1. The Striders (1966) and Relations: Poems (1971) are the two volumes of poetry written
by ___________.
Correct : A. a. k ramanujan
2. According to Ramanujan in the poem ‘Self-Portrait’ he resembles anyone but _________.
Correct : D. himself
3. The window glass in the poem ‘Self-Portrait’ symbolizes the ____________.
Correct : B. capitalist world
4. Date unknown refers to the poet’s inability to find his ____________.
Correct : C. original self
5. ________ began writing at the age of ten.
Correct : A. dom moraes
6. Sinbad is a character in ____________.
10. Dom Moraes published his first book, a collection of essays on cricket titled ---------------
Correct : C. graze in the grass
7. Dom Moraes’ A Beginning won_________________.
Correct : A. hawthornden prize
8. ___________ is a poem that describes Dom Moraes’ journey in life.
a) Sinbad b) A letter c) Arrival d) Negus
Correct : A. mahabharat
9. Sinbad, the ______ dominates a cycle of seven stories in the Arabian Nights.
Correct : B. the sailor
10. Sinbad is a poem that consists of ___ stanzas.
Correct : C. five
11. Sinbad had _____ voyages through turbulent seas, tempestuous conditions which took the
toll of many of his companions.
Correct : D. seven
12. “Bronze breasts” refers to the __________.
Correct : C. wrong friendships
13. _________ depicts Dom Moraes’ search for identity, his sense of rootlessness and his
love for embracing varieties and multiplicities of life.
Correct : B. sinbad
14. __________ was a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist.
25. Who was the founder of the Senegalese Democratic Bloc Party?
Correct : A. house and land
15. In the poem, A Letter, the ______, is a threatening symbol of danger.
a) needle b) thorn c) flower d) nail
Correct : B. david diop
16. Leopold Senghor is associated with _____________.
Correct : C. negritude movement
17. ___________ is the commercial as well as capital of America.
Correct : C. new york
18. The phrase “frosty smile” is a simile that refers to a ____________.
Correct : B. consumer society
19. The adjective “sulphurous” indicates _________ which is visible in every busy and over
populated city.
Correct : D. pollution
20. ________ is a neighbourhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan.
Correct : C. harlem
21. The term _______ refers to the Unification of African- American life.
Correct : A. harlem
22. The ________ culture is connected with nature.
Okara’s “Mystic Drum”.
Correct : B. stick
23. “Mystic Drum” is Okara’s _______.
a) Ode b) elegy c) love lyric d) song
Correct : C. american
24. The ______ in the poem “Mystic Drum” is the personification of industrialization.
Correct : B. lady
25. Who died at a very early age of 33 in an air crash off Dakar, Senegal in 1960?
Correct : B. david diop
26. David Diop’s __________ celebrates the typical love of the African for their motherland and
the ancestors.
Correct : A. africa
27. Through the poem ________, the poet attacks the world’s theory that Africa does not
possess a history.
Correct : B. africa
28. In David Diop’s “Africa”, the poet hopes to create a renewed Africa out of the bitter
experiences of __________.
Correct : A. colonialism
29. In the poem “House and Land”, _______ stands as a symbol of hope and redemption.
Correct : A. ee tiang
30. In “House and Land”, _________ is hopelessly obsessed with her past and the future
appears to hold no hope.
Correct : C. mrs. wilson
31. ________ is a poem by A. D Hope.
Correct : B. australia
32. _______________ is the best-known Australian poet of great repute internationally.
Correct : B. a. d hope
33. ___________ is A. D Hope’s first collection of verse.
Correct : A. the wandering islands (1955)
34. ________ by A. D Hope is a sarcastic and captivating poetry.
Correct : C. australia
35. ____________is a representative of Australian geography, history, society and government
during British rule.
Correct : C. australia
36. ___________ is a poet, short story writer, playwright and activist for the aboriginal people.
Correct : A. jack davis
37. ____________ is an autobiography of Jack Davis’ childhood.
Correct : A. a boy’s life (1991)
38. ___________ is a poem that focusses on the European influences upon Aboriginal life, as
well as the oppression and death that the European population brought with them.
Correct : B. aboriginal australia
39. _____________ is a prolific Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and
environmental activist.
Correct : C. margaret atwood
40. Atwood won _________ prize in 2000 for her novel The Blind Assassin.
Correct : B. booker prize
41. ______________ is a novel by Atwood.
Correct : D. the handmaid’s tale
42. Atwood’s “The Journey into the Interior” is a ___________.
Correct : A. monologue
43. The ________ referred to in “The Journey into the Interior” is the psyche of the poetess.
Correct : B. interior
44. __________ was a painter before he became a poet.
Correct : A. derek walcott
45. “Ruins of a Great House” is a poem written by ___________.
Correct : B. derek walcott
46. Derek Walcott’s _______________________, is a poem written in his perspective of the
Caribbean in the nineteenth century.
Correct : C. ruins of a great house
47. The Canadian Literature was founded in _________.
Correct : A. 1959
48. Who among the following poets was influenced by Nietzsche, mythology, classics and nature?
Correct : B. a. d hope
49. The Solid Mandala, a pre-war urban Australian novel is written by ___________.
Correct : C. patrick white
50. Aime Cesaire is best known for his term ________.
Correct : A. negritude
51. Who proposes the idea of ‘mimicry’ (in Of Mimicry and Man), the disciplined imitation
of the white man by the native?
Correct : A. bhabha
52. ________ has generated a new form of colonial domination, often termed
66. The Wretched of the Earth (1963) is written by ___________.
Correct : B. homi k bhabha
53. The ________ is one of the best-known works of Brathwaite.
cultural locations and identities.
Correct : B. ambivalence
54. ____________ deals with the theme of completeness.
Correct : A. hayavadana
55. Whose use of the Female Chorus as Padmini’s mask is a novel feature in the masking
tradition of India?
Correct : B. karnad
56. A House for Mr. Biswas was written by ____________.
84. A House for Mr. Biswas was published in _______.
Correct : A. the road
57. ___________ draws inspiration from a 1940 novella by Thomas Mann called The
Transposed Heads.
Correct : A. hayavadana
58. ___________ is set in the fictitious town of Manawaka, Monitaba in the early 1960s.
Correct : A. the stone angel
59. Chinua Achebe’s ________________ is a classic portrayal of colonial encounter.
Correct : B. things fall apart
60. The protagonist of the novel Things Fall Apart is __________.
Correct : A. okonkwo
61. Things Fall Apart is about a small village in Nigeria called __________.
Correct : A. umuofia
62. The novel takes its title from W. B Yeats’ poem titled ________________.
Correct : B. second coming
63. ____________ is the first novel written in English by Khaled Hosseini.
90. The Kite Runner tells the story of ________, the narrator and protagonist.
Correct : A. the kite runner
64. _______________ is a history play based on real events that took place in the 18th
Century among the first convicts transported from England to Australian penal colonies.
Correct : A. our country’s good (1988)
65. Our Country’s Good by ________________, is a play that begins in the hold of the vessel
Sirius, a convict ship.
Correct : A. timberlake wertenbaker
66. Professor, a protagonist of the play The Road, owns a shop called ____________.
Correct : B. aksident store
67. The poem ________ depicts the struggle against the colonial language, literature and
culture.
Correct : C. negus
68. ________ is a ritual ceremony of singing, drumming, dancing and spirit- possession
brought over from Africa to the New World by slaves.
Correct : A. kumina
69. ___________ is an English poet of Pakistan origin.
Correct : A. almaghir hashmi
70. The poem ________ describes the modernization of the capital city as a form of historical
change from a natural landscape to a city scape.
Correct : A. tranquerah (1985)
71. _________ was one of the first-generation Malaya poets writing in English.