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