Colony

Question 1

The Tempest, Shakespeare, early 1600s

Answer 1

“This island’s mine by Sycorax my mother,/
Which thou tak’st from me”
(Shakespeare 2008)

Question 2

Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe, 1958

Answer 2

“The missionaries had come to Umuofia. They had built their church there, won a handful of converts and were already sending evangelists to the surrounding towns and villages”

(Achebe 2010)

Question 3

‘Chinua Achebe’, C.L. Innes, 1990, article

Answer 3

“‘Otherness’ is maintained mentally and physically by an insistence on cultural and intellectual superiority”

(Innes 1990)

Question 4

Tempest 2

Answer 4

“You taught me language; and my profit on’t/
Is, I know how to curse.”
(Shakespeare 2008)

Question 5

Rita Banerjee, 2013, Gold, Land and Labor: Ideologies of Colonization and Rewriting The Tempest in 1622

Answer 5

“the very act of settlement makes [Prospero] dependent on the islanders’ labour power. He has enslaved Caliban, who supplies his material needs… The spirit, Ariel, performs supernatural and magical services for him”

(Banerjee 2013)

Question 6

TFA 2

Answer 6

“They came to the tree from which Okwonko’s body was dangling, and they stopped dead”

(Achebe 2010)