Quiz Bank on
Ecocriticism
Neo-tinai Poetics / Tinai Poetics
31. Tinai is a _____________ word
a. Greek b. Latin c. Tamil d. Roman
32. A typical Tinai relation is a nexus in which the
________, the humans, natural and cultural phenomena stand in an integrated
relationship
a. animals b. sacred / super nature c. atmosphere d. ecosphere
33. The naturo-cultural elements of Tinai is __________
a. mutal b. uri c.
karu d. porul
34. Art, especially, poetry, is a variety of
communication/communion shaped by the Tinai of the _______ in question
a. politics b. nature c.
culture d. society
35. Historically speaking, ______ basic types of Tinai have
discernibly shaped all poetry.
a. three b. two c. five d. twelve
36. The first type of Tinai relation integrates the sacred
/ super nature, 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 ________ Tinai
relation 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 ____________ Tinai relation, 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 Tinai relation, the members stand in a hierarchic
relationship, with ______ at the bottom
a. Sacred / super
nature 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 __________ Tinai relation, power is channelled only
in a vertical direction
a. Integrative b. hierarchic c. anarchic d. all
45. In ___________ Tinai relation, the sacred / super
nature 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 relation, _______ was considered more auspicious,
productive and useful
a. wetland b. nature c.
dry land 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 ____________ Tinai relation, 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 Tinai
relation.
a. Fourth b. third c.
second d. first
The
Silkworms
23. The silkworm is the ______ of
the domesticated silkmoth, Bombyx mori.
a. litter b. worm c. larva
or caterpillar d. butterfly
24. The silkworms have _____distinct
morphological stages
a. three b. four c. five d. two
25. After hatching from the egg,
larvae go through _____molts.
a. four b. three c. five d. two
26. When the silkworms were young,
they were like ______
a. little plants b. little angels c.
little
dragon d.
little worms
27. ______ 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
28. “_______says Don’t, and they do
not”.
a. The ancestral voice
b. God c. Owner d. Trainer
29. 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
30. The Silkworms were rambling. Here, “rambling”
means _____.
a. the activity
of walking for pleasure. b.
suffering in a cage.
c. distressed in a box. d.
dancing on ramp.
“The Snake
Trying” by W.W.E.Ross
31.W.W.E.Ross was a Canadian ______and poet.
a. short story writer b. Novelist c. lover of nature d. Geophysicist d artist.
32. The persona in the poem, “The Snake Trying”, goes to
_____to kill a snake.
a. playground b. cities c .class d. woods
33. The persona in the poem, “The Snake Trying”, carries ______ in his hands.
a. a stick b. a
gun c. a sickle d. a bag.
34. 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
35. 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
36. The snake in the poem, “The Snake Trying”, is ______.
a . black in colour b. made of gold. c. beautiful and graceful .c.violent
