Top 150+ Solved Commonwealth Literature MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Where are Absalom and Kumalo finally reunited?
a. At the prison
b. At the mission’s house
c. In Shanty Town
d. In the courtroom
Q. What is the central message of the novel, Cry, The Beloved Country?
a. Devastation
b. Hope
c. Comedic joyfulness
d. Fate of the miners
Q. Cry, the Beloved Country is principally about
a. man’s responsibility in society
b. superiority of men over women
c. crime and punishment in Johannesburg
d. racial discrimination in South Africa
Q. Why were the children dying in Paton’s novel Cry, the Beloved Country?
a. they lack water
b. they lack shelter
c. they lack medicine
d. they lack milk
Q. What happens to Gertrude at the end of the novel?
a. She commits suicide
b. She returned to Ndotsheni
c. She returns to prostitution
d. She became a nun
Q. Of which religion is the Rev. Kumalo a clergyman?
a. Episcopelian
b. Methodist
c. Roman Catholic
d. Anglican
Q. Who is the co-defendant to Absalom Kumalo when he is awaiting trial for murder?
a. Cousin
b. Uncle
c. Brother
d. Grandfather
Q. Rev. Stephen Kumalo’s brother John Kumalo’s occupation is
a. bus driver
b. lawyer
c. doctor
d. carpenter
Q. Stephen Kumalo goes to Johannesburg because
a. he has been summoned by the bishop of his diocese
b. he has been subpoenaed to appear in court
c. to take part in the growing protest over racial injustice
d. his sister Gertrude is sick
Q. Above Stephen Kumalo’s village there is a farm owned by a white family. What is this farm called?
a. White Farm
b. Animal Farm
c. High Place
d. Diepkloof
Q. From which European language did Afrikaans, one of the two major South African languages, develop?
a. Dutch
b. German
c. English
d. Italian
Q. When James Jarvis goes through his son Arthur's possessions he notes the prevalence of a certain American president in his sons' books and writings. Which president is this?
a. Abraham Lincoln
b. George Washington
c. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
d. Thomas Jefferson
Q. One of the most forceful themes of Cry the Beloved Country is Paton's pairing of the Native (black) peoples' condition with that of what?
a. the economy
b. the land
c. the sea
d. the overall welfare of tribes across the African continent