Module 8 & 9

Question 1

African literature in contemporary age

Answer 1

• preoccupation with the recovery of the African identity after years
  colonial of slavery
• lamentations on violence
• cry for recovery

Question 2

Twenty-first-century African literature is influenced by?

Answer 2

the region’s
history, its identity and culture.

Question 3

African literature, like other global literatures, originated from oral
traditions, including?

Answer 3

myths, epics, funeral dirges, praise poems, and
proverbs.

Question 4

Mwindo epic from?

Answer 4

Congo

Question 5

Sundiata from?

Answer 5

Malinka

Question 6

Some tribes had an existing writing system, like?

Answer 6

Ethiopia

Question 7

Ethiopian literature primarily focuses on?
WHAT THEME?

Answer 7

theological themes

Question 8

TRUE OR FALSE

African literature is NOT influenced by the introduction of Christianity and
Islam, which altered indigenous traditional beliefs.

Answer 8

FALSE

African literature IS INFLUENCED by the introduction of Christianity and Islam, which altered indigenous traditional beliefs.

Question 9

TRUE OR FALSE
The Harlem Renaissance, from 1918-1937, was a significant period in
African literature.

Answer 9

TRUE

Question 10

TRUE OR FALSE
Negritude began as a history movement in France in response to their objections to French colonial rule and the concerted effort to integrate them in to French society.

Answer 10

TRUE

Question 11

TRUE OR FALSE
Negritude does not use literature as change of negative connotation to blackness

Answer 11

FALSE
Negritude USE literature as change of negative connotation to blackness

Question 12

Who wrote Lost Poems?

Answer 12

Wole Soyinka

Question 13

He’s a Nigerian playwright, poet, and essayist, was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first sub-Saharan African to receive this prestigious
honor.

Answer 13

Wole Soyinka

Question 14

TRUE OR FALSE
Lost Poems were written as his revenge against all the poems or ideas he had forgotten.

Answer 14

TRUE

Question 15

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wrote….?

Answer 15

Checking Out

Question 16

It narrates the harrowing
experience of a Nigerian with a false identity who overstays in London.

Answer 16

Checking Out

Question 17

a Nigerian who left his
country to fulfil his dream of living in a different country.

Answer 17

Obinze

Question 18

Obinze‘s fake future wife

Answer 18

Cleotilde

Question 19

the man who lends his
identity to Obinze in exchange for 40 % of Obinze’s income.

Answer 19

Vincent

Question 20

organizers of the
meeting and the wedding with Cleotilde

Answer 20

The Angolans

Question 21

Obinze‘s cousin who lives
in London

Answer 21

Nicholas

Question 22

Obinze‘s friend

Answer 22

Iloba

Question 23

Obinze‘s co-worker

Answer 23

Nigel

Question 24

Obinze‘s boss

Answer 24

Roy Snell

Question 25

From what story showed us the struggles of the illegal immigrants, how people, fellow African or not, try to take advantage
of them?

Answer 25

Checking Out

Question 26

American and Canadian
Literature in the Contemporary Age

Answer 26

• deals with social issues (gender,
  freedom, human rights,
  (in)tolerance)
• chic literature, speculative fictionand Young Adult literature are popular
• literatures mediated by the internet: fanfiction, and wattpad
• Popularity of TV series
  (employing techniques from literature)

Question 27

Latin American literature in the contemporary age

Answer 27

• politics and the individual
• experimentations in form and content
• Popularization of the testimonio

Question 28

an online community for writers and readers, was created by Canadian developers Allen Laue and Ivan Yuen in 2006.

Answer 28

Wattpad

Question 29

TRUE OR FALSE
Walker’s essay on censorship and freedom of speech emphasizes the
importance of acknowledging oppression. Meanwhile, Canadian fictionist
Margaret Atwood’s poem “The Door” addresses themes of age and
mortality through an oblique narrative, presenting the seasons of life every time the door opens and closes.

Answer 29

TRUE

Question 30

the Poet Laureate of
California. he served
the nation as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. His new book, 99 Poems: New &
Selected, has just been published by Graywolf Press.

Answer 30

Dana Gioia

Question 31

Who wrote PRAYER?

Answer 31

Dana Gioia

Question 32

The poem, a blend of grief, rage, and reconciliation, is considered the
finest religious poem of our era, incorporating Christian prayer
rhythms and subtle changes within a
litany.

WHAT POEM?

Answer 32

Prayer

Question 33

The book chronicles
the author’s childhood, adulthood, and marriage in the Islamic Republic
of Iran post-Islamic Revolution.

What book?

Answer 33

Persepolis

Question 34

author of Persepolis, provides a brief history
of Iran, a wealthy country founded in the seventh century BCE.

Who’s the author?

Answer 34

Marjane Satrapi,

Question 35

Marji’s mother wants her daughter to not fight against this perception of women as having less value than men.

TRUE OR FALSE

Answer 35

FALSE

Question 36

North America has two literary powerhouses - the United States of America and Canada, which dominate a good chunk of the world of the pen.

TRUE OR FALSE

Answer 36

TRUE

Question 37

Pan-Africanism is a transitional movement to secure equal rights, self goverment, indepence, & unity for people in Africa & the African Diaspora

TRUE OR FALSE

Answer 37

TRUE

Question 38

Gioia’s poetry is most essential when he is unhappiest.
TRUE OR FALSE

Answer 38

TRUE

Question 39

Negritude is part of Pan - Africanism, a consciousness and promotion of black pride, and an awareness and appreciation of the cultural and physical aspects of African heritage.

TRUE OR FALSE

Answer 39

TRUE

Question 40

In the study of 21st Century Literature from the World, it is necessary to demacrate the regions geopolitically.

TRUE OR FALSE

Answer 40

TRUE

Question 41

Which among the literary masterpiece has this content:

Echo of the clocktower, footstep in the alleyway, sweep of the wind sifting the leaves.

Answer 41

Prayer

Question 42

It refers to the studies the effects of colonization on culture.

Answer 42

Post Colonialism