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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