I MA English 19th Century British Literature QB for CIA 2 from Suresh Frederick

19^th Century British Literature Question Bank

Ode to West Wind

18. What is a lyre?

a.stringed instrument  b. a land c. a humble lay d. sun

19. Who is a Maenad?

a. female followers of Bacchus b. Bacchus c. boy d. Name of a country

20. Why is the West wind a trumpet of prophesy?

a.   It brings rain   b. It brings the promise of spring   c. It blows over all regions d. It  promises the second coming of Jesus

21. The writing of which pamphlet caused Percy Bysshe Shelley’s expulsion?
a.   Common Sense b. The Necessity of Atheism c.A Declaration of Rights d.   Pride and Prejudice                                                                                                                                 

22. In “Ode to the West Wind”, the speaker suggests that the west wind ______    

a.   protects flowers b.   protects roots  c.         preserves lands d. preserves seeds

23. In “Ode to the West Wind”, what are the “Pestilence-stricken multitudes”?

a.  trees  b. Cricketers             c. stars     d. leaves

24.  Shelley says that as a young man he too was like the West wind, because he also was _____

   a.   wild, swift and proud        b.    tame, swift and happy c. quiet, quick and dangerous d. soft, red and alert

25.  Who is the “azure sister” of the west wind?

   a.   sky   b.   east wind         c. west glee        d. moon

26.  Who wants to “pant” beneath the power of west wind?

  a.   loose clouds          b.   the poet       c. dead leaves              d. swift waves

26. “A new birth” will be caused by______
a) the quivering within the wave’s intenser day b ) the incantation of the verse. c. new Mother  d) the sapless foliage of the ocean

27. Winter and Spring in “Ode to the West Wind” stand for_________
a)brightness b) the seasons. c. anger and ambition d. death and revival

28. The trumpet of prophecy will be blown by__________
a. the musician. b. God c. poet’s lips. d. the West Wind.
29. The “dead leaves” are compared to_______

a. dead thoughts b. dead bodies c. dead animals c. dry leaves

30. Shelley in “Ode to the West Wind” uses metaphors from ________

a. nature b. war c. The Bible d. Songs

31. In “Ode to the West Wind”, what are the symbolic representation of “Pestilence-stricken multitudes”?

a. leaves b. the entire human society c. branches d. animals

32. In the second stanza, Shelley refers ________

a. leaves b. clouds c. branches d. waves

33. The howling of the wind is imagined by Shelley to be the dirge for _______

a. the dead leaves b. the dead thoughts c. the morning song d. the closing year

34. Shelley bids ______to uplift his moral stands.

a. the spring season b. the maenads c. harp d. the west wind

7. “A new birth” will be caused by______
a) the quivering within the wave’s intenser day b ) the incantation of the verse c. new Mother  d) the sapless foliage of the ocean

Biographia

85.  With which other poet did Samuel Taylor Coleridge founded the Romantic Movement in English Literature? 

a. Shelley b. Lord Byron c. William Wordsworth d. John Keats

86.Samuel Taylor Coleridge introduced the term 'willing suspension of disbelief'’ in ----------

a. Biographia Literaria b. Kubla Khan c. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner d. Christabel

87.-----------------------is the American transcendental philosopher who was much influenced by Coleridge.

a. Ralph Waldo Emerson b. Ernest Holmes c. John Locke d. John Locke

88. Which one is the famous prose work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge?

a. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner b. Biographia Literaria c. Kubla Khan d. Christabel

89.With which famous writer Coleridge became friends with in Christ's Hospital, also called The Bluecoat School?

a. Shelley b. William Wordsworth c. John Keats d. Charles Lamb

90. Coleridge talks about ----------------- in chapter 13 of Biographia Literaria.

 a. esemplastic power     b. the supernatural    c. biography      d. occult

91. Who is the venerable sage of Koenigsberg?

  a. Schelling         b. Wordsworth c. Milton d. Immanuel Kant

92. Primary Imagination means--------------------

 a. poetic imagination b. power of perception c. creative imagination d. pure imagination

93.Secondary Imagination refers to------------------

 a. poetic imagination b. power of perception c. creative imagination d. pure imagination

94. Fancy is-------------------

a. premeditative  b. unpredictable  c. associative  d. meditative

95. ----------------- is a result of esemplastic power.

  a. imagination b. fancy c. poetry d.unity in diversity

96. Coleridge contends with-------------ideas of poetry.

    a. Wordsworth b. Shelley c. Aristotle d. Lamb

97.Coleridge asserts that mind is active in ----------------

   a. imagination b. writing c.perception d. association

98. Coleridge refers to the philosophy of -------------------

     a. Schelling b. Wordsworth c. Spinoza d. Machiavelli

99. Esemplastic power means ---------------------

     a. Synthesising power b. imaginative power c. poetic power d. Spiritual power

100.Biographia Literaria is a

 a. Autobiography b. biography c. meditative autobiography d.memoir

Silas

214 Why do people suspect the weavers objects during Silas’s days?

a. They are seen as doing womanly work b. They are rootless and have specialized knowledge c. They wear only linen clothing d. They have bad eyesight

215. How does Silas know about herbal medicine?

a. His mother taught him b. It was part of the training from his religious sect in Lantern Yard b. He has read up on the topic d. He doesn’t, he only pretends to

216. To whom does everyone in town suspect the mysterious tinder-box belongs?

a. Silas b. Jem Rodney c. The peddler d. Mr. Lammeter

217. Why doesn’t Silas protest his innocence when he is framed for theft?

a. He is not allowed to speak b. He is having a cataleptic fit at the time

 c. He believes God will clear him d. He believes he actually did steal the money while having a cataleptic fit

218. During the period in his life when all he does is work and hoard money, Silas is likened to:

 a. A spider b. A narrow, nearly dried-up rivulet  c. A handle or crooked tube d. All of the above

219. From where does Godfrey obtain the one hundred pounds that he lends Dunsey?

 a. The sale of Godfrey’s horse, Wildfire b. The rent paid by one of the Squire’s tenants c. Money that Godfrey had set aside to give his wife, Molly d. Godfrey’s winnings at cards

220. Where does Silas go when he finds his gold missing?

 a. The church b. Dolly Winthrop’s house c. The Rainbow  d. The Red House

221. Why does Nancy refuse for so long to adopt Eppie?

 a. She dislikes children b. She thinks Godfrey will love Eppie more than he loves her c. She thinks it is wrong for Godfrey and her to have something that fate has denied them d. She suspects that Eppie is Godfrey’s child and wants him to be punished

222. What prompts Godfrey to confess his secret?

 a. He finds out that he is terminally ill b. Dunsey’s remains are discovered in the drained stone-pit c. He gets drunk d. All of the above

223. Why does Silas decide to return to Lantern Yard for a visit?

 a. He is looking for work b. He wants to find out if he was ever cleared of theft, and to ask his old minister about the drawing of the lots c. He wants Eppie to see where he grew up d. He wants to show his former sect that he has succeeded in spite of his excommunication

224. What is Silas’s first thought when he notices that the mass of gold on his hearth is in fact a baby girl?

 a. That he should lock his door b. That he will adopt the little girl  c. That the little girl’s mother can’t be far away  d. That the little girl is his dead sister, coming back to him in a dream

225. Why does Molly Farren come to the New Year’s dance?

 a. She wants to announce her and Godfrey’s marriage to everyone there b. She thinks she can win Godfrey’s love by dancing with him c. She wants to apologize to Godfrey for something she has said d. She wants her daughter to be adopted by Godfrey and Nancy

226. Why does Godfrey put up with Dunsey’s bullying?

 a. Dunsey can beat him up b.  Dunsey has threatened to expose Godfrey’s secret marriage c. Godfrey is trying to set an example of good Christian forbearance d. Godfrey loves his brother

II MA English Quiz Bank on Ecocriticism for CIA 2 from Suresh Frederick

II MA English Quiz Bank on Ecocriticism for CIA 2

Oikopoetics

31. Oikos is a _____________ word

a. Greek    b. Latin                c. Tamil                 d. Roman            

32.A typical oikos is a nexus in which the ________, the humans, natural and cultural phenomena stand in an integrated relationship

a. animals  b. sacred   c. atmosphere     d. ecosphere

33.In tinai, the naturo-cultural elements of oikos is __________

a. mutal      b. uri          c. karu               d. porul

34.Art, especially, poetry, is a variety of communication/communion shaped by the oikos of the _______ in question

a. politics   b. nature    c. culture   d. society

35.Historically speaking, ______ basic types of oikos have discernibly shaped all poetry.

a. three              b. two                   c. five                   d. twelve

36. The first type of oikos integrates the sacred, nature, culture and the humans in a _____

a. integrated kinship    b. complex kinship    c. hierarchy         d. anarchy

37.The power relations among the members of the ________ oikos are both horizontal and vertical.

a. hierarchic                 b. anarchic          c. familial d. market

38. ___________ said "The two-legged and four-legged lived like kith and kin"

a. Cheryl Glotfelty         b. Wordsworth    c. Nirmal Selvamony    d. Black Elk

39. In ____________ oikos there was hardly any distinction between ritual and art.

a. Integrative              b. hierarchic                 c. anarchic          d. all

40. ________ meter continued to be the norm for invocatory verse.

a. Venpa              b. Akaval            c. elelo                  d. karanthai

41. Vancippattu means ____________

a. love song                   b. field song                  c. boat songs     d. dirge song

42. In the hierarchic or political oikos the members stand in a hierarchic relationship, with ______ at the bottom

a. Sacred             b. human             c. nature   d. Gods

43. Tinai as the larger social order has given way to the ______ varna

a. Dravidian                  b. Indian              c. Greek     d. Aryan

44. In __________ oikos power is channeled only in a vertical direction

a. Integrative                b. hierarchic                c. anarchic d. all

45. In ___________ oikos the sacred was confined to a special space deemed holy

a. anarchic           b. integrative                 c. hierarchic      d. all

46. _________ was confined to a special space, namely, the court/ palace

a. The ruled                  b. Man                           c. Woman   d. The ruler

47. In hierarchic oikos _______ was considered more auspicious, productive and useful

a. Wetland                b. nature             c. dryland  d. the sacred

48._________, worthy of worship and poetic celebration, were located usually in wetland.

a. kovil                          b. talam              c. oor                   d. naadu

49. In ____________ oikos nature was more tangibly useful.

a. Integrative                b. hierarchic                 c. anarchic         d. all

50. In the ________ phase the Tamil poetry entered its initial phase when the writers looked upon nationalism, industrialism, and rationalism as forces that could liberate them from the hierarchic oikos.

a. Fourth             b. third                c. second    d. first

The Silkworms

23. The silkworm is the ______ of the domesticated silkmoth, Bombyx mori.

a. litter b. worm c. larva or caterpillar d. butterfly

24. The silkworms have _____distinct morphological stages

a. three b. four c. five d. two

25. After hatching from the egg, larvae go through _____molts.

a. four b. three c. five d. two

26. When the silkworms were young, they were like ______

a. little plants b. little angels c. little dragon d. little worms

27. ______ is process whereby a population of selected animals or plants become accustomed to human provision and control.

a. Training b. Wildness c. Domestication d. Beating

28. “_______says Don’t, and they do not”.

a. The ancestral voice b. God c. Owner d.Trainer

29. Buddleia is commonly known as _______.

a. the butterfly bush b. the flame of the forest c. the Buddha’s flower d. the paper flower tree

30. The Silkworms were rambling. Here, “rambling” means _____.

a. the activity of walking for pleasure.                                  b. suffering in a cage.

c. distressed in a box.                                                            d. dancing on ramp.         

“The Snake Trying”  by W.W.E.Ross

31.W.W.E.Ross was a Canadian ______and poet.

a. short story writer b. Novelist c. lover of nature d. Geophysicist d artist.

32. The persona in the poem, “The Snake Trying”, goes to _____to kill a snake.

a. playground b. cities c .class d. woods

33. The persona in the poem, “The Snake Trying”, carries ______ in his hands.

a. a stick b. a gun c. a sickle d. a bag.

34. What is a reed, referred to “The Snake Trying”?

a. a tall, slender-leaved plant of the grass family

b. a short tree

c. A primitive wind instrument 

d. A flexible strip of cane set into certain instruments to produce tone

35. Why does the persona in the poem, “The Snake Trying”, allow the snake to leave?

a. venomous snake b. non-venomous snake c. beautiful d. ugly

36. The snake in the poem, “The Snake Trying”, is ______.

a . black in colour b. made of gold. c. beautiful and graceful  .c. violent

Professor Shiv K. Kumar by R.K. Dhawan

Professor Shiv K. Kumar

Eminent poet, critic, short-story writer and novelist, Shiv K. Kumar passed away on 28 February 2017 at Hyderabad. He was born in Lahore, British India, in 1921. In 1943, he started teaching at D.A.V. College, Lahore, and after Partition, he joined Hansraj College, University of Delhi, and went to Cambridge University to obtain his Ph.D. degree on the Stream-of-Consciousness Novel, under the supervision of Professor David Daiches. He was also taught by F.R. Leavis, during his stay at Cambridge.

Shiv K. Kumar taught English at Osmania University, Hyderabad, for a number of years and retired as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hyderabad. He was distinguished Visiting Professor at the Universities of Oklahama and Northern Iowa, and Visiting Professor at the Universities of Drake and Marshall. He was also a visiting Fulbright Fellow at Yale University. In 1978, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, London. In 1987, he received Sahitya Akademi Award for his poems Trapfalls in the Sky. In 2001, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan for his contribution to literature.

Professor Kumar was known for his oratory, intellectual discourse and a subtle sense of humour.

Professor Kumar was founder member and Academic Advisor of the Indian Society for Commonwealth Studies. He delivered the Inaugural Address at the International Commonwealth Literature Conference held at OUCIP in 2014. Our heartfelt condolences for the departed soul.

Professor Kumar was known for his oratory, intellectual brilliance and a subtle sense of humour. He was eminent scholar of Urdu literature as well. He translated several famous Urdu works into English including those by Ghalib. He was a musician too and recited Urdu ghazals accompanied with harmonium.

Professor Kumar was founder member and Academic Advisor of the Indian Society for Commonwealth Studies. He delivered the Inaugural Address at the International Commonwealth Literature Conference held at OUCIP in 2014. 

Our heartfelt condolences for the departed soul.

R.K. Dhawan