Which of the following would be considered postcolonial novelists, defined as coming historically after the era of England’s large-scale imperialism ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which events in and after the 1960s contributed significantly to the decentralization of England from London to a more regional focus, ultimately also making way for a less homogenous vision of England and the popularity of postcolonial fiction ?

   A. Radio announcers were permitted to speak in regional dialects and multicultural accents.
   B. The Arts Council designated many of its resources to supporting regional arts councils.
   C. Regional radio and television stations appeared throughout the country.
   D. all of the above

2. Given the popularity of the Gothic novel and the novel of purpose, which of the following novelists wrote fiction that is closer in subject matter to the novel of manners than it is to the writing of her own era ?

   A. Fanny Burney
   B. Mary Wollstonecraft
   C. Anna Letitia Barbauld
   D. Jane Austen

3. Which of the following texts is considered the first example of postcolonial criticism ?

   A. Harold Bloom’s “An Elegy for the Canon”
   B. Jacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage . . . ”
   C. Cleanth Brooks’s “Keats’s Sylvan Historian”
   D. Edward Said’s Orientalism

4. Which of the following texts is considered the first example of postcolonial criticism ?

   A. Harold Bloom’s “An Elegy for the Canon”
   B. Jacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage … ”
   C. Cleanth Brooks’s “Keats’s Sylvan Historian”
   D. Edward Said’s Orientalism

5. The Jacobean era succeeds the ___________and precedes the Caroline era, and specifically denotes a style of architecture, visual arts, decorative arts, and literature that is predominant of that period ?

   A. Elizabethan era
   B. English Reformation
   C. England
   D. Tudor period

6. 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

7. How did the fall of Roman imperialism affect Britain ?

   A. it led to the rise of Germanic cultures
   B. it created a conflict Christianity and paganism
   C. it led to the end of Roman forms of governing
   D. All of the Above

8. Which of the following novelists best represents the mid-Victorian period’s contentment with the burgeoning economic prosperity and decreased restiveness over social and political change ?

   A. Anthony Trollope
   B. Charles Dickens
   C. John Ruskin
   D. Friedrich Engels

9. Which of the following novelists best represents the mid-Victorian period’s contentment with the burgeoning economic prosperity and decreased restiveness over social and political change ?

   A. Anthony Trollope
   B. Charles Dickens
   C. John Ruskin
   D. Friedrich Engels

10. Which of the following novelists was NOT associated with the rise of the novel as a literary form ?

    A. Samuel Richardson
    B. Laurence Sterne
    C. Daniel Defoe
    D. Charles Dickens