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These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in English (BA English) .
| 101. |
Who wrote Second Sex, an important work of feminism? |
| A. | simon de bouveur |
| B. | sartre |
| C. | toril moi |
| D. | spivak |
| Answer» A. simon de bouveur | |
| 102. |
Who was the person who led the Chavadar lake satyagraha on 25 December 1927? |
| A. | dr ambedkar |
| B. | gandhi |
| C. | nehru |
| D. | subash chandra bose |
| Answer» A. dr ambedkar | |
| 103. |
As a revolt against caste oppression Dr Ambedkar got converted to October 1956. |
| A. | buddhism |
| B. | jainism |
| C. | islam |
| D. | christianity |
| Answer» A. buddhism | |
| 104. |
Why I am not a Hindu is a work by_ |
| A. | kanjah illaiah |
| B. | b r ambedkar |
| C. | spivak |
| D. | bama |
| Answer» A. kanjah illaiah | |
| 105. |
WEB Du Bois’s idea that black people could never see oneself through their eyes but only through the eyes of the white is called |
| A. | white myth |
| B. | multiple consciousnesses |
| C. | double consciousness |
| D. | false consciousness |
| Answer» C. double consciousness | |
| 106. |
WEB Du Bois argued that the view that blacks were biologically inferior is not scientific in his book |
| A. | the souls of the black folk |
| B. | black skin white masks |
| C. | the wretched of the earth |
| D. | good earth |
| Answer» A. the souls of the black folk | |
| 107. |
Dirk Hoerder brilliant argues the European Renaissance understood as exclusively European phenomena was in fact a mixture of cultural contributions in his book |
| A. | cultures in contact |
| B. | black skin white masks |
| C. | the wretched of the earth |
| D. | culture and anarchy |
| Answer» A. cultures in contact | |
| 108. |
Who coined the word Gynocriticism? |
| A. | shakespeare |
| B. | elaine showalter |
| C. | virginia wolf |
| D. | toril moi |
| Answer» B. elaine showalter | |
| 109. |
The suffragette movement is connected with _ |
| A. | marxism |
| B. | ecocriticism |
| C. | feminism |
| D. | orientalism |
| Answer» C. feminism | |
| 110. |
Which is Mary Wollstonecraft’s work on feminism |
| A. | mad woman in the attic |
| B. | a vindication of the rights of woman (1792 |
| C. | the subjection of women (1869 |
| D. | on the rights of women |
| Answer» B. a vindication of the rights of woman (1792 | |
| 111. |
Who wrote the essay “The Black Arts Movement” of 1968? |
| A. | larry neal |
| B. | mal com |
| C. | hl gates |
| D. | gayle |
| Answer» A. larry neal | |
| 112. |
_represents a number of Afro‐Americans whose work shaped the social and political turbulence of the 1960s |
| A. | black arts movement |
| B. | dalit movement |
| C. | romantic movement |
| D. | renaissance |
| Answer» A. black arts movement | |
| 113. |
Who founded the Black Arts Repertory Theater/School in 1965 at Harlem? |
| A. | martin luther king |
| B. | imamu amiri baraka |
| C. | le roi jones |
| D. | wole soyinka |
| Answer» B. imamu amiri baraka | |
| 114. |
Imamu Amiri Baraka was born as |
| A. | le roi jones |
| B. | wole soyinka |
| C. | mary anne evans |
| D. | martin luther |
| Answer» A. le roi jones | |
| 115. |
Baraka’s play, Dutchman is often considered an exemplary product of the_ |
| A. | black arts movement |
| B. | feminism |
| C. | new criticism |
| D. | ecoaesthetics |
| Answer» A. black arts movement | |
| 116. |
“I have a Dream” is a famous speech by |
| A. | malcom x |
| B. | martin luther king |
| C. | nehru |
| D. | abdul kalam |
| Answer» B. martin luther king | |
| 117. |
Id, egoand Super ego are the bi partition of the human psyche made by |
| A. | freud |
| B. | adler |
| C. | althusser |
| D. | s ramachandran |
| Answer» A. freud | |
| 118. |
Which feminist critic spoke about the need of a room for a woman to become a writer? |
| A. | simon de boeuver |
| B. | virginia wolf |
| C. | toril moi |
| D. | alice walker |
| Answer» B. virginia wolf | |
| 119. |
Donna Harraway’s notion of the “creature of the post – gender world” is called |
| A. | cyborg |
| B. | bisexual |
| C. | hetero sexual |
| D. | tansgender |
| Answer» A. cyborg | |
| 120. |
The term the French writer Halen Cixious used for feminine writing which is typically feminine in style, language, tome and feeling is called |
| A. | ecriture feminine |
| B. | exciter feminine |
| C. | feminist |
| D. | feminism |
| Answer» A. ecriture feminine | |
| 121. |
Who coined the term subaltern? |
| A. | antonio gramsci |
| B. | althusser |
| C. | antonia negri |
| D. | gayathri spivak |
| Answer» A. antonio gramsci | |
| 122. |
Which of the following is a not a novel by Toni Morrison the 1993 Afro‐American nobel prize winner? |
| A. | the bluest eye |
| B. | sula |
| C. | song of solomon |
| D. | a suitable boy |
| Answer» D. a suitable boy | |
| 123. |
Who classified the feminist authors into three main types : Femine phase 1840 – 1880, Feminist phase 1890 ‐ 1920s and the female phase. |
| A. | elaine showalter |
| B. | susan gubar |
| C. | sandra gilbert |
| D. | virginia wolf |
| Answer» A. elaine showalter | |
| 124. |
Sudras in Ancient India is a book written by . |
| A. | bipin chandra |
| B. | rs sharma |
| C. | n ram |
| D. | kosambi |
| Answer» B. rs sharma | |
| 125. |
“Who was Sudras?”, book authored by DR BR Ambedakar was dedicated to . |
| A. | ev ramaswami naikar |
| B. | jyothi rao phule |
| C. | bipin chandra |
| D. | nehru |
| Answer» B. jyothi rao phule | |
| 126. |
Who was the leader of Dravida Munneta Kazhakam? |
| A. | ev ramaswami naikar |
| B. | george fernandes |
| C. | vk krisna menon |
| D. | chandrik kumaratunge |
| Answer» A. ev ramaswami naikar | |
| 127. |
Who edited the first volume of Subaltern Studies? |
| A. | tt sree kumar |
| B. | ranajith guhe |
| C. | ijas ahammed |
| D. | gayathri spivak |
| Answer» B. ranajith guhe | |
| 128. |
Who authored the book In Theory? |
| A. | tt sree kumar |
| B. | ranajith gune |
| C. | ijas ahamed |
| D. | gayathri spivak |
| Answer» C. ijas ahamed | |
| 129. |
Towards Dalit Aesthetics is a book by |
| A. | bama |
| B. | saram kumar limbalai |
| C. | omprakash valmiki |
| D. | ismath chugthai |
| Answer» B. saram kumar limbalai | |
| 130. |
Myth literature and African world is a book by |
| A. | nelson mandela |
| B. | wole soyinka |
| C. | naipaul |
| D. | rushdie |
| Answer» B. wole soyinka | |
| 131. |
A female ho*mo sexual is called a |
| A. | bisexual |
| B. | transgender |
| C. | lesbian |
| D. | queer |
| Answer» C. lesbian | |
| 132. |
Who is the author of Coming Out? |
| A. | henry miller |
| B. | jidith butler |
| C. | jeffrey week |
| D. | sinfield |
| Answer» C. jeffrey week | |
| 133. |
Who wrote the book Orientalism? |
| A. | edward said |
| B. | gayatri chakravorty spivak |
| C. | franz fanon |
| D. | gandhi |
| Answer» A. edward said | |
| 134. |
is a person, especially a man who enjoys dressing as a member of the opposite sex. |
| A. | transsexual |
| B. | transvestite |
| C. | hermaphrodite |
| D. | bisexual |
| Answer» B. transvestite | |
| 135. |
is a person who feels comfortable living as a member of the opposite sex. |
| A. | queer |
| B. | gay |
| C. | transsexual |
| D. | hetro sexual |
| Answer» C. transsexual | |
| 136. |
Who is the author of History of Sexuality? |
| A. | derrida |
| B. | foucault |
| C. | henry miller |
| D. | dh lawrence |
| Answer» B. foucault | |
| 137. |
The term oriental and occidental mean and _respectively. |
| A. | european and western |
| B. | european and eastern |
| C. | eastern and western |
| D. | western and eastern |
| Answer» C. eastern and western | |
| 138. |
Who wrote the book The Wretched of the Earth? |
| A. | chinua achebe |
| B. | wole soyinka |
| C. | franz fanon |
| D. | edward said |
| Answer» C. franz fanon | |
| 139. |
The subtitle of the book The Empire Writes Back by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Hellen Tiffin is ? |
| A. | theory and practice |
| B. | theory in post colonial literatures |
| C. | theory and practice in post colonial literatures |
| D. | practice in post colonial literatures |
| Answer» C. theory and practice in post colonial literatures | |
| 140. |
Who wrote the essay “Can the Subaltern Speak?” |
| A. | gayatri chakravorty spivak |
| B. | chinua achebe |
| C. | wole soyinka |
| D. | edward said |
| Answer» A. gayatri chakravorty spivak | |
| 141. |
Who wrote the book The Location of Culture? |
| A. | gayatri chakravorty spivak |
| B. | chinua achebe |
| C. | raymond williams |
| D. | homi j bhabha |
| Answer» D. homi j bhabha | |
| 142. |
Interventions is an international journal of |
| A. | post colonial studies |
| B. | new historicism |
| C. | new criticism |
| D. | post modernism |
| Answer» A. post colonial studies | |
| 143. |
The books Culture and Society (1958) and theUses of Literacy (1958) which inaugurated movement are written by Raymond Williams and Richard Hoggart respectively. |
| A. | cultural studies |
| B. | post colonial studies |
| C. | new historicism |
| D. | deconstruction |
| Answer» A. cultural studies | |
| 144. |
In which year Richard Hoggart established the Burmingham Centre of Contemporary Cultural Studies? |
| A. | 1946 |
| B. | 1956 |
| C. | 1967 |
| D. | 1964 |
| Answer» D. 1964 | |
| 145. |
Mythologies a precursor of modern cultural studies is written by |
| A. | roland barthes |
| B. | homi j bhabha |
| C. | w b yeats |
| D. | northrop frye |
| Answer» A. roland barthes | |
| 146. |
Who used the term “cultural materialism” for the first time? |
| A. | raymond williams |
| B. | jonathan dollimore |
| C. | alan sinfield |
| D. | karl marx |
| Answer» A. raymond williams | |
| 147. |
Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield the British cultural materialists jointly wrote the book Political Shakespeare(1985). Its subtitle is_ |
| A. | new essays in cultural materialism |
| B. | essays in cultural materialism |
| C. | cultural materialism : a reader |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. new essays in cultural materialism | |
| 148. |
Clifford Geertz, the new historicist used the term for the close analysis or “reading” of a particular social production or event to recover its meanings. |
| A. | descriptions |
| B. | thick descriptions |
| C. | analysis |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. thick descriptions | |
| 149. |
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels jointly published Communist Manifesto in |
| A. | 1992 |
| B. | 1990 |
| C. | 1993 |
| D. | 1991 |
| Answer» C. 1993 | |
| 150. |
Which work begins with the statement “The History of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles”. |
| A. | german ideology |
| B. | das capital |
| C. | proletarians |
| D. | communist manifesto |
| Answer» D. communist manifesto | |
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