Literature

Question 1

What did Kamala’s father do for a living?

Answer 1

He was a rail transport officer

Question 2

When did Kamala attend the university of Madras?

Answer 2

At the age of sixteen

Question 3

When did Kamala decide to take a pen name?

Answer 3

After she began publishing writing short stories in an Indian newspaper

Question 4

What war prevented Kamala from getting a degree?

Answer 4

WWII

Question 5

Who was married to Kamala Markandaya?

Answer 5

Bertrand Taylor

Question 6

Where did Kamala and her husband live?

Answer 6

England

Question 7

What year did Kamala die?

Answer 7

2004

Question 8

How many novels did Kamala publish?

Answer 8

10

Question 9

What was Kamala’s first novel?

Answer 9

Nectar in a Sieve

Question 10

When was Kamala’s last novel published?

Answer 10

1982

Question 11

Is William Golding a Commonwealth writer?

Answer 11

No

Question 12

Wole Soyinka’s play “Death and the King’s Horseman” dramatizes what?

Answer 12

British colonialism’s effect on indigenous life

Question 13

When was Death and the King’s Horseman published and who was it written by?

Answer 13

Wole Soyinka, and 1975

Question 14

What author is known for writing about difficult relationships between mother and daughters?

Answer 14

Jamaica Kincaid

Question 15

What themes would a commonwealth writer most likely explore?

Answer 15

Migration, diaspora, nationalism, identity, colonialism

Question 16

Why did the label commonwealth writers fall out of favor?

Answer 16

They had different experiences under British colonialism

Question 17

What was Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s native language?

Answer 17

Gikuyu

Question 18

What is ambiguous about Nectar in a Sieve?

Answer 18

It is unclear whether it happened before or after Indian independence

Question 19

What was the nickname for India given by Queen Victoria?

Answer 19

Jewel in the crown

Question 20

Why did Vasco De Gama travel to India?

Answer 20

To take advantage and monopolize Indian goods

Question 21

Which monarch chartered the British East India Company? When?

Answer 21

Queen Elizabeth; 1600

Question 22

When was the charter for the East India company removed?

Answer 22

Until 1857

Question 23

What is zamindarship?

Answer 23

A legalized system of tax farming

Question 24

What village was Kamala Markandaya born?

Answer 24

Chimakurti