Jorge Luis Borges is a native of which country ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Jorge Luis Borges was born the same year as what other famous modern author ?

   A. James Joyce
   B. Vladimir Nabokov
   C. T.S. Eliot
   D. Joseph Conrad

2. In Jorge Luis Borges’ “The Library of Babel,” which of the following is NOT a major concern of the work ?

   A. The short work speaks of the daunting search for truth and knowledge.
   B. It is obsessed with the descriptions of an endless and ultimately incomprehensible library.
   C. Borges takes great pains to show how the key to understanding the library is reason.
   D. The library is analogous to the universe.

3. After ____________ years of his marriage he left his native town and try his fortune in the great city of London?

   A. two
   B. three
   C. four
   D. five

4. ______________refers to an individual’s equal and native command of two or more languages?

   A. Bilingualism
   B. Poly__glotism
   C. Multilingualism
   D. None of the above

5. Which of the following themes or ideas are closely associated with the Native American way of life ?

   A. Waste and abuse of natural resources
   B. Immoral behavior
   C. Love and respect for family and its elders
   D. Uncivilized society

6. Occom says he was discriminated against as a missionary and minister. What proof does he present to illustrate the unfair treatment of Native American ministers ?

   A. Establishment of puritans
   B. Establishment of autobiography
   C. Establishment of Indian praying towns
   D. Establishment of self- reliance

7. A work of criticism that considers how English imperialism affected native Indian authors would be an example of_______________?

   A. Marxist theory
   B. psychoanalytic theory
   C. postcolonial theory
   D. deconstruction

8. Richard Wright said he created the character of Bigger in Native Son because______________?

   A. He had known many “Biggers” in his life.
   B. He was trying to overcome his fears of powerful men.
   C. He was proud of all the African American men he had seen stand up to Whites.
   D. He wanted to show African American males how not to live.

9. Native Son was written by___________________?

   A. Jean Toomer.
   B. Richard Wright.
   C. Ralph Ellison.
   D. James Baldwin.

10. A pair of terms introduced by Noam CHOMSKY in 1965 to describe native speakers’ intuitions about the grammatical correctness, or otherwise, of sentences.

    A. Both b and c
    B. Diachrony/Synchrony
    C. Acceptable/Unacceptable
    D. N. O. T

    Submitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo