Monday, February 10, 2020

From my portion MCQs II MA ECOLITERATURE 2020 CIA 1


MCQs II MA ECOLITERATURE 2020 CIA 1

Unit I
Introduction to Eco-Literature:
“Ecocriticism” (from Peter Barry’s Beginning Theory)
Unit IV
F.G. Scott: “The Unnamed Lake”

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
17Who 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 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 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 IV
“Unnamed Lake”
16. ______ is a flowering plants distinguished by cylindrical stalks or hollow, stem like leaves.
a. Rush b. Grass c. Violet d. Aster
17. ______ are long-legged freshwater and coastal birds referred to by Frederick G. Scott.
a. Herons b. Vulture c. Kingfisher d. Herring
18. Frederick George Scott heard the “cry” of a _______.
a.. kingfisher b. fish-hawk c. wolf d. baby
19.______ brings out the beauty of an “untrodden” land.
a. F.R.Scott b. F.G.Scott c. Wordsworth d. Tagore
20. “It ______ among the thousand hills / Where no man ever trod”.
a. sleeps b. lives c. sees d. seeks
21. What is the name of the lake visited by Frederick George Scott?
a. Unnamed Lake b. Pykara Lake c. Lake Superior d. Dead Sea
22.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


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Friday, February 7, 2020

For my I MA Students Semester – II 19th Century British Literature – I CIA

Semester – II 19th Century British Literature – I CIA

Unit II: “Ode to West Wind” by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
“Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats          
“The Prisoner of Chillon” (Lines 1 – 109, 300 – 392) by Byron   
From Unit III “Ulysses” by Tennyson
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Unit IV: Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge


“Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats
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

Ode to West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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

“Ulysses” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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”  by 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) singer 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


Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
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