E 316N Final Exam Practice Questions INCOMPLETE
"Two years later he went to the village school. His right hand could now reach across his head to his left ear, which proved that he was old enough to tackle the mysteries of the white man's learning."
"Chike's School Days," Chinua Achebe
"If the west wind does not come I'll never forgive the walls, Or the sea, or myself. Should my right forget, My left shall forgive, I shall forget all water, I shall forget my mother."
"If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem," Yehuda Amichai
This poem highlights the importance of memory of the homeland and the vital connection of the physical body to the place.
"If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem," Yehuda Amichai
"The light was still strong and her eyes still could not see, but her eyes were beginning to catch the sound of voices and murmurings. She lifted her hand off her eyes and gradually began to open them. Blurred human silhouettes moved before her on some elevated construction. She suddenly felt frightened, for human forms frightened her more than any others."
"In Camera," Nawal El Saadawi
Which text has an omniscient narrator with four perspectives?
"In Camera," Nawal El Saadawi
This story takes us into 17-year-old Rosa's lively and inquisitive mind, and into the world of the convent school where she works her magic.
"Passion," Doreen Baingana
"Behind him on the blackboard, among the winding French rivers, sprawled the clumsily chalked-up word he had just read: 'You handed over our brother. You will pay for this.' Daru looked at the sky, the plateau, and, beyond, the invisible lands stretching all the way to the sea. In this vast landscape he had loved so much, he was alone."
"The Guest," Albert Camus
"Nwamgba was alarmed by how indiscriminately the missionaries flogged students- for being late, for being lazy, for being slow, for being idle. And once, as Anikwenwa told her, Father Lutz had put metal cuffs around a girl's wrists to teach her a lesson about lying, all the time saying in Igbo- Father Lutz spoke a broken brand of Igbo- that native parents pampered their children too much, that teaching the Gospel also meant teaching proper discipline."
"The Headstrong Historian," Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie
This text can be read as a tribute to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, extending of some of its concerns into feminist concerns.
"The Headstrong Historian," Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie
"Later, when the farm grew too small to hold her curiosity, she carried a gun in the crook of her arm and wandered miles a day, from vlei to vlei, from kopje to kopje, accompanied by two dogs: the dogs and the gun were an armour against fear. Because of them she never felt fear."
"The Old Chief Mshlanga," Doris Lessing
"How would we find our way to the sea? Would we see it as soon as we arrived in Beirut? Was it at the other end of it? Would the bus stop in the district of Zeytouna, at the door of the women's swimming pool? Why, I wondered, was it called Zeytouna?"
"The Women's Swimming Pool," Hanan Al-Shaykh
This story focuses on a young girl who has been raised in a remote place, and whose imagination has been inspired by images of the sea.
"The Women's Swimming Pool," Hanan Al-Shaykh
What is the Absurd?
"The impossibility of `making sense' of a world that has no discernible sense."
This story is told through the eyes of a young inmate, who feels fortunate to have been chosen for the mission of emptying the train cars, hopeful to gain some food and other goods for survival.
"This Way For the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen," Tadeusz Borowski
"Please little sister. I am not trying to interfere in your private life. You said yourself a little while ago that you wanted a man of your own. That man belongs to so many women already..."
"Two Sisters," Ama Ata Aidoo
This story explores the limits and risks of sexual experimentation as they they intersect with the turbulent political history of Ghana.
"Two Sisters," Ama Ata Aidoo
"Wariuki had the one obsession: to erase the memory of that interview, to lay for ever the ghost of those contemptuous eyes. He fought in Egypt, Palestine, Burma and in Madagascar. he did not think much about the war, he did not question what it meant for black people, he just wanted it to end quickly so that he might resume his quest."
"Wedding at the Cross," Ngugi wa Thiong'o
This story follows the career of Wariuki, whose free spirited Afro-centric behavior enthralls Mariamu, but distresses her fully assimilated parents. Although she sides with Wariuki, willing to live in poverty to be wedded with him, he is irreparably stung by her father's dismissal of him as a man. Finding opportunities offered by revolution and independence, he finds financial fortune and returns triumphant to prove himself to Mariamu's father. The artificial nature of his "conversion" is shown in the ludicrous name he adopts, Dodge W. Livingstone, jr., and the culminating episode referred to by the title is rejected by Mariamu as meaningless.
"Wedding at the Cross," Ngugi wa Thiong'o
What kind of bird plays a prominent role in "Death and the King's Horseman"?
A Not-I bird that is an equivalent to the Angel of Death
Hanan al-shaykh's story begins in? How is this related to her biography?
A small tobacco farming town in the south of lebanon, she also grew up in a small rural town in the south of lebanon
This author is known for her novel on the Biafran Civil War, Half of a Yellow Sun?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
This author uses the everyday details of modern life to telescope two centuries of African history, marking their work as great historical writing that also has tremendous contemporary relevance.
Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie
This author's work attempts to counteract the distortions of English literature about Africa by describing the richness and complexity of traditional African society before the colonial and missionary invasion.
Chinua Achebe
Which author is said to be "the most influential African writer?"
Chinua Achebe
In Art Spiegelman's Maus, what animals represented the Jews, Germans, and Polish?
Jews = Mouse; Germans = Cat; Polish = Pigs
This text presents humans as animals in an attempt to distance the reader from the very grim subject matter.
Maus, Art Spiegelman
This author's political visions of a post-apartheid South Africa led to the banning of several of their books. Despite this censorship, they received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991.
Nadine Gordimer
This Kenyan author is a polarizing figure in modern African literature, primarily for his public debate with writers like Chinua Achebe, in which he contends that writing in the language of the colonizing country is tantamount to collaboration with the oppressor.
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Nawal El Saadawi's "In Camera" examines the psychological impact of the patriarchal oppressiveness of the Egyptian government and Egyptian culture more generally under what president?
President Anwar Sadat
What is the setting of Nadine Gordimer's "The Moment Before the Gun Went Off"?
Rural South Africa in the last years of official apartheid.
Which author that we read survived Auschwitz?
Tadeusz Borowski
There are three phases of Darwish's poetry discussed in lecture. What major theme develops throughout these three phases?
The increasing loss of nationalistic hope
What strategy do the schoolgirls use against Amusa as a means of resistance against their colonialist oppressors?
The young schoolgirls mimic him for comedic purposes
Why does Nwamgba have Anikwenwa attend the missionary school?
To learn English in order for him to gain power within the colonists' communities, so that her dead husband's cousins don't try to fight for the land her young son currently is heir to.
This author caught_____ at_____ which ended his career as an_____? Who is it?
Tuberculosis, 19, athlete (albert camus)
This story has multiple perspectives. One of which is the bay of guinea. Which story is it?
Two sisters
This author takes the traditional role of theater from the Greek and Western tradition and combines it with performative qualities of Yoruba ritual and ceremony, (Yoruba is one of the three major ethnic/language groups in Nigeria), adding some political consciousness that seems to be native to post-colonial Africa.
Wole Soyinka
Which author was born as Ludwig Pfeuffer?
Yehuda Amichai
Who is a savedee
a born-again Christian
What is a wodo
a cabinet (also the name of the literature professor in the story "Passion")
Spiegelman in Maus represented Jews as_____ and Germans as_____?
mice; cats
What does the Grandmother do at the very end of "The Women's Swimming Pool"?
she prays on the street
Who is a bazungu
somebody of Ugandan origin acting european
Saadawi founded?
AWSA (arab women's solidarity association)
Which author was born into a "world of poverty and light" in Algeria (at the time, a colony of France)?
Albert Camus
This author's emphasis on the urban life of young women demonstrates the specific conditions of the sexual revolution and feminism in African culture.
Ama Ata Aidoo
Which poet revitalized a liturgical language? What language?
Amichai; Hebrew
In Ama Ata Aidoo's "Two Sisters," Mercy visits the seashore with her boyfriend. How does the narrator personify the Gulf of Guinea?
As a god who looks with compassion on Mercy's folly.
Which author committed suicide? Why?
Borowski, b/c of the soviet regime's labor camps and executions
This story is based on an actual event: a British colonial officer's intervention to prevent the ritual suicide, following the death of the king of Oyo, of his "horseman," a minor chief whose privileges were conditional on his accompanying the king to the afterworld. The officer does not realize the dire consequences his intervention will have for the village and, most important, for the King's horseman's son, who is also the officer's protégé.
Death and the King's Horseman, Wole Soyinka
Social awareness is a defining theme of this author's work. It comes as no surprise, then, that they were influenced by realist authors such as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, because of the "warmth, the compassion, the humanity, and the love of people" that gave impetus and passion to their social criticisms.
Doris Lessing
This author was born in southern Lebanon, raised in Beirut by a strict Shiite family.
Hanan Al-Shaykh
Darwish grew up learning in _____ but wrote in______?
Hebrew; Arabic
