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