MCQs about Pakistani Literature in English, ranging from basic to more difficult:
**Basic Level MCQs**
1. Which author is considered a pioneer of English language fiction from Pakistan and is mentioned alongside Sara Suleri and Hanif Kureishi?
a) Mohsin Hamid
b) Kamila Shamsie
[cite_start]c) Bapsi Sidhwa [cite: 2]
d) Tariq Ali
2. Which novel by Mohsin Hamid was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize?
[cite_start]a) *Moth Smoke* [cite: 4]
[cite_start]b) *The Reluctant Fundamentalist* [cite: 5]
c) *Broken Verses*
d) *Kartography*
3. Ahmed Ali is known for writing a novel arguably considered the greatest about which city?
a) Lahore
b) Karachi
[cite_start]c) Delhi [cite: 24]
d) Islamabad
4. Which Pakistani-American writer is known for both poetry and prose, and wrote *The Murder of Aziz Khan*?
a) Hanif Kureishi
[cite_start]b) Zulfikar Ghose [cite: 34, 37]
c) Adam Zameenzad
d) Aamer Hussein
5. Which writer edited the pioneering anthology *A Dragonfly In the Sun: An Anthology of Pakistani Writing in English*?
a) Kamila Shamsie
b) Sara Suleri
[cite_start]c) Muneeza Shamsie [cite: 93]
d) Attia Hussain
**Intermediate Level MCQs**
6. Which award did Hanif Kureishi's novel *The Buddha of Suburbia* win?
a) The Booker Prize
[cite_start]b) The Whitbread First Novel Award [cite: 50]
c) The Pulitzer Prize
[cite_start]d) The George Devine Award [cite: 43]
7. Sara Suleri Goodyear is a professor of English at which American university?
a) Harvard University
b) Stanford University
[cite_start]c) Yale University [cite: 64]
d) Columbia University
8. Which novel by Attia Hussain is considered one of the finest about the partition of the subcontinent?
a) *Meatless Days*
b) *Twilight in Delhi*
[cite_start]c) *Sunlight on a Broken Column* [cite: 28, 29]
d) *The Thirteenth House*
9. Mohsin Hamid's *Moth Smoke* was adapted for television in Pakistan and as an operetta in which country?
a) India
b) United States
[cite_start]c) Italy [cite: 123]
d) United Kingdom
10. Which writer is known for portraying the lives of social outcasts, loners, and the dispossessed in their novels?
a) Tariq Ali
b) Bina Shah
[cite_start]c) Adam Zameenzad [cite: 77]
d) Alamgir Hashmi
**Difficult Level MCQs**
11. According to the text, what major event led to Pakistan facing existential challenges and being engulfed by militancy, impacting its society and polity?
[cite_start]a) The dismemberment in 1971 [cite: 11]
[cite_start]b) Globalization relentlessly seeping into domestic economies [cite: 16]
[cite_start]c) The invasion of Afghanistan by the United States and global hysteria about 'terror' [cite: 11]
[cite_start]d) The corporate media industry beleaguering South Asian writers [cite: 18]
12. Which of the following literary works, according to Muneeza Shamsie, bring forth critical issues of war, violence, terror, identity, and the workings of the Pakistani military?
a) *Salt and Saffron*, *Broken Verses*, *In The City By The Sea*
b) *Twilight in Delhi*, *Sunlight on a Broken Column*, *The Murder of Aziz Khan*
[cite_start]c) *The Reluctant Fundamentalist*, *No Space for Further Burials*, *The Case of Exploding Mangoes* [cite: 23]
d) *Love in a Blue Time*, *Intimacy*, *Midnight All Day*
13. Alamgir Hashmi is described as a "practicing transnational humanist and educator" who wrote and taught from a unique vantage in universities across which regions?
a) South Asian and African
[cite_start]b) North American, European, and Asian [cite: 150]
c) Middle Eastern and European
d) Australian and Asian
14. Mohsin Hamid's *Moth Smoke* used which innovative structural elements?
a) A single narrative voice and a chronological timeline
[cite_start]b) Multiple voices, second person, trial scenes, and essays on various topics [cite: 124]
c) First-person narration and stream of consciousness
d) Epistolary format and allegorical characters
15. What is one of the aims of Adam Zameenzad's writing, as described in the text?
a) To focus solely on the elite and privileged classes
b) To celebrate traditional Pakistani culture and customs
[cite_start]c) To give voice to the voiceless, reshape those distorted by time and circumstance, and dignify 'trash' [cite: 77]
d) To write primarily historical fiction about ancient empires
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