McqMate
These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Master of Arts in English (MA English) .
| 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. |
________ has generated a new form of colonial domination, often termed 66. 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 written by ____________. 84. 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. |
____________ is the first novel written in English by Khaled Hosseini. 90. 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 | |
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