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