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51.

Professor, a protagonist of the play The Road, owns a shop called ____________.

A. accident store
B. aksident store
C. acid store
D. none of the above
Answer» C. acid store
Discussion
52.

Our Country’s Good by ________________, is a play that begins in the hold of the vessel Sirius, a convict ship.

A. timberlake wertenbaker
B. margaret laurence
C. margaret atwood
D. chinua achebe
Answer» B. margaret laurence
Discussion
53.

_______________ is a history play based on real events that took place in the 18th Century among the first convicts transported from England to Australian penal colonies.

A. our country’s good (1988)
B. our good country (1988)
C. our good’s country (1988)
D. none of the above
Answer» B. our good country (1988)
Discussion
54.

____________ is the first novel written in English by Khaled Hosseini. 90. The Kite Runner tells the story of ________, the narrator and protagonist.

A. the kite runner
B. thousand splendid suns
C. and the mountains echoed
D. none of the above
Answer» B. thousand splendid suns
Discussion
55.

The novel takes its title from W. B Yeats’ poem titled ________________.

A. easter 1916
B. second coming
C. september 1930
D. among the school children
Answer» C. september 1930
Discussion
56.

The protagonist of the novel Things Fall Apart is __________.

A. okonkwo
B. unoka
C. nwoye
D. ezinma
Answer» B. unoka
Discussion
57.

Things Fall Apart is about a small village in Nigeria called __________.

A. umuofia
B. africa
C. barbados
D. caribbean island
Answer» B. africa
Discussion
58.

Chinua Achebe’s ________________ is a classic portrayal of colonial encounter.

A. arrow of god
B. things fall apart
C. the kite runner
D. our country’s good
Answer» C. the kite runner
Discussion
59.

Whose use of the Female Chorus as Padmini’s mask is a novel feature in the masking tradition of India?

A. moraes
B. karnad
C. vijay tendulkar
D. a. k ramanujan
Answer» C. vijay tendulkar
Discussion
60.

___________ is set in the fictitious town of Manawaka, Monitaba in the early 1960s.

A. the stone angel
B. things fall apart
C. the kite runner
D. arrow of god
Answer» B. things fall apart
Discussion
61.

___________ draws inspiration from a 1940 novella by Thomas Mann called The Transposed Heads.

A. hayavadana
B. the road
C. our country’s good
D. the stone angel
Answer» B. the road
Discussion
62.

A House for Mr. Biswas was written by ____________. 84. A House for Mr. Biswas was published in _______.

A. the road
B. the lion and the jewel
C. the stone angel
D. hayavadana
Answer» B. the lion and the jewel
Discussion
63.

The ________ is one of the best-known works of Brathwaite. cultural locations and identities.

A. hybridity
B. ambivalence
C. mimicry
D. binary opposition
Answer» C. mimicry
Discussion
64.

________ has generated a new form of colonial domination, often termed 66. The Wretched of the Earth (1963) is written by ___________.

A. franz fanon
B. homi k bhabha
C. foucault
D. edward said
Answer» C. foucault
Discussion
65.

____________ deals with the theme of completeness.

A. hayavadana
B. yayati
C. tughluq
D. nagamandala
Answer» B. yayati
Discussion
66.

Who proposes the idea of ‘mimicry’ (in Of Mimicry and Man), the disciplined imitation of the white man by the native?

A. bhabha
B. edward said
C. spivak
D. stuart hall
Answer» B. edward said
Discussion
67.

Aime Cesaire is best known for his term ________.

A. negritude
B. harlem
C. diaspora
D. hybridity
Answer» B. harlem
Discussion
68.

Who among the following poets was influenced by Nietzsche, mythology, classics and nature?

A. less murray
B. a. d hope
C. almaghir hashmi
D. stephen gill
Answer» C. almaghir hashmi
Discussion
69.

The Solid Mandala, a pre-war urban Australian novel is written by ___________.

A. margaret laurence
B. margaret atwood
C. patrick white
D. judith wright
Answer» D. judith wright
Discussion
70.

The Canadian Literature was founded in _________.

A. 1959
B. 1957
C. 1965
D. 1960
Answer» B. 1957
Discussion
71.

__________ was a painter before he became a poet.

A. derek walcott
B. allen curnow
C. ee tiang
D. a. d hope
Answer» B. allen curnow
Discussion
72.

Atwood won _________ prize in 2000 for her novel The Blind Assassin.

A. commonwealth prize
B. booker prize
C. international booker prize
D. nobel prize
Answer» C. international booker prize
Discussion
73.

Derek Walcott’s _______________________, is a poem written in his perspective of the Caribbean in the nineteenth century.

A. journey into the interior
B. house and land
C. ruins of a great house
D. what if i live in a house made by idiots?
Answer» D. what if i live in a house made by idiots?
Discussion
74.

The ________ referred to in “The Journey into the Interior” is the psyche of the poetess.

A. exterior
B. interior
C. journey
D. none of these
Answer» C. journey
Discussion
75.

“Ruins of a Great House” is a poem written by ___________.

A. brathwaite
B. derek walcott
C. allen curnow
D. david diop
Answer» C. allen curnow
Discussion
76.

Atwood’s “The Journey into the Interior” is a ___________.

A. monologue
B. dramatic monologue
C. elegy
D. epic
Answer» B. dramatic monologue
Discussion
77.

______________ is a novel by Atwood.

A. journey into the interior
B. surfacing
C. the blind assassin
D. the handmaid’s tale
Answer» E.
Discussion
78.

___________ is a poem that focusses on the European influences upon Aboriginal life, as well as the oppression and death that the European population brought with them.

A. australia
B. aboriginal australia
C. africa
D. new york
Answer» C. africa
Discussion
79.

_____________ is a prolific Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist.

A. margaret lawrence
B. margaret anne
C. margaret atwood
D. anna ben
Answer» D. anna ben
Discussion
80.

____________is a representative of Australian geography, history, society and government during British rule.

A. house and land
B. aboriginal australia
C. australia
D. africa
Answer» D. africa
Discussion
81.

___________ is a poet, short story writer, playwright and activist for the aboriginal people.

A. jack davis
B. a. d hope
C. allen curnow
D. david diop
Answer» B. a. d hope
Discussion
82.

________ by A. D Hope is a sarcastic and captivating poetry.

A. aboriginal australia
B. africa
C. australia
D. arrival
Answer» D. arrival
Discussion
83.

____________ is an autobiography of Jack Davis’ childhood.

A. a boy’s life (1991)
B. a girl’s life (1991)
C. a son’s life (1991)
D. a daughter’s life (1991)
Answer» B. a girl’s life (1991)
Discussion
84.

___________ is A. D Hope’s first collection of verse.

A. the wandering islands (1955)
B. the wasteland (1922)
C. the wonderland (1955)
D. the wander island (1954)
Answer» B. the wasteland (1922)
Discussion
85.

_______________ is the best-known Australian poet of great repute internationally.

A. allen curnow
B. a. d hope
C. jack davis
D. atwood
Answer» C. jack davis
Discussion
86.

________ is a poem by A. D Hope.

A. aboriginal australia
B. australia
C. africa
D. new york
Answer» C. africa
Discussion
87.

In “House and Land”, _________ is hopelessly obsessed with her past and the future appears to hold no hope.

A. the historian
B. cowman
C. mrs. wilson
D. mr. wilson
Answer» D. mr. wilson
Discussion
88.

In the poem “House and Land”, _______ stands as a symbol of hope and redemption.

A. ee tiang
B. allen curnow
C. brathwaite
D. hashmi
Answer» B. allen curnow
Discussion
89.

In David Diop’s “Africa”, the poet hopes to create a renewed Africa out of the bitter experiences of __________.

A. colonialism
B. nationalism
C. postcolonialism
D. anti-nationalism
Answer» B. nationalism
Discussion
90.

Through the poem ________, the poet attacks the world’s theory that Africa does not possess a history.

A. new york
B. africa
C. negus
D. arrival
Answer» C. negus
Discussion
91.

David Diop’s __________ celebrates the typical love of the African for their motherland and the ancestors.

A. africa
B. aboriginal australia
C. new york
D. australia
Answer» B. aboriginal australia
Discussion
92.

Who died at a very early age of 33 in an air crash off Dakar, Senegal in 1960?

A. jack davis
B. david diop
C. a. d hope
D. derek walcott
Answer» C. a. d hope
Discussion
93.

The ______ in the poem “Mystic Drum” is the personification of industrialization.

A. man
B. lady
C. city
D. town
Answer» C. city
Discussion
94.

“Mystic Drum” is Okara’s _______. a) Ode b) elegy c) love lyric d) song

A. australian
B. african
C. american
D. nigerian
Answer» D. nigerian
Discussion
95.

The ________ culture is connected with nature. Okara’s “Mystic Drum”.

A. drum
B. stick
C. song
D. dance
Answer» C. song
Discussion
96.

The term _______ refers to the Unification of African- American life.

A. harlem
B. slavery
C. barbados
D. slogan
Answer» B. slavery
Discussion
97.

________ is a neighbourhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan.

A. central park
B. manhattan
C. harlem
D. hub
Answer» D. hub
Discussion
98.

The phrase “frosty smile” is a simile that refers to a ____________.

A. customer society
B. consumer society
C. capitalist society
D. customs society
Answer» C. capitalist society
Discussion
99.

The adjective “sulphurous” indicates _________ which is visible in every busy and over populated city.

A. park
B. smoke
C. fog
D. pollution
Answer» E.
Discussion
100.

___________ is the commercial as well as capital of America.

A. australia
B. central park
C. new york
D. manhattan
Answer» D. manhattan
Discussion