- 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) Salman Rushdie
C) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
D) Chinua Achebe
- 2. Which country is the setting for 'Midnight's Children'?
A) South Africa
B) Brazil
C) Nigeria
D) India
- 3. Who wrote the novel 'The God of Small Things'?
A) Kiran Desai
B) Jhumpa Lahiri
C) Anita Desai
D) Arundhati Roy
- 4. Who is known for their theory of 'the subaltern'?
A) Aimé Césaire
B) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
C) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
D) Wole Soyinka
- 5. What is the name of the main character in 'Beloved' by Toni Morrison?
A) Sethe
B) Denver
C) Paul D
D) Baby Suggs
- 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) Tanzania
D) South Africa
- 8. Who wrote 'The Autobiography of My Mother'?
A) Toni Morrison
B) Jamaica Kincaid
C) Zadie Smith
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) Wole Soyinka
B) Nadine Gordimer
C) Chinua Achebe
D) Ben Okri
- 11. What term refers to the cultural dominance of Western powers after the decline of formal colonial empires?
A) Decolonization
B) Globalization
C) Neocolonialism
D) Imperialism
- 12. 'Things Fall Apart' by Chinua Achebe is set in which country?
A) Kenya
B) South Africa
C) Nigeria
D) Ghana
- 13. Which Caribbean author wrote 'Wide Sargasso Sea' as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's 'Jane Eyre'?
A) Wilson Harris
B) Jean Rhys
C) Derek Walcott
D) Aime Cesaire
- 14. Who authored 'The Wretched of the Earth'?
A) Derek Walcott
B) J.M. Coetzee
C) Octavia Butler
D) Frantz Fanon
- 15. Who wrote the postcolonial novel 'Midnight's Children'?
A) Arundhati Roy
B) V.S. Naipaul
C) Salman Rushdie
D) Kiran Desai
- 16. Who is considered the founding father of postcolonial theory?
A) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
B) Frantz Fanon
C) Chinua Achebe
D) Edward Said
- 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. What Caribbean poet won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992?
A) Aime Cesaire
B) Derek Walcott
C) Lorna Goodison
D) Kamau Brathwaite
- 19. 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
- 20. Who is the protagonist of J.M. Coetzee's novel 'Disgrace'?
A) Petrus
B) Lucy Lurie
C) Michael K
D) David Lurie
- 21. The term 'mimicry' in postcolonial theory refers to what practice?
A) Artistic innovation in postcolonial literature
B) Rejection of Western values
C) Imitation of the colonizer's culture by the colonized
D) Resistance against colonial rule
- 22. 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) Antonio Gramsci
B) Alfred Sauvy
C) Noam Chomsky
D) Immanuel Wallerstein
- 23. What is the central theme of 'The Meursault Investigation' by Kamel Daoud?
A) War in Algeria
B) Post-independence struggles
C) Revisiting Albert Camus' 'The Stranger'
D) Colonial architecture
- 24. Which novel by Chinua Achebe is often considered the archetypal postcolonial novel?
A) Heart of Darkness
B) Wide Sargasso Sea
C) Things Fall Apart
D) Midnight's Children
- 25. Who wrote 'A House for Mr Biswas'?
A) Kiran Desai
B) Salman Rushdie
C) V.S. Naipaul
D) Arundhati Roy
- 26. Who is the author of 'Purple Hibiscus'?
A) Ngozi Achebe
B) Chinua Achebe
C) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
D) Zadie Smith
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