the individual, communal verses individual interests, progress verses tradition, practical knowledge verses bookish knowledge, gender disparity and love are the major themes of "The Mill on the Floss".
Who is Maggie Tulliver?
Maggie Tulliver is the protagonist of the novel "The Mill on the Floss". She is a hugely complex character. She is the intelligent, clever and emotionally sensitive daughter of a country mill-owner. Her closest tie is to her brother Tom. She has dark skin, dark hair, and dark eyes. Her life is the central story of the novel.
Who is Bob Jakin? Describe his personality UOS 15-2017
Bob Jakin is the childhood friend of Tom Tulliver and a comic character in the novel. He is a packman. He is a cool and nice person. He helps Tom and his family.
Who is Lucy Deane? UOS 2017-18-19                                   Lucy Deane is Tom and Maggie's cousin and a year younger than Maggie. She is the daughter of Susan Deane. She is amiable, kind and compassionate.
Who is Mrs. Jane Glegg discuss her character?                                                                          
Mrs. Glegg is the sister of Mrs. Tulliver and aunt of Tom and Maggie. She is oldest of Dodson sisters and she preserved the family traditions. She is careful in use of money. Mrs. Glegg is a character that creates amusement in the novel. She shows superiority and strict to family traditions
Describe the personality of  Tom Tulliver? 2015            
Tom Tulliver is the Tullivers' older son. He has his own clear sense of duty, justice, and fairness. He has affection for his sister Maggie, but he dislikes her impetus way of doing what she wants. When Mr. Tulliver goes bankrupt, Tom goes to work at a young age and brings the family out of debt.
Who is Stephen Guest UOS 2015                                     
  Stephen Guest is courting Lucy Deane when we meet him but has not yet proposed marriage. He is the son of the senior partner of Guest & Co., where both Tom and Mr. Deane work. Stephen is handsome and self-assured. He falls unexpectedly in love with Maggie, drawn to her strikingly different qualities.
How flood is symbolic in the novel ‘The Mill on the Floss’?
Generally flood symbolizes destruction and in this novel it symbolizes the destruction of Tulliver family.
What does the river Floss symbolizes in the novel?
River generally symbolizes life but river Floss in this novel is the source of income and destruction for Tulliver’s family. River Floss also symbolizes Maggie’s character, the depth of Floss presents deep emotions of Maggie and unpredictable paths of Floss represent the Maggie’s thoughts.
Who is Dr. Kenn?
Dr. Kenn is a highly respected and kindly clergyman who attempts to help Maggie when she returns to St. Ogg's in disgrace
Who is  Mr. James Torry
James Torry Is one of the middle-class set in St. Ogg's who dances with Maggie at the Guests' and is attracted to her. After she comes back from her elopement he treats her disrespectfully.
Who is Mrs. Sophy Pullet?
Mrs. Sophy Pullet is one of the Dodson clan and Tom and Maggie's aunt on their mother's side. She likes to dress well and tends to be dramatic, especially about illness and death. She is a hypochondriac.