Postcolonial Writings Multiple Choice Questions
1. The Striders (1966) and Relations: Poems (1971) are the two volumes of poetry written by ___________.
A. a. k ramanujan
B. dom moraes
C. almagir hashmi
D. e.e tiong
Answer: A. a. k ramanujan
2. According to Ramanujan in the poem ‘Self-Portrait’ he resembles anyone but _________.
A. father
B. mother
C. son
D. himself
Answer: D. himself
3. The window glass in the poem ‘Self-Portrait’ symbolizes the ____________.
A. fictional world
B. capitalist world
C. democratic world
D. socialist world
Answer: B. capitalist world
4. Date unknown refers to the poet’s inability to find his ____________.
A. father
B. shadow
C. original self
D. other self
Answer: C. original self
5. ________ began writing at the age of ten.
A. dom moraes
B. ramanujan
C. brathwaite
D. soyinka
Answer: A. dom moraes
6. Dom Moraes published his first book, a collection of essays on cricket titled —————
A. green in the grass
B. grow in the grass
C. graze in the grass
D. grain in the grass
Answer: C. graze in the grass
7. Dom Moraes’ A Beginning won_________________.
A. hawthornden prize
B. commonwealth prize
C. pulitzer prize
D. nobel prize
Answer: A. hawthornden prize
8. ___________ is a poem that describes Dom Moraes’ journey in life.
A. mahabharat
B. the bible
C. arabian nights
D. treasure island
Answer: A. mahabharat
9. Sinbad, the ______ dominates a cycle of seven stories in the Arabian Nights.
A. the captain
B. the sailor
C. the crew
D. the beast
Answer: B. the sailor
10. Sinbad is a poem that consists of ___ stanzas.
A. three
B. four
C. five
D. six
Answer: C. five
11. Sinbad had _____ voyages through turbulent seas, tempestuous conditions which took the toll of many of his companions.
A. four
B. five
C. six
D. seven
Answer: D. seven
12. “Bronze breasts” refers to the __________.
A. right friendships
B. fake friendships
C. wrong friendships
D. friendships
Answer: C. wrong friendships
13. _________ depicts Dom Moraes’ search for identity, his sense of rootlessness and his love for embracing varieties and multiplicities of life.
A. a letter
B. sinbad
C. negus
D. self-portrait
Answer: B. sinbad
14. Who was the founder of the Senegalese Democratic Bloc Party?
A. house and land
B. a letter
C. africa
D. australia
Answer: A. house and land
15. In the poem, A Letter, the ______, is a threatening symbol of danger.
A. leopold senghor
B. david diop
C. jack davis
D. a. d hope
Answer: B. david diop
16. Leopold Senghor is associated with _____________.
A. harlem renaissance
B. negative movement
C. negritude movement
D. slavery movement
Answer: C. negritude movement
17. ___________ is the commercial as well as capital of America.
A. australia
B. central park
C. new york
D. manhattan
Answer: C. new york
18. The phrase “frosty smile” is a simile that refers to a ____________.
A. customer society
B. consumer society
C. capitalist society
D. customs society
Answer: B. consumer society
19. The adjective “sulphurous” indicates _________ which is visible in every busy and over populated city.
A. park
B. smoke
C. fog
D. pollution
Answer: D. pollution
20. ________ is a neighbourhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan.
A. central park
B. manhattan
C. harlem
D. hub
Answer: C. harlem
21. The term _______ refers to the Unification of African- American life.
A. harlem
B. slavery
C. barbados
D. slogan
Answer: A. harlem
22. The ________ culture is connected with nature. Okara’s “Mystic Drum”.
A. drum
B. stick
C. song
D. dance
Answer: B. stick
23. “Mystic Drum” is Okara’s _______.
A. australian
B. african
C. american
D. nigerian
Answer: C. american
24. The ______ in the poem “Mystic Drum” is the personification of industrialization.
A. man
B. lady
C. city
D. town
Answer: B. lady
25. Who died at a very early age of 33 in an air crash off Dakar, Senegal in 1960?
A. jack davis
B. david diop
C. a. d hope
D. derek walcott
Answer: B. david diop
26. David Diop’s __________ celebrates the typical love of the African for their motherland and the ancestors.
A. africa
B. aboriginal australia
C. new york
D. australia
Answer: A. africa
27. Through the poem ________, the poet attacks the world’s theory that Africa does not possess a history.
A. new york
B. africa
C. negus
D. arrival
Answer: B. africa
28. In David Diop’s “Africa”, the poet hopes to create a renewed Africa out of the bitter experiences of __________.
A. colonialism
B. nationalism
C. postcolonialism
D. anti-nationalism
Answer: A. colonialism
29. In the poem “House and Land”, _______ stands as a symbol of hope and redemption.
A. ee tiang
B. allen curnow
C. brathwaite
D. hashmi
Answer: A. ee tiang
30. In “House and Land”, _________ is hopelessly obsessed with her past and the future appears to hold no hope.
A. the historian
B. cowman
C. mrs. wilson
D. mr. wilson
Answer: C. mrs. wilson
31. ________ is a poem by A. D Hope.
A. aboriginal australia
B. australia
C. africa
D. new york
Answer: B. australia
32. _______________ is the best-known Australian poet of great repute internationally.
A. allen curnow
B. a. d hope
C. jack davis
D. atwood
Answer: B. a. d hope
33. ___________ is A. D Hope’s first collection of verse.
A. the wandering islands (1955)
B. the wasteland (1922)
C. the wonderland (1955)
D. the wander island (1954)
Answer: A. the wandering islands (1955)
34. ________ by A. D Hope is a sarcastic and captivating poetry.
A. aboriginal australia
B. africa
C. australia
D. arrival
Answer: C. australia
35. ____________is a representative of Australian geography, history, society and government during British rule.
A. house and land
B. aboriginal australia
C. australia
D. africa
Answer: C. australia
36. ___________ is a poet, short story writer, playwright and activist for the aboriginal people.
A. jack davis
B. a. d hope
C. allen curnow
D. david diop
Answer: A. jack davis
37. ____________ is an autobiography of Jack Davis’ childhood.
A. a boy’s life (1991)
B. a girl’s life (1991)
C. a son’s life (1991)
D. a daughter’s life (1991)
Answer: A. a boy’s life (1991)
38. ___________ is a poem that focusses on the European influences upon Aboriginal life, as well as the oppression and death that the European population brought with them.
A. australia
B. aboriginal australia
C. africa
D. new york
Answer: B. aboriginal australia
39. _____________ is a prolific Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist.
A. margaret lawrence
B. margaret anne
C. margaret atwood
D. anna ben
Answer: C. margaret atwood
40. Atwood won _________ prize in 2000 for her novel The Blind Assassin.
A. commonwealth prize
B. booker prize
C. international booker prize
D. nobel prize
Answer: B. booker prize
41. ______________ is a novel by Atwood.
A. journey into the interior
B. surfacing
C. the blind assassin
D. the handmaid’s tale
Answer: D. the handmaid’s tale
42. Atwood’s “The Journey into the Interior” is a ___________.
A. monologue
B. dramatic monologue
C. elegy
D. epic
Answer: A. monologue
43. The ________ referred to in “The Journey into the Interior” is the psyche of the poetess.
A. exterior
B. interior
C. journey
D. none of these
Answer: B. interior
44. __________ was a painter before he became a poet.
A. derek walcott
B. allen curnow
C. ee tiang
D. a. d hope
Answer: A. derek walcott
45. “Ruins of a Great House” is a poem written by ___________.
A. brathwaite
B. derek walcott
C. allen curnow
D. david diop
Answer: B. derek walcott
46. Derek Walcott’s _______________________, is a poem written in his perspective of the Caribbean in the nineteenth century.
A. journey into the interior
B. house and land
C. ruins of a great house
D. what if i live in a house made by idiots?
Answer: C. ruins of a great house
47. The Canadian Literature was founded in _________.
A. 1959
B. 1957
C. 1965
D. 1960
Answer: A. 1959
48. Who among the following poets was influenced by Nietzsche, mythology, classics and nature?
A. less murray
B. a. d hope
C. almaghir hashmi
D. stephen gill
Answer: B. a. d hope
49. The Solid Mandala, a pre-war urban Australian novel is written by ___________.
A. margaret laurence
B. margaret atwood
C. patrick white
D. judith wright
Answer: C. patrick white
50. Aime Cesaire is best known for his term ________.
A. negritude
B. harlem
C. diaspora
D. hybridity
Answer: A. negritude
51. Who proposes the idea of ‘mimicry’ (in Of Mimicry and Man), the disciplined imitation of the white man by the native?
A. bhabha
B. edward said
C. spivak
D. stuart hall
Answer: A. bhabha
52. The Wretched of the Earth (1963) is written by ___________.
A. franz fanon
B. homi k bhabha
C. foucault
D. edward said
Answer: B. homi k bhabha
53. The ________ is one of the best-known works of Brathwaite. cultural locations and identities.
A. hybridity
B. ambivalence
C. mimicry
D. binary opposition
Answer: B. ambivalence
54. ____________ deals with the theme of completeness.
A. hayavadana
B. yayati
C. tughluq
D. nagamandala
Answer: A. hayavadana
55. Whose use of the Female Chorus as Padmini’s mask is a novel feature in the masking tradition of India?
A. moraes
B. karnad
C. vijay tendulkar
D. a. k ramanujan
Answer: B. karnad
56. A House for Mr. Biswas was published in _______.
A. the road
B. the lion and the jewel
C. the stone angel
D. hayavadana
Answer: A. the road
57. ___________ draws inspiration from a 1940 novella by Thomas Mann called The Transposed Heads.
A. hayavadana
B. the road
C. our country’s good
D. the stone angel
Answer: A. hayavadana
58. ___________ is set in the fictitious town of Manawaka, Monitaba in the early 1960s.
A. the stone angel
B. things fall apart
C. the kite runner
D. arrow of god
Answer: A. the stone angel
59. Chinua Achebe’s ________________ is a classic portrayal of colonial encounter.
A. arrow of god
B. things fall apart
C. the kite runner
D. our country’s good
Answer: B. things fall apart
60. The protagonist of the novel Things Fall Apart is __________.
A. okonkwo
B. unoka
C. nwoye
D. ezinma
Answer: A. okonkwo
61. Things Fall Apart is about a small village in Nigeria called __________.
A. umuofia
B. africa
C. barbados
D. caribbean island
Answer: A. umuofia
62. The novel takes its title from W. B Yeats’ poem titled ________________.
A. easter 1916
B. second coming
C. september 1930
D. among the school children
Answer: B. second coming
63. The Kite Runner tells the story of ________, the narrator and protagonist.
A. the kite runner
B. thousand splendid suns
C. and the mountains echoed
D. none of the above
Answer: A. the kite runner
64. _______________ is a history play based on real events that took place in the 18th Century among the first convicts transported from England to Australian penal colonies.
A. our country’s good (1988)
B. our good country (1988)
C. our good’s country (1988)
D. none of the above
Answer: A. our country’s good (1988)
65. Our Country’s Good by ________________, is a play that begins in the hold of the vessel Sirius, a convict ship.
A. timberlake wertenbaker
B. margaret laurence
C. margaret atwood
D. chinua achebe
Answer: A. timberlake wertenbaker
66. Professor, a protagonist of the play The Road, owns a shop called ____________.
A. accident store
B. aksident store
C. acid store
D. none of the above
Answer: B. aksident store
67. The poem ________ depicts the struggle against the colonial language, literature and culture.
A. new york
B. nigeria
C. negus
D. africa
Answer: C. negus
68. ________ is a ritual ceremony of singing, drumming, dancing and spirit- possession brought over from Africa to the New World by slaves.
A. kumina
B. komina
C. kimona
D. barbados
Answer: A. kumina
69. ___________ is an English poet of Pakistan origin.
A. almaghir hashmi
B. ee tiang hong
C. allen curnow
D. brathwaite
Answer: A. almaghir hashmi
70. The poem ________ describes the modernization of the capital city as a form of historical change from a natural landscape to a city scape.
A. tranquerah (1985)
B. myths for the wilderness (1976)
C. i of the many faces (1960)
D. none of the above
Answer: A. tranquerah (1985)
71. _________ was one of the first-generation Malaya poets writing in English.
A. ee tiang hong
B. almaghir hashmi
C. allen curnow
D. david diop
Answer: A. ee tiang hong