MCQs - Life and works of Chinua Achebe
1. What is the title of Chinua Achebe's most famous novel?
A. Things Fall Apart
B. Arrow of God
C. No Longer at Ease
D. A Man of the People
Answer: A. Things Fall Apart
2. What was Chinua Achebe's first novel?
A. Things Fall Apart
B. Arrow of God
C. No Longer at Ease
D. The Education of a British-Protected Child
Answer: A. Things Fall Apart
3. In which country was Chinua Achebe born?
A. Nigeria
B. Kenya
C. Ghana
D. Tanzania
Answer: A. Nigeria
4. What literary award did Chinua Achebe win in 2007?
A. Man Booker International Prize
B. Nobel Prize in Literature
C. Pulitzer Prize
D. Commonwealth Writers' Prize
Answer: A. Man Booker Prize
5.Which of the following books was not written by Chinua Achebe?
A. Things Fall Apart
B. Arrow of God
C. Half of a Yellow Sun
D. No Longer at Ease
Answer: C. Half of a Yellow Sun is a Novel by Chimamanda Ngozi
Adichie
6.Which literary movement is Chinua Achebe associated with?
A. Modernism
B. Postmodernism
C. Post colonial
D. Romanticism
Answer: C. Post colonial
7.In what year did Chinua Achebe pass away?
A. 2012
B. 2013
C. 2014
D. 2015
Answer: B. 2013
8. What was Chinua Achebe's native language?
A. Yoruba
B. Igbo
C. Hausa
D. Swahili
Answer: B. Igbo
9. What is the title of Chinua Achebe's memoir?
A. Things Fall Apart
B. No Longer at Ease
C. There Was a Country
D. Arrow of God
Answer: C. There Was a Country
10.Which country did Chinua Achebe spend much of his adult life
in?
A. Nigeria
B. United States
C. United Kingdom
D. Canada
Answer: B. United States
11.What was the title of Chinua Achebe's last published book?
A. Anthills of the Savannah
B. No Longer at Ease
C. A Man of the People
D. There Was a Country
Answer: D. There Was a Country full title is "There Was a
Country: A Personal History of Biafra (2012)"
12.In which year was Chinua Achebe born?
A. 1929
B. 1930
C. 1931
D. 1932
Answer: B. 16 November 1930
13.Which of the following is not a recurring theme in Chinua
Achebe's work?
A. Colonialism
B. Religion
C. Political corruption
D. Science fiction
Answer: D. Science fiction
14.Which of the following statements is true about Chinua Achebe?
A. He was the first African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
B. He was the first African to become the president of his
country.
C. He was a strong advocate
for the use of the English language in African literature.
D. He spent most of his life working as a journalist.
Answer: C. He was a strong advocate for the use of the English
language in African literature.
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22. Which of the following is not a major character in Things Fall
Apart?
A. Okonkwo
B. Nwoye
C. Obierika
D. Olaudah Equiano
Answer: D. Olaudah Equiano
23.Which of the following themes is central to Chinua Achebe's
work?
A. Racism
B. Nationalism
C. Feminism
D. Capitalism
Answer: B. Nationalism
24.Which of the following works by Chinua Achebe is a collection
of short stories?
A. No Longer at Ease
B. Arrow of God
C. Girls at War and Other Stories
D. Things Fall Apart
Answer: C. Girls at War and
25.What genre best describes Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People?
A. Tragic drama
B. Political satire
C. Science fiction
D. Historical romance
Answer: B. Political satire
26.What role did Achebe play in Nigeria’s civil war (Biafran War)?
A. Army General
B. War Correspondent
C. Biafran government ambassador
D. Refugee camp volunteer
Answer: C. Biafran government ambassador
27.Which Achebe novel explores the conflict between traditional
beliefs and Christianity through the character of Ezeulu?
A. Things Fall Apart
B. Arrow of God
C. No Longer at Ease
D. Anthills of the Savannah
Answer: B. Arrow of God
28.Chinua Achebe was a professor at which of the following
universities in the United States?
A. Stanford University
B. University of Michigan
C. Brown University
D. Columbia University
Answer: C. Brown University
29.What publishing imprint is closely associated with the rise of
African literature and featured Achebe's works prominently?
A. Penguin Classics
B. African Writers Series (Heinemann)
C. Vintage International
D. Random House Africa
Answer: B. African Writers Series
30.Chinua Achebe wrote a critical essay on the depiction of Africa
in which of the following works?
A. The Tempest
B. Heart of Darkness
C. The Waste Land
D. King Solomon’s Mines
Answer: B. Heart of Darkness
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