MCQs -WORLD LITERATURE

 

MCQs: WORLD LITERATURE

1. Which Nobel laureate wrote the novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude"?

A. Gabriel García Márquez     B. Ernest Hemingway             C. Albert Camus          D. Salman Rushdie

 

2. Which Booker Prize-winning novel by Salman Rushdie is known for its magical realism and deals with the partition of India and Pakistan?

A. Midnight's Children           B. The Satanic Verses 

C. Shalimar the Clown            D. The Moor's Last Sigh

 

3. Which book by J.M. Coetzee won the Booker Prize in 1983?

A. "Disgrace"                                       B. "Waiting for the Barbarians"

C. "Life & Times of Michael K"            D. "The Master of Petersburg"

 

4. Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2020 for her "narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life"?

A. Margaret Atwood  B. Olga Tokarczuk       C. Kazuo Ishiguro        D. Salman Rushdie

 

5. Which Booker Prize-winning novel by Arundhati Roy explores the lives of twins Rahel and Estha in Kerala, India?

A. "A Fine Balance"     B. "White Teeth"        C. "The God of Small Things" D. "The Inheritance of Loss"

 

6. Who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016 for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition"?

A. Bob Dylan               B. Haruki Murakami               C. Philip Roth              D. Ian McEwan

 

7. "The Remains of the Day," a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, won the Booker Prize in 1989. Which prestigious award did Kazuo Ishiguro also receive in 2017?

A. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction                 B. Man Booker International Prize

C. National Book Award                     D. Nobel Prize in Literature

 

8.What does the term "postcolonial literature" primarily refer to?

A. Literature written during the colonial period       B. Literature written after the end of colonial rule

C. Literature written by colonial rulers                      D. Literature written before the colonial era

 

9. Who is the author of the novel "Things Fall Apart," a seminal work in postcolonial literature that explores the impact of British colonialism in Nigeria?

A. Chinua Achebe       B. Wole Soyinka          C. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o              D. Salman Rushdie

 

10. Which postcolonial author is known for the novel "Midnight's Children," which deals with the history and cultural identity of India after gaining independence from British rule?

A. Arundhati Roy        B. Salman Rushdie      C. J.M. Coetzee           D. Nadine Gordimer

 

11.In postcolonial literature, what does the term "hybridity" often refer to?

A. The blending of multiple cultural identities                      B. A form of colonial resistance

C. The dominance of one culture over others                       D. The promotion of colonial values

 

 

12. Which postcolonial author wrote "Half of a Yellow Sun," a novel that explores the Nigerian-Biafran War and its impact on individuals and families?

A. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie           B. Ama Ata Aidoo   C. Tsitsi Dangarembga       D. Buchi Emecheta

 

13.Who is the author of the novel "Things Fall Apart," a seminal work in postcolonial literature that explores the impact of British colonialism in Nigeria?

A. Chinua Achebe       B. Wole Soyinka          C. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o              D. Salman Rushdie

 

14. Which Nobel laureate is best known for his novel "The Old Man and the Sea"?

A. Gabriel García Márquez     B. Ernest Hemingway             C. Toni Morrison         D. Salman Rushdie

 

15. "The Testaments," a sequel to her famous novel "The Handmaid's Tale," earned Margaret Atwood a Booker Prize in 2019. In which year did she receive the Booker Prize for "The Blind Assassin"?

A. 1993            B. 2000            C. 2003            D. 2009

 

16. Which Booker Prize-winning novel by Yann Martel tells the story of a young Indian man named Pi Patel who survives a shipwreck and shares a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker?

A. "Amsterdam"         B. "The Luminaries"    C. "The Life of Pi"        D. "The White Tiger"

 

17. Who is the only author to have been awarded both the Nobel Prize in Literature (in 1982) and the Booker Prize (in 1974 for "The Conservationist")?

A. Salman Rushdie      B. V.S. Naipaul            C. Kazuo Ishiguro        D. Arundhati Roy

 

18. In 2013, Alice Munro became the first Canadian author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Which genre is she primarily known for?

A. Science Fiction       B. Poetry         C. Short Stories           D. Historical Fiction

 

19. Who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003 for his "novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, giving life to an essential aspect of American reality"?

A. Kazuo Ishiguro                    B. J.M. Coetzee                       C. Orhan Pamuk          D. John Steinbeck

 

20. Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962 for his "powerful epic writing, most recently exemplified in 'A Man and His Dog' and 'The Blue Bird'"?

A. Pablo Neruda         B. Jean-Paul Sartre     C. Albert Camus          D. Boris Pasternak

 

Answers:

1.A	2.A	3.C	4.B	5.C	6.A	7.D	8.B	9.A	10B
11.A	12.A	13.A	14.B	15.A	16.C	17.B	18.C	19.B	20.A