1. Australia: This poem is written in an ABBA rhyme scheme, which adds a gentle, easy-going flow to the poem. The poet describes Australia as being a ‘Nation of trees, drab green and desolate grey’ that ‘Darkens her hills He sees Australia as a country that is bleak and almost colorless, as everything seems colorless and dull. This very much resembles the field uniform of _______?
A:) Cold wars
B:) Modern wars
C:) Civil wars
D:) Revolution wars
springline- Correct option: B:) Modern wars
2. Australia: The poet likens the country to being like a ‘Sphinx’ where those endless, outstretched paws of Sphinx demolished or stone lion worn away.’ The sphinx was a figure from Egyptian myths, where it possessed the body of a lion, and the head of a mart, ram or _______?
A:) hawk
B:) crow
C:) pigeon
D:) Max
springline- Correct option: A:) hawk
3. Australia: Appearance aside, the Sphinx was always seen as a creature of great wisdom, and this comparison could be directly related to the author's vision of Australia. In this case, Australia's reach and realm of intelligence and power have now been _____?
A:) disabled
B:) hamstrung
C:) worn away
D:) tormented
springline- Correct option: C:) worn away
4. Australia: A woman beyond her change of life, a breast still tender but within the womb is dry.’ These series of lines could convey the message that Australia may be considered young by the world's standards, yet it is the emptiest land. Its superficial image may be one comparable to a woman still fresh and _______?
A:) worn
B:) alert
C:) lame
D:) pure
springline- Correct option: B:) alert
5. Australia to him is devoid of culture, which is ‘without songs, architecture, history where the ‘rivers of water drown among inland sands, the river of her immense stupidity. The ‘her’ he is referring to in this stanza is Australia. He sees Australia as being a country that has neither historical background nor culture to speak off. Yet, he believes that it has the capabilities to do so, however, the ideas are drowned among _______?
A:) Island
B:) Island hills
C:) inland sands
D:) inland hills
springline- Correct option: C:) inland sands
6. Australia is next portrayed as a country that is nothing at all. where there are ‘monotonous tribes from Cairns to Perth’ and the five main cities, compared to ‘five teeming sores.’ The people who come to live in Australia boast not of ‘living’ but rather boast of merely ‘surviving. The author is trying to put forth a point here that people who move here are rather unwelcome, and that they are ‘second hand Europeans who give birth rapidly on these _________?
A:) strange shores
B:) adoptive shores
C:) alien shores
D:) Own shores
springline- Correct option: C:) alien shores
7. Australia: He sees these people as people of ‘drain’ Australia, a ‘vast parasite robber-state. This could be tied in to Australia's history, where it was then Great Britain's style of Exile Island, where dangerous criminals were sent there in exile instead of being sent to prison. In this case, the author is trying to convey that these newcomers are like __________?
A:) giant leeches
B:) giant worm
C:) giant sparrow
D:) giant bird
springline- Correct option: A:) giant leeches
8. Australia: Generally the literature of a country reflects its physical features and the cultural heritage of its people. Australia is a new country in the sense that it came into contact with the civilized world only a couple of centuries ago Captain Cook took possession of the island for the British crown and the first settlement was made the year _______?
A:) 1785
B:) 1786
C:) 1787
D:) 1788
springline- Correct option: D:) 1788
9. Australia: The aborigines, the native dwellers, who were in earlier stages of civilization, could not offer any resistance to the newcomer. The fertility of the land and the prospect of making money attracted more people from the other walks of life and the settlement acquired a multinational character. Most of the settlers were criminals who were expelled for life from _______?
A:) America
B:) England
C:) Canada
D:) New Zealand
springline- Correct option: B:) England
10. Australia: The landscape of the island has its special features. It has a large area of land which is dry and dull and not fit for human inhabitation. The plants of the wild forests are dominated by gum trees appearing in indistinct shapes as a result of fierce winds. There are mountains which bring out a sense of ______?
A:) sweet
B:) Glorious
C:) Gloom
D:) Shine
springline- Correct option: C:) Gloom
11. Australia: The plants of the wild forests are dominated by gum trees appearing in indistinct shapes as a result of fierce winds. The wild barren land is called the bush which has an important part in the life of the ______?
A:) islanders
B:) Aboriginals
C:) Australians
D:) Civilized People
springline- Correct option: A:) islanders
12. Australia: The main colour of the landscape is a lifeless grey. The strangest thing is the path of the rivers in this island. They take a reverse direction from the sea to the land. They flow to the interior and dry up in the sand instead of fertilizing it. On account of the nature of its poor conditions, the island may be termed as fantastic land of _________?
A:) dark
B:) horror
C:) scared
D:) shine
springline- Correct option: B:) horror
13. Australia: The early settlers found life hard in the island. They had little time for artistic creation. But the urge to sing is inborn in man and the adventures of the strange land encouraged some people to share their thoughts in poetry mainly in the _______?
A:) folk form
B:) narrative form
C:) ballad form
D:) lyrical form
springline- Correct option: C:) ballad form
14. Australia: There are seven stanzas in this poem. The first five portray a dismal picture of Australia. They carry a list of what the nation lacks ‘She is without songs, architecture and history, the emotion and superstitions of younger lands’. The last two stanzas strike a rebellious note to what is presented in the previous stanzas. The waste-the desert land-still holds the ray of hope from the ‘chatter of cultured apes’ symbolizing______?
A:) European civilization
B:) American civilization
C:) Australian civilization
D:) Canadian civilization
springline- Correct option: A:) European civilization
15. Australia has no welcoming features. She is a nation of trees, drab green and dull grey. She appears as if she were in the uniform of wars. The landscape is not very pleasing. Its main colour is just grey and the hills too do not give a good impression. The hills look like a lion stretching its paws and is ________?
A:) worn away
B:) worn in
C:) worn out
D:) worn got
springline- Correct option: C:) worn out
16. Australia can boast of no history, and is proud of no tradition. Because she has no history of her own, no tradition of great literature or architecture, there is no art. She has no songs to sing of her, no monuments to evoke her emotions and no legends to betray her superstitions. The rivers of Australia are quite odd. They flow in the reverse direction from sea to land instead of making the sand fertile, Hence they are called the ________?
A:) rivers of foolish
B:) river of witty
C:) rivers of idiotic
D:) rivers of stupidity
springline- Correct option: D:) rivers of stupidity
17. Australia: The original inhabitants are the tribes there. They do not live. They just survive. The foreign settlers who are convicts deported for life from England. The police in charge of the British administration as well as the gold hunters live like parasites in the five major cities of Australia. The cities are like ________?
A:) healed sores
B:) death sores
C:) unhealed sores
D:) dry sores
springline- Correct option: C:) unhealed sores
18. Australia: He is contented to find his home in the Arabian Desert of the human mind’ which is a movement towards the past as an escape from the constraints of an over- modern civilization The Arabian desert of human mind refers to Moses receiving Ten Commandments from god in _______?
A:) St. Ares
B:) Mt. Sinai
C:) Poseidon
D:) Demeter
springline- Correct option: B:) Mt. Sinai
19. Australia: From the dry land and the mountains one may get a valuable thought which may not originate in a society which imitating a meaningless civilization. That is an animal civilization A.D. Hope is sure that ,Who can emerge from a desert to make the land civilized and wise as well as to guide him ?
A:) a prophet
B:) god
C:) Moses
D:) educated man
springline- Correct option: A:) a prophet
20. Australia is a nation of trees where the hills are covered with them of various colours. The drab green and grey are compared to the uniform of soldiers of modern wars. These endless hills resemble the outstretched paws of the Sphinx which are the legendary figures of Egypt with the head of the man and the body of the lion. From another angle , Which look like a big paws of a stone lion?
A:) the hills
B:) the mountains
C:) the lake
D:) the river
springline- Correct option: B:) the mountains
21. Australia: In the manner, a poet comments the inner sources of Australia running dry even though her outward features may look young Australia feels inadequate due to her lack of old songs, or architecture; in short without any history. She shares with the younger nations the emotions and superstitions of a new born country. The poet compares the rivers of water and the metaphorical rivers of ignorance among the ____?
A:) fairy tales
B:) myth
C:) fanatic
D:) old-folks
springline- Correct option: D:) old-folks
22. Australia: Hence there is a concentration of population in the cities resulting in uneven growth. A.D. Hope compares the cities of the ugly warts (moles) on a man's body which drains his energy. The significant feature of Australian life is that majority of the population lives in the five major cities such as: Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Canberra and _________?
A:) Gold Coast
B:) Hobart
C:) Adelaide
D:) Darwin
springline- Correct option: C:) Adelaide
23. Australia: The author hopes to find a prophet from the arid deserts of Australia, reminding us of Prophet Moses, Mohammed and others who had hailed from deserts in human history. Despite Australia being a wasteland, it blossoms the flower of scarlet, which cannot be found in green hills. These are the flowers of thought. In the desert land springs a spirit, which escapes the_____?
A:) learned people
B:) classic people
C:) civilized people
D:) modern people
springline- Correct option: A:) learned people
24. Australia: Towards the end of the poem, the author speaks in a tone of controlled anger Yet he tries an optimistic note when he expresses his hope of the arrival of a Messiah. This poem may be applied not merely to the Australian situation, but quite suitably any contemporary white colonial situation other countries like Canada and________?
A:) England
B:) New Zealand
C:) Europe
D:) America
springline- Correct option: B:) New Zealand
25. Alec Derwent Hope (21 July 1907 – 13 July 2000) was an Australian poet and essayist known for his satirical slant. He was also a critic, teacher and academic. He was referred to in an American journal as ‘the 20th century's greatest 18th-century poet’. He was educated partly at home and in Tasmania, where they moved in 1911. Three years later they moved to ____?
A:) Canada
B:) America
C:) Sydney
D:) Paris
springline- Correct option: C:) Sydney
26. A.D. Hope: Although he was published as a poet while still young, The Wandering Islands (1955) was his first collection and all that remained of his early work after most of his manuscripts were destroyed in a fire. His frequent allusions to sexuality in his work caused Douglas Stewart to dub him ‘Phallic Alec’ in a letter to________?
A:) Patrick White
B:) Christina Stead
C:) Matthew Reilly
D:) Norman Lindsay
springline- Correct option: D:) Norman Lindsay
27. A.D. Hope : His influences were Pope and the Augustan poets, Auden, and Yeats. He was a polymath, very largely self-taught, and with a talent for offending his countrymen. He wrote a book of ‘answers’ to other poems, including one in response to the poem of Andrew Marvell’s ______?
A:) Dover Beach
B:) The Scholar Gipsy
C:) To His Coy Mistress
D:) Thyrsis
springline- Correct option: C:) To His Coy Mistress
28. A.D. Hope: The reviews he wrote in the 1940s and '50s were feared ‘for their acidity and intelligence. If his reviews hurt some writers – Patrick White included – they also sharply raised the standard of literary discussion in Australia.’ However, Hope relaxed in later years. Who writes, ‘The man I knew, from 1973 to 2000, was invariably gracious and benevolent?
A:) Kevin Hart
B:) Miles Franklin
C:) Tim Winton
D:) Helen Garner
springline- Correct option: A:) Kevin Hart
29. Hope wrote in a letter to the poet and academic Catherine Cole: ‘Now I feel I've reached the pinnacle of achievement when you equate me with one of Yeats's 'wild, wicked old men'. I'm probably remarkably wicked but not very wild, I fear too much ingrained Presbyterian caution’. Cole suggests that Hope represented the three attributes that Vladimir Nabokov believed essential in a writer, ‘storyteller, teacher,_____?
A:) priest
B:) enchanter
C:) philosopher
D:) satirist
springline- Correct option: B:) enchanter
30. Kevin Hart, reviewing Catherine Cole's memoir of Hope, writes that ‘When A. D. Hope died in 2000 at the age of 93, Australia lost its greatest living poet’. Hart goes on to say that when once asked what poets could do for Australia, Hope replied ‘oh not much, merely justify its existence’. When a celebration of his life and works, The Scythe Honed Fine, was published by the National Library of Australia ?
A:) 1995
B:) 1985
C:) 1987
D:) 1988
springline- Correct option: D:) 1988