MCQs - "Dream on Monkey Mountain"- By Derek Walcott
SET-I
MCQs on Dream on Monkey Mountain
1. Who is not true about Derek Walcott's "Dream on Monkey Mountain"?
a. Makak is the protagonist.
b. Corporal Lestrade is the antagonist.
c. It is first produced in Aug 1967, published in 1971.
d. It has prologue, epilogue and 2 acts with 6 scenes.
2. Epigraph in Dream on Monkey Mountain is taken from
a. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
b. Franz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth
c. Gayatri Spivak’s Can the subaltern speak?
d. Edward Said’s Orientalism
3. Where is the play set?
a. In Africa
b. In Europe
c. In North America
d. In Unnamed Caribbean Island
4. The play opens and ends in:
a. Reality, in Jail
b. Dream, in Jail
c. Dream, on Monkey Mountain
d. Reality, on Monkey Mountain
5. Which character is compared to Satan, who dies twice in the play
a. Moustique
b. Corporal Lestrade
c. Tigre
d. Souris
6. The play received “Obie award” for best foreign play in …….; and Walcott got “Nobel prize” in……..
a. 1970, 1990
b. 1970,1991
c. 1971,1992
d. 1972, 1993
7. The play is influenced by
a. Japanese Kabuki theatre
b. Japanese Noh theatre
c. Classical theatre of Harlem
d. All the above
8. Kevin Kelly compared “Dream on Monkey Mountain” to ………. and Walcott to ……….
a. Canterbury Tales, Chaucer
b. Bible, Shakespeare
c. Paradise lost, Milton
d. Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
9. Which is not true about the stage in the beginning of Prologue?
a. A drum is placed in the middle of the stage
b. The disc of the drum represents Sun.
c. A dancer comes to sit beside the drum
d. A white figure is dressed like Baron Samedi.
10. The chorus in the beginning scene is singing about (Prologue):
a. The cruelty of colonialism
b. Jesus Christ
c. Monkey mountain
d. Her son in jail
11. Which is not true about jail cells before the beginning of the prologue
a. There are two cells on stage
b. They are on either side of the stage.
c. Makak is in a cell
d. Tigre and Souris are in one cell
12. Makak was arrested, because (prologue)
a. He destroyed things at Alcindor Café
b. He rebelled against the colonial authority
c. He is a thief
d. He is a murderer
13. Which is not true about Makak’s answers to Corporal? (prologue)
a. He claims that he is King of Africa
b. He is not able to recall his name.
c. He calls himself protestant.
d. He wants to go to monkey mountain.
14. Who tempts Makak into believing he is the chosen one?
a. Moustique
b. Tigre
c. Corporal Lestrade
d. Souris
15. Who is compared to lime, white snow, marble, lilies, cloud, foam, bleaching cream etc..
a. Dancer
b. Narrator
c. Wife of Josephus
d. White woman
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16. Who are the two felons in the play
a. Makak and Moustique
b. Tigre and Souris
c. Corporal and Pamphillion
d. Basil and Josephus
17. Which of the following is not rightly matched (Name and meaning).
a. Moustique = mosquito
b. Tigre = Tiger
c. Souris = Rat
d. None of the above
18. Which of the following is not true about Makak.
a. Makak means monkey
b. Makak is 65 years old.
c. He is a charcoal burner
d. He suffers from fits
19. Which of the following is not an underlying theme of the play?
a. Search for identity and self-discovery
b. Oppression and slavery
c. Effects of globalization on Caribbean Education
d. Rebellion against the Colonization
20. Who says "Animals, beasts, savages, cannibals, niggers, stop turning this place to a stink zoo!" (Prologue)
a. Corporal Lestrade
b. Moustique
c. Tigre
d. Souris
21. Who says, “I can both accuse and defend this man” (prologue)
a. Moustique
b. Tigre
c. Corporal Lestrade
d. Souris
22. Which is not true about the court scene. (prologue)
a. Corporal brought four towels
b. They are 2 white and 2 yellow towels
c. Corporal gives two towels to Tigre and Souris
d. Tigre and Souris act as judges.
23. Who says, “Send me home, Corporal, I suffer from madness” (prologue)
a. Moustique
b. Tigre
c. Souris
d. Makak
24. What is Corporal Lestrade's role in the play?
a. Colonial authority figure
b. Member of the rebel group
c. Represents supernatural world.
d. Symbol of African heritage.
25. Who criticizes Makak harshly: “Masturbating in Moon light, Dreaming of women” (prologue)
a. Moustique
b. Tigre
c. Souris
d. Corporal
26. Who says that, “I fall in a frenzy every full moon night, I am responsible to only to God who once speaks to me in the form of a woman on monkey mountain. I am God’s warrior” (prologue)
a. Moustique
b. Tigre
c. Souris
d. Makak
27. Which character wears long coat and black silk hat; and represents death?
a. Corporal
b. Tigre
c. Basil
d. The apparition
28. Makak says, “A million silver needles prickle my blood.” What is the figure of speech in the sentence?
a. Hyperbole
b. Personification
c. Oxymoron
d. Pun
29. Who says to whom: ‘Sir, I am sixty years old, I have live all my life, Like a wild beast in hiding, without child, without wife, People forget me like the mist on Monkey mountain” (prologue)
a. Makak to Corporal
b. Corporal to Makak
c. Moustique to Makak
d. Makak to Moustique
30. “Is thirty years now I have look in no mirror”. Who is “I” in this sentence?
a. Moustique
b. Tigre
c. Souris
d. Makak
31. Makak says, “Like the moon walking along her own road”. What is the figure of speech in the sentence?
a. Metaphor
b. Personification
c. Apostrophe
d. Anaphora
32. Which of the following is true about the play?
a. Only prologue is real
b. Act I and II are real
c. Only Prologue and Epilogue are real
d. Entire play is dream
33. What/who is “Berthilia”? (Act-I, Sce-1)
a. Makak’s Donkey
b. Makak’s wife
c. White apparition
d. Makak’s Dog
34. Who says, “Going mad? Go mad tomorrow, today is market day. We have three bags at three and six a bag make 10 shillings and 6 pence for the week” (Act-I, Sce-1)
a. Tigre
b. Moustique
c. Souris
d. Makak
35. Who has twisted foot.
a. Tigre
b. Souris
c. Makak
d. Moustique
36. Which is not true about Makak and Moustique. (Act-I, Sce-1)
a. They are friends and business partners
b. They sell charcoal
c. Their friendship completed 3 years last August.
d. Makak saved Moustique from gutter.
37. Makak says, “She did know my name, my age, where I born, and that it was charcoal that I burn and selling for a living. She know how I live alone, with no wife and no friend”. Who is she here ? (Act-I, Sce-1)
a. White woman
b. Dancer
c. Wife of Josephus
d. None of the above
38. Who acts as the prosecutor in the mock trial? (prologue)
a. Souris
b. The Corporal.
c. Moustique
d. Tigre
39. Who feels “I think I ugly” (Act-I, Sce-1)
a. Tigre
b. Souris
c. Moustique
d. Makak
40. The white woman said to Makak that he belongs to: (Act-I, Sce-1)
a. America
b. Caribbean Island
c. Family of lions and kings
d. None of the above
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41. Who is afraid of a spider and says, “A spider was on the sack. A big white one with eggs. A mother with white eggs. I hate those things” (Act-I, Sce-1)
a. Tigre
b. Souris
c. Makak
d. Moustique
42. Who says that “spider” is a bad sign. (Act-I, Sce-1)
a. Tigre
b. Moustique
c. Makak
d. Souris
43. Who says, “Everyman have to die. It have million ways to die, But no spider with white eggs will bring it.” (Act-I, Sce-1)
b. Moustique
c. Souris
d. Makak
44. At the end of scene-1, Makak decided to start his journey to: (Act-I, Sce-1)
a. Africa
b. Caribbean Island
c. America
d. Britain
45. After scene-1, a dancer performs “burroquite” dance on stage. What is it? (Act-I, Sce-1)
a. Monkey dance
b. Donkey dance
c. Spider dance
d. Ape dance
46. Which is true about the “sick man”? (Act-I Sce-2)
a. He is not sweating
b. His name is Josephus
c. He got snake bite
d. All the above
47. Which of the following is true about the sick man scene? (Act-I Sce-2)
a. Members of sisterhood are white-robed woman
b. Four men are carrying him in a bamboo hammock on a country road
c. women are shaking their heads, clapping, singing, dancing and praying
d. All the above
48. Moustique says he might be worried if Basil was a what? (Act-I Sce-2)
a. Spider
b. Donkey
c. Moon
d. Ape
49. Who are accompanying the sick man? (Act-I Sce-2)
a. Doctor and Priest
b. A group of men and women
c. Coffin maker
d. All the above
50. What does Moustique say he will give the Peasants the power of healing in exchange of ……….. ? (Act-I Sce-2)
a. Money
b. Clothes
c. Bread
d. Wine
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SET-II
51. Who says, “Makak, unlike white men, is not helpless in the face of illness?” (Act-I Sce-2)
a. Moustique
b. Souris
c. Makak
d. Tigre
52. Who says, “These niggers too tired to believe anything again”
a. Makak
b. Corporal
c. Moustique
d. The White Woman
53. To whom Basil says, “You are standing in the middle, a white road, with four legs. Think what that mean, friend. I can wait for my hat”
a. Souris
b. Makak
c. Tigre
d. Moustique.
54. Who says, “I see a road paved with silver. I see the ocean multiplying with shillings”
a. Souris
b. Moustique
c. Makak
d. Tigre
55. Makak says, “This power I have, is not for profit” in reaction to
a. Basil’s words
b. Makak’s greed
c. Corporal’s law
d. White Apparition
56. Who takes Basil's hat? (Act-I, Sce-2)
a. Souris
b. Makak
c. Tigre
d. Moustique.
57. Who says, “Pray for the day when people will not need money, when faith alone move mountains. Pray for the day when poverty done, and for when niggers everywhere could walk upright like men” (Act-I, Sce-2)
a. Tigre
b. Moustique
c. Souris
d. Makak
58. Who pretends to be Makak in market? (Act-I, Sce-3)
a. Tigre
b. Moustique
c. Souris
d. Makak
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SET-III
MCQs on Dream on Monkey Mountain
1. Who is the protagonist of Dream on Monkey Mountain?
A) Corporal Lestrade
B) Makak
C) Moustique
D) Basil
Answer: B) Makak
2. What triggers Makak’s transformation in the play?
A) His arrest by the police
B) A dream involving a white woman
C) His rejection by the villagers
D) A visit to the city
Answer: B) A dream involving a white woman
3. What does Makak's name mean in the local language?
A) Dreamer
B) Prophet
C) Monkey
D) King
Answer: C) Monkey
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