M.A. (Semester III) (CBCS) Examination, 2017
ENGLISH (PAPER VII)
POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE
Day Date: Friday, 05-05-2017 Max. Marks: 70
Time: 02.30 PM to 05.00 PM
N.B. All questions are compulsory.
Figures to the right indicate full marks.
Q.1 Complete the following sentences by choosing the correct
alternative.
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The speaker of the poem Listen Mr. Oxford Don is
Africa Canada
Clapham common Trinidad
The Poet is thankful to God for
Having made him a bearer of the World's sorrow
Having made him black
Giving him the that would breathe all the air of the World
All of the above
Complete the line "Corpses are
Through a hell Through a paradise
Through Africa Through Spain
The ultimate reality of Black, according to Gwendolyn Brooks to

Salute and love the fact that they are black
Identify their Geographic power
To perceive their glory
All of the above
Roberta Sykes narrates her experiences of in the
Miscegenation.
Loneliness Racism
Mother's love Eagerness to meet her father
The village presented in the novel 'Things Fall Apart'
Real Fictional
Historical All of above
The first part of the novel 'Things Fall Apart' describes_____.
The pre-colonial life Ibo society
The postcolonial life of Ibo society
The influence of British Colonialism on the Igbo community
Exploitation of Black people
left for Okonkwo.
Land and wealth Debt
Empire None of the above
Okonkwo lost his reputation and status in the
He killed Ezeudu's son
He killed one of the white messengers
He committed suicide
He rejected the Igbo culture
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10) The novel the Castle of Skin' is written in the
The first person narrative
Third person narrative
First and third person narrative
None of the above
11) the Castle of my Skin' starts with birthday.
Seventh Nineth
Tenth Seventeenth
12) Ngugi points out that English Language was used by the

To undervalue the home culture
To elevate the language of colonizer
To sort students into a pyramid hierarchy
To make students smarter
13) According to Edward Said, Friedrich Schlegel
Racist Thought provoking
Frank Rational
14) Fanon argues that the period of assimilation was characterized

Imitation Productivity
Rhyming poetry Representation of reality
Q.2 Answer the following questions in brief. (Any Seven) 14
Who addresses whom in the poem Listen, Mr. Oxford Don?
How does John Agard attack the Queen's English?
Why does Bernard Daddie thank God?
Explain the lines:
"I wear the livery of the Centaur
And I carry the world since the first morning"
Explain the concept of Negritude with the help of the poem Primer for
Blacks.
Explain the theme of racial hybridity in the poem Miscegenation.
Where does the speaker of the poem 'Miscegenation' search for the
father?
What is the theme of the poem, Person is a person Because of other
People"?
Q. 3 Write brief answer to any TWO of the following questions. 08
What role did culture play in the process of decolonization?
Explain the concept of Occidentalism.
What is the influence of Orientalism on literary theory?
Write answer to any TWO of the following. 06
Explain the term 'Hybridity'?
Define and explain the term 'mimicry'.
What is racial discrimination?
Q.4 Discuss In the Castle of My Skin as a Bildungsroman. 14
OR
Bring out the significance of the title of the novel Things Fall Apart.
Q.5 What objections are raised against the Orientalists by Edward Side in his