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This section includes 13 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Master of Arts in English (MA English) knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
___________ is a poem that describes Dom Moraes journey in life. a) Sinbad b) A letter c) Arrival d) Negus |
| A. | mahabharat |
| B. | the bible |
| C. | arabian nights |
| D. | treasure island |
| Answer» B. the bible | |
| 2. |
_________ depicts Dom Moraes search for identity, his sense of rootlessness and his love for embracing varieties and multiplicities of life. |
| A. | a letter |
| B. | sinbad |
| C. | negus |
| D. | self-portrait |
| Answer» C. negus | |
| 3. |
The adjective sulphurous indicates _________ which is visible in every busy and over populated city. |
| A. | park |
| B. | smoke |
| C. | fog |
| D. | pollution |
| Answer» E. | |
| 4. |
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 | |
| 5. |
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 | |
| 6. |
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 | |
| 7. |
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? | |
| 8. |
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 | |
| 9. |
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 | |
| 10. |
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 | |
| 11. |
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 | |
| 12. |
The ________ culture is connected with nature. Okara s Mystic Drum . |
| A. | drum |
| B. | stick |
| C. | song |
| D. | dance |
| Answer» C. song | |
| 13. |
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 | |