A. He was born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret.
B. He was an architect who designed The Chandigarh Legislative Assembly building in Punjab, India.
C. He was the architect who designed The Robie House in Chicago, Illinois.
D. Both A and B
Related Mcqs:
- Which of the following best describes James Joyce’s “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” ?
A. It begins with the famous line: “Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo…”?
B. It is a semi-autobiographical account of Joyce’s “coming of age” as an artist.
C. It captures the conflict that Stephen Dedalus has with his Irish and Catholic heritage.
D. All of the above - Which of the following Post-Modern theoreticians explores the contradictions of colonial discourse and the ambivalence that the colonizer feels towards the colonized “other” in works such as “Nation and Narration” ?
A. Linda Hutcheon
B. Homi Bhabha
C. Jacques Derrida
D. Fredric Jameson - Which of the following are well-known Post-Modern theoreticians ?
A. Linda Hutcheon
B. Jean Baudrillard
C. Thomas Hobbes
D. Both A and B - Which of the following best describes the novel “The God of Small Things?”
A. It is a lyrical novel that explores cultural identity and decline of an Indian family.
B. It is a Romantic novel that explores the decline of a Russian family.
C. It is a stream-of-consciousness narrative that explores cultural identity in nineteenth-century Ireland.
D. It is a lyrical novel that explores the decline of a Caribbean family. - Which of the following descriptions accurately describes Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” ?
A. The end of the novella depicts Marlow’s conversation with the Kurtz’s Intended.
B. The work considers the dark side of European colonialism.
C. Marlow comes to understand the necessity of European leadership in Africa.
D. Both A and B - Which author writes a profound criticism of Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness,” accusing Conrad of reinforcing typical European stereotypes of Africa ?
A. Chinua Achebe
B. Edward Said
C. Arundhati Roy
D. Salman Rushdie - Salman Rushdie’s “Midnight’s Children” is a novel characterized by which of the following descriptions ?
A. It is an excellent example of “Magical Realism.”
B. It is concerned with the post-colonial situation of India before and after its partitioning into India and Pakistan.
C. It is a book that tells the story of the Sinai family.
D. All of the above - Which of the following statements best describes the “Great Depression” ?
A. The Great Depression lasted for one hundred years.
B. The Great Depression was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by Western civilization since industrialization.
C. The Great Depression was a severe economic downturn in the industrialized world that began in 1929 and lasted for approximately ten years.
D. B and C only - According to Dr. Dino Felluga’s “General Introduction to Postmodernism,” Roland Barthes, in his work “The Death of the Author,” argues which of the following points ?
A. “The modern writer (scriptor) is born simultaneously with his text.”
B. “Once the Author is gone, the claim to “decipher” a text is quite simple.”
C. “A text never consists of multiple writings, it is always the product of a monolithic culture.”
D. Both A and B - Which of the following is NOT one of the general themes of concern in Derek Walcott’s poem“Becune Point” ?
A. Nature
B. Christianity
C. Pastoral landscapes
D. World War II
