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- 1. Multiple Choice
In what fact imperialism is different from colonialism
Military rule
Domination
Control
Settlement
- 2. Multiple Choice
"the attempt to govern the indigenous people" is the definition of colonialism by
Peter Childs
Elleke Boehmer
Patrick Williams
Homi Bhabha
- 3. Multiple Choice
When did the third period of decolonisation occur?
Late 18 th century
End of 19 th century
After second world war
After first world war
- 4. Multiple Choice
Pick the odd one out-
What are the reasons for decolonisation?
Nationalist movements
Economic power of Britain declined
Gandhi's Satyagraha
Empire became expensive to administer
- 5. Multiple Choice
The literature of which countries are not included in the Commonwealth Literature
Ireland
Australia
Caribbean
Russia
- 6. Multiple Choice
Pick the correct order of the evolution of Commonwealth
Colonial conferences- Commonwealth conferences- Imperial conferences
Imperial conferences- colonial conferences- commonwealth conferences
Colonial conferences-Imperial Conferences- Commonwealth conferences-
- 7. Multiple Choice
Even after independence the term " commonwealth " in commonwealth literature carries the previous connotation of belonging to British, why?
Because it is written in English
English themes are used
Addressed to English audience
Western educated writers
- 8. Multiple Choice
What is the main important function of commonwealth literature
To develop sense of national and cultural identity
To develop self consciousness and confidence
To expose the atrocities of the colonisers
To demand equal status
- 9. Multiple Choice
Why Mc Leod criticised commonwealth literature as the subset of canonical English Literature?
They focuses on national themes
They focused on local specifics
They focused on universal themes
They focused on readership
- 10. Multiple Choice
Liberal Humanist supported texts that focussed on
Provincial contexts
National contexts
Local and regional
Universality and timelessness
- 11. Multiple Choice
Norman Jeffares and William Walsh believed in
Universal themes as the primary focus of the text
Regional themes as the primary focus of the text
Colonial themes as the primary focus of the text
- 12. Multiple Choice
Sam Selvon's sympathy and dismay for white assistant exhibits?
How colonialism suggests specific modes of showing humanity to a servant
How colonialism suggests specific mode of showing the plight of colonisers now
How colonialism suggests specific modes of understanding and justifying the subservience of colonised people
- 13. Multiple Choice
" Language carries culture and culture carries...the entire body of values by which we come to perceive ourselves", who said these words?
Sam Selvon
Frantz Fanon
Shirley Chew
Ngugi wa Thiong
- 14. Multiple Choice
Which is the strongest force employed by British to colonise the people
Military
Language
Physical
Financial
- 15. Multiple Choice
Why the colonised people were traumatized?
They were physically assaulted
They were deprived of jobs
They lacked English language skills
They were taught to look negatively upon their culture and people
- 16. Multiple Choice
In Fanon's words the blacks or the colonised people are seen as a
Subject
Object
Savages
Evil
- 17. Multiple Choice
" A man was expected to behave like a man. I was expected to behave like a black man" what does it imply?
Black man is special
Black man is different
Black man is an object
Black man is powerful
- 18. Multiple Choice
The concept of " Orient" was introduced by
Franz Fanon
Mc Leod
Edward Said
Antonio Gramsci
- 19. Multiple Choice
What is " new Englishes'
Language of post colonial critics
Subversion of standard English
Language of newly independent nations
Language of new generation
- 20. Multiple Choice
Pick the odd one-
Three criticism of The Empire Writes back
Gender equality
National difference
Regional differences
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