Deck 1: Literature Poetry and Novels

Question 1

The Striders (1966) and Relations: Poems (1971) are the two volumes of poetry written by ___________.

A)ramanujan
B)dom moraes
C)almagir hashmi
D)e.e tiong

Answer 1

ramanujan

Question 2

According to Ramanujan in the poem 'Self-Portrait' he resembles anyone but _________.

A)father
B)mother
C)son
D)himself

Answer 2

himself

Question 3

The window glass in the poem 'Self-Portrait' symbolizes the ____________.

A)fictional world
B)capitalist world
C)democratic world
D)socialist world

Answer 3

capitalist world

Question 4

Date unknown refers to the poet's inability to find his ____________.

A)father
B)shadow
C)original self
D)other self

Question 5

________ began writing at the age of ten.

A)dom moraes
B)ramanujan
C)brathwaite
D)soyinka

Question 6

Dom Moraes' A Beginning won_________________.

A)hawthornden prize
B)commonwealth prize
C)pulitzer prize
D)nobel prize

Question 7

___________ is a poem that describes Dom Moraes' journey in life.

A)mahabharat
B)the bible
C)arabian nights
D)treasure island

Question 8

Sinbad, the ______ dominates a cycle of seven stories in the Arabian Nights.

A)the captain
B)the sailor
C)the crew
D)the beast

Question 9

Sinbad is a poem that consists of ___ stanzas.

A)three
B)four
C)five
D)six

Question 10

Sinbad had _____ voyages through turbulent seas, tempestuous conditions which took thetoll of many of his companions.

A)four
B)five
C)six
D)seven

Question 11

"Bronze breasts" refers to the __________.

A)right friendships
B)fake friendships
C)wrong friendships
D)friendships

Question 12

_________ depicts Dom Moraes' search for identity, his sense of rootlessness and hislove for embracing varieties and multiplicities of life.

A)a letter
B)sinbad
C)negus
D)self-portrait

Question 13

Leopold Senghor is associated with _____________.

A)harlem renaissance
B)negative movement
C)negritude movement
D)slavery movement

Question 14

___________ is the commercial as well as capital of America.

A)australia
B)central park
C)new york
D)manhattan

Question 15

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

A)customer society
B)consumer society
C)capitalist society
D)customs society

Question 16

The adjective "sulphurous" indicates _________ which is visible in every busy and overpopulated city.

A)park
B)smoke
C)fog
D)pollution

Question 17

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

A)central park
B)manhattan
C)harlem
D)hub

Question 18

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

A)harlem
B)slavery
C)barbados
D)slogan

Question 19

The ________ culture is connected with nature.

A)drum
B)stick
C)song
D)dance

Question 20

"Mystic Drum" is Okara's _______.

A) Ode
B) elegy
C) love lyric
D) song

Question 21

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

A)man
B)lady
C)city
D)town

Question 22

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

Question 23

David Diop's __________ celebrates the typical love of the African for their motherland andthe ancestors.

A)africa
B)aboriginal australia
C)new york
D)australia

Question 24

Through the poem ________, the poet attacks the world's theory that Africa does notpossess a history.

A)new york
B)africa
C)negus
D)arrival

Question 25

In David Diop's "Africa", the poet hopes to create a renewed Africa out of the bitterexperiences of __________.

A)colonialism
B)nationalism
C)postcolonialism
D)anti-nationalism

Question 26

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

A)ee tiang
B)allen curnow
C)brathwaite
D)hashmi

Question 27

In "House and Land", _________ is hopelessly obsessed with her past and the futureappears to hold no hope.

A)the historian
B)cowman
C)mrs. wilson
D)mr. wilson

Question 28

________ is a poem by A. D Hope.

A)aboriginal australia
B)australia
C)africa
D)new york

Question 29

___________ 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)

Question 30

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

A)aboriginal australia
B)africa
C)australia
D)arrival

Question 31

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

A)house and land
B)aboriginal australia
C)australia
D)africa

Question 32

___________ 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

Question 33

____________ 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)

Question 34

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

A)australia
B)aboriginal australia
C)africa
D)new york

Question 35

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

A)margaret lawrence
B)margaret anne
C)margaret atwood
D)anna ben

Question 36

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

A)commonwealth prize
B)booker prize
C)international booker prize
D)nobel prize

Question 37

______________ is a novel by Atwood.

A)journey into the interior
B)surfacing
C)the blind assassin
D)the handmaid's tale

Question 38

Atwood's "The Journey into the Interior" is a ___________.

A)monologue
B)dramatic monologue
C)elegy
D)epic

Question 39

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

Question 40

__________ was a painter before he became a poet.

A)derek walcott
B)allen curnow
C)ee tiang
D)a. d hope

Question 41

"Ruins of a Great House" is a poem written by ___________.

A)brathwaite
B)derek walcott
C)allen curnow
D)david diop

Question 42

Derek Walcott's _______________________, is a poem written in his perspective of theCaribbean 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?

Question 43

The Canadian Literature was founded in _________.

A)1959
B)1957
C)1965
D)1960

Question 44

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

Question 45

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

A)margaret laurence
B)margaret atwood
C)patrick white
D)judith wright

Question 46

Aime Cesaire is best known for his term ________.

A)negritude
B)harlem
C)diaspora
D)hybridity

Question 47

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

A)bhabha
B)edward said
C)spivak
D)stuart hall

Question 48

________ has generated a new form of colonial domination, often termed66. The Wretched of the Earth (1963) is written by ___________.

A)franz fanon
B)homi k bhabha
C)foucault
D)edward said

Question 49

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

A)hybridity
B)ambivalence
C)mimicry
D)binary opposition

Question 50

____________ deals with the theme of completeness.

A)hayavadana
B)yayati
C)tughluq
D)nagamandala

Question 51

Whose use of the Female Chorus as Padmini's mask is a novel feature in the maskingtradition of India?

A)moraes
B)karnad
C)vijay tendulkar
D)a. k ramanujan

Question 52

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

A)hayavadana
B)the road
C)our country's good
D)the stone angel

Question 53

___________ 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

Question 54

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

Question 55

The protagonist of the novel Things Fall Apart is __________.

A)okonkwo
B)unoka
C)nwoye
D)ezinma

Question 56

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

A)umuofia
B)africa
C)barbados
D)caribbean island

Question 57

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

Question 58

____________ is the first novel written in English by Khaled Hosseini.

A)the kite runner
B)thousand splendid suns
C)and the mountains echoed
D)none of the above

Question 59

_______________ is a history play based on real events that took place in the 18thCentury 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

Question 60

Our Country's Good by ________________, is a play that begins in the hold of the vesselSirius, a convict ship.

A)timberlake wertenbaker
B)margaret laurence
C)margaret atwood
D)chinua achebe

Question 61

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

Question 62

The poem ________ depicts the struggle against the colonial language, literature andculture.

A)new york
B)nigeria
C)negus
D)africa

Question 63

________ is a ritual ceremony of singing, drumming, dancing and spirit- possessionbrought over from Africa to the New World by slaves.

A)kumina
B)komina
C)kimona
D)barbados

Question 64

___________ is an English poet of Pakistan origin.

A)almaghir hashmi
B)ee tiang hong
C)allen curnow
D)brathwaite

Question 65

The poem ________ describes the modernization of the capital city as a form of historicalchange from a natural landscape to a city scape.

A)tranquerah (1985)
B)myths for the wilderness (1976)

Question 66

_________ was one of the first-generation Malaya poets writing in English.

A)ee tiang hong
B)almaghir hashmi
C)allen curnow
D)david diop