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
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