Sunday, February 11, 2018

MCQs II MA ECOLITERATURE - I CIA 2018



MCQs II MA ECOLITERATURE 2018
Unit I
1. Who defined ecocriticism as “the study of the relationship between literature and the physical environment”?
a. Cheryll Glotfelty b. Peter Barry c. William Rueckert d. Bate
2. ISLE is the house journal of ______.
a. ASLE b. OSLE-India c. tiNai d. SELLTA
3. According to Peter Barry, which is still distinctly on the academic margins?
a. Ecocriticism b. Realism c. Romanticism d. New Criticism
4. Michael P.Branch traces the term “Ecocriticism” to_______.
a. William Rueckert b. Cheryl Glotfelty c. Nirmal Selvamony d. Michael P.Branch
5. Who is the author of the essay “Literature and Ecology: An Experiment in Ecocriticism?
a. William Rueckert b. Cheryl Glotfelty c. Nirmal Selvamony d. Michael P.Branch
6. Who are the three major nineteenth-century American poets who celebrate nature?
a. Emerson, Fuller and Thoreau
b. Maya Angelou, Rupert Brooke and Langston Hughes
c. Robert Frost, Rupert Brooke and Langston Hughes 
d. Robert Frost, Seamus Heaney and George Meredith
7. Who is the author of the book Nature?
a. Emerson b. Fuller c. Peter Barry d. Kate Soper
8. With which literary movement, Emerson, Fuller and Thoreau are related with?
a. Transcendentalism b. Romanticism c. Realism d. Expressionism
9. Summer in the Lakes is the first book of________
a. Fuller b. Emerson c. Peter Barry d. Kate Soper
10. What is the UK version of ecocriticism?
a. Green Studies b. Dark Green Studies c. Light Green Studies d. E-Studies
11. Ecocriticism takes it bearing from_______
a. Transcendentalism b. Romanticism c. Realism d. Expressionism
12. Green Studies takes it bearing from_______
a. Romanticism b. Transcendentalism c. Realism d. Expressionism
13. Who argues that colonialism and deforestation have frequently gone together?
a. Jonathan Bate b. Cheryll Glotfelty c. Peter Barry d. William Rueckert
14. According to Peter Barry, there is a scope for study concerning _____and nature.
a. Culture b. Literature c. Environment d. Ecology
15. Ecocritics _____the notion that everything is Socially/linguistically constructed.
a. reject b. select c. choose d. elect
16. “It isn’t language which has a hole in its ozone layer”. Whose statement is this?
a. Kate Soper b. Fuller c. Peter Barry d. Alan Liu
17Who has penned the Christian hymn, “All things bright and beautiful”?
a. C.F.Alexander b. Abraham Pandithar c. Jim Reeves d. Reginald Heber
18.Who says that nature is nothing more than an anthropomorphic construct created by Wordsworth?
a. Alan Liu b. Fuller c. Peter Barry d. Kate Soper
19. An example for Area One: “the wilderness” is _________.
a. deserts. b. forests. C. hills. D. parks
20. An example for Area two: “the scenic sublime” is ___.
a. forests b. deserts C. hills. D. parks
21. An example for Area three: “the countryside” is _____.
a. hills b. forests. C. deserts D. parks
22. An example for Area four: “the domestic picturesque” is _____.
a. parks b. forests. C. hills. D. deserts
23. In the outdoor environment, “pure” nature predominates in ______.
a. the wilderness b. the scenic sublime c. the countryside d. the domestic picturesque
24. In the outdoor environment, culture predominates in ______.
a. the domestic picturesque b. the scenic sublime c. the countryside d. the wilderness
25. In the outdoor environment, both culture and nature can be seen in _______.
a. the scenic sublime b. the wilderness c. the countryside d. the domestic picturesque
26. According to Peter Barry, _______ is the preferred location of Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”.
a. the countryside b. the scenic sublime c. the wilderness d. the domestic picturesque
27. According to Peter Barry, _______ is the preferred location of James Thomson’s The Seasons.
a. the countryside b. the scenic sublime c. the wilderness d. the domestic picturesque
28. According to Peter Barry, _______ is the preferred location of William Cowper’s The Task.
a. the countryside b. the scenic sublime c. the wilderness d. the domestic picturesque
29. Who distinguishes between “light Greens” and “dark Greens” in The Song of the Earth?
a. Bate b. Cheryll Glotfelty c. Peter Barry d. William Rueckert
30. _____ believe that they can save the planet by more responsible form of consumption and production.
a. light Greens b. Greens c. white Greens d. dark Greens
31. ________ take a radical stance regarding the use of technology.
a. dark Greens b. Greens c. white Greens d. light Greens
32. _____ believe in “Know Technology”.
a. light Greens b. Greens c. white Greens d. dark Greens
33. _____ believe in “No Technology”.
a. dark Greens b. Greens c. black Greens d. light Greens
34. _______ prefer the term “nature” to “environment”.
a. dark Greens b. Greens c. black Greens d. light Greens
35. “Dark Greens” are also called as _________.
a. Deep Ecologists b. True Ecologists c. Wildlife Ecologists d. Natural Ecologists
36. In which play “the commodified landscape is sliced up and parcelled out to the highest rhetorical bidder”?
a. King Lear b. Riders to the Sea c. The Winter’s Tale d. Pericles, Prince of Tyre
37. Which paly is referred to by Ralph W. Black in his article on commodification of landscape.
a. King Lear b. Riders to the Sea c. The Winter’s Tale d. Pericles, Prince of Tyre
38. Who sees King Lear as archetypal family drama?
a. Freud b. Frye c. Lacan d. Trilling
39. According to the Ecocritics, the storm in the play King Lear represents______.
a. real weather b. unnatural behaviour c. emblematic correlative d. metaphor
40. In ecocriticism, what had seemed mere ______ is brought in from the critical margins to the critical centre.
a. setting b. language c. society d. human
41. Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” uses ______.
a. entropy b. symbiosis c. negentropy d. mutualism
42. What is entropy?
a. Negative energy b. Desirable energy c. Required energy d. Necessary energy
43. Whose house is compared to a Black Hole by Peter Barry?
a. Usher’s house b. Rueckert’s house c. Hardy’s house d. Blackie’s house.
44. Who cannot hear natural sounds but only processed music?
a. Usher b. Tennyson c. Jackson d. Frost
45. According to John Ruskin, _______ is our instinctive tendency to see our emotions reflected in our environment.
a. pathetic fallacy b. personification c. apostrophe d. parasitism
46. According to Peter Barry, which poet has no “environmental anxieties”?
a. Tennyson b. Usher c. Jackson d. Frost
47. “…nature, red in tooth and claw”. Whose insensitive statement is this?
a. Tennyson b. Usher c. Jackson d. Frost
48. According to Peter Barry, _______ implies an ideal fusion of agriculture and horticulture.
a. Thomas Hardy b. Tagore c. Tennyson d. Frost
49. Which Ecocritic quotes Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” in his critical essay?
a. Scott Slovic b. Cheryl Glotfelty c. Nirmal Selvamony d. William Rueckert
50. Who says that there is “no single, dominant world-view guiding ecocritical practice”?
a. Scott Slovic b. Cheryl Glotfelty c. Nirmal Selvamony d. William Rueckert



Unit IV
“Unnamed Lake”
1. ______ is a flowering plants distinguished by cylindrical stalks or hollow, stem like leaves.
a. Rush b. Grass c. Violet d. Aster
2. ______ are long-legged freshwater and coastal birds referred to by Frederick G. Scott.
a. Herons b. Vulture c. Kingfisher d. Herring
3. Frederick George Scott heard the “cry” of a _______.
a. fish-hawk. b. kingfisher c. wolf d. baby
4. ______ brings out the beauty of an “untrodden” land.
a. F.G.Scott b. F.R.Scott c. Wordsworth d. Tagore
5. “It ______ among the thousand hills / Where no man ever trod”.
a. sleeps b. lives c. sees d. seeks
6. What is the name of the lake visited by Frederick George Scott?
a. Unnamed Lake b. Pykara Lake c. Lake Superior d. Dead Sea
7. According to Scott in “Unnamed Lake”, ____ spoke in the silent valley.
a. the guardian mountains b. a parrot c. a human being d. a guru

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Friday, February 9, 2018

MCQs 2018 Semester VI – NEW LITERATURES – III BA English Unit 2


Semester – VI
Core XII - NEW LITERATURES

UNIT II
David Diop                            :           Africa
            Gabriel Okara                       :           Once Upon a Time
            Derek Walcott                     :           A Far Cry from Africa
Chinua Achebe                     :           Refugee mother and child

“Africa” by David Diop
1. What is negritude?
a) Literary and ideological philosophy b) Philosophical movement c) Fight against the Whites d) A derogative term
2. What does “young and strong... tree” represent in David Diop’s “Africa”?
a) The young people of Africa  b) The old people of Africa c) The colonisers d) The people of Africa
3. _____ have bent the back of Africa according to Diop.
a) The colonialists  b) The aggressive people c) The Americans d) The Anti-colonialists
4. Where was David Diop born?
a) Bordeaux, France b) Lagos, Nigeria c) Cairo, Egypt d) Luanda, Angola
5. _______ is a tropical or subtropical grassland of eastern Africa.
a) Savannah b) steppes c)Pampas d) alcareous downland
6. Who exploited the Black people and used them as slaves in Africa?
a) The colonialists b) The Australians c) The Americans d) The Anti-colonialists
7. Several of Diop’s poems were published in _____ famous anthology
a) Léopold Senghor’s b) Chinua Achebe’s  c) Mariama Bâ’s d) Nadine Gordimer’s 
8. Diop urges the Africans to be _______.
a) patient b) angry c) bold d) good
10. The “white and faded” flowers represent________. 
a) the colonialists b) the temporariness of life c)the girls of Africa d)the boys of Africa
11. Diop says that it is ______ of his people which is irrigating the fields
 a) the blood and sweat b) the discarded things c)  the valuable things d) the love and affection
12. _______ is eulogized and portrayed as the giver of life by Diop.
a) Africa b) Australia c) Canada d) India
13. “Your beautiful ______ that irrigates the fields”.
a) black blood b) black water c) blue blood d)blue water

“Once Upon a Time” by Gabriel Okara
14. Gabriel Okara is ________ poet and novelist
a) a Nigerian b) an American c) a South African d) a Senegalese
15. In “Once Upon a Time” who wears many faces like dresses?
a) The father b) The mother c) The son d) The dog
16. In “Once Upon a Time” the father wants to _______ all these muting things.
a) unlearn b) learn c)understand d) study
17. In “Once Upon a Time”, the Father has learned to laugh with his ____.
a) teeth b) heart c)eyes d) soul
18. “Once Upon a Time” explains what happens when a traditional African culture meets _________.
a) the Western way of life b) a happy way of life c)a controlled way of life d) the slavery
19. In many places the tone of the poem, “Once Upon a Time”, is _____.
a) bitter b) bright c)sweet d) happy
20. According to the father in “Once Upon a Time”_____, “left hands search his_____”
a) empty pockets b) hefty pockets c) rich bags d) empty bags
21. Okara tells of the false personalities for their_____.
a) many faces b)false promises c)false speeches d) many tongues
22. The father in “Once Upon a Time”_____ has learnt to shake hands without his ______.
a) heart b) teeth c) tongue d) mask
23. According to Okara “Goodbye” means, _______.
a) “good-riddance” b) “bye-bye” c) “see you later” d) “I like you”
24. According to Okara “Glad to meet you” means, _______.
a) I am not glad b) I am very glad c) I am very happy d) Nice to meet you
25. Okara talks about the ______ which were developed by the father.
a) fake attitudes b) good attitudes c) niceties  d) pleasant attitudes
26. According to Okara, the father in “Once Upon a Time” is ______ of his behaviour.
a) ashamed b) happy c) ignorant d) indifferent

“A Far Cry from Africa” by Derek Walcott
27. Africa is compared to _____ with a “tawny pelt” by Derek Walcott.
a) an animal b) a bird c) a river d) a land
28. The word “Kikuyu” serves as the name of _____ in Kenya.
a) a native tribe b) a native plant c) an animal d) a bird
29 Why does Walcott describe a landscape littered with corpses?
a) To shatter the image of a paradise b) Death is everywhere c) He hates blacks d) He loves his country
30.  What is the image used by Walcott to describe the setting of decaying human flesh?
a) a worm b) an eagle c) a coloniser  d) a rat
31. Whose admonishment is: “Waste no compassion on these separate dead!”?
a) The worm’s b) The eagle’s c) The coloniser’s  d) The rat’s
32 When did the Mau Mau uprise against British colonists in Kenya?
a) during the 1950s.b) during the 1970s.c) during the 1920s. d) during the 2000s.
33 Walcott’s use of “savage” functions to present _______ point of view.
a) a British colonialist’s racist b) a Black’s c) the Mau Mau’s d) the Kikuyu’s
34 What are the ibises?
a) long-billed wading birds b) high-flying eagles c) strong-legged hyenas d) long-legged animals
35. ______ ruled this land long before African or European civilization existed.
a) The ibises and other beasts b) The natives c) The homo-sapiens d) The homo-erectus
36 What does the idiom: “a far cry” mean?
a) An impossible thing. b) To cry for others c) No need to cry d) Far from over
37. Which is the paradox at the centre of Walcott’s consternation?
a) His hybrid inheritance. b) His love for Africa c) His love for books d) His view on violence.
38. Walcott’s divided loyalties engender a sense of guilt as he wants to _______ the “civilized” culture of the British.
a) adopt b) adapt c) abject d)  object

“Refugee Mother and Child” by Chinua Achebe
39. Chinua Achebe’s “Mother in a Refugee Camp” portrays _______.
a) the inevitability of death b) the life after death c) Mother Mary and her son Jesus d) the value of time
40 Chinua Achebe’s “Mother in a Refugee Camp”, paints the pathetic picture of a mother holding _______.
a) her dying son b) a dying soldier  c) a dying plant d) a dull painting
41 _______ is a quality that evokes pity or sadness.
a) Pathos b) Ramos c) Plight  d) Tragedy
42. In “Refugee Mother and Child”, what is the reason for the refugee camp?
a) No reason is given b) No love c) Countries are divided d) Whites dominate the Blacks
43. Who is Madonna in “Refugee Mother and Child”?
a) Holy mother Mary b) A Singer c) Mother of the child d) An African woman
44 The air in “Mother in a Refugee Camp” held a nausea of unwashed children with traces of________.
a) diarrhea b) rose petals c) blue colour d) ugliness
45 The mother in Chinua Achebe’s “Mother in a Refugee Camp” donned______.
a) a ghost smile b) a lovely dress c) a beautiful flower d) a rose wreath
46. The mother in Chinua Achebe’s “Mother in a Refugee Camp” combs, with maternal affection, the hair on the son’s  ______.
a) skull b) head c) lock d) hair
47. Chinua Achebe’s “Mother in a Refugee Camp” is full of _______.
a) pathos b) vengeance c) merry making d) theology
48 Chinua Achebe’s “Mother in a Refugee Camp” describes the disease, illness and _____ which surrounds the camp
a) death b)life  c) sadness d) life
49 Chinua Achebe was brought up in______, a place of pain and poverty.
a) Igbo Town b) Ife c) Kumariya d) Maiduguri
50 The last display of maternal affection by the mother in “Mother in a Refugee Camp” is equivalent to “putting flowers on_____”.
a) a tiny grave b) a cute head c) a lovely skull d) a beautiful land


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