- 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) Arundhati Roy
B) Chinua Achebe
C) Salman Rushdie
D) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- 2. Which country is the setting for 'Midnight's Children'?
A) India
B) Nigeria
C) South Africa
D) Brazil
- 3. Who wrote the novel 'The God of Small Things'?
A) Anita Desai
B) Jhumpa Lahiri
C) Kiran Desai
D) Arundhati Roy
- 4. Who is known for their theory of 'the subaltern'?
A) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
C) Aimé Césaire
D) Wole Soyinka
- 5. What is the name of the main character in 'Beloved' by Toni Morrison?
A) Baby Suggs
B) Denver
C) Sethe
D) Paul D
- 6. Which Nobel laureate wrote 'Disgrace'?
A) J.M. Coetzee
B) Nadine Gordimer
C) Chinua Achebe
D) Doris Lessing
- 7. In which country was Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o born?
A) Kenya
B) Ghana
C) South Africa
D) Tanzania
- 8. Who wrote 'The Autobiography of My Mother'?
A) Toni Morrison
B) Zadie Smith
C) Jamaica Kincaid
D) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- 9. Who is the author of 'Season of Migration to the North'?
A) Khalil Gibran
B) Tayeb Salih
C) Leila Aboulela
D) Naguib Mahfouz
- 10. Which author wrote 'The Famished Road'?
A) Chinua Achebe
B) Wole Soyinka
C) Ben Okri
D) Nadine Gordimer
- 11. Who is the author of 'Purple Hibiscus'?
A) Ngozi Achebe
B) Chinua Achebe
C) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
D) Zadie Smith
- 12. What is the central theme of 'The Meursault Investigation' by Kamel Daoud?
A) Revisiting Albert Camus' 'The Stranger'
B) Colonial architecture
C) War in Algeria
D) Post-independence struggles
- 13. Who wrote 'A House for Mr Biswas'?
A) Salman Rushdie
B) Arundhati Roy
C) V.S. Naipaul
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) Globalization
B) Neocolonialism
C) Imperialism
D) Decolonization
- 16. Which novel by Chinua Achebe is often considered the archetypal postcolonial novel?
A) Heart of Darkness
B) Midnight's Children
C) Wide Sargasso Sea
D) Things Fall Apart
- 17. What term refers to the blending and redefining of cultures in the postcolonial context?
A) Cultural Hegemony
B) Assimilation
C) Hybridity
D) Separatism
- 18. Who authored 'The Wretched of the Earth'?
A) J.M. Coetzee
B) Derek Walcott
C) Octavia Butler
D) Frantz Fanon
- 19. Which Caribbean author wrote 'Wide Sargasso Sea' as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's 'Jane Eyre'?
A) Derek Walcott
B) Jean Rhys
C) Aime Cesaire
D) Wilson Harris
- 20. What is the term for the literary representation of the colonized peoples as inferior and in need of civilization by the colonizers?
A) Postmodernism
B) Existentialism
C) Structuralism
D) Orientalism
- 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) Noam Chomsky
B) Alfred Sauvy
C) Antonio Gramsci
D) Immanuel Wallerstein
- 22. 'Things Fall Apart' by Chinua Achebe is set in which country?
A) Ghana
B) South Africa
C) Kenya
D) Nigeria
- 23. Who is the protagonist of J.M. Coetzee's novel 'Disgrace'?
A) David Lurie
B) Lucy Lurie
C) Michael K
D) Petrus
- 24. The term 'mimicry' in postcolonial theory refers to what practice?
A) Resistance against colonial rule
B) Imitation of the colonizer's culture by the colonized
C) Artistic innovation in postcolonial literature
D) Rejection of Western values
- 25. What Caribbean poet won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992?
A) Kamau Brathwaite
B) Lorna Goodison
C) Aime Cesaire
D) Derek Walcott
- 26. Who wrote the postcolonial novel 'Midnight's Children'?
A) Arundhati Roy
B) Salman Rushdie
C) V.S. Naipaul
D) Kiran Desai
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