MCQs - on 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 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)
Realism
d)
Romanticism
Answer:
c) Realism
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.
15)
Which of the following works is not a part of
Chinua Achebe's African Trilogy?
a)
No Longer at Ease
b)
Things Fall Apart
c)
Arrow of God
d)
A Man of the People
Answer:
d) A Man of the People
16)
Which Nigerian literary magazine did Chinua
Achebe co-found in 1963?
a)
Transition
b)
African Writers Series
c)
Heinemann African Writers Series
d)
Okike
Answer:
d) Okike
17)
Which of the following works did Chinua Achebe
write in response to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness?
a)
No Longer at Ease
b)
Arrow of God
c)
A Man of the People
d)
An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of
Darkness
Answer:
d) An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness
18)
Which of the following novels by Chinua Achebe
is set during the Biafran War?
a)
Things Fall Apart
b)
Arrow of God
c)
No Longer at Ease
d)
A Man of the People
Answer:
c) No Longer at Ease
19)
Which of the following is not a collection of
Chinua Achebe's poetry?
a)
Beware, Soul Brother and Other Poems
b)
Christmas in Biafra and Other Poems
c)
Refugee Mother and Child
d)
Collected Poems
Answer:
c) Refugee Mother and Child
20)
Which of the following awards did Chinua Achebe
receive in recognition of his contributions to African literature?
a)
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria
b)
Order of the British Empire
c)
Presidential Medal of Freedom
d)
Legion of Honour
Answer:
a) Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
21)
Which of the following works by Chinua Achebe
was not published in the 20th century?
a)
No Longer at Ease
b)
Arrow of God
c)
Anthills of the Savannah
d)
The Education of a British-Protected Child
Answer:
d) The Education of a British-Protected Child
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 Other Stories
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