Postcolonial Literature: But is it Postcolonial Literature? Identifying Quotes Quiz
Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Postcolonial Literature? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Which novel begins with the words "Many years later"?
Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude
Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God
Q. The Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger is mentioned in which text?
Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman
J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy
Q. Which narrator states: "Reality is a question of perspective"?
Antoinette in Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea
Major Plunkett in Derek Walcott's Omeros
Saleem Sinai in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
Queenie in Andrea Levy's Small Island
Q. Which speaker states: "Bertha is not my name"?
Lucy in Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy
Antoinette in Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea
Lilith in Marlon James' Book of Night Women
Kenchamma in Raja Rao's Kanthapura
Q. Who says: "I remembered an old poem I had been made to memorize when I was ten years old and a pupil at Queen Victoria Girls' School"?
Queenie in Andrea Levy's Small Island
Abdulla in Ngũgĩ's Petals of Blood
Lucy in Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy
Elesin in Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman