1. Home
  2. GK Questions
  3. English Literature
  4. Feminism & Postcolonialism

Feminism & Postcolonialism — GK Questions with Answers

Current Affairs 2026 Today's GK Quiz Static GK हिन्दी
29 questions
  1. "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman" is from —
    1. A Room of One’s Own
    2. The Second Sex
    3. Sexual Politics
    4. The Female Eunuch
    Show answer

    Answer: (B) The Second Sex

    Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949).

  2. Virginia Woolf argues that a woman needs —
    1. education and leisure
    2. money and a room of her own
    3. a sympathetic husband
    4. a literary tradition
    Show answer

    Answer: (B) money and a room of her own

    The thesis of A Room of One’s Own (1929).

  3. "Judith Shakespeare" is a figure invented by —
    1. Showalter
    2. Woolf
    3. Gilbert and Gubar
    4. de Beauvoir
    Show answer

    Answer: (B) Woolf

    Woolf’s fable of Shakespeare’s equally gifted sister.

  4. The term "gynocriticism" was coined by —
    1. Kate Millett
    2. Elaine Showalter
    3. Hélène Cixous
    4. Toril Moi
    Show answer

    Answer: (B) Elaine Showalter

    Showalter — the study of women as writers, as distinct from the feminist critique of male texts.

  5. Showalter’s three phases of women’s writing are —
    1. Female, Feminine, Feminist
    2. Feminine, Feminist, Female
    3. Feminist, Female, Feminine
    4. Feminine, Female, Feminist
    Show answer

    Answer: (B) Feminine, Feminist, Female

    Imitation → protest → self-discovery: Feminine, Feminist, Female.

  6. The Madwoman in the Attic was written by —
    1. Millett and Greer
    2. Gilbert and Gubar
    3. Cixous and Irigaray
    4. Moi and Moers
    Show answer

    Answer: (B) Gilbert and Gubar

    Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, 1979.

  7. The "madwoman in the attic" refers to a character in —
    1. Wuthering Heights
    2. Jane Eyre
    3. Middlemarch
    4. Villette
    Show answer

    Answer: (B) Jane Eyre

    Bertha Mason in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre.

  8. "Écriture féminine" is associated with —
    1. Julia Kristeva
    2. Hélène Cixous
    3. Luce Irigaray
    4. Monique Wittig
    Show answer

    Answer: (B) Hélène Cixous

    Cixous, in The Laugh of the Medusa (1975).

  9. The term "womanism" was coined by —
    1. bell hooks
    2. Alice Walker
    3. Audre Lorde
    4. Barbara Smith
    Show answer

    Answer: (B) Alice Walker

    Alice Walker — "Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender."

  10. Gender as "performative" is the argument of —
    1. Judith Butler
    2. Eve Sedgwick
    3. Teresa de Lauretis
    4. Monique Wittig
    Show answer

    Answer: (A) Judith Butler

    Judith Butler, Gender Trouble (1990).

  1. "Intersectionality" was coined by —
    1. bell hooks
    2. Kimberlé Crenshaw
    3. Audre Lorde
    4. Angela Davis
    Show answer

    Answer: (B) Kimberlé Crenshaw

    Kimberlé Crenshaw, 1989.

  2. Orientalism was published in —
    1. 1968
    2. 1978
    3. 1988
    4. 1994
    Show answer

    Answer: (B) 1978

    1978, by Edward Said.

  3. Said’s Orientalism argues that the Orient was —
    1. accurately described by Western scholars
    2. produced as the Other by Western discourse
    3. ignored by European literature
    4. a purely geographical category
    Show answer

    Answer: (B) produced as the Other by Western discourse

    Orientalism is a system of representation that produces the East as the West’s Other.

  4. "Can the Subaltern Speak?" was written by —
    1. Homi Bhabha
    2. Gayatri Spivak
    3. Ranajit Guha
    4. Partha Chatterjee
    Show answer

    Answer: (B) Gayatri Spivak

    Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, 1988.

  5. The term "subaltern" was borrowed from —
    1. Althusser
    2. Gramsci
    3. Fanon
    4. Foucault
    Show answer

    Answer: (B) Gramsci

    From Antonio Gramsci, through the Subaltern Studies group.

  6. "Almost the same, but not quite" describes Bhabha’s concept of —
    1. hybridity
    2. mimicry
    3. ambivalence
    4. the third space
    Show answer

    Answer: (B) mimicry

    Mimicry — the colonised copy that is never a complete copy, and is therefore threatening.

  7. The Wretched of the Earth was written by —
    1. Aimé Césaire
    2. Frantz Fanon
    3. Léopold Senghor
    4. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
    Show answer

    Answer: (B) Frantz Fanon

    Frantz Fanon, 1961.

  8. Who called for African writers to abandon English in Decolonising the Mind?
    1. Chinua Achebe
    2. Wole Soyinka
    3. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
    4. Ben Okri
    Show answer

    Answer: (C) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, 1986; Achebe took the opposite view.

  9. Wide Sargasso Sea rewrites which novel?
    1. Wuthering Heights
    2. Jane Eyre
    3. Great Expectations
    4. Robinson Crusoe
    Show answer

    Answer: (B) Jane Eyre

    Jean Rhys gives Bertha Mason of Jane Eyre her own story.

  10. The Empire Writes Back was written by —
    1. Said, Spivak and Bhabha
    2. Ashcroft, Griffiths and Tiffin
    3. Fanon and Césaire
    4. Guha and Chatterjee
    Show answer

    Answer: (B) Ashcroft, Griffiths and Tiffin

    Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, 1989.

  1. The Subaltern Studies group was founded by —
    1. Partha Chatterjee
    2. Ranajit Guha
    3. Dipesh Chakrabarty
    4. Gayatri Spivak
    Show answer

    Answer: (B) Ranajit Guha

    Ranajit Guha, in the early 1980s.

  2. Joothan is a Dalit autobiography written in —
    1. Marathi
    2. Tamil
    3. Hindi
    4. Telugu
    Show answer

    Answer: (C) Hindi

    Omprakash Valmiki wrote Joothan in Hindi.

  3. Karukku was written by —
    1. Bama
    2. Baby Kamble
    3. Daya Pawar
    4. Urmila Pawar
    Show answer

    Answer: (A) Bama

    Bama, in Tamil.

  4. Dalit aesthetics grounds authority in —
    1. anumana (inference)
    2. anubhava (lived experience)
    3. rasa
    4. dhvani
    Show answer

    Answer: (B) anubhava (lived experience)

    Lived experience, anubhava, is set against speculation.

  5. Who founded the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies?
    1. Raymond Williams
    2. Richard Hoggart
    3. Stuart Hall
    4. E. P. Thompson
    Show answer

    Answer: (B) Richard Hoggart

    Richard Hoggart, in 1964; Stuart Hall later directed it.

  6. Stuart Hall’s three reading positions are dominant, oppositional and —
    1. subversive
    2. negotiated
    3. preferred
    4. resistant
    Show answer

    Answer: (B) negotiated

    Dominant-hegemonic, negotiated and oppositional.

  7. "Culture is a whole way of life" is the definition of —
    1. Matthew Arnold
    2. Raymond Williams
    3. Stuart Hall
    4. Richard Hoggart
    Show answer

    Answer: (B) Raymond Williams

    Raymond Williams, set deliberately against Arnold’s definition.

  8. Imagined Communities argues that the nation is —
    1. a natural ethnic unit
    2. an imagined political community
    3. a colonial invention only
    4. identical with the state
    Show answer

    Answer: (B) an imagined political community

    Benedict Anderson — imagined, limited and sovereign, made possible by print capitalism.

  9. The term "culture industry" belongs to —
    1. the Birmingham School
    2. the Frankfurt School
    3. the Prague School
    4. the Chicago School
    Show answer

    Answer: (B) the Frankfurt School

    Adorno and Horkheimer of the Frankfurt School, who saw mass culture as making audiences passive.

More chapters in this subject