Monday, February 15, 2016

ECOCRITICISM QB for II MA English - Bishop Heber College

ECOCRITICISM QB
Unit I
“Ecocriticism” from Peter Barry’s Beginning Theory

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 country 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
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 16, 2016 at 5:07 PM

    Thanks Professor!

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  2. UnknownFebruary 20, 2016 at 1:30 AM

    God Bless you!

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  3. SFFebruary 20, 2016 at 1:42 AM

    Peter Barry is Professor of English at Aberystwyth University. He has taught at every level of education, from primary school to university. He studied at King’s College, London, and at London University’s Institute of United States Studies. His books include Contemporary British Poetry and the City (2000), Beginning Theory (1995, 2002, 2009), English in Practice (2003), Poetry Wars: British Poetry of the 1970s and the Battle of Earls Court (2006), and Literature in Contexts (2007).

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