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.

 

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 by Chinua Achebe is about Biafran War?

A. Things Fall Apart

B. Arrow of God

C.  There was a country

D. A Man of the People

Answer: C. There was a country

 

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

 

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