SRI PARASAKTHI COLLEGE FOR WOMEN, COURTALLAM (AUTONOMOUS)

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

II M.A., ENGLISH - SEMESTER III

Title of the Course : CULTURAL STUDIES

Code : 21PGIIIDEE6

1. Syllabus

2. Blue print

3. Model question paper

4. Question bank
 SRI PARASAKTHI COLLEGE FOR WOMEN,
COURTALLAM
(An Autonomous College of the ManonmaniamSundaranar
University)
Re-accredited with ‘A’ Grade (3.38) by
NAAC (Under the Management of
H.R.&C.E Dept.) Department of
English

II M.A., English -
Semester III (From
2021entrants onwards)

60 Hrs/Semester

4 Hrs/week
L T P C
4 - - 3
0
Course Details:

Semester: III
Course Type: Discipline Specific Elective Course VI
Title of the Course: Cultural Studies

Course Code:
21PGIIIDEE6

Course Objectives:
Enable the learners
● To create the awareness of cultural theories and its relevance.
● To discuss the importance of cultural studies and its role.
● To sensitize and enable the scholars understand the theories in Cultural Studies.
● To inculcate in learners the idea of understanding culture in all its complex forms.
● To make the researchers identify, analyze and address the specific cultural issues in literary
texts.

COURSE CONTENT

Unit I (10 hrs)

a. Introduction to Cultural Studies: Evolution, Need and Significance of Cultural studies.

b. Key Concepts in Cultural Studies – Representation, Materialism, Non-reductionism,
Articulation, Power, Popular Culture, Texts and Readers, subjectivity and Identity.
Unit II (12 hrs)
a. Wilfred L. Guerin : What is Cultural Studies?
b. Jonathan Culler : Literature and Cultural Studies
Unit III (12 hrs)
a. Foucault : Space, Power and Knowledge
b. Judith Butler : Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire
Unit IV (13 hrs)
a. Leopold Senghor : Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth Century
b. Homi. K. Bhaba : The Post-Colonial and the Postmodern: The Questions of
Agency
Unit V (13 hrs)
a. Ranajit Guha & Gayatri Spivak : Introduction to Subaltern Studies. (Vol.1)
b. Janardhan Waghmare : Black Literature and Dalit Literature

Text Books:
● Culler, Jonathan. Critical Theory. Oxford UP, 2000.
● Waugh, Patricia. Literary Theory and Criticism. Oxford UP, 2014.
References:
● Arendt H. Illuminations. Fontana, 1992.
● Dangle, Arjun. The Poisoned Bread. Orient Black Swan, 2009.
● During, Simon. The Cultural Studies Reader. Routledge, 1993.
● Guerien, Wilfred L & et.al. A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature.6th ed. Oxford
UP, 2005.
● Samuel, Raphael. People’s History and Socialist Theory. Routledge, 1981.

Web Sources:

 https://progressivegeographies.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/crampton-elden-2007-
introduction.pdf
 https://pressbooks.claremont.edu/clas112pomonavalentine/chapter/butler-judith-1998-
subjects-of-sex-gender-desire/
 https://thegeorgeofjudges.wordpress.com/2014/05/18/leopold-sedar-senghor-negritude-a-
humanism-of-the-twentieth-century-2/
 https://www.himpub.com/documents/Chapter978.pdf

Course Outcomes (COs) with Knowledge level:

COs
At the end of the course, students will be able to K
Level
CO1 Demonstrate a sound understanding of Cultural Studies K1 to K5
key concepts and how they can be used to generate
social change
CO2 compare and contrast the conceptual understanding of K1 to K5
culture in different contexts
CO3 explore the issues specific to the phenomenon of culture, K1 to K5
power and knowledge

CO4 examine decolonization, the condition of women, K1 to K5

ethnicity, and marginalization through Post-colonial era

CO5 evaluate and appreciate contemporary critical issues on K1 to K5

subaltern studies

K1=Remember, K2=Understand, K3=Apply, K4=Analyze, K5= Evaluate

Mapping of Course Outcomes (COs) with Programme Outcomes (POs)
CO PO1 PO2 PO3 PO4C PO5 PO6 PO7 PO8 PO9I PO10
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CO 3 2 2 3 2 3 3 3 2 2
1
CO 3 3 3 2 2 3 3 3 2 2
2
CO 2 3 3 3 2 3 3 3 2 2
3
CO 2 2 3 3 2 3 3 3 2 2
4
CO 3 3 3 3 2 3 3 3 2 2
5
Level of Correlation: 3-High; 2-Medium; 1-Low

Mapping of Course Outcomes (COs) with Programme Specific Outcomes (PSOs)

COs/PSOs PSO1 PSO2 PSO3 PSO4 PSO5

CO1 3 3 3 3 3
CO2 3 3 3 3 3
CO3 3 3 3 3 3
CO4 3 2 2 3 2
CO5 2 2 2 2 2
Level of Correlation: 3-High; 2-Medium; 1-Low

Course Designer:

Ms. M. Kalaiselvi

BLUE PRINT FOR FINAL SUMMATIVE EXAMINATION

 Action Verbs for the Cognitive Domain

Knowledge Level Bloom’s Taxonomy Action Verbs

K1 Remember Choose, Define, Find, How, Label, List, Match,

Name, Recall, Relate, Select, Show, Spell, Tell, What,
When, Which, Who, Why, etc.

K2 Understand Classify, Compare, Contrast, Demonstrate, Explain,

Extend, Illustrate, Infer, Interpret, Outline, Relate,
Rephrase, Show, Summarize, Translate

K3 Apply Apply, Build, Choose, Construct, Develop,

Experiment with, Identify, Make use of, Organize,
Plan, Select, Solve, Utilize

K4 Analyze Analyze, Assume, Categorize, Classify, Compare,

Conclude, Contrast, Discover, Dissect, Distinguish,
Divide, Examine, Function, Interface, Inspect, List,
Motive, Relationship, Simplify, Survey, Take Part of,
Test for, etc.

K5 Evaluate Agree, Appraise, Assess, Award, Choose, Compare,

Conclude, Criticle, Decide, Deduct, Determine,
Bisprove, Estimate, Evaluate, Explain, Importance,
Influence, Judge, Justify, Mark, Measure, Opinion,
Perceive, Prioritize, Prove, Rate, Recommend, Select,
Support, Value, etc.

SECTION GUIDELINES MARKS

A  Ten Multiple Choice Type 10X1 = 10
Questions
 Two questions per unit
corresponding to same CO
B  Five either or questions 5X5=25
 Two questions per unit
corresponding to same CO
C  Five either or questions 5X8 = 40
 Two questions per unit
corresponding to same CO
Total 75 Marks
Note : Write the suitable K level in each unit
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QUESTION PAPER - TEMPLATE

Marks: 75

Course Knowledge Question No Options

Outcome level

(K1 to K5)

Section A-Multiple Choice Questions-Answer all questions (10x1=10)

CO1 1 -

CO1 2 -

CO2 3 -

CO2 4 -

CO3 5 -

CO3 6 -

CO4 7 -

CO4 8 -

CO5 9 -

CO5 10 -

Section B-Choose either (a) or (b) (5x5=25)

CO1 11 (a)

CO1 (b)

CO2 12 (a)

CO2 (b)

CO3 13 (a)

CO3 (b)

CO4 14 (a)
 CO4 (b)

CO5 15 (a)

CO5 (b)

Section C-Choose either (a) or (b) (5x8=40)

CO1 16 (a)

CO1 (b)

CO2 17 (a)

CO2 (b)

CO3 18 (a)

CO3 (b)

CO4

CO4 19 (a)

(b)

CO5

CO5 20 (a)

(b)
To evaluate the cognitive level of each student based on their performance in the summative
examinations, five levels in Bloom’s taxonomy K1,K2, K3, K4 and K5 are to be adopted in
framing the questions.

Bloom’s Part A Part B Part C Total Percentage

Taxonomy
1 mark 5 marks 8 marks

Knowledge (K1) 4(4) 2(10) 2(16) 8(30) 21.43

Understand (K2) 4(4) 2(10) 2(16) 8(30) 21.43

Apply (K3) 2(2) 2(10) 2(16) 6(28) 20.00

Analyse (K4) - 2(10) 2(16) 4(26) 18.57

Evaluate(K5) - 2(10) 2(16) 4(26) 18.57

Total 30(140)

Note: Figures in parenthesis are marks. Figures without parenthesis represent number of
questions

Action Verbs for the Cognitive Domain

Knowledge Level Bloom’s Taxonomy Action Verbs

K1 Remember Choose, Define, Find, How, Label, List, Match,

Name, Recall, Relate, Select, Show, Spell, Tell, What,
When, Which, Who, Why, etc.

K2 Understand Classify, Compare, Contrast, Demonstrate, Explain,

Extend, Illustrate, Infer, Interpret, Outline, Relate,
Rephrase, Show, Summarize, Translate

K3 Apply Apply, Build, Choose, Construct, Develop,

Experiment with, Identify, Make use of, Organize,
Plan, Select, Solve, Utilize

K4 Analyze Analyze, Assume, Categorize, Classify, Compare,

Conclude, Contrast, Discover, Dissect, Distinguish,
Divide, Examine, Function, Interface, Inspect, List,
Motive, Relationship, Simplify, Survey, Take Part of,
Test for, etc.
 K5 Evaluate Agree, Appraise, Assess, Award, Choose, Compare,
Conclude, Criticle, Decide, Deduct, Determine,
Bisprove, Estimate, Evaluate, Explain, Importance,
Influence, Judge, Justify, Mark, Measure, Opinion,
Perceive, Prioritize, Prove, Rate, Recommend, Select,
Support, Value, etc.

Note: 1. Use suitable action verbs from Bloom’s Taxonomy to set the question paper.

2. In Questions having either/or pattern, both the questions [(a),(b)] should be

taken from same CO.

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QUESTION PAPER - TEMPLATE

Class: Date:

Semester: Time: 3 hrs

Marks: 75

Course Knowledge Question Options

Outcome level No

(K1 to K5)

Section A-Multiple Choice Questions-Answer all questions (10x1=10)

10

Section B-Choose either (a) or (b) (5x5=25)

11 (a)

OR
(b)

12 (a)

OR

(b)

13(a)

OR
 (b)

14(a)

OR

(b)

15(a)

OR

(b)

Section C-Choose either (a) or (b) (5x8=40)

16(a)

(b)

17(a)

(b)

18(a)

(b)

19(a)

(b)

20(a)

(b)
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QUESTION PAPER - TEMPLATE

UNIT I

Course Knowledge Question No Options

Outcome level
(K1 to K5)
Section A-Multiple Choice Questions-Answer all questions (10x1=10)
CO1 K1 1 1. Cultural studies was setup at___
a. Birmingham
b. France
c. Germany
d. Canada

CO1 K1 2 2. Who set up the centre?

a. Jonathan culler
b. Francis bacon
c. Stuart Hall
d. Raymond Williams
CO1 K1 3
3. Who coined the term Cultural
Materialism?
a. Raymond Williams
b. Judith Butler
c. Gayatri Spivok
d. Stuart Hall

CO1 K1 4
4. Culture and Society was written
by ____
a. Janardhan
b. Raymond Williams
c. William Shakespeare
d. Homi K Bhabha

CO1 K1 5
Who wrote Wuthering Heights?
a. Emily Bronte
b. Jane Austen
c. Viriginia Woolf
d. Stuart Hall
CO1 K2 6
 Who coined the term Cultural
Poetics?
a. Stuart Hall
b. Senghor
c. Stephen Greenblatt
CO1 K2 7 d. nonE

The book Renaisaance self

fashioning was written by
a. Stephen Greenblatt
b. Raymond Williams
c. Homi K Bhabha
CO1 K2 8 d. Arnold

What affects culture?

a. Culture
b. Media
c. Education
d. Religion
What does Venus prophecy a
CO1 K2 9 curse for after Adonis death?
a. Beauty
b. Young
c. Love
d. Death

CO1 K2 10
9. What does Adonis’s horse do?
a. Die
b. Run away into the woods
c. Go after a mare
d. Attack Venus
CO1 K3 11

10. What does Venus sees from

the blood of Adonis?
a. A dove
b. A tree
CO1 K3 12 c. A flower
d. A hound

11. Which year was the poem

published?
CO1 K3 13 a. 1585
b. 1593
c. 1616
d. 1599

12. Choose the poetic device in

which Venus chides the death
CO1 K3 a. Personification
b. Paradox
c. Anadiplosis
 d. Metonomy

c. education
d. religion
CO1 K3 9

Who developed Marxist theory?

CO1 K4 10 a. Arnold
b. Lenin
c. Stalin
d. Karl Marx

Karl Marx believed that the rich

____
CO1 K4 11 a. dominating the society
b. helps the poor
c. supports the marginalized
d. sponsers

Neo Marxism has the fundamental

CO1 K4 12 base of ___
a. Feminism
b. Marxism
c. Historicism
d. Realism

Representation connects _____

CO1 K4 13
and ____ in culture
a. meaning and language
b. language and media
c. media and culture
d. culture and religion

In what cultural studies

emphasizes?
a. media
CO1 K4 14 b. language
c. representation
d. high culture

What connects Materialsim?

CO1 K5 15 a. society
b. education
c. political economy
d. business

CO1 K5 16 Articulation is the production of

_____
a. human body
 b. speech and music
c. population
d. linguistics

CO1 K5 17 Power is ____

a. enabling
b. useless
c. authoritative
d. submissive

CO1 K5 18
What is Ideology?
a. fake
b. duplicate
c. useless
d. universal truth
CO1 K5 19

What is Hegemony?
a. powerful people rules
b. Marxism
c. Historicism
CO1 K5 20 d. working class rules

What is Polysemic?
a. no meaning
b. single meaning
c. multi meaning
d. theory

Moment of consumption is
moment of ____
a. meaningless
b. logic
c. culture
d. meaningful production
 a.
Section B-Choose either (a) or (b) (5x5=25)
CO1 K1 1 (a) Compare and contrast Marxist
and Non – Marxist theory
(or)
(b) Explain The Frankfurt School

(a) . Development of Neo Marxist

CO1 K2 2 theory in Britain
(or)
(b) Explain the difference
between texts and readers

CO1 K3 3
(a) What is Popular culture?
(or)
(b) Examine the comparison of
subjectivity and identity

CO1 K5 4
(a) Explain hegemony

(or)
(b) Importance of
Representation

CO1 K4 5 (a) Examine the role of hegemony

in cultural studies

(or)
(b) How representation
emphasized in cultural studies

Section C-Choose either (a) or (b) (5x8=40)

CO1 K1 1 (a) How Cultural studies evolved?
(or)
(b) Define Cultural studies its
evolution, need and significance

(a) What are the key concepts in

CO1 K4 2 Cultural studies?
(or)
(b) Explain the key concepts
 (a) Illustrate the evolution of
CO1 K5 3 cultural studies
(or)
(b) Judge the characteristic
features of Marxism and other
theories.

UNIT II

Course Knowledge Question No Options

Outcome level
(K1 to K5)
Section A-Multiple Choice Questions-Answer all questions (10x1=10)
CO2 K1 1 Cultural studies consist of _____
a. Binary
b. Interdisciplinary
c. Unit
d. logic

CO2 K1 2 Culture connects ______

a. people
b. society, politics, identity
c, education
d. none
CO2 K1 3
What is the name of the book that Wilfred
L. Guerin?
a. British culture
b. American culture
c. A handbook of critical approaches to
CO2 K1 4 literature
d. Literary studies
How many approaches in cultural studies?
a. six
b. seven
CO2 K1 c. nine
5
d. five
Who wrote Culture and Anarchy?
a. Shakespeare
b. Charles
CO2 K2
 6 c. Arnold
d. Derrida
Culture and Anarchy was written in the
year ___
a. 1869
CO2 K2 b. 1972
7 c. 1888
d. 2000

Classify the approaches ___

a. 4
b. 6
c. 5
CO2 K2 d. 3
8

F.R.Leavis was influenced by ___

a. Mathew Arnold

CO2 K2 b. Derrida
9
c. Tennyson

d. Foucault

Culture and anarchy represents ___and

___

a. media and culture

CO2 K2 10 b. Marxist ideas and hegemony

c. Marxism and new Marxism

d. subjectivity and reality

F. R. Leavis wrote his work in ___

a. 1950s
CO2 K3 11
b. 1970s

c. 1960s

d. 1980s

Whose idea is Ideological state

apparatus?

a. Raymond Wiliams
CO2 K3 12
 b. Stephen Greenblatt

c. Louis Althussar

d. Antonio

Who coined the term Hegemony?

CO2 K3 13
a. Stuart Hall

b. Antonio Gramsci

c. Raymond Williams

d. Derrida

Michael Foucault speaks about

CO2 K3 14
a. Discourse

b. Action

c. Media

d. Knowledge

CO2 K3 15 Who called the term episteme?

a. Derrida

b. Foucault

c. Stuart Hall

d. Karl Marx
CO2 K4 16
What is episteme?

a. system of universe

b. system of education

CO2 K4 17 c. system of understanding

d. system of connection
CO2 K4 18 Who wrote Gulliver’s Travel?
a. Shakespeare
b. Ben Jonson
c. Milton
d. Daniel Defoe
The Laputa island looks like a/an ___
CO2 K4 19 a. uterus
b. lotus
c. elephant
 d. woods

The colour Purple was written by ---

a. Toni Morisson
CO2 K4 20 b. Jonathan swift
c. Alice Walker
d. Margaret Atwood

Which man does Hermia’s father want

her to marry?
a. Lysander
b. Demetrius
c. Theseus
d. Philostrate

Who are the third world people?

a.

Section B-Choose either (a) or (b) (5x5=25)

CO2 K1 1 A. What is cultural studies according to
Wilfred L. Guerin?
(OR)
B Compare and contrast British and
American multi culturalism
CO2 K2 2
Relate New Historicism and Laputa
(OR)
Interpret Jonathan Culler’s emergence of
cultural studies
 Show the process between Literary canon
CO2 K3 3 and mode of analysis
b. How Wilfred L. Guerin define cultural
studies?

A. Illustrate Wilfred L. Guerin’s main

CO2 K4 4 four points in cultural studies
(OR)
B. How cultural studies is emerged
according to Jonathan Culler

CO2 K5 5 A. Compare and contrast British and

American multi culturalism
(OR)
B. Summarize the five approaches

Section C-Choose either (a) or (b) (5x8=40)

CO2 K2 1 Classify the five approaches of cultural
studies of Jonathan Culler
(OR)
b. Summarize the relationship between
cultural study and literary study

CO2 K3 2 Interpret the tensions in cultural and

literary studies
(OR)
b. What is cultural studies according to
Wilfred L. Guerin

CO2 K4 3
Construct the views on literature and
cultural studies

(OR)

Explain British and American multi

culturalism..
 Unit III

Course Knowledge Question No Options

Outcome level
(K1 to K5)
Section A-Multiple Choice Questions-Answer all questions (10x1=10)
CO3 K1 1
Who is Michael Foucault?

a. Frech philosopher

b. English poet

c. Chinese poet

d. American theorist
CO3 K1 2
Who wrote History of Sexuality?

a. Derrida

b. Roland Bathes

c. Michael Foucault

d. James Meridian
CO3 K1 3
Michael Foucault talks about ___

a. Marxism

b. Criticism

c. Theories

d. Power
CO3 K1 4 What is Power?

a. Omnipresent

b. Omnipotent

c. Omniscene

d. Omnifocus
CO3 K1 5

Who are non egalatrian?

a. believed in equal rights

b. theorists

c. believed in upper class

d. philosophers
CO3 K2 6
 Each relationship has ___
relations

a. Love
CO3 K2 7 b. Power

c. enmity

d. hatred

Where there is power, there is ___

a. doctrines
CO3 K2 8 b. sexuality

c. resistance

d. pressure

What is the instrument of power?

a. upper class

b. Bloody axe
CO3 K2 9
c. Pale maiden

d. discourse

What is another concept of

Michael foucualt?

a. feminism

CO3 K2 10 b. marxism

c. discourse

d. structuralism

Discourse ____ power

a. Force
CO3 K3 11
b. produce

c. Sense

d. destroys

Discourse can be an instrument of

power but also a ____
a. Resistance
CO3 K3 12 b. Omnipresent
c. Stumbling block
 d. Mark
Tradition scientists have power
in terms of ___

a. Sovereignity and law

b. Possible and impossible
c. Gender and desire
d. Male and female

CO3 K3 13 Michael Foucault studied ___

a. Engineering and medicine
b. Psychiatry and prison
system
c. Literature and language
d. Arts and science
Foucault criticizes the concept
of Marxist’s ___

 power
CO3 K3 14  ideology
 repression
 sexuality
Foucault criticizes the concept
of Freudian’s ___

 power
 ideology
CO3 K3 15  repression
 sexuality

Foucault’s thoughts about power

and knowledge is from ___

CO3 K4 16 a. History of Sexuality

b. Mythology

c. Deconstruction

d. Close reading text

CO3 K4 17 Judith Pamela Butler is a/an ___

philosopher

 French
 russian
 Mexican
 american

What are the two concepts that

 CO3 K4 18 Butler discussed?

 Politics and representation

 Sovereignity and law
 Language and literature
 Law and order
What is the important work of
Judith Butler?
CO3 K4 19
 Derrida.
 Hamlet.
 History of sexuality.
 Gender trouble : feminism
and the subversion of
identity.
When was her work Gender
trouble : feminism and the
subversion of identity published?
a. 1880
CO3 K4 20 b. 1770
c. 1990
d. 1900

Section B-Choose either (a) or (b) (5x5=25)

CO3 K1 1
A. Develop the two broad topics
literary canon and mode of
 analysis

(OR)

B. Analyse the concepts of

CO3 K2 2 ideology and repression that
Foucault criticizes

A. Explain the statements of

power

(OR)
CO3 K3 3
B. Why Foucault criticizes
ideology and repression?

A. Power is omnipresent. Explain.

(OR)

B. Compare the concepts ideology

and repression
CO3 K4 4
A. Describe women as a feminism
subject
(OR)
b. Write down the compulsory
order of sex/gender/desire
CO3 K5 5

a. Explain gender: the circular ruin

of contemporary debate
(OR)
b. Explain Simone de Beauvoir’s
concept on feminism.

Section C-Choose either (a) or (b) (5x8=40)

CO3 K3 1
A. Analyse Michael Foucualt’s
concept of Power

(OR)

B. How Michael criticizes

ideology and repression
CO3 K4 2 a. Explain “ Power is
omnipresent”
(OR)
b. What is the relationship
between literary study and cultural
study?

CO3 K5 3
a. What is the view of Butler’s
sex, gender and desire?
(OR)
 b. Sumarize the concept of
feminism by Judith Butler

UNIT IV

Cours Knowle Quest Options

e dge ion
Outco level No
me (K1 to
K5)
Section A-Multiple Choice Questions-Answer all questions (10x1=10)
CO4 K1 1 Where was Senghor born?
a. Senegal
b. England
c. Australia
d. India
Where was originally colonization of blacks started?
a. Africa
b. America
c. France
d. Europe
CO4 K1 2 Locke’s two types of identity?
a. Qualitative and quantitative
b. Dominant and submissive
c. Qualitative and numerical
d. none
African identity also known as ____ identity
a. destructive
b. qualitative
c. numerical
d. Senghorian
CO4 K1 3

To whom slavery and colonialism are referred to?

a. danish
b. europeans
c. americans
d. Africans

In what base Marx’s socialism is on?

a. Philosophy
b. Literature
c. Materialistic ideas
CO4 K1 4 d. Poetry

According to them black is a ____

 a.Peasants, wealthy
b. The weak, strong
c. Cowards, wise
CO4 K1 5 d. inferior and devilish
What identity Senghor developed?
a.Colour based
b.Race based
c.Caste based
d.Country based
CO4 K1 6

Who coined the term Negritude?

a. Bloom
b. senghor
c. Johnson
d. derrida

CO4 K2 7
In which poem he argues about that the black
community listen to the heart?
a. River
b. Subordinate
c. New York
d. clock

Negritude is the root of ___ identity

a.african
CO4 K2 8 b.english
c.indian
d.russian

Black is more beautiful that ___

a.sun
b.flower
c.night
d.none
CO4 K2 9

The poem Black woman was written by ____

a.Foucault
b.Senghor
c.Roland bathes
d.derrida

CO4 K2 10
In the poem Black woman, black becomes __
a.life and beauty
b.social and life
c.politics and economics
d.law and order
How many dimensions in Negritude?
 a.six
CO4 K3 11 b.seven
c.one
d.four
What is the center of the society?
a.family
b.education
c.agriculture
d.politics
CO4 K3 12 Political negritude developed in __ and ___
a.central and state
b.humanism and democratic
c.law and order
d.language and literature
Who found the concept of Hybridity?
a.Freud
b.Foucualt
c.Homi k Bhabha
d.none
CO4 K3 13
In which university Homi k Bhabha worked ?
a.Harvard
b.Oxford
c. Cambridge
d. Yale
The concept of no center, no meaning, no hierarchy in ___
a.Indoctrination
b. Deconstruction
c. Feminism
d. Structualism
CO4 K3 14 Homi k Bhabha was born in which year?
a.1999
b.1947
c.1989
d.1949

Which award Homi k Bhabha awarded?

CO4 K3 15 a.Padma bhushan
b.Bharata ratna
c.Khel ratna
d.booker prize

CO4 K4 16
CO4 K4 17

CO4 K4 18

CO4 K4 19

CO4 K4 20
Section B-Choose either (a) or (b) (5x5=25)
CO4 K1 1 a. Explain the early life of Senghor
(OR)
b. Describe the problem of African identity
a..Examine the term Negritude
(OR)
b. Write short in Senghorian Negritude

CO4 K2 2 a.How colonialism started in France? (OR)

b. What are the four dimensions of Negritude?

CO4 K3 3
A. Analyse the question agency of Bhabha

(OR)

B. Discuss the development of post modernism and post

colonialism

A.Discuss the abilities of Hybridity

(OR)
CO4 K4 4
B. Examine Homi K bhabha’s views on colonialism

CO4 K5 5

Section C-Choose either (a) or (b) (5x8=40)

CO4 K2 1 a. Explain the Senghorian African Identity
(OR)
b.Summarize problems of African identity

a. Examine the term Negritude

(OR)

B.Summarize the four dimensions of African identity

CO4 K4 2
 A.Explain the relationships between the post modernism
and post colonialism

(OR)
CO4 K5 3
B. Illustrate Homi K Bhabha’s concept of agency

UNIT V

Course Knowledge Question No Options

Outcome level
(K1 to K5)
Section A-Multiple Choice Questions-Answer all questions (10x1=10)
CO5 K1 1
Dalit and Black literature and the
two sides of

a. Heart

b. humanity

c. Men race

d. life
CO5 K1 2
From where Dalit literature is
developed in India?

a. caste

b. race

c. gender

d. sex
CO5 K1 3
From where Black literature is
developed ?

a. caste

b. race

c. gender

d. sex
CO5 K1 4
Who gives the term Elitism?

a. Ranajit Guha

b.Spivok
 c.derrida
CO5 K1 5
d.foucault

Name any one historian

a.spivok

b.thompson

c.derrida
CO5 K3 6
d.bathes

Who coined the term worldling?

a.gayatri

b.Dipesh

c.Sylvia
CO5 K3 7
d.Bhabha

What is the third world countries?

a. developed countries

b. developing countries

c. colonized

d. colonizers
CO5 K3 8

Untouchables are practiced in ___

a. Srilanka

b. Kenya

c. Britain

d. India
CO5 K3 9

one of the key concept of

untouchables

a.poverty

b.lack of education
CO5 K2 10 c.ignorance
 d.all

Define Dalits

a.untouchables

b.rich

c.illiterate
CO5 K2 11
d.rulers

Who is Thompson?

a.Historian

b.Literarian

c.Professor

d.Teacher

Section B-Choose either (a) or (b) (5x5=25)

CO5 K1 1
A. Explain Black literature

(OR)

B. Describe the untouchables In

India

A. Summarize Dalit literature

CO5 K2 2
(OR)

B. Why Black Americans are

affected?

CO5 K3 3
 a. compare and contrast dalit and
black literature .

(OR)
CO5 K4 4
b. Explain subaltern studies

a. Write on Ranajit Guha’s views

on voiceless

(OR)
CO5 K5 5
b. Explain subalter from histories

a. Explain the theme of Guha and

spivok on subaltern
(OR)
b. summarize subaltern studies
Section C-Choose either (a) or (b) (5x8=40)
CO5 K2 1
A. Explain Dalit literature

(OR)

B. How the Black literature

spread?

A. compare and contrast dalt and

CO5 K4 2 black literature

(OR)

B. Describe the social status of

African - Americans and Dalit
CO5 K5 3 a. Examine the situations of
untouchables in India.

(OR)

b.Explain subaltern studies