Formative Exam of Afro-Asian Literature

1. 1. It is considered to be the earliest record of literature.

• Ramayana

• Mahabharata

• The Egyptian Book of the Dead

• Things Fall Apart

Who is the author of Ramayana

• Chinua Achebe

• Sage Valmiki

• Salman Rushdie

• Edgar Allan Poe

It is known as the longest poem in the world.

(a)  

The name India is derived from (a)   .

It began in ancient India.

• Hinduism

• Buddhism

• Islam

• Jainism

Who is Chinua Achebe?

• The forefather of contemporary African writers

• The rebel writer

• The feminist writer

• The rising fiction writer

The following are the three African norms EXCEPT ONE.

• Sense of good human relation

• Sense of hospitality

• Sense of entitlement

• Sense of community

The Season of Migration to the North is written by (a)  

Which does NOT explain Afro-Asian Literature?

• This includes Asian and African oral traditions and from the first to the contemporary written and/or published prose and poetry.​

• It is a term for writing, written by people from mixed African-Arab ethnicity, or African-Asian ethnicity. ​

• ​It refers to the literary output of the various countries and cultures in Africa and Asia.

• It is a term for writing, written by people from mixed African-Islam ethnicity, or Eastern-Asian ethnicity. ​

• Literary works were handed by mouth from generation to generation to entertain, educate and remind people about their past, heroic deeds, ancestry and culture.

The African languages are considered as _____________ which means pitch level determines meaning.

• Secular language

• 
  Tone language

• Conventional language

• Pitch language