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MCQ ON AFRICAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH WITH ANSWER
Who is considered the father of modern African literature?
A) Chinua Achebe
B) Wole Soyinka
C) Ngugi wa Thiong'o
D) Ayi Kwei Armah
Answer: A) Chinua Achebe
Which novel is often regarded as the first African novel written in English?
A) "Things Fall Apart"
B) "The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born"
C) "Cry, the Beloved Country"
D) "Mine Boy"
Answer: D) "Mine Boy" (written by Peter Abrahams in 1946)
What is the name of the literary movement that emerged in Nigeria in the 1950s and 1960s?
A) African Renaissance
B) Negritude
C) African Modernism
D) Nigerian Literary Movement
Answer: B) Negritude
Who among the following African writers got Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003 ?
A) Wole Soyinka
B) J.M. Coetzee
C) Doris Lessing
D) Nadine Gordimer
Ans. B) J.M. Coetzee
Who is the first African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) Wole Soyinka
B) Naguib Mahfouz
C) Doris Lessing
D) Nadine Gordimer
Answer: A) Wole Soyinka (won in 1986)
Which novel explores the impact of colonialism on African society?
A) "Things Fall Apart"
B) "The Joys of Motherhood"
C) "Cry, the Beloved Country"
D) "Arrow of God"
Answer: A) "Things Fall Apart"
Which Nigerian author wrote the novel "Half of a Yellow Sun"?
A) Chinua Achebe
B) Wole Soyinka
C) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
D) Ben Okri
Answer: C) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
What is the title of the debut novel by Ghanaian author Ayi Kwei Armah?
A) "The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born"
B) "Two Thousand Seasons"
C) "The Healers"
D) "Osiris Rising"
Answer: A) "The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born"
Which South African author wrote the novel "Cry, the Beloved Country"?
A) Alan Paton
B) Nadine Gordimer
C) J.M. Coetzee
D) Zakes Mda
Answer: A) Alan Paton
What is the name of the protagonist in Chinua Achebe's novel "Things Fall Apart"?
A) Okonkwo
B) Obierika
C) Nwoye
D) Mr. Brown
Answer: A) Okonkwo
Which Kenyan author wrote the novel "Devil on the Cross"?
A) Ngugi wa Thiong'o
B) Meja Mwangi
C) Grace Ogot
D) Francis Imbuga
Answer: A) Ngugi wa Thiong'o
What is Chinua Achebe's most famous novel?
A) "Things Fall Apart"
B) "No Longer at Ease"
C) "Arrow of God"
D) "A Man of the People"
Answer: A) "Things Fall Apart"
Which of the following is a major theme in Achebe's works?
A) Colonialism and its impact on African society
B) Love and relationships
C) African culture and traditions
D) All of the above
Answer: D) All of the above
Which of the following is NOT a novel by Chinua Achebe?
A) "Anthills of the Savannah"
B) "The Lion and the Jewel"
C) "The Joys of Motherhood"
D) "A Grain of Wheat"
Answer: B) "The Lion and the Jewel" (this is a play by Wole Soyinka)
What is the name of Achebe's autobiography?
A) "Home and Exile"
B) "The Education of a British-Protected Child"
C) "There Was a Country"
D) "Achebe: A Biography"
Answer: B) "The Education of a British-Protected Child"
Which novelist wrote "The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born"?
A) Ayi Kwei Armah
B) Ama Ata Aidoo
C) Kojo Laing
D) Ben Okri
Answer: A) Ayi Kwei Armah
Who wrote the novel "Half of a Yellow Sun"?
A) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
B) Zainab Alkali
C) Buchi Emecheta
D) Yvonne Vera
Answer: A) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Poets:
Who is the author of the poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"?
A) Langston Hughes
B) Countee Cullen
C) Claude McKay
D) W.E.B. Du Bois
Answer: A) Langston Hughes
Which African poet wrote "The Waste Land of Africa"?
A) Christopher Okigbo
B) Wole Soyinka
C) John Pepper Clark
D) Odia Ofeimun
Answer: A) Christopher Okigbo
Who among the following African poets wrote the poem "Mother Africa"?
A) Kofi Anyidoho
B) Atukwei Okai
C) Efua Sutherland
D) Ama Ata Aidoo
Answer: A) Kofi Anyidoho
Who wrote the novel "Cry, the Beloved Country"?
A) Chinua Achebe
B) Alan Paton
C) Ngugi wa Thiong'o
D) Wole Soyinka
Answer: B) Alan Paton
Which Afeican author wrote "The Joys of Motherhood"?
A) Buchi Emecheta
B) Zainab Alkali
C) Ama Ata Aidoo
D) Yvonne Vera
Answer: A) Buchi Emecheta
1. Which Kenya writer wrote the novel "Devil on the Cross"?
A) Ngugi wa Thiong'o
B) Meja Mwangi
C) Grace Ogot
D) Francis Imbuga
Answer: A) Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Which author wrote "The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born"?
A) Ayi Kwei Armah
B) Kojo Laing
C) Ben Okri
D) Ama Ata Aidoo
Answer: A) Ayi Kwei Armah
Who wrote the novel "Half of a Yellow Sun"?
A) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
B) Zainab Alkali
C) Buchi Emecheta
D) Yvonne Vera
Answer: A) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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MCQ ON FRENCH LITERATURE
Here is a list of prominent African award-winning writers in English:
1. Chinua Achebe (Nigeria)
- Man Booker International Prize (2007)
- Prince Claus Award (1990)
2. Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)
- Nobel Prize in Literature (1986)
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (1983)
3. Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Kenya)
- Man Booker International Prize (2019)
- Lotus Prize for Literature (1973)
4. Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)
- Nobel Prize in Literature (1991)
- Booker Prize (1974)
5. J.M. Coetzee (South Africa)
- Nobel Prize in Literature (2003)
- Booker Prize (1983, 1999)
6. Ben Okri (Nigeria)
- Booker Prize (1991)
- Commonwealth Writers' Prize (1988)
7. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria)
- National Book Critics Circle Award (2013)
- Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2007)
8. Zakes Mda (South Africa)
- Commonwealth Writers' Prize (2001)
- Sunday Times Fiction Prize (2001)
9. Ayi Kwei Armah (Ghana)
- Prince Claus Award (2010)
- Langston Hughes Medal (2010)
10. Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana)
- Commonwealth Writers' Prize (1992)
- Nelson Mandela Prize for Literature (2000)
African writers and their notable works:
1. Chinua Achebe (Nigeria)
- - "Things Fall Apart" (1958)
- - "No Longer at Ease" (1960)
- - "Arrow of God" (1964)
2. Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)
- - "The Lion and the Jewel" (1962)
- - "Death and the King's Horseman" (1975)
- - "Aké: The Years of Childhood" (1981)
3. Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Kenya)
- - "Weep Not, Child" (1964)
- - "The River Between" (1965)
- - "Devil on the Cross" (1982)
4. Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)
- - "The Conservationist" (1974)
- - "Burger's Daughter" (1979)
- - "July's People" (1981)
5. J.M. Coetzee (South Africa)
- - "Dusklands" (1974)
- - "Waiting for the Barbarians" (1980)
- - "Disgrace" (1999)
6. Ben Okri (Nigeria)
- - "Flowers and Shadows" (1980)
- - "The Famished Road" (1991)
- - "Songs of Enchantment" (1993)
7. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria)
- - "Half of a Yellow Sun" (2006)
- - "Americanah" (2013)
- - "Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions" (2017)
8. Ayi Kwei Armah (Ghana)
- - "The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born" (1968)
- - "Two Thousand Seasons" (1973)
- - "The Healers" (1978)
9. Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana)
- - "The Dilemma of a Ghost" (1965)
- - "Anowa" (1970)
- - "Changes: A Love Story" (1991)
10. Zakes Mda (South Africa)
- - "Ways of Dying" (1995)
- - "The Heart of Redness" (2000)
- - "The Madonna of Excelsior" (2002)
