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WorksheetsMODEL EXAM - 2
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
Who is the author of Cry, the Beloved Country?
Nelson Mandela
JM Coetzee
Alan Paton
Nadine Gordimer
Which one of the following was called Mr. Drum?
Alan Paton
Jim Bailey
Henry Nxumalo
The first novel to proclaim "South Africanness" in terms of settings, character, and plot was.....
The Story of an African Farm
The Grass is singing
Cry, the Beloved Country
South African tribal wars took place in which era?
Mfecane Era
Romantic era
Intra-trbal era
Which of the following is the first Black novel written in English
The Story of an African Farm
Chaka
Mhudi
Which one of the following writers were banned from speaking in public to more than two people?
Nadine Gordimer
Doris Lessing
J K Rowling
Chinua Achebe
Which one of the following is a text by Nelson Mandela?
No Easy Walk to Freedom
The Conservationist
I Write What I Like
What is the full form of COSAW?
the Cosmopolitan of South African Writers
The Congress of South African Wisdom
the Congress of South African Writers.
the Closed Society of South African Writers.
Which one of JM Coetzee's novels deals with the inability of the writer to write about black experience?
Life and Times of Michael K
In the Heart of the Country
Waiting for the Barbarians
Black writings re-emerged in the 1950s due to which one of the following magazine?
Flute Magazine
African Magazine for the people
Drum Magazine
Africa in the Rise
"The Story of an American Farm" was written by _________.
Olive Schreiner
Nadine Gordimer
Doris Lessing
JM Coetzee
Which of the following authors has not won a Nobel Prize for literature?
Ryder Haggard
jM Coetzee
Nadine Gordimer
The Bald Soprano by Eugene Ionesco published in
1940
1950
1960
1970
No longer at ease by Chinua Achebe published in
1940
1950
1960
1970
A house for me.Biswas published in
1958
1959
1960
1961
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman published in
1844
1855
1866
1877
Our man in Havana by Graham Greene published in
1954
1956
1958
1960
A fine balance by Rohinton Mistry published in
1995
1996
1997
1998
The moon and sixpence by WS Maugham published in
1916
1919
1929
1939
The sun also rises by Ernest Hemingway published in
1924
1926
1928
1932
Animal Farm by George Orwell published in
1945
1949
1952
1965
Petals of blood by Ngugi wa Thiongo published in
1966
1977
1988
1999
A man of the people by chinua Achebe published in
1944
1966
1988
1999
A dance of the forests published in which year to celebrate Nigeria's independence
1950
1960
1970
1980
Death of a salesman published in
1947
1948
1949
1950
The shadow lines published in
1966
1977
1988
1999
Ice candy man published in
1966
1977
1988
1999
Catch- 22 published in
1960
1961
1962
1963
Nineteen eighty four published in
1947
1948
1949
1952
A tale of two cities published in
1858
1857
1856
1859
One hundred years of solitude published in
1965
1966
1967
1968
First edition of GM Hopkins' poetry published in
1916
1918
1920
1922
A Clockwork Orange published in
1960
1961
1962
1963
First reform act introduced in
1825
1832
1867
1884
Jacob's room published in
1920
1921
1922
1923
Frankenstein published in
1790
1806
1818
1827
Of Grammatology published in
1966
1967
1968
1968
The "ancient and modern quarrel" in Western literary criticism appears during:
100 BC
5th Century CE
16th Century CE
Twentieth Century CE
" An Essay on the principles of Human Action" was written by:
Charles Lamb
Jean Jacques Rousseau
William Godwin
William Hazlitt
What did Matthew Arnold imply by the term " Hebraism" in his "Culture and Anarchy"?
Moral Education
Intellectual Autonomy
Rational Outlook
Pragmatic Atitude
"Negative Capability" - associated with
John Keats
Matthew Arnold
T. S. Eliot
"Sweetness and Light" - associated with
Matthew Arnold
Wordsworth
Milton
Byron
"Esemplastic" - associated with
Wordsworth
Coleridge
Byron
Keats
"Dissociation of Sensibility" - associated with
Eliot
Ezra pound
Empson
Brooks
Who among the following, wrote about Charlotte Bronte that her mind contained 'nothing but hunger, rebellion, and rage'?
Elizabeth Gaskell
Matthew Arnold
Charles Dickens
Mary Shelley
Who proposed the idea that the mind at the time of birth is like a blank slate or tabula rasa?
John Locke
J S Mill
Bertrand Russell
Francis Bacon
The Aesthetics of Thomas Acquinas is written by
James Joyce
Umberto Eco
Walter Pater
Matthew Arnold
The debate on 'the condition pf England question' was initiated by
William Hazlitt
Walter Bagehot
Thomas Carlyle
Matthew Arnold
Which of the following was not recognised as a major dialogue of Plato?
Crito
Phaedo
Symposium
Metaphysics
Who among the following was the author of The Voyage of the Beagle?
Matthew Arnold
Charles Darwin
John Henry Newman
John Stuart Mill
