MCQs- Post Colonial Literature
1. Which post-colonial critic is known for her
work on the concept of the "subaltern" and for her essay "Can
the Subaltern Speak?"?
A) Edward Said
B) Franz
Fanon
C) Gayatri Spivak
D) Homi
Bhabha
2. Who is known for his influential work
"The Wretched of the Earth"?
A) Chinua Achebe
B) Frantz
Fanon
C) Edward Said
D) Homi
Bhabha
3. Which post-colonial critic is known for his
work on "The Location of Culture"?
A) Edward Said
B) Frantz
Fanon
C) Gayatri Spivak
D) Homi
Bhabha
4. Which of the
following statements is NOT correct?
(A) A Creole is a language that has developed from a mixture of languages
and become the main language in a particular place.
(B) A Creole is a person descended from the Europeans who first settled
in the West Indies or the Southern United States of America.
(C) A Creole is a standard language used in official and formal
situations by governments, in media and in education.
(D) A Creole is a person of mixed African and European race, who lives in
the West Indies and speaks a Creole language.
5.
Provincializing Europe is a concept by
A) Edward Said
B) Dipesh
Chakravarthy
C) Gayatri Spivak
D) Homi K
Bhaba
6. The author
of Nation and Narration is
A) Edward Said
B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
C) Frantz Fanon
D) Homi Bhabha
7. Imagined
Communities is a book by
A) Ajjaz Ahmad
B) Edward Said
C) Perry Anderson
D) Benedict Anderson
8. Who among
the following developed the term “Strategic essentialism”?
A) Edward Said
B)
Gayatri Spivak
C) Homi Bhabha
D)
Aijaz Ahmed
9. Which is the
correct title of Franz Fanon’s 1952 work?
A) Black Skins, White Masks
B) Black Skins, White Mask
C) Black Skin, White Mask
D) Black Skin, White Masks
10.Who translated Derrida’s ‘Of Grammatology’
into English?
A) Edward Said
B) Gayatri Spivak
C) Homi Bhabha
D) Aijaz Ahmed
11. Who
is known for her novel "Half of a Yellow Sun," which explores the
Biafran War in Nigeria?
A) J.M. Coetzee
B) Arundhati Roy
C) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
D) V.S. Naipaul
12. Who
is considered the "father of postcolonial theory"?
A. Frantz Fanon
B. Edward Said
C. Homi K. Bhabha
D. Albert Memmi
Answer: B.
Edward Said
13.
Which of the following is NOT a member of the “Holy Trinity” of colonial
discourse analysis?
A. Edward Said
B. Gayatri Spivak
C. Chinua Achebe
D. Homi Bhabha
Answer: C.
Chinua Achebe
14. The
concept of "contrapuntal reading" was coined by:
A. Frantz Fanon
B. Henry Louis Gates
Jr.
C. Edward Said
D. Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Answer: C.
Edward Said
15. Who
introduced the concept of "hybridity" in postcolonial theory?
A. Aime Cesaire
B. Homi K. Bhabha
C. Edward Soja
D. Benedict Anderson
Answer: B.
Homi K. Bhabha
16. The
book Orientalism was published in:
A. 1988
B. 1966
C. 1978
D. 1952
Answer: C.
1978
17. Who
coined the term “negritude”?
A. Léopold
Sédar Senghor
B. Frantz
Fanon
C. Aimé
Césaire
D. George
Lamming
Answer: C.
Aimé Césaire
18. In
which book does Salman Rushdie critique the idea of “Commonwealth Literature”?
A.
Imaginary Homelands
B.
Midnight’s Children
C. The
Satanic Verses
D. The
East is Blue
Answer: A.
Imaginary Homelands
19. The
character of the Signifying Monkey is associated with:
A. Gayatri Spivak
B. Homi Bhabha
C. Henry Louis Gates Jr.
D. Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Answer: C.
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
20.
"Une Tempête" by Aime Cesaire is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s:
A. Hamlet
B. King Lear
C. Othello
D. The Tempest
Answer: D.
The Tempest
21.
What is the focus of The Empire Writes Back by Ashcroft, Griffiths, and Tiffin?
A. Magic
realism
B. African
feminism
C.
Postcolonial literary theory
D.
Diasporic literature
Answer: C.
Postcolonial literary theory
22. The
theory of “Imagined Communities” was developed by:
A. Edward Soja
B. Benedict Anderson
C. Dipesh Chakrabarty
D. Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Answer: B.
Benedict Anderson
23.
Which of the following terms was coined by Spivak?
A. Mimicry
B. Hybridity
C. Worlding
D. Print
Capitalism
Answer: C.
Worlding
24. Who
authored Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature?
A. Ngugi wa Thiong’o
B. Aime
Cesaire
C. Edward Said
D. Franz Fanon
Answer: A.
Ngugi wa Thiong’o
25. The
term "diaspora" in postcolonial theory is associated with:
A.
European nationalism
B.
Colonial literature
C.
Ex-colonial identity and displacement
D. Realism
and fantasy
Answer: C.
Ex-colonial identity and displacement
26.
Which of the following is a concept of W.E.B. Du Bois?
A.
Subaltern
B.
Hybridity
C. Double
Consciousness
D.
Strategic essentialism
Answer: C.
Double Consciousness
27. Who
wrote Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference?
A. Edward
Said
B.
Benedict Anderson
C. Dipesh
Chakrabarty
D. Aime
Cesaire
Answer: C.
Dipesh Chakrabarty
28. Who
introduced the term "colonial discourse" in postcolonial theory?
A. Homi
Bhabha
B. Michel
Foucault
C. Edward
Said
D. Gayatri
Spivak
Answer: C.
Edward Said
29. The
phrase “Think globally, act locally" is associated with Glocalization. Who
popularized the concept of “Glocalization”?
A. Homi Bhabha
B. Roland Robertson
C. Zygmunt Bauman
D. Edward Said
Answer: B.
Roland Robertson
30. According
to Bill Ashcrfft, “Magic Realism” was first used in a postcolonial context by:
A. Salman
Rushdie
B. Jacques
Stephen Alexis
C. Gabriel
Garcia Marquez
D. Chinua
Achebe
Answer: B.
Jacques Stephen Alexis
31. Who
coined the term “Neo-colonialism”?
A. Frantz Fanon
B. Kwame Nkrumah
C. Gayatri Spivak
D. W.E.B. Du Bois
Answer: B.
Kwame Nkrumah
32. The
term “Orientalism” is derived from the Latin word meaning:
A.
Civilization
B.
Knowledge
C. East
D.
Darkness
Answer: C.
East
33. The
term “ambivalence” in colonial discourse was developed by:
A. Edward
Said
B. Chinua
Achebe
C. Homi
Bhabha
D. Aime
Cesaire
Answer: C.
Homi Bhabha
34.
Antonio Gramsci’s theory of “hegemony” is best described as:
A. Rule by
force
B.
Domination through consent
C.
Religious superiority
D.
Intellectual liberation
Answer: B.
Domination through consent
35. The
term “Othering” was coined by:
A. Jacques
Derrida
B. Gayatri
Spivak
C. Michel
Foucault
D. Frantz
Fanon
Answer: B.
Gayatri Spivak
36. A
Pidgin becomes a Creole when:
A. It is
formalized by colonial government
B. It is
used in trade
C. It
becomes the native language of a community
D. It is
translated into English
Answer: C.
It becomes the native language of a community
37.
Which of the following best represents the "Contact Zone"?
A.
Colonizer’s territory
B.
Homeland of the colonized
C. A space
where cultures meet and clash
D. A
political zone of neutrality
Answer: C.
A space where cultures meet and clash
38.
“Third Space” theory of cultural hybridity was developed by:
A. Zygmunt
Bauman
B. Michel
Foucault
C. Edward
Soja and Homi Bhabha
D. Jacques
Derrida
Answer: C.
Edward Soja and Homi Bhabha
39.
“Double Consciousness” was introduced by:
A. Kwame
Nkrumah
B. W.E.B.
Du Bois
C. Edward
Said
D. Chinua
Achebe
Answer: B.
W.E.B. Du Bois
40.
Which early 20th-century essay by Du Bois explores "Double
Consciousness"?
A. The
Wretched of the Earth
B. Of Our
Spiritual Strivings
C. Culture
and Imperialism
D. Black
Aesthetic
Answer: B.
Of Our Spiritual Strivings
41.
Which theory was developed by Marshall Sahlins to explain colonized societies
accepting external rulers?
A.
Hegemony
B. Third
Space
C.
Stranger-King Theory
D.
Cultural Relativism
Answer: C.
Stranger-King Theory
42.
Homi Bhabha’s idea of “Hybridity” was inspired by:
A. Mikhail
Bakhtin’s Polyphony
B. Roland
Barthes’ Mythologies
C.
Derrida’s Deconstruction
D.
Saussure’s Structuralism
Answer: A.
Mikhail Bakhtin’s Polyphony
43. The
idea of "mimicry" in postcolonial discourse suggests:
A.
Colonizers copying native dress
B.
Colonized mimicking colonizer behavior
C.
Creation of original languages
D.
Backward imitation
Answer: B.
Colonized mimicking colonizer behavior
44.
Which of these works is not by Frantz Fanon?
A. The
Wretched of the Earth
B. Black
Skin, White Masks
C.
Orientalism
D. A Dying
Colonialism
Answer: C.
Orientalism
45.
“The Souls of Black Folk” was written by:
A. Du Bois
B. Fanon
C. Said
D. Achebe
Answer: A.
Du Bois
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