Unit-IV Part-V

1.      The play ‘Goa’, that deals with racial discrimination as a paradigm of postcolonialism is written by :

                        a.  Badal Sircar 

                        b. T.P Kailasam

                        c. Girish Karnad

                        d. Asif Currimbhoy

2.      Who wrote Ebong Indrajit, which becomes a landmark play in Indian theatre :

                        a.  Badal Sircar  

                        b. T.P Kailasam

                        c. Girish Karnad

                        d. Asif Currimbhoy

3.       ‘Third Theatre’ is a new generation of theatre established by :

                        a.  Badal Sircar

                        b. T.P Kailasam

                        c. Girish Karnad 

                        d. Asif Currimbhoy

4.      Which of these is true?

a.      Badal Sarcar – Hindi, Girish Karnad – Kannada, Vijay Tendulkar – Marathi, Mohan Rakesh – Bengali

b.      Badal Sarcar – Bengali, Girish Karnad – Kannada, Vijay Tendulkar – Marathi, Mohan Rakesh – Hindi

c.      Badal Sarcar – Bengali, Girish Karnad – Hindi, Vijay Tendulkar – Marathi, Mohan Rakesh – Kannada

d.      Badal Sarcar – Marathi, Girish Karnad – Kannada, Vijay Tendulkar – Hindi, Mohan Rakesh – Bengali

5.      Which one of these is NOT a work of Girish Karnad?

                        a.  Hayavadana   

                        b. Tughlaq

                        c. Yayati    

                        d. The Brahmin's Curse

6.      Who among these wrote the play ‘Harvest’?

                        a.  Girish Karnad    

                        b. T.P Kailasam

                        c. Manjula Padmanabhan  

                        d. Badal Sircar

7.      Who among the following is associated with the place ‘NOOK’?

                        a.  Girish Karnad 

                        b. T.P Kailasam  

                        c. Manjula Padmanabhan

                        d. Badal Sircar

8.      Match the following works with its author :

                    i.     The Dumb Dancer                                     -              (a)Girish Karnad

                   ii.     The Third Theatre                                     -              (b)Manjula Padmanabhan

                 iii.     Boiled Beans on Toast                              -              (c)Asif Currimboy

                 iv.     Lights Out!                                                 -              (d)Badal Sircar

                  a.  (i)-c, (ii)-d, (iii)-a, (iv)-b

                  b. (i)-d, (ii)-a, (iii)-b, (iv)-c

                  c. (i)-b, (ii)-a, (iii)-c, (iv)-d

                  d. (i)-b, (ii)-a, (iii)-d, (iv)-c

9.      ‘Shatabdi’ is a theatre company founded by :
                        a.  Girish Karnad
                        b. T.P Kailasam
                        c. Manjula Padmanabhan
                        d. Badal Sircar

10.   Which among the following plays of Girish Karnad is based on the theme drawn from Thomas Mann’s The Transposed Heads?
                        a.  Hayavadana 
                        b. Naga-Mandala
                        c. Taledanda
                        d. Yayati

11.   The Indian comic character, ‘Suki’ is created by :
                        a.  Girish Karnad 
                        b. T.P Kailasam  
                        c. Manjula Padmanabhan
                        d. Badal Sircar

12.   Kleptomania is a collection of short stories written by :
                        a.  Girish Karnad 
                        b. T.P Kailasam 
                        c. Manjula Padmanabhan
                        d. Badal Sircar

13.   He compiled and edited a volume of Francophone poetry called Anthologie de la nouvelle poésie nègre et malgache for which Jean-Paul Sartre wrote an introduction, entitled "Orphée Noir" (Black Orpheus). Who is he?
                        a.  Harold Pinter
                        b. Wole Soyinka   
                        c. Leopold Senghor    
                        d. Chinua Achebe

14.   The Poem ‘Labyrinths’ is the magnum opus of :
                        a.  Christopher Okigbo
                        b. Wole Soyinka
                        c. Leopold Senghor
                        d. Chinua Achebe

15.   Name the Christopher Okigbo’s poem commemorating the centenary of the birth of W.B. Yeats in the forms of a Yoruba praise :
                        a.  Dance of the Painted Maidens
                        b. Lament of the Masks
                        c. Path of Thunder
                        d. Silences

16.   ‘Things Fall Apart’ is a novel by :
                        a.  Christopher Okigbo
                        b. Wole Soyinka
                        c. Leopold Senghor
                        d. Chinua Achebe

17.   Which of the match is correct about Chinua Achebe’s novels and protagonists?
                        a.  Things Fall Apart – Okonkwo
                        b. No Longer At Ease – Obi
                        c. Arrow of God – Ezeulu
                        d. All

18.   Who wrote the book The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis?
                        a.  Christopher Okigbo
                        b. Wole Soyinka 
                        c. Leopold Senghor
                        d. Chinua Achebe

19.   Mandela's Earth is a collection of poems of :
                        a.  Christopher Okigbo
                        b. Wole Soyinka  
                        c. Leopold Senghor 
                        d. Chinua Achebe

20.   Ngaahika Ndeenda’ (I Will Marry When I Want) is a play written by :
                        a.  Leopold Senghor
                        b. Ngugi wa Thiong’o
                        c. Ben Okri   
                        d. Athol Fugard

21.   ‘Wizard of the Crow’ is a novel written by :
                        a.  Leopold Senghor
                        b. Ngugi wa Thiong’o
                        c. Ben Okri  
                        d. Athol Fugard

22.   ‘Decolonising the Mind: the Politics of Language in African Literature’ is a work by :
                        a.  Leopold Senghor 
                        b. Ngugi wa Thiong’o
                        c. Ben Okri   
                        d. Athol Fugard

23.   ‘A Decade of Tongues’ is a work of :
                        a.  J.P.Clark 
                        b. Ngugi wa Thiong’o
                        c. Ben Okri
                        d. Athol Fugard

24.   ‘Song of a Goat’ is a drama written by :
                        a.  J.P.Clark     
                        b. Ngugi wa Thiong’o
                        c. Ben Okri       
                        d. Athol Fugard

25.   The Booker Prize winning fiction 'The Famished Road'  is written by :
                        a.  J.P.Clark   
                        b. Ngugi wa Thiong’o
                        c. Ben Okri        
                        d. Athol Fugard

26.   Which of the following is a novel written by Ben Okri?
                        a.  A Way of Being Free
                        b. Starbook 
                        c. Time for New Dreams  
                        d. All of them

27.   ‘The Serpent Players’ is associated with which of the following writer :
                        a.  J.P.Clark
                        b. Ngugi wa Thiong’o
                        c. Ben Okri 
                        d. Athol Fugard

28.   ‘Tsotsi’ is a novel written by :
                        a.  J.P.Clark   
                        b. Ngugi wa Thiong’o
                        c. Ben Okri             
                        d. Athol Fugard

29.   'Master Harold ... and the Boys' is a work of :
                        a.  J.P.Clark
                        b. Ngugi wa Thiong’o
                        c. Ben Okri            
                        d. Athol Fugard

30.   Who among the following is NOT associated with ‘Negritude’?
                        a.  Aime Cesaire 
                        b. Leopold Senghor
                        c. Leon Damas
                        d. Ben Okri

31.   Who among the following is the founder of Senegalese Democratic Bloc Party?
                        a.  Aime Cesaire 
                        b. Leopold Senghor  
                        c. Leon Damas    
                        d. Ben Okri

32.   Match the following writers with their respective country of origin :

                      i.     Leopold Senghor                                                    -              (a)Senegal

                     ii.     Christopher Okigbo                                               -              (b)Kenya

                    iii.     Ngugi wa Thiong’o                                                -              (c)South Africa

                    iv.     Athol Fugard                                                           -              (d)Nigeria

                  a.  (i)-d, (ii)-c, (iii)-b, (iv)-a

                  b. (i)-c, (ii)-a, (iii)-b, (iv)-d 

                  c. (i)-a, (ii)-d, (iii)-b, (iv)-c

                  d. (i)-b, (ii)-d, (iii)-a, (iv)-c

33.   The Nigerian based literary journal Black Orpheus was founded in 1957 by a German expatriate editor :
                        a.  Ulli Beier    
                        b. Gabriel Okara
                        c. Leon Damas
                        d. Wilson Harris

34.   Match the following works with their author :

                    i.     Anthills of the Savannah                                         -              (a)J.P. Clark

                   ii.     The Lion and The Jewel                                          -              (b)Ngugi wa Thiong’o

                 iii.     Weep Not, Child                                                       -              (c)Wole Soyinka

                 iv.     America, Their America                                          -              (d)Chinua Achebe

                  a.  (i)-d, (ii)-c, (iii)-b, (iv)-a 

                  b. (i)-c, (ii)-a, (iii)-b, (iv)-d

                  c. (i)-a, (ii)-d, (iii)-b, (iv)-c

                  d. (i)-b, (ii)-d, (iii)-a, (iv)-c

35.   Chinua Achebe’s famous novel Things Fall Apart took the title from :
                        a.  W.B. Yeats’ The Second Coming   
                        b. Amos Tutuola’s Palm-Wine Drinkard
                        c.  Cyprian Ekwensi’s People of the City
                        d. Booker T Washington’s Up From Slavery

36.   A Dance of the Forests is a play written by :
                        a.  Christopher Okigbo
                        b. Wole Soyinka
                        c. Leopold Senghor 
                        d. Chinua Achebe

37.   Who among the following is the founder and editor of Gikuyu-language journal Mũtĩiri :
                        a.  J.P.Clark   
                        b. Ngugi wa Thiong’o 
                        c. Ben Okri  
                        d. Athol Fugard

38.   Detained is the prison diary of :
                        a.  J.P.Clark  
                        b. Ngugi wa Thiong’o 
                        c. Ben Okri 
                        d. Athol Fugard

39.   Which among the following books is NOT a part of the trilogy that follows the life of Azaro, a spirit-child narrator, through the social and political turmoil of an African nation reminiscent of Ben Okri's remembrance of war-torn Nigeria?
                        a.  The Famished Road
                        b. Songs of Enchantment
                        c. Infinite Riches
                        d. Flowers and Shadows

40.   Who wrote the work 'Une Tempete', a response to Shakespeare's play 'The Tempest'?
                        a.  Athol Fugard     
                        b. Ezra Pound       
                        c. Aime Cesaire  
                        d. C.L.R James

41.   ‘The Wretched of the Earth’ is a work of :
                        a.  Athol Fugard  
                        b. Ezra Pound    
                        c. Aime Cesaire 
                        d. Frantz Fanon

42.   Which one of the works of Frantz Fanon is about black sexuality?
                        a.   Black Skin, White Masks     
                        b. The Wretched of the Earth
                        c.  Decolonizing the Mind
                        d. A Dying Colonialism 

43.   'Beyond a Boundary' the best single book on any sport, ever written is written by :
                        a.  Saul Bellow 
                        b. Gieve Patel        
                        c. C.L.R James 
                        d. Robert Lowell

44.   Minty Alley was the first novel by a black West Indian to be published in Britain. Who was the author?
                        a.  Saul Bellow   
                        b. Gieve Patel       
                        c. C.L.R James   
                        d. Robert Lowell

45.   Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth is a classical analysis of :
                        a. Black sexuality 
                        b. Algerian War of Independence
                        c.  Colonialism and decolonization   
                        d. Negritude movement

46.   Decolonizing the Mind is a work of :
                        a.  J.P.Clark    
                        b. Ngugi wa Thiong’o  
                        c. Ben Okri     
                        d. Athol Fugard

47.   Who among the following wrote under the pen-name J.R. Johnson?
                        a.  Athol Fugard  
                        b. C.L.R James   
                        c. Aime Cesaire
                        d. Frantz Fanon

48.   Who among the following is known for his comic novels set in Trinidad and Tobago?
                        a.  V.S. Naipaul   
                        b. C.L.R James   
                        c. Aime Cesaire    
                        d. Frantz Fanon

49.   ‘An Area of Darkness’ , ‘India – A Wounded Civilization’ and ‘India  - A Million Mutinies Now’ is a trilogy by :
                        a.  V.S.Naipaul     
                        b. Ngugi wa Thiong’o 
                        c. Ben Okri    
                        d. Athol Fugard

50.   ‘The Mystic Masseur’ is a novel written by :
                        a.  V.S.Naipaul  
                        b. Ngugi Wa Thiongo
                        c. Ben Okri 
                        d. Athol Fugard