CUET PG Exam Prep

“I am Prepared to Die”- is a speech delivered by __________ in 1964 from the dock of the defendant at the Rivonia Trial.

• Nadine Gordimer

• Aime Cesaire

• Nelson Mandela

• Nelson Mandela

Which among the following is the first English novel by an East African?

• The Interpreters

• Weep Not, Child

• A Grain of Wheat

• None

J M Coetzee was the first writer to twice be awarded the Booker Prize: first for Life & Times of Michael K  and for ______.

• Dusklands

• Disgrace

• In the Heart of the Country

• Waiting for the Barbarians

Blood in the Sun Trilogy is written by _____________.

• Nuruddin Farah

• Buchi Emecheta

• Ama Ata Aidoo

• Ken Saro-Wiwa

News from Nowhere is a novel by ___________.

• Edwin Arnold

• William Morris

• Edward Fitzgerald

• None

Who among the following is the biographer of Charles Dickens?

• John Forster

• Thomas Carlyle

• Wilkie Collins

• 
  Charles Reade

Who among the following was asked by the Church to paint the soul, not the flesh?

• Andrea del Sarto

• Fra Lippo Lippi

• Abt Vogler

• None

The term ‘New Woman’ was coined by ___________.

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Sarah Grand

• J S Mill

• Thomas Hardy

Which woman writer was praised by Virginia Woolf and is a pioneer innovator of the “Stream of Consciousness”?

• Venessa Bells

• Frances Burney

• Aphra Behn

• Dorothy Richardson

In which year was the first Booker Prize awarded?

• 1951

• 1964

• 1969

• 1972