David Malouf
1. David Malouf’s novel Ransom is based on
1. a war memoir by Edmund Blunden
2. an episode in The Mahabharata
3. a war poem by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
4. an episode in the Trojan war
Answer: 4
2. Which of the following works by David Malouf tells the story of the Roman poet, Ovid, during his exile in Tomis ?
(1) Remembering Babylon
(2) The Great World
(3) The Conversations at Curlow Creek
(4) An Imaginary Life
Answer: 4
3. David Malouf’s An Imaginary Life is a retelling of the story of :
(A) Aristotle
(B) Juvenal
(C) Ovid
(D) Horace
Answer: C
Patrick White
1. Which of the following novels is written by Patrick White?
1) Cry, the Beloved Country
2) The Vivisector
3) The Handmaid’s Tale
4) The Stone Angel
Answer: 2
2. Patrick White’s classic work Voss is based on the story of a …………… explorer.
(1) Flemish
(2) Australian
(3) German
(4) Spanish
Answer: 3
3. Patrick White’s Voss is a novel about
(A) the sea
(B) the capital market
(C) the landscape
(D) the judicial system
Answer: C
4. Patrick White published two novels in the 1950s giving the eras of pioneering and exploration in Australian history an epic, ironic and psychological dimension. The novels are:
(a) A Fringe of Leaves
(b) The Tree of Man
(c) Voss
(d) The Aunt’s Story
The right combination according to the code is:
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (b) and (c)
(3) (c) and (a)
(4) (c) and (d)
Answer: 2
5. Which novel by Patrick White is based on the story of Ludwig Leichhardt, the Prussian naturalist who explored Australia in the mid-1840s, in which White’s fictional hero says when asked about navigation – “The Map? I will first make it” ?
(1) The Tree of Man
(2) Voss
(3) Riders in the Chariot
(4) The Solid Mandala
Answer: 2
6. Identify the First novel written by Patrick White :
(1) The Living and the Dead
(2) The Tree of Man
(3) Happy Valley
(4) The Aunt’s Story
Answer: 3
7. Which of the following novels is not by Patrick White ?
(A) The Vivisector
(B) The Tree of Man
(C) Voss
(D) Oscar and Lucienda
Answer: D
8. Which of the following statements is not true of Patrick White?
(A) He is remembered today for his epic and psychological narrative art.
(B) He is the only Australian to receive the Nobel Prize in literature.
(C) He pioneered a new fictional landscape and introduced a new continent in literature.
(D) His style is noted for lucidity and simplicity.
Answers: (B OR D)
Peter Carey
1. In the novel Jack Maggs (1997), Peter Carey rewrites the story of the Dickensian character ___ 1. Fagin
2.Daniel Quilp
3. Mr. Barkis
4. Abel Magwitch
Answer:
Judith Wright
1. Australian aborigines receive a sympathetic treatment in :
(A) Les Murray
(B) Gwen Harwood
(C) Judith Wright
(D) A.D. Hope
Answer: C
2. Who of the following poets is Australian?
(A) Austin Clarke
(B) Judith Wright
(C) Edwin Muir
(D) Derek Walcott
Answer: (B)
3. This Australian poet was raised in New South Wales and grew up in rural Australian landscape. In 1946 she published her rst book of poems. In 1962, she became cofounder and president of the Wild Life Preservation Society of Queensland and served as its president several times thereafter. Identify the poet.
(1) Dorothy Hewett
(2) Nettie Palmer
(3) Judith Wright
(4) Amy Witting
Answer: 3
4. In which poem does Judith Wright lament the erasure of native culture in the following lines ?
“The song is gone; the dance
Is secret with the dancers in the earth,
The ritual useless, and the tribal story
Lost in an alien tale”.
(1) “The Five Senses”
(2) “Legend”
(3) “Bullocky”
(4) “Bora Ring”
Answer: 4
5. Judith Wright’s works reveal the following features except one. Which one?
(A) A keen focus on the Australian environment
(B) Concern for the relationship between the settlers, indigenous Australians and the bush.
(C) A correspondence between inner existence and objective reality.
(D) An obsession with religious and political issues.
Answer: (D)
6. Which two of the following poems are by Judith Wright?
A. “Meditation on a Bone”
B. “Imperial Adam”
C. “Woman to Man”
D. “The Old Prison”
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
- A and B only
- A and C only
- B and D only
- D- C and D only
Answer: (D)