II MA ECOLITERATURE 2023 CIA 1

 Semester IV - II MA ECOLITERATURE 2023 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. MELTA

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 its 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 a 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. C.F. Abraham 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 of Area two: “the scenic sublime” is ___.

a. forests b. deserts C. hills. D. parks

21. An example of Area three: “the countryside” is _____.

a. parks b. forests. C. deserts D. hills

22. An example of 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 through a 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 _________.

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 play is referred to by Ralph W. Black in his article on the 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 an 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 plant distinguished by cylindrical stalks or hollow, stem like leaves.

a. Rush b. Grass c. Violet d. Aster

17. ______ are the 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