- 1. Postcolonial literature refers to writings that emerged in countries once colonized by European powers. These works often explore themes of resistance, identity, and the legacy of colonialism. Postcolonial literature can encompass a wide range of genres and styles, and authors from diverse cultural backgrounds contribute to this rich literary tradition. Through their storytelling, postcolonial writers shed light on the complexities of cultural hybridity, power dynamics, and the lasting effects of colonization on individuals and societies.
Which author wrote 'Things Fall Apart'?
A) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
B) Chinua Achebe
C) Arundhati Roy
D) Salman Rushdie
- 2. Which country is the setting for 'Midnight's Children'?
A) Brazil
B) Nigeria
C) South Africa
D) India
- 3. Who wrote the novel 'The God of Small Things'?
A) Arundhati Roy
B) Anita Desai
C) Jhumpa Lahiri
D) Kiran Desai
- 4. Who is known for their theory of 'the subaltern'?
A) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
C) Wole Soyinka
D) Aimé Césaire
- 5. What is the name of the main character in 'Beloved' by Toni Morrison?
A) Paul D
B) Sethe
C) Baby Suggs
D) Denver
- 6. Which Nobel laureate wrote 'Disgrace'?
A) Doris Lessing
B) J.M. Coetzee
C) Chinua Achebe
D) Nadine Gordimer
- 7. In which country was Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o born?
A) Kenya
B) Ghana
C) Tanzania
D) South Africa
- 8. Who wrote 'The Autobiography of My Mother'?
A) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
B) Toni Morrison
C) Zadie Smith
D) Jamaica Kincaid
- 9. Who is the author of 'Season of Migration to the North'?
A) Leila Aboulela
B) Naguib Mahfouz
C) Khalil Gibran
D) Tayeb Salih
- 10. Which author wrote 'The Famished Road'?
A) Chinua Achebe
B) Ben Okri
C) Nadine Gordimer
D) Wole Soyinka
- 11. Who is the author of 'Purple Hibiscus'?
A) Chinua Achebe
B) Zadie Smith
C) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
D) Ngozi Achebe
- 12. What is the central theme of 'The Meursault Investigation' by Kamel Daoud?
A) Revisiting Albert Camus' 'The Stranger'
B) Post-independence struggles
C) War in Algeria
D) Colonial architecture
- 13. Who wrote 'A House for Mr Biswas'?
A) Salman Rushdie
B) V.S. Naipaul
C) Arundhati Roy
D) Kiran Desai
- 14. Who is considered the founding father of postcolonial theory?
A) Chinua Achebe
B) Frantz Fanon
C) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
D) Edward Said
- 15. What term refers to the cultural dominance of Western powers after the decline of formal colonial empires?
A) Neocolonialism
B) Decolonization
C) Globalization
D) Imperialism
- 16. Which novel by Chinua Achebe is often considered the archetypal postcolonial novel?
A) Wide Sargasso Sea
B) Things Fall Apart
C) Heart of Darkness
D) Midnight's Children
- 17. What term refers to the blending and redefining of cultures in the postcolonial context?
A) Cultural Hegemony
B) Hybridity
C) Assimilation
D) Separatism
- 18. Who authored 'The Wretched of the Earth'?
A) J.M. Coetzee
B) Octavia Butler
C) Derek Walcott
D) Frantz Fanon
- 19. Which Caribbean author wrote 'Wide Sargasso Sea' as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's 'Jane Eyre'?
A) Aime Cesaire
B) Wilson Harris
C) Jean Rhys
D) Derek Walcott
- 20. What is the term for the literary representation of the colonized peoples as inferior and in need of civilization by the colonizers?
A) Structuralism
B) Orientalism
C) Existentialism
D) Postmodernism
- 21. Who coined the term 'Third World' to refer to countries that were neither aligned with NATO nor the Warsaw Pact during the Cold War?
A) Alfred Sauvy
B) Immanuel Wallerstein
C) Noam Chomsky
D) Antonio Gramsci
- 22. 'Things Fall Apart' by Chinua Achebe is set in which country?
A) Kenya
B) Nigeria
C) Ghana
D) South Africa
- 23. Who is the protagonist of J.M. Coetzee's novel 'Disgrace'?
A) Petrus
B) Lucy Lurie
C) Michael K
D) David Lurie
- 24. The term 'mimicry' in postcolonial theory refers to what practice?
A) Imitation of the colonizer's culture by the colonized
B) Rejection of Western values
C) Artistic innovation in postcolonial literature
D) Resistance against colonial rule
- 25. What Caribbean poet won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992?
A) Aime Cesaire
B) Lorna Goodison
C) Kamau Brathwaite
D) Derek Walcott
- 26. Who wrote the postcolonial novel 'Midnight's Children'?
A) Arundhati Roy
B) V.S. Naipaul
C) Kiran Desai
D) Salman Rushdie
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