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African-American | Caribbean Literature
(Previous Year Questions UGC-NET English)
(Previous Year Questions UGC-NET English)
1. The author of Black Skin, White Masks is:
2. The Muse of History is a classic postcolonial essay by:
3. He wrote an essay called “Conrad’s Darkness” where he praises the earlier writer for offering him a vision of the world’s “half-made societies”. Identify the writer.
4. The title Things Fall Apart is drawn from a poem by:
5. ‘Topsy’ appears in:
6. Which of the following writers did NOT receive the Nobel Prize for Literature?
7. In Derek Walcott’s Dream on Monkey Mountain, Makak’s vision of freedom for his people is:
8. Match the following authors with their works:
Authors:
i. Buchi Emecheta
ii. Ama Ata Aidoo
iii. Nadine Gordimer
iv. Ngugi Wa Thiongo
Works:
1. Burger’s Daughter
2. Joy of Motherhood
3. Devil on the Cross
4. Our Sister Killjoy
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9. Match the following authors with their plays:
Authors:
i. Langston Hughes
ii. Lorraine Hansberry
iii. Ed Bullins
iv. Amiri Baraka
Plays:
1. Dutchman
2. Clara’s Ole Man
3. Don’t You want to be Free
4. Raisin in the Sun
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10. Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison is a series of reflections on:
11. In which of the following works does the narrator proclaim, “either I’m nobody, or I’m the nation”?
12. In the remarkably crucial courtroom scene of Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie is called upon to speak. Whose voice do we hear in the narrative?
13. Which of the following novels deals with the Biafran War?
14. Nuruddin Farah’s Maps tells the story of:
15. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE regarding the poems of Derek Walcott?
16. Who among the following African novelists was a student of philosophy and literature in India?
17. Ngugi wa Thiongo changed the medium of his writing from English to:
18. Which of the following novels by Nuruddin Farah deals with foreign aid?
19. In J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace David Lurie is working on an opera on the life of one of the Romantic poets. Who is the poet?
20. Who of the following writers recreates the life of the Yoruba/Ibo community?
21. Among Derek Walcott’s plays, which one is an exploration of colonial relationships through the Robinson Crusoe story?
22. Chimamanda Adichie’s last novel, Americanah (2013) centres on the romantic and existential struggles of a young Nigerian woman studying in the United States and finding success as a blogger. What is her blogging about?
23. The plot of this Coetzee novel unravels the narrative of a poor man of colour trying to survive in a civil-war situation, never taking sides. Identify the novel.
24. July’s People is a novel by:
25. A Dance of the Forest is written by:
26. Sethe is a character in:
27. Which of the following plays is not written by Wole Soyinka?
28. Ikemefuna is a character in the novel:
29. Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea is set in:
30. Which of the following novels by V.S. Naipaul is set in Africa and carries echoes of Joseph Conrad?
31. Which is the correct sequence of the novels of V.S. Naipaul?
32. The novel has a scene where African American students are made to compete and fight with each other as they rush for the gold coins tossed on an electric blanket. Identify the novel.
33. Which of the following arrangements is in the correct chronological sequence?
34. Which of the following characters is killed in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart in conformity with an African tribal custom?
35. Arrange the following works in the order in which they appear. Identify the correct code:
I. No Longer at Ease
II. Things Fall Apart
III. A Man of the People
IV. Arrow of God
36. Which of the following novels is NOT written by Jean Rhys?
37. Which of the following African writers won the Nobel Prize for Literature?
38. An important poet and playwright who in the 1960s led the Black Arts Movement, in the spirit of negritude, posited a ‘Black Aesthetic’ that expressed a pan-African, organic and whole sensibility.
39. Match List – I with List – II:
List – I (Authors):
i. V.S. Naipaul
ii. Jean Rhys
iii. Marina Warners
iv. J.M. Coetzee
List – II (Books):
1. Foe
2. Indigo or Mapping the Waters
3. Wide Sargasso Sea
4. Mimic Men
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40. Which of the following is NOT written by Wole Soyinka?
41. Divided into three sections this ground-breaking work published in 1953 uses as the frame of the spiritual and moral awakening of a fourteen-year-old during a Saturday night service in a Harlem church. Identify the work.
42. Which of the following is the most accurate statement by W.E.B. Du Bois’s famous articulation of the ‘twoness’ of black Americans?
43. Harriet B. Stowe had wanted to write a work based on the life of an Afro-American writer which was later published as:
44. Which of the following is NOT written by Buchi Emecheta?
45. What does ‘Harlem Renaissance’ refer to?
46. Who is the central character of Derek Walcott’s Dream on the Monkey Mountain?
47. In Wide Sargasso Sea what is the name of Rochester’s Creole wife-to-be?
48. Purple Hibiscus is a work by:
49. Which two novels of Buchi Emecheta provide a fictionalized portrait of poor, young Nigerian women struggling to bring up their children in London?
I. The Slave Girl
II. The Joys of Motherhood
III. Second Class Citizen
IV. In the Ditch
50. Which novel of Toni Morrison tells the wrenching story of a protagonist who murders her child rather than to allow him/her to live as a slave?
51. Which two works of JM Coetzee won Booker Prize on two occasions?
I. In the Heart of the Country
II. Life and Times of Michael K.
III. Disgrace
IV. Waiting for the Barbarians
52. Which of the following novels does not belong to Nuruddin’s Farah’s Blood In the Sun Trilogy?
53. Who, among the following raises the following painful question of longing and belonging? “Where shall I turn, divided to the vein? I who have cursed The drunken officer of British rule, how choose Between this Africa and the English tongue I love?”
54. This novel is dedicated. “To the railroad of bones” and has as its epigraph the line, “I am the woman they give dead women’s clothes to” from Christine Gelineau’s “Inheritance”. Identify the novel.
55. Which novel of Kazuo Ishiguro is narrated by a Japanese widow living in England and draws on the destruction and rehabilitation of Nagasaki?
56. Early African-American texts like slave narratives were often described as told to narratives as their ‘authors’ dictated their experiences. The persons who noted down these experiences are:
57. Which of the following poems is quoted as the epigraph to A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry?
58. Which two of the following novels deal with the theme of apartheid?
(a) Purple Hibiscus
(b) July’s People
(c) Cry, The Beloved Country
(d) The Mimic Men
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