African American / African Literature Previous Year UGC-NET English

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UGC-NET World Literature Quiz

1. Which among the following are correct?

[A] George Lamming – Barbados
[B] Ben Okri – Nigeria
[C] Fred D’Aguiar – Australia
[D] Wilson Harris – Guyana
[E] Zulfikar Ghose – India

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

2. Derek Alton Walcott in the poem ‘The Sea is History’ makes a parallel between:

1)Evolution of mankind and nature
2)Evolution of human history and religion
3)Evolution of paganism and Christianity
4)Evolution of Christianity and slavery of the blacks

3. Which among the following are true in the context of Chinua Achebe?

A) He wrote Arrow of God and Things Fall Apart.
B) His “Novelist as Teacher” is a seminal essay in the context of African Literature.
C) The name of the tribe he depicted in Things Fall Apart is Igbo.
D) He is a Kenyan born American littérateur.
E) He wrote the essay “An Abolition of English Department.”

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

4. Gaiutra Bahadur is a ______ writer.

1)Mauritian
2)Fijian
3)Trinidadian
4)Guyanese

5. Which among the following is appropriate about Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s article “Literature in Schools”?

[A] The article discusses the relevance and adequacy of the present education system
[B] It advocates teaching of European texts and literature to the students of the third world countries
[C] It reflects negatively upon the literature taught to the Kenyan students in national schools
[D] It argues that cultural imperialism distorts people’s vision of history
[E] It observes that European teachers are better equipped to teach literature to the Kenyan students

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

6. Who wrote the short story “The Voter”?

1)Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2)Chinua Achebe
3)Ngugi wa Thiong’o
4)Wole Soyinka

7. Who wrote “The Labyrinth of Solitude”?

1)Gabriel García Márquez
2)Gabriela Mistral
3)Jorge Luis Borges
4)Octavio Paz

8. Which of the following did Owuor Anyumba, Taban Lo Liyong and Ngugi wa Thiong’o object to in 1968?

(a) The primacy of English literatures and cultures.
(b) The centrality of Africa in the Department of English.
(c) The primacy of orature in the syllabus.
(d) The focus on the study of the historic continuity of English Literature.

1)(a) and (d) only
2)(a) and (c) only
3)(b) and (c) only
4)(c) and (d) only

9. Match List-I with List-II:

List-I (Plays)

(a) Madmen and Specialists

(b) The Sea at Dauphin

(d) An Echo in the Bone

List-II (Playwrights)

I. Dennis Scott

II. Wole Soyinka

III. Derek Walcott

IV. Ngugi wa Thiong’o

1)(a)-II; (b)-III; (c)-I; (d)-IV
2)(a)-II; (b)-III; (c)-IV; (d)-I
3)(a)-III; (b)-I; (c)-IV; (d)-II
4)(a)-III; (b)-IV; (c)-II; (d)-I

10. Who among the following has used lines from the Shakespearean play Othello to critique racism in one of his poems?

1)Edward Brathwaite
2)Frantz Fanon
3)Derek Alton Walcott
4)Ngugi wa Thiong’o

11. Match List I with List II:

List I (Novels)

A) The Famished Road

B) The Bride Price

C) Half of a Yellow Sun

D) The Lying Days

List II (Authors)

I. Buchi Emecheta

II. Nadine Gordimer

III. Ben Okri

IV. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

12. Which of the following novels is written by Patrick White?

1)Cry, the Beloved Country
2)The Vivisector
3)The Handmaid’s Tale
4)The Stone Angel

13. Which among the following are correct?

A) J.M. Coetzee – South Africa
B) Margaret Atwood – Canada
C) Philip Roth – Australia
D) Orhan Pamuk – Turkey
E) Graham Swift – New Zealand

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

14. Match List I with List II:

List I (Characters)

A) Munira

B) Nnu Ego

C) Ikemefuna

D) Maureen

List II (Novels)

I. Things Fall Apart

II. Petals of Blood

III. July’s People

IV. The Joys of Motherhood

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

15. Match List – I with List – II:

List – I (Character)

(A) Sethe

(B) Okonkwo

(D) Winston Smith

List – II (Novel)

(I) The Handmaid’s Tale

(II) Beloved

(III) Things Fall Apart

(IV) Nineteen Eighty-Four

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

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