Post-Colonial Theory Previous Year UGC-NET English

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UGC-NET Postcolonial Studies Quiz

1. Which of the following critics is associated with the term “contrapuntal reading”?

1)Mikhail Bakhtin
2)Edward Said
3)Roland Barthes
4)Jacques Derrida

2. Which of the following statements best articulates Frantz Fanon’s political position?

1)Colonialism will die a natural death without any violent struggle against it
2)Peasants and social outcasts have little revolutionary potential in Africa
3)Social oppression in the third world is a matter more of race than of class
4)The African bourgeoisie can never succeed in the task of nation building

3. The following statement is given by which of the below mentioned critics?

“I was indignant: I demanded an explanation, nothing happened. I burst apart.”

1)Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
2)Homi K. Bhabha
3)Stuart Hall
4)Frantz Fanon

4. Identify the postcolonial critics who used the ideas of Lacan, Foucault and Derrida while critiquing ‘Euro-centrism’?

[A] Homi Bhabha
[B] Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
[C] Abdul JanMohamed
[D] Edward Said
[E] Aimé Césaire

1)A, B, C and D only
2)A, B and C only
3)B, C, D and E only
4)C, D and E only

5. Match List I with List II:

List I (Works)

[A] The Empire Writes Back

[B] Nation and Narration

[C] Culture and Imperialism

[D] The Twice Born Fiction

List II (Years)

[I] 1990

[II] 1993

[III] 1989

[IV] 1971

1)A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
2)A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
3)A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
4)A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV

6. Which of the following are the premises of postcolonial criticism?

[A] It rejects the claims of universalism made in the canonical western literature.
[B] It foregrounds the questions of cultural difference and diversity as represented in literary texts.
[C] It acts on the principles of peaceful co-existence.
[D] It celebrates ‘hybridity’ and ‘cultural polyvalency’.
[E] It resists any attempt at homogenization based on race, class and nationality.

1)A, B and D only
2)A, B, D and E only
3)B, C and D only
4)C and D only

7. Who is the author of the essay “Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism” (1985)?

1)Ania Loomba
2)Meenakshi Mukherjee
3)Susan Meyer
4)Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

8. “It is significant that the productive capacities of this third space have a colonial or post colonial provenance”. The above lines have been written by:

1)Salman Rushdie
2)Edward Said
3)Benedict Anderson
4)Homi K. Bhabha

9. Which of the two following books are written by Dipesh Chakrabarty?

A) Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference
B) The Subaltern Studies Reader
C) Identity and Violence
D) The Climate of History in a Planetary Age
E) In Other Worlds

1)A and C only
2)A and B only
3)A and D only
4)B and E only

10. Match List I with List II:

List I (Works)

A) The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act

B) The Pleasure of the Text

C) The Straight Mind and Other Essays

D) Literary Darwinism: Evolution, Human Nature and Literature

List II (Authors)

I. Joseph Carroll

II. Monique Wittig

III. Roland Barthes

IV. Fredric Jameson

1)(A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)
2)(A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)
3)(A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)
4)(A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)

11. Which among the following books is NOT written by Edward Said?

1)On Late Style: Music and Literature against the Grain
2)The World, the Text and the Critic
3)Image-Music-Text
4)The Question of Palestine

12. Match List I with List II:

List I (Works)

A) Culture and Environment

B) In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics

C) The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998

D) The Uses of Literacy

List II (Authors)

I. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

II. F.R. Leavis and D. Thompson

III. Fredric Jameson

IV. Richard Hoggart

1)A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
2)A-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV
3)A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I
4)A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV

13. Arrange the following in accordance with their dates of first publication:

A) Edward Said, Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient
B) Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act
C) T.S. Eliot, Notes towards the Definition of Culture
D) Raymond Williams, Keywords
E) Ian Watt, The Rise of the Novel

1)C, E, D, A, B
2)D, B, E, A, C
3)B, D, A, E, C
4)A, E, B, D, C

14. Which of the following statements/concepts are relevant for understanding of Postmodernism?

(A) Postmodernism and Postcolonialism are mutually dependent in responding to colonial experience.
(B) Lyotard argues that the Postmodern condition is characterised by a deeply felt scepticism towards metanarratives.
(C) Edward W. Said has been instrumental in postmodern theory and criticism.
(D) Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulations is a seminal postmodern text.
(E) Fredric Jameson argues that parody has been replaced by pastiche in postmodernism.

1)(B), (D) and (E) Only
2)(A), (B) and (D) Only
3)(B), (C) and (E) Only
4)(C), (D) and (E) Only

15. Which of the following is true of Edward Said’s Orientalism?

(A) It was published in 1979.
(B) Utilises the concept of discursive formulation as argued by Foucault.
(C) He has taken up the detailed analysis of imaginative geography and representation of the Orient.
(D) It is one of the foundational texts of Postcolonial theory.
(E) It puts to use Barthes’ concept of ‘death of the author’.

1)(A), (B) and (E) Only
2)(A), (B) and (C) Only
3)(A), (C) and (E) Only
4)(B), (C) and (D) Only

UGC-NET Postcolonial Studies Quiz – Part 2

16. Identify the correct order of the publications given below:

(A) Simon Gikandi’s Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism
(B) Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth
(C) Homi K. Bhabha’s Nation and Narration
(D) Ernest Gellner’s Nations and Nationalisms
(E) Robert Young’s Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race

1)(B), (D), (E), (C), (A)
2)(A), (B), (C), (D), (E)
3)(A), (C), (D), (E), (B)
4)(B), (D), (C), (E), (A)

17. Which of the following statements are valid for postcolonial theory and literature?

(A) Abrogation, resistance and assertion form the basis of postcolonial thought.
(B) Postcolonial theory defends binaries of Master and Slave, White and Black, and Coloniser and Colonised.
(C) Weep Not, Child is the first novel in English by an East African Writer, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o.
(D) Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys is based on the experiences of colonized African population.
(E) Homi K. Bhabha, Edward W. Said and Gayatri Spivak are important postcolonial thinkers.

1)(A), (B) and (D) Only
2)(B), (D) and (E) Only
3)(A), (C) and (E) Only
4)(C), (D) and (E) Only

18. Identify the correct option(s) in the theorisation of nation by Homi K. Bhabha.

(A) Nation arises from similarities among people.
(B) Nationalist representation is defined by ambivalence.
(C) Nationalist representation engages with two contradictory modes of representation.
(D) Nationalist discourses are split by a disruptive double-narrative movement.
(E) Nation is a stable and fixed category.

1)(A), (B) and (C) Only
2)(B), (C) and (E) Only
3)(B), (C) and (D) Only
4)(C), (D) and (E) Only

19. Match List – I with List – II:

List – I (Work)

(A) The Wretched of the Earth

(B) Nation and Narration

(D) Imagined Communities

List – II (Author)

(I) Benedict Anderson

(II) Homi K. Bhabha

(III) Edward W. Said

(IV) Frantz Fanon

1)(A)-(I), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
2)(A)-(II), (B)-(I), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)
3)(A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(I)
4)(A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)

20. “Being a white man, in short, was a very concrete manner of being-in-the-world, a way of taking hold of reality, language and thought.”

What does the theorist signify by the term ‘white man’ here?

1)A dominating man
2)A megalomaniac
3)A man with double consciousness
4)A form of colonial authority

21. Choose the correct option in the light of the following statement:

“The fact that I am a black working-class man will determine my worldview just as much, and perhaps far more than I consciously learn in the domain of ideas.”

(A) Man is capable of making free choices in the sphere of intellection and morality.
(B) The unconscious determines human thought and behaviour.
(C) Man is condemned to be free.
(D) We bear a form of “otherness” within ourselves.
(E) We can no longer talk unequivocally of a writer’s intention.

1)(B), (D) and (E) Only
2)(A), (B) and (C) Only
3)(C), (D) and (E) Only
4)(A), (B) and (E) Only

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