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MODEL EXAM - 2

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is the author of Cry, the Beloved Country?

a)

Nelson Mandela

b)

JM Coetzee

c)

Alan Paton

d)

Nadine Gordimer

2.

Which one of the following was called Mr. Drum?

a)

Alan Paton

b)

Jim Bailey

c)

Henry Nxumalo

3.

The first novel to proclaim "South Africanness" in terms of settings, character, and plot was.....

a)

The Story of an African Farm

b)

The Grass is singing

c)

Cry, the Beloved Country

4.

South African tribal wars took place in which era?

a)

Mfecane Era

b)

Romantic era

c)

Intra-trbal era

5.

Which of the following is the first Black novel written in English

a)

The Story of an African Farm

b)

Chaka

c)

Mhudi

6.

Which one of the following writers were banned from speaking in public to more than two people?

a)

Nadine Gordimer

b)

Doris Lessing

c)

J K Rowling

d)

Chinua Achebe

7.

Which one of the following is a text by Nelson Mandela?

a)

No Easy Walk to Freedom

b)

The Conservationist

c)

I Write What I Like

8.

What is the full form of COSAW?

a)

the Cosmopolitan of South African Writers

b)

The Congress of South African Wisdom

c)

the Congress of South African Writers.

d)

the Closed Society of South African Writers.

9.

Which one of JM Coetzee's novels deals with the inability of the writer to write about black experience?

a)

Life and Times of Michael K

b)

In the Heart of the Country

c)

Waiting for the Barbarians

10.

Black writings re-emerged in the 1950s due to which one of the following magazine?

a)

Flute Magazine

b)

African Magazine for the people

c)

Drum Magazine

d)

Africa in the Rise

11.

"The Story of an American Farm" was written by _________.

a)

Olive Schreiner

b)

Nadine Gordimer

c)

Doris Lessing

d)

JM Coetzee

12.

Which of the following authors has not won a Nobel Prize for literature?

a)

Ryder Haggard

b)

jM Coetzee

c)

Nadine Gordimer

13.

The Bald Soprano by Eugene Ionesco published in

a)

1940

b)

1950

c)

1960

d)

1970

14.

No longer at ease by Chinua Achebe published in

a)

1940

b)

1950

c)

1960

d)

1970

15.

A house for me.Biswas published in

a)

1958

b)

1959

c)

1960

d)

1961

16.

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman published in

a)

1844

b)

1855

c)

1866

d)

1877

17.

Our man in Havana by Graham Greene published in

a)

1954

b)

1956

c)

1958

d)

1960

18.

A fine balance by Rohinton Mistry published in

a)

1995

b)

1996

c)

1997

d)

1998

19.

The moon and sixpence by WS Maugham published in

a)

1916

b)

1919

c)

1929

d)

1939

20.

The sun also rises by Ernest Hemingway published in

a)

1924

b)

1926

c)

1928

d)

1932

21.

Animal Farm by George Orwell published in

a)

1945

b)

1949

c)

1952

d)

1965

22.

Petals of blood by Ngugi wa Thiongo published in

a)

1966

b)

1977

c)

1988

d)

1999

23.

A man of the people by chinua Achebe published in

a)

1944

b)

1966

c)

1988

d)

1999

24.

A dance of the forests published in which year to celebrate Nigeria's independence

a)

1950

b)

1960

c)

1970

d)

1980

25.

Death of a salesman published in

a)

1947

b)

1948

c)

1949

d)

1950

26.

The shadow lines published in

a)

1966

b)

1977

c)

1988

d)

1999

27.

Ice candy man published in

a)

1966

b)

1977

c)

1988

d)

1999

28.

Catch- 22 published in

a)

1960

b)

1961

c)

1962

d)

1963

29.

Nineteen eighty four published in

a)

1947

b)

1948

c)

1949

d)

1952

30.

A tale of two cities published in

a)

1858

b)

1857

c)

1856

d)

1859

31.

One hundred years of solitude published in

a)

1965

b)

1966

c)

1967

d)

1968

32.

First edition of GM Hopkins' poetry published in

a)

1916

b)

1918

c)

1920

d)

1922

33.

A Clockwork Orange published in

a)

1960

b)

1961

c)

1962

d)

1963

34.

First reform act introduced in

a)

1825

b)

1832

c)

1867

d)

1884

35.

Jacob's room published in

a)

1920

b)

1921

c)

1922

d)

1923

36.

Frankenstein published in

a)

1790

b)

1806

c)

1818

d)

1827

37.

Of Grammatology published in

a)

1966

b)

1967

c)

1968

d)

1968

38.

The "ancient and modern quarrel" in Western literary criticism appears during:

a)

100 BC

b)

5th Century CE

c)

16th Century CE

d)

Twentieth Century CE

39.

" An Essay on the principles of Human Action" was written by:

a)

Charles Lamb

b)

Jean Jacques Rousseau

c)

William Godwin

d)

William Hazlitt

40.

What did Matthew Arnold imply by the term " Hebraism" in his "Culture and Anarchy"?

a)

Moral Education

b)

Intellectual Autonomy

c)

Rational Outlook

d)

Pragmatic Atitude

41.

"Negative Capability" - associated with

a)

John Keats

b)

Matthew Arnold

c)

T. S. Eliot

42.

"Sweetness and Light" - associated with

a)

Matthew Arnold

b)

Wordsworth

c)

Milton

d)

Byron

43.

"Esemplastic" - associated with

a)

Wordsworth

b)

Coleridge

c)

Byron

d)

Keats

44.

"Dissociation of Sensibility" - associated with

a)

Eliot

b)

Ezra pound

c)

Empson

d)

Brooks

45.

Who among the following, wrote about Charlotte Bronte that her mind contained 'nothing but hunger, rebellion, and rage'?

a)

Elizabeth Gaskell

b)

Matthew Arnold

c)

Charles Dickens

d)

Mary Shelley

46.

Who proposed the idea that the mind at the time of birth is like a blank slate or tabula rasa?

a)

John Locke

b)

J S Mill

c)

Bertrand Russell

d)

Francis Bacon

47.

The Aesthetics of Thomas Acquinas is written by

a)

James Joyce

b)

Umberto Eco

c)

Walter Pater

d)

Matthew Arnold

48.

The debate on 'the condition pf England question' was initiated by

a)

William Hazlitt

b)

Walter Bagehot

c)

Thomas Carlyle

d)

Matthew Arnold

49.

Which of the following was not recognised as a major dialogue of Plato?

a)

Crito

b)

Phaedo

c)

Symposium

d)

Metaphysics

50.

Who among the following was the author of The Voyage of the Beagle?

a)

Matthew Arnold

b)

Charles Darwin

c)

John Henry Newman

d)

John Stuart Mill