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Pre-Test: Afro-Asian Literature

The document is a pre-test for a course on Afro-Asian literature. It contains 20 multiple choice questions testing knowledge of various authors and works. The questions cover topics like famous novels, short stories, poems and essays from different regions including the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and others. An answer key is provided at the end to reveal the correct response for each question.

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Pre-Test: Afro-Asian Literature

The document is a pre-test for a course on Afro-Asian literature. It contains 20 multiple choice questions testing knowledge of various authors and works. The questions cover topics like famous novels, short stories, poems and essays from different regions including the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and others. An answer key is provided at the end to reveal the correct response for each question.

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Pre-Test

Afro- Asian Literature

Student’s Name: ______________________________________________________ Score: ___________

Direction: Encircle the letter of the best and correct answer.

1. It is an early example of inspirational fiction including a series of philosophical


essays written in poetic English prose
a. Ramayana
b. Mahabharata
c. The Prophet
d. The Book of the Days

2. He is the third best-selling poet of all time, behind Shakespeare and Laozi
a. Ahmad Faraz
b. Khalil Gibran
c. Confucius
d. Abdul Hamid Baba

3. He is best known for his trenchant secularism, his humor and abiding love of poetry.
One of his notable works is “The Mark of Vishnu and Other Stories”
a. Abdul Hamid Baba
b. Rabindranath Tagore
c. Khushwant Singh
d. Khalil Gibran

4. In this novel, Khushwant Singh digs into a deep local focus, providing a human
dimension which brings to the even a sense of reality, horror and believability
instead of depicting the partition in terms of only the political events surrounding it.
a. Train to Pakistan
b. I Shall Hear the Nightingale
c. The Sikhs Today
d. Black Jasmine

5. His philosophy emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of


social relationships, justice and sincerity
a. Khalil Gibran
b. Confucius
c. Mahatma Ghandi
d. Carlos P. Romulo

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6. He modernized Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic
structures
a. Khushwant Singh
b. Abdul Hamid Baba
c. Cevdet Kudret
d. Rabindranath Tagore

7. He wrote “Feast of the Dead” which is about a family losing their breadwinner; the
father
a. NVM Gonzales
b. Cevdet Kudret
c. Carlos P. Romulo
d. Abdul Hamid Baba

8. The theme of the story tells us that it is not just about who you are in front of a large
audience, but in the end, what really matters is who you are when the curtains close
a. Why Women Wash the Dishes
b. Hunger in Barok
c. The Witch
d. Flowers of May

9. Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s “Rashomon” was based on the tales from______________


a. Konjaku Monogatarishu
b. Teikoku Bungaku
c. The Ways of the Samurai
d. Mainichi Shinburi

10. It is the inspiration for Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s “The Spider’s Thread”


a. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
b. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
c. The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
d. Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

11. A prolific writer, who is considered one of the pioneers of the Gujarati Short Story
and has a pen name “Dhumektu”
a. Abdul Hamid Baba
b. Pratoomratha Zeng
c. Cevdet Kudret
d. Gaurishanker Goverdharam Joshi

12. The author of “My Thai Cat” which is a short story about a tortured catwhile the
owner sees it
a. Abdul Hamid Baba
b. Pratoomratha Zeng
c. Cevdet Kudret
d. Gaurishanker Goverdharam Joshi

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13. Some of the novels written by this author are “The winds of April”, “A Season of
Grace”, and “The Bamboo Dancers”
a. Lualhati Bautista
b. Carlos P. Romulo
c. NVM Gonzales
d. Leon Maria Guerrero III

14. The author of “Twilight in Tokyo”, “Las Dos Muertes de General Aguinaldo”, and “We
Filipinos”
a. Lualhati Bautista c. NVM Gonzales
b. Carlos P. Romulo d. Leon Maria Guerrero III

15. The story of a quarrelling couple written by Filomena Colendrino


a. The Witch
b. Flowers of May
c. How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife
d. Why Women Wash the Dishes

16. The author of the famous Filipino essay “Why Sinigang?”


a. Doreen Fernandez c. Carlos Bulosan
b. Francisco Arcellana d. Jose Rizal

17. The author of “America is in my Heart”, “The Laughter of my Father”, and “The
Romance of Magno Rubio”
a. Doreen Fernandez
b. Francisco Arcellana
c. Carlos Bulosan
d. Edilberto K. Tiempo

18. A famous Filipino writer who once said that "You cannot be a great writer; first, you
have to be a good person”
a. Alejandro Roces
b. Jessica Hagedorn
c. Zoilo Galang
d. Nick Joaquin

19. A Famous Filipino writer who wrote “Dekada ‘70”, “Bata, Bata Pa’no ka Ginawa?”
and “Buwan, Buwan, Hulugan Mo Ako ng Sundang: Dalawang Dekada ng Maiikling
Kuwento”
a. Kerima Polotan Tuvera
b. Ingrid Chua-Go
c. Lualhati Bautista
d. Lope K. Santos

20. It is the title of Jose Rizal’s unfinished novel


a. Briayle Crismarl
b. Mi Retiro
c. Makamisa
d. Me Piden Versos
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Afro- Asian Literature Answer Key

1. C
2. B
3. C
4. A
5. B
6. D
7. B
8. B
9. A
10. B
11. D
12. B
13. C
14. D
15. D
16. A
17. C
18. A
19. C
20. C

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