Q. Who among the following postcolonial critics worked on the fiction of Joseph Conrad in his/her early career?
(1) Edward Said
(2) G.C. Spivak
(3) Homi Bhabha
(4) Dipesh Chakrabarty  
Answer: 1

Q. Which of the following works cannot be categorised under postcolonial theory?
(A) Nation and Narration
(B) Orientalism
(C) Discipline and Punish
(D) White Mythologies
Answer: (C)

Q. The rejection of “Universalism” is a mark of :
(A) Deconstruction
(B) New Historicism
(C) Structuralism
(D) Postcolonial criticism
Answer: D
Universalism implies that it is possible to apply generalized norms, values, or concepts to all people and cultures, regardless of the contexts in which they are located.

Q. Edward Said points to two forms of orientalism. They are
(A) Real and fake
(B) Voluntary and involuntary
(C) Subjective and objective
(D) Latent and manifest
Answer: (D)

Q. Edward Said’s well-known book Orientalism was published in
(A) 1978
(B) 1968
(C) 2008
(D) 1988
Answer: A

Q. Preface to Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth was written by
(A) Aime Cesaire
(B) Ania Loomba
(C) Jean Paul Sartre
(D) Edward Said
Answer: (C)

Which of the following is not true of Edward Said’s Orientalism?
(A) Makes use of Foucault’s concept of discursive formulation
(B) Is one of the founding texts of Postcolonial theory
(C) Makes use of Barthes’s concept of writerly text
(D) Utilises the Gramscian notion of hegemony
Answer: (C)

Q. The author of Nation and Narration is
(A) Edward Said
(B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
(C) Frantz Fanon
(D) Homi Bhabha
Answer: D

Q. Imagined Communities is a book by
(A) Aijaz Ahmad
(B) Edward Said
(C) Perry Anderson
(D) Benedict Anderson
Answer: D

Q. Who among the following developed the term strategic essentialism ?
(A) Edward Said
(B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
(C) Homi Bhabha
(D) Aijaz Ahmed
 Answer: B

Q. Which of the following statements is the most accurate regarding Edward Said’s thesis in Orientalism
(i) The Europeans used the East dialectically to describe their self-image as irrational and primitive.
(ii) The Oriental people used the West dialectically to define their self-image as irrational and primitive. (iii) The Europeans used the East oppositionally to define their self-image as rational and modern.
(iv) The Oriental people used the West oppositionally to define their self-image as rational and modern.
Answer: (i)

Q. “Provincializing Europe” is a concept propounded by
(A) Edward Said
(B) Paul Gilroy
(C) Abdul R. Gurnah
(D) Dipesh Chakravarty
Answer: D

Q. In which of his essays does Homi Bhabha discuss the ‘discovery’ of English in colonial India?
(A) “Signs taken for Wonders”
(B) “Mimicry”
(C) Nation and Narration
(D) “The Commitment to Theory”
Answer: (A)

Q. The term “Negritude” was coined by :
(A) Frantz Fanon and Homi Bhabha
(B) Ngugi Wa’ Thiongo and Wole Soyinka
(C) Ainee Cesaire and Leopold Senghor
(D) K. Alfred Memi and Chinua Achebe
Answer: C

Q. Combine the statements correctly: According to Homi Bhabha________
1. Mimicry is not mere copying or emulating the colonizer’s culture, behaviour and manners.
2. But it is further aimed at perfection and excess.
3. Mimicry is mere copying the colonizer’s culture, behaviour and manners…
4. But is informed by both mockery and a certain menace.
Answer:  1&4

Q. Who was the original English translator for Of Grammatology?
(1) Samuel Weber
(2) G.C. Spivak
(3) Paul de Man
(4) Jean-luc Nancy
Answer: 2

Q. To Frantz Fanon, the ‘Negro’ village is
1). The worst face of apartheid
2). A protected area  
3). A place of moral and physical degradation
4). A special village with its own amenities
Answer: 1&3

Q. The author of Black Skin, White Masks is
(A) Ngugi wa Thiong’o
(B) Frantz Fanon
(C) Richard Wright
(D) Martin Luther King (Jr.)
 Answer: B