This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Postcolonial > Postcolonial Literature – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Postcolonial Literature Quiz 1 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A refusal to use the language of the colonizer in a correct way A) Abrogation. B) Apropriation. C) Resistance. D) Ambivalence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Abrogation. 2. What is a hallmark of characters in postcolonial fiction? A) Strong nationalistic beliefs. B) Hybrid cultural identities. C) Resistance against colonial powers. D) Complete assimilation into indigenous culture. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hybrid cultural identities. 3. What is postcolonial literature? A) Literature produced in European countries. B) Literature produced in former colonies. C) Literature produced during colonial times. D) Literature produced after decolonization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Literature produced in former colonies. 4. True or false:Hegemony allows the subordinate group to maintain its own social, cultural, ideological, or economic influence. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 5. Who wrote the work 'The Wretched of the Earth'? A) Frantz Fanon. B) Gayatri spivak. C) Homi ka bhava. D) Edward Said. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Frantz Fanon. 6. Who is the character of Ade Coker based on? A) Ibrahim Babangida. B) Muhammadu Buhari. C) And Saro-Wiwa. D) De edge. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) De edge. 7. Which term best describes the voluntary or enforced migration of people from their native homelands A) Diaspora. B) Exoticism. C) Hybridity. D) Ambivalence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Diaspora. 8. What complex issues does postcolonial literature often explore? A) Identity and culture. B) Science and technology. C) Politics and economics. D) Religion and spirituality. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Identity and culture. 9. What influenced many Igbo people to convert to Christianity? A) Colonization. B) Biafran Civil War. C) Traditional Igbo beliefs. D) Influence of other African tribes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Colonization. 10. The work 'Orientalism' was published in the year A) 1987. B) 1978. C) 1972. D) 1981. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1978. 11. Which of the following would be the closest example of diegesis? A) The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass. B) The film The Lion King. C) The film Malcolm X. D) Journal entries from a soldier at war. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The film The Lion King. 12. Which is the closest example of historicity? A) Beowulf. B) The legend of King Arthur. C) The Disney version of Pocahantas. D) Columbus reached the New World in 1492. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Columbus reached the New World in 1492. 13. Who is the military leader in Purple Hibiscus based on? A) Ibrahim Babangida. B) Muhammadu Buhari. C) And Saro-Wiwa. D) De edge. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ibrahim Babangida. 14. The term 'orient' according to Said represents A) East. B) West. C) Colonised. D) Coloniser. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) East. 15. The means by which the colonized adapt the culture of the colonizer A) Mimicry. B) Imitation. C) Adaptation. D) Hybridity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mimicry. 16. What is an example of intersectionality from the examples below? A) Voting Democrat or Republican. B) Being Christian in America. C) Being a transgender racial minority in America. D) Being an engineer in the Middle East. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Being a transgender racial minority in America. 17. What are some common themes in postcolonial literature? A) Love and friendship. B) Adventure and exploration. C) Loss of culture and identity. D) Mystery and suspense. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Loss of culture and identity. 18. Diegesis refers to narrative telling through ..... A) History. B) Nonfiction. C) Fiction. D) All of the other answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fiction. 19. Who wrote the work 'Orientalism'? A) Edward Said. B) Spivak. C) Frantz Fanon. D) Homi ka bhava. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Edward Said. 20. When did Nigeria gain independence from British rule? A) 1810. B) 1945. C) 1960. D) 1985. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1960. Next →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesPostcolonial Literature Quiz 2 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books