Sunday, February 12, 2017

19th Century British Literature – MCQ - I CIA



Semester – II 19th Century British Literature – I CIA
From Unit II
Keats                          -      “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
Byron                  -      “The Prisoner of Chillon” (Lines 1 – 109, 300 – 392)
From Unit III
Tennyson                  -           “Ulysses”

"Ode on a Grecian Urn"
1. What does the speaker refer the urn to?
a.  “An unravished bride of quietness” b.    “bold lover”  c. “leaf-fring’ d legend” d.  “sweet pipes”
2. Why does Keats address the urn as a “cold pastoral”?
 a.   Lifeless b.  very old     c. Full of green plants                  d. No one can touch it.
3.    Where is Tempe?
a.   Greece                b.  India           c.USA          d. England
4. What is Arcady?
 a.   A haunt of Pan   b.   A place of love c.       A haunt of Buddha d.        A place for sinners
5. What is a citadel?
  a.   A Fort    b.   A sacrificial cow            c. A sacrificial lamb         d. A city by the riverside
6. Which one will remain “in midst other owe”?
   a.   Urn         b.        poem                         c.         West wind    d. passion
7. What is “Attic shape”?
a.   A genuine relic from Greece          b.    Top floor in a house    c. Fit  d. A fine shape
8. Why does Keats consider Urn as a “foster child of Silence and slow time”.
a. preserved like its mother  b. heated by others c. Loves foster mothers d. Loves foster children
9. Whose  “Fair attitude” is referred to by Keats ?
a. viewed by others  b. trees c. Urn d. Lady love
10. Whom does Keats address as “Cold pastoral”?
a. Urn b. pastoral land c. cold breeze d. plants
11. What animal is sacrificed in “Ode on a Grecian Urn”?
a. Calf b. dog c. lamb d. pig
12. Who will not “fade” in “Ode on a Grecian Urn”?
a. Lady love b. trees c. branches d. flowers
13. Who is the “unwearied” person in “Ode on a Grecian Urn”?
a. Happy melodist b.mob c. bold lover d. lady love
14. When will a person get “parching tongue”?
a. High fever b. studies a lot c. sleeps a lot d. dead
15. Whose “silken flanks” are dressed with garlands?
a. Calf           b.  lady love c. urn d. bull
16. Who can never say “adieu” to Spring?
a. Tees on the urn b. singer on the urn c. lovers on the urn d. Keats
17. Which is “Forever warm and still to be enjoyed”?
a. Love d. song c. trees d. melody


"Ulysses"
101. “Ulysses” is written in the form of _____________
a. dramatic monologue b. Haiku c. sonnet d. ode
102. “Ulysses” deals with the desire to reach beyond the limits of one’s field of ______
a. war b. vision c. life d. dream
103. Who is Penelope?
a. Wife of Ulysses b. wife of Hallam c. d. An admirer of Ulysses A stock character  in “ The Perils of Pauline”.
104. Who is Telemachus?
a. Son of Ulysses b. son of Arthur Hallam c. king of Ithaca d. enemy of Ulysses        
105. Ulysses was the king of _________
a. Ithaca b. Rome c. Oshakkaekya d. Brobdingnag
106. Who is referred to here: “by slow prudence”  and “through soft degrees”?
a. Telemachus b. King Solomon c. Penelope d. Ulysses
107.  Who says this: “a part of all that I have met”?
a. Ulysses b. Telemachus c. Penelope d. Synge
108. Ulysses thinks ________ will be an adequate king.
a. Telemachus b. Diego Costa c. Alexandros d. Penelope
109. Who is “Matched with an aged wife”?
a. Ulysses b. Tagore c. Telemachus d. Tennyson
110Tennyson’s conception of the hero Ulysses is closer to________
a. Dante’s The Inferno b. Shakespeare’s Coriolanus c. Seneca’s Phaedra d. Seneca’s Oedipus
111. Who was the closest and dearest friend of Tennyson?
a. Arthur Henry Hallam b. Henry Vaughan c. Arthur  Miller d. Clifford Hallam
112. How does Ulysses feel about his homeland?
a. He finds the people savage and his wife old
b. He does not want Telemachus to rule
c. He wants to stay there forever
d. He is happy about his people.
113. Ulysses feels annoyed with _______
a. His people b. His wife c.His son d. With himself
114.  “All times I have enjoyed greatly, have suffered greatly..”This quote is an example of ________
a. Parallel syntax b. Imagery c. Tone d. symbol
115. What is a prominent subtext of the poem?
a. Greek Gods b. Jesus Christ c. Peter d. John
116. The poetic form of the dramatic monologue is characterized by which of the following?
a. A single speaker b. Allusions to classical mythology c. A character from classical Drama d. Dynamic action worthy of the stage
117. Which university did Tennyson attend as an undergraduate?
a. Cambridge b. Oxford c. Harvard d. Trinity


“The Prisoner of Chillon”  Byron
185. The prisoner is locked up in the _______
a. Castle of Chillon           b. Castle of Otranto           c. Bedford castle  d. Carisbrooke  Castle
186.  _______is a famous work by Byron.
      a. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage b. Lyrical Ballads  c. In Memoriam d. Biographia  Literaria       
187.  The character of the prisoner was inspired by ________
       a. Francois Bonivard b. John Bunyan c. Nelson Mandela d. St.Paul
188. The castle is built in _______ style.
       a. Gothic b. English c. French d. Victorian
189. There --------- are pillars in the dungeon.
       a. 7 b.5 c. 8 d. 4
190. The prisoner is the__________son in the family
     a) eldest b) elder c) youger d) youngest
191. The youngest brother is like a________
      a) bird b)  deer  c) lion d) snake
192. The middle brother is a skilled______
       a) hunter b) siger c)dancer d) foot ball player
193. The family is imprisoned because of__________
        a) standing firm in their faith b)murder c) blasphemy d) theft
194. How did the father die?
       a) at the stake b) due to sickness c) at the battle d) in hunting
195. The central idea of The Prisoner of Chillon is_________
       a) freedom b) battle c) religion d) love
196. Lord Byron was a good friend of__________
        a) Shelley b) Wordsworth c) Coleridge d) Tennyson
197. _______lies near the walls of Chillon.
         a) Lake Leman b) Rhine c) Nile d) Thames
198. Who visits the prisoner in the dungeon?
         a) A mice b) A relative c) A friend d) A soldier
199. The dungeon has become a____ to the prisoner.
        a) hermitage b) home c) temple d) palace
200. The Castle of Chillon is located in
        a) Switzerland b) France c) Ireland d) Africa
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Saturday, February 11, 2017

NEW LITERATURES MCQ Question Bank for Unit 1

Semester – VI
Core XII - NEW LITERATURES
UNIT I
A.D. Hope                              :           Australia
Charles Harpur                      :           An Aboriginal Mother’s Lament 
F.R. Scott                               :           Canadian Authors Meet
Oodgeroo Noonuccal             :           No More Boomerang

UNIT I
            A.D. Hope                               :           Australia
1. A ________ is a mythical creature with the body of a lion and the head of a human.
a) sphinx b) Maximinus c) mummy d) Pluto
2. How does Hope call the major cities of Australia?
 a) teeming sores b) teeming life c) teeming growth d) teeming blood
3. Where is Cairns?
a) Australia b) South Africa  c)Canada  d) New Zealand
4. Australians boast that they ______ in Australia.
a) survive b) live c) die d) sing
5. Why does Hope call Australians a “second-hand Europeans”?
a) Most of them are convicts b) Most of them buy second-hand goods c) Most of them are not from Britain d) Most of them hate Britain
6. Why do the Australians “pullulate timidly on the edge of alien shores”?
a) Not happy with the country b) The land is fertile there c) Other places are fallow d) Timid survival permitted
7. What does Hope mean by “pullulate”?
a) crowded b)population  c)live timidly d)pull from all sides
8. Who are the “cultured apes” according to A.D. Hope?
a) Europeans b) Americans c) Indians d) Australians
9.“From the deserts the prophets come”. What is the reference?
a) The Bible b) Desert Digest c) The New Testament d) The Zend-Avesta
10. Which country is referred to as a barren land by Hope?
a) Australia b) America c) India d) Canada
11. ___ is “the last of lands”.
a) Australia b) America c) India d) Canada
12. Hope describes the Austrian people describes as_____
a) “monotonous tribes” b) “marvellous tribes” c) “fabulous tribes”  d) “spectacular tribes”
13. Hope ironically calls the Australians as _______
a) “ultimate men” b) “uncritical men”  c) “gullible men”   d) “naive men” 

Charles Harpur                       :           An Aboriginal Mother’s Lament 
14. Thomahawk is a type of ________ used by the natives of Australia.
a) axe b) spear  c) drum d) boat
15. Who is merciless in “An Aboriginal Mother’s Lament”?
a) The white man b) The black man c) The red Indian d) The natives of Australia
16_______ is a gift from her husband.
a) Braid b) Baby c) Thomahawk d) A palm full of water
17 What is smouldering?
a) To burn slowly with smoke b) To quench with water c) To satiate with smoke d) To slake with water
18 “I’ll bear thee on as I have borne / With____ steps”
 a) stealthy b) public  c) free d) unrestricted
19 Which is covered by darkness in “An Aboriginal Mother’s Lament”?
a) The forest b) The village c) The clan d) The plant
20 The mother is willing to barter the braid to save her child by getting him a ______
a) palmful of water b) beautiful toy c) handful of rice d) piece of fried chicken
21. Who mimics the sound of the father?
a) The mountain b) His son c)His wife d) His friends
22. Why is the “hunting call” missing from the mountains?
a) The hunter is killed b) The hunter is not there c) The hunter follows ahimsa d) The hunter is mute
23. “An Aboriginal Mother’s Lament” is written as ______.
a) a Dramatic Monologue b) a Fable c) an Allegory d)an  Imagery
24. What is the refrain of “An Aboriginal Mother’s Lament”?
 a) O moan not! b) O sob not! c) O fear not! d) O whine not!
25. What is moaning?
a) Expression of suffering b) Expression of happiness c) Feeling for the dead d) To mourn for dead the people
26. _______is a type of poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener.
a) Dramatic monologue b) Fable c) Allegory d)Imagery

F.R. Scott                                :           Canadian Authors Meet
27. The____ are the goddesses of music, song and dance, and the source of inspiration to poets.
a) Muses b) Cogitates c) Ares d) Athena
28. A _____ is a note played for one quarter of the duration of a whole note.
a) crotchet b) clef c) minim d) semibreve
29. “Shall we gather at the river” is a _______.
a) Christian hymn  b) River song c) nursery rhyme d) Canadian National Anthem
 30. The ______ is the national symbol of Canada.
a) maple leaf b) neem leaf c) green leaf d) apple leaf
31. The Canadian authors meet beneath a portrait of the_____
a) Prince of Wales b) Frederick Schwartz c) Donald Trump d) Justin Pierre James Trudeau
32. Who are considered “Virgins of sixty” by Francis Reginald Scott?
a) Writers b) Workers c) Elderly people  d)Experienced women
33. Whose quality is measured by “their faith and philanthropies”?
a) Writers from Canada b) Writers from Australia c) Writers from Africa d) Writers from New Zealand 
34. The writers’ worth is measured by their _____
a) zeal for God and King b) passion for writing c) zeal for vocabulary d)passion for rhymes  
35. “Shall we go round the mulberry bush” is a _____
a) nursery rhyme b) spiritual song c) nature song d) song on bush
36. Frederick George Scott is a poet from _____.
a) Canada b)Australia c)Africa d)New Zealand 
37. ________is spoken in the same breath as having another cup of tea.
a) The appointment of a Poet Laureate b) Preparing a cup of coffee c) Writing a poem d) Singing a song
38. Who is Bliss Carman?
a) A poet from Canada b) A lyricist from Canada c) A dramatist from Canada d) A politician from Canada

Oodgeroo Noonuccal              :           No More Boomerang
39. _____is an aboriginal club for corporal punishment.
a) Waddy b) Ab club c) Ab stick d) Bush stick
40. _______is a Mythical monster inhabiting the Australian rivers.
a) Bunyip b) Kappa c) Charon d) Fosse grim
41. What is a wallaby?
a) A type of kangaroo  b) A type of wall c) A type of baby d) A type of bird
41. ______changed her name to Oodgeroo Noonuccal.
a) Kath Walker b) Cassius Clay c) Christina Walker d) Catherine Clay
42. Why did Oodgeroo Noonuccal change her name?
a) To resume her traditional name. b) She does not like the name. c) She liked Australians. d) She disliked Australians.
43. What is a boomerang?
a) A curved throwing weapon b) A playing toy c) An action taken d) A long stick
44. What is “corroboree”?
a) The Aboriginal singing and dancing b) A type of kangaroo  c) An aboriginal club d) A Mythical monster
45. In Australia, movies have replaced_____
a) corroboree b) waddy c) boomerang d) Bunyip
46. The indigenous people have lost the boomerang and the spear and gained _______.
a) the bar and beer. b) the money c) the bob d) the dog collars
47. _____is a slang term for a unit of currency in Australia.
a) Bob b) Wampum c) Ducats d) Bucks
48. _____is a basic aboriginal shelter made of bark and sticks.
a) Gunya b) Shed c) Villa d)Hut
49. ______is a throwing stick used to launch a spear.
a) The woomera b) The boomerang c) The corroboree d) The message-stick
50. ______is a form of communication traditionally used by Indigenous Australians.
a) A message-stick b) A boomerang c) A corroboree d) A woomera




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Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Ecocriticism Quiz Bank for my portion - CIA 1 and CIA 2

Quiz Bank on Ecocriticism for my portion
Unit I
Introduction to Eco- Literature: “Ecocriticism” (from Peter Barry’s Beginning Theory)
Unit III
Nirmal Selvamony: “Oikopoetics”
Unit IV
F.G. Scott: “The Unnamed Lake”
Douglas A. Steward: “The Silkworms”
W.W.E. Ross: “The Snake Trying”
Unit I
Introduction to Eco- Literature: “Ecocriticism” (from Peter Barry’s Beginning Theory)
1. Who defined ecocriticism as “the study of the relationship between literature and the physical environment”?
a. Peter Barry b. Cheryll Glotfelty c. William Rueckert d. Bate
2. ISLE is the house journal of ______.
a. OSLE-India b. ASLE 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. Cheryl Glotfelty b. William Rueckert c. Nirmal Selvamony d. Michael P.Branch
6. Who are the three major nineteenth-century American poets who celebrate nature?
a. Maya Angelou, Rupert Brooke and Langston Hughes
b. Emerson, Fuller and Thoreau
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. Peter Barry b. Emerson c. Fuller d. Kate Soper
10. What is the UK version of ecocriticism?
a. Light Green Studies b. Dark Green Studies c. 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 Peter Barry. b. Cheryll Glotfelty c. Jonathan Bate d. William Rueckert
14. According to Peter Barry, there is a scope for study concerning _____and nature.
a. Environment b. Literature c. Culture 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
17. Who has penned the Christian hymn, “All things bright and beautiful”?
a. Reginald Heber b. Abraham Pandithar c. Jim Reeves d. C.F.Alexander
18.Who says that nature is nothing more than an anthropomorphic construct created by Wordsworth?
a. Kate Soper b. Fuller c. Peter Barry d. Alan Liu
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. parks b. forests. C. deserts D. hills
22. An example for Area four: “the domestic picturesque” is _____.
a. deserts b. forests. C. hills. D. parks 
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 wilderness b. the scenic sublime 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 scenic sublime b. the countryside 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. Peter Barry b. Cheryll Glotfelty c. Bate d. William Rueckert
30. _____ believe that they can save the planet by more responsible form of consumption and production.
a. Greens b. light 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. black Greens b. Greens c. dark Greens d. light Greens
34. _______ prefer the term “nature” to “environment”.
a. black Greens b. Greens c. dark 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. Pericles, Prince of Tyre b. Riders to the Sea c. The Winter’s Tale d. King Lear 
38. Who sees King Lear as archetypal family drama?
a. Trilling b. Frye c. Lacan d. Freud
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. symbiosis b. entropy c. negentropy d. mutualism
42. What is entropy?
a. Desirable energy b. Negative 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. apostrophe b. personification c. pathetic fallacy d. parasitism
46. According to Peter Barry, which poet has no “environmental anxieties”?
a. Jackson b. Usher c. Tennyson 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. Cheryl Glotfelty b. Scott Slovic c. Nirmal Selvamony d. William Rueckert
50. Who says that there is “no single, dominant world-view guiding ecocritical practice”?
a. William Rueckert b. Cheryl Glotfelty c. Nirmal Selvamony d. Scott Slovic

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

The Silkworms
19. The silkworm is the ______ of the domesticated silkmoth, Bombyx mori.
a. litter b. worm c. larva or caterpillar d. butterfly
20. The silkworms have _____distinct morphological stages
a. three b. four c. five d. two
21. After hatching from the egg, larvae go through _____molts.
a. four b. three c. five d. two
22. When the silkworms were young, they were like ______
a. little plants b. little angels c. little dragon d. little worms
23.  ______ 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
24. “_______says Don’t, and they do not”.
a. The ancestral voice b. God c. Owner d. Trainer
25. 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
           
“The Snake Trying”  by W.W.E.Ross
26. W.W.E.Ross was a Canadian ______and poet.
a. short story writer b. Novelist c. lover of nature d. Geophysicist d artist.
27. The persona in the poem, “The Snake Trying”, goes to _____to kill a snake.
a. playground b. cities c .class d. woods
28. The persona in the poem, “The Snake Trying”, carries ______ in his hands.
a. a stick b. a gun c. a sickle d. a bag.
29. 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
30. 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
31. The snake in the poem, “The Snake Trying”, is ______.
a. black in colour b. made of gold. c. beautiful and graceful  .c. violent
32. The snake is “trying to escape_______”
a. the pursuing stick b. the venomous snake c. the dangerous man d. the hunting mongoose 







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