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10th Grade
01/11/2012

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Term

Where were these writers born:

 

Rudyard Kipling

Olive Schreiner

Ama Ata Aidoo

Definition

Kipling: India

Schreiner: South Africa

Aidoo: Ghana

Term

Where were these writers born?

 

Derek Walcott

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Definition

Walcott: St. Lucia

Tennyson: Somersby, Lincolnshire (England)

Term
"Hybridity" means:
Definition
the "mixing" of cultures on many levels, from linguistic to geographical
Term
Theorist who introduced "hybridity"
Definition

Homi Bhabha

Term
Tennyson was born in the year ______ to a father who worked as a _________.
Definition
1809 ; minister
Term

What college did Tennyson go to?

 

While there, he joined the elite group The _______ and met his best friend, _______ _____ _________.

Definition

Trinity College

 

The Apostles ; Arthur Henry Hallam

Term
Arthur Henry Hallam's death inspired lyrics to Tennyson's poems:
Definition

In Memoriam

 

Morte d'Arthur

Term

Tennyson's father dies in ____,

Hallam dies in ____.

Definition
1831 ; 1833
Term

Tennyson becomes Poet _______ in 1850 and meets Queen Victoria

Definition
Laureate
Term
What is the name of Tennyson's wife?
Definition
Emily Sellwood 
Term

What was Tennyson's first volume of poetry?

 

Who did he write it with?

Definition

Poems by Two Brothers

 

his brothers Frederick and Charles

Term
Which volume contains some of Tennyson's greatest works, and what are those works?
Definition

Poems (1832)

 

"The Lady of Shallot"

"Oenone"

"The Lotos-Eeaters"

Term

What newspaper correspondent inspired Tennyson's poem, "The Charge of the Light Brigade"?

 

 

Definition
William Howard Russell
Term

Which of Tennyson's poems:

 

1. Was about the Arthurian cycle?

 

2. Was about the death of his son Lionel?

Definition

1. Idylls of the King

 

2. "Crossing the Bar"

Term
"Ulysses" was inspired by this literary work
Definition
Dante's Inferno
Term
In what city was Kipling born?
Definition
Bombay, India
Term
What name did Kipling give to the Holloway family's home?
Definition
"House of Desolation"
Term
Kipling's Aunt Georgiana was married to _______________, a famous ___________ painter.
Definition
Edward Burne-Jones ; Pre-Raphaelite
Term
What two newspapers did Kipling work for, in order?
Definition

1. Civil and Military Gazette

 

2. Pioneer

Term
When did Kipling live?
Definition
1865-1936
Term

Kipling reached the peak of his fame with the _____ ______ for Literature in 1907

Definition
Nobel Prize
Term

Kipling was known as ‘‘Bard of the ______ ________’’and the ‘‘Poet of _______’’.

 

 

Definition
British Empire ; Empire
Term
What was Kipling's first volume of poetry?
Definition
Departmental Ditties (1886)
Term
What are two of Kipling's most famous works?
Definition

the Jungle Book

 

Captain Courageous

Term
"The White Man's Burden" was written about _________ colonization in ____________
Definition
American ; The Philippines
Term

Who did Kipling send "The White Man's Burden" to?

 

Hint: Governor of NY at the time

Definition
Theodore Roosevelt
Term
The iambic marching meter of "The White Man's Burden" suggests _________.
Definition
militarism
Term
The major image in "The White Man's Burden" is that between
Definition
light and dark
Term
Where was Olive Schreiner born?
Definition

Wittebergen, Basutoland

(Now Lesotho, surrounded by South Africa)

Term
When did Schreiner live?
Definition
1855-1920
Term

Schreiner's book, ______________, published under the name _____ ____, quickly won her recognition

 

 

Definition
The Story of an African Farm ; Ralph Iron
Term
Schreiner joined the radical ______________ Club, which focused on overturning percieved inequality of the sexes
Definition
Men's and Woman's
Term
Schreiner was friends with __________, but had to end the friendship over conflicting views on imperialism
Definition
Cecil Rhodes
Term
Schreiner published this book as a direct attack to Rhode's imperialism
Definition
Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland
Term
Schreiner wrote this book for "those who love Africa, but who love Europe also"
Definition
An English South African's View of the Situation (1899)
Term

Schreiner is considered the first important ________________________ novelist. 

Definition
white South African
Term
Schreiner's feminist examiniation of capitalism and labor
Definition
Woman and Labour
Term
"A Little African Story" seems to float between two geographical areas:
Definition

Eastbourne, England

Lily Kloof (South African Boer territory)

Term
Aidoo's father, ______, is a _____ tribal chief.
Definition
Yaw Fama ; Fante
Term
Ghana gained independence from Britain in _______ , when Aidoo was ___ years old.
Definition
1957 ; 15
Term
Aidoo's first play, which centers on a Western-influenced African, is called what?
Definition
The Dilemma of a Ghost
Term
What collection of short stories is "Certain Winds from the South" a part of?
Definition
No Sweetness Here
Term
Aidoo's novel on persisting colonialism after independence is called what?
Definition
Our Sister Killjoy
Term
Aidoo was appointed minister of education under __________, but moved to ________ in 1983.
Definition
Jerry Rawlings ; Zimbabwe
Term
In what essay did Aidoo create her own definition of feminism?
Definition

‘‘Unwelcome Pals and Decorative Slaves’’

Term
The end of "Certain Winds from the South" is a dramatic monologue, suggesting a "___________" pattern
Definition
"call and response"
Term

"A Far Cry From Africa" suggests

 

___________’s poem "___________"

Definition
Andrew Marvell ; The Garden
Term

"A Far Cry From Africa" deals with the

 

______________ from 1952-1960

Definition
Mau Mau Uprising
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