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Fire at Murdering Hut and The Cedars

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1. Fire at Murdering Hut: Wright was remarkable for being an uncompromising environmentalist and social activist campaigning for Aboriginal land rights. She believed that the poet should be concerned with national and social problems. She died at the age of ______?

A:) 75

B:) 85

C:) 65

D:) 77

springline- Correct option: B:) 85


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2. Fire at Murdering Hut: The dead body is lying under the earth in a very safe manner. It does not bother about wild sun or fire of which people are afraid. The dead body lies under the ground. The dead body wishes not to be awakened by _______?

A:) the rain

B:) the fire

C:) the storm

D:) the hail

springline- Correct option: A:) the rain


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3. Fire at Murdering Hut: The dead body lies alone there for a long time and lies in the drought and rain until the bush fire touches the grave. It is just like a snake hidden under the house. Here the Snake is compared to the_______?

A:) house

B:) grave

C:) dead person

D:) stone

springline- Correct option: C:) dead person


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4. Fire at Murdering Hut: This poem Fire at Murdering Hut contains three subtitles. They are: The Grave, The Fire and the Stone. It is about the dead body of a person who had been killed and buried. The dead body lies alone there for a long time in the drought and rain until the bush fire touches _______?

A:) lady heart

B:) bone

C:) the stone

D:) the grave

springline- Correct option: D:) the grave


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5. Fire at Murdering Hut: It is about the dead body of a person who had been killed and buried. The dead body lies alone there for a long time in the drought and rain until the bush fire touches the grave it is just like a snake hidden under the house. The dead person is compared to a _______?

A:) red rose

B:) eagle

C:) red bird

D:) white rose

springline- Correct option: C:) red bird


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6. Fire at Murdering Hut: The Grave is sleeping under the hut hiding and breathing amidst the bushes like a snake it says 'Oh man! Do not take me out of here like a storm who will destroy all my wishes. It has been living there quietly for more than hundred years. The grave is lying alone and besides it, is found a rose tree, the mist as well as _______?

A:) a stone

B:) death

C:) white rose

D:) eagle

springline- Correct option: A:) a stone


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7. Fire at Murdering Hut: The red colour denotes the hot flames which have the power of destroying everything. This fire burns down all the white roses and greens found beside the grave and the stone. As the grave is dead already, it has no love or death. There is no flesh that can grow on the ______?

A:) empty grave

B:) empty desert

C:) empty heart

D:) empty bones

springline- Correct option: D:) empty bones


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8. Fire at Murdering Hut: The fire is proud to be more beautiful and dances on the grave like a lover's ghost. It says, 'look, I am beautiful, I dance on your grave like a lover's ghost. It spreads everywhere destroying every trace of beauty such as the roses that have bloomed, 'I whirl my blade till they fall into black dust.The rays are sharp and they circle round like blades to destroy a message of love in the heart of_______?

A:) fire

B:) death

C:) the stone

D:) the grave

springline- Correct option: D:) the grave


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9. Fire at Murdering Hut: The stone lies beneath the bone while the eater of death, that is the fire comes to spoil its peace. It feels very sorry and says, I will be so quietly there without any disturbance by the hot sun. The stone wishes to lie down like a ______?

A:) knife rod

B:) knife hat

C:) knife hit

D:) knife hut

springline- Correct option: B:) knife hat


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10. Fire at Murdering Hut: Australian myths and Legends, originally formed by a combination of aboriginal myths and immigrant's legends form an important feature in Judith Wright's works. The poem brings to light that nature should survive in peace too. Hence it is the responsibility of every citizen to preserve nature with love, care and _____?

A:) bold

B:) emotion

C:) sympathy

D:) sorrow

springline- Correct option: C:) sympathy


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11. Fire at Murdering Hut: The lady considers her man's visit as a stone that resembles her desire as: 'oh storm of my desire. She is upset to be alone for more than a century. Her only companions were the rose tree and the stone. She wants her lover to take her away soon because she is unable to suffer in Isolation, amidst the ______?

A:) frost and rain

B:) frost and heat

C:) rain and storm

D:) rain and fire

springline- Correct option: A:) frost and rain


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12. Fire at Murdering Hut: The lady love pleads the man to show pity and mercy on her and wake her up from his heart once again. The beloved's heart is burning like fire and she feels that neither love nor death can approach her as she is no more. This is expressed thus: 'neither love nor death come to the dead nor does flesh grow on the bared _____?

A:) body

B:) bone

C:) flesh

D:) skull

springline- Correct option: B:) bone


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13. Fire at Murdering Hut: The lover too is dead and the lady love dances like a ghost on his grave, in order to join with him at least after death and in death. The lady is frustrated due to her separation from her man and this inflicts terrible psychological as well as physical pain in her. She wishes to rest in peace without any disturbance from ______?

A:) nature

B:) people

C:) world

D:) humans

springline- Correct option: A:) nature


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14. Fire at Murdering Hut: The poem clearly envisions the everlasting love of the lady. It portrays the effect of love which makes the human suffer even after centuries after death. It is a poem that is certainly metaphysical in nature. The man kills the woman with a knife and a century later, he and the knife rot. The author uses symbols such as the grave, the fire and the stone to represent ________?

A:) mankind and death

B:) death and agony

C:) nature and man

D:) death and mankind

springline- Correct option: B:) death and agony


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15. Judith Arundell Wright (31 May 1915 – 25 June 2000) was an Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights. She was a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award. She was a recipient of the Australian National Living Treasure Award in ________?

A:) 1995

B:) 1996

C:) 1997

D:) 1998

springline- Correct option: D:) 1998


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16. Wright's first book of poetry, The Moving Image, was published in 1946 while she was working at the University of Queensland as a research officer. Then, she had also worked with Clem Christesen on the literary magazine Meanjin, the first edition of which was published in late _______?

A:) 1947

B:) 1948

C:) 1949

D:) 1950

springline- Correct option: A:) 1947


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17. Judith Wright: In 1966, she published The Nature of Love, her first collection of short stories, through Sun Press, Melbourne. Set mainly in Queensland, they include 'The Ant-lion', 'The Vineyard Woman', 'Eighty Acres', 'The Dugong', 'The Weeping Fig' and 'The Nature of Love', all first published in The Bulletin. When Wright was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature?

A:) 1965

B:) 1966

C:) 1967

D:) 1968

springline- Correct option: C:) 1967


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18. Judith Wright: With David Fleay, Kathleen McArthur and Brian Clouston, Wright was a founding member and, from 1964 to 1976, President, of the Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland. She was the second Australian to receive the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, in 1991. She was involved in ______?

A:) the literary Union

B:) the university member

C:) the political Union

D:) the Poets Union

springline- Correct option: D:) the Poets Union


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19. Judith Wright: Her work is noted for a keen focus on the Australian environment, which began to gain prominence in Australian art in the years following World War II. She deals with the relationship between settlers, Indigenous Australians and the bush, among other themes. Wright's aesthetic centres on the relationship between mankind and _____?

A:) humanity

B:) atmosphere

C:) nature

D:) environment

springline- Correct option: D:) environment


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20. Judith Wright: Along with Brendan Kennelly, she is the most featured poet in The Green Book of Poetry, a large Ecopoetry anthology by Ivo Mosley (Frontier Publishing 1993), which was published by Harper San Francisco in 1996 as Earth Poems: Poems from Around the World to Honor the Earth. Her poems have been translated into several languages, including Italian, Japanese and _____?

A:) Canadian

B:) England

C:) Americans

D:) Russian

springline- Correct option: D:) Russian


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21. The Cedars a kind of large evergreen tree that produces a sweet smelling red wood, used to make furniture's. Cedar spreading evergreen conifer and its hard fragrant wood. Which returner knocks at the iron gates?

A:) Autumn

B:) Winter

C:) Spring

D:) Snow

springline- Correct option: C:) Spring


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22. The Cedars : The dried body of winter is hard to kill. Frost crumbles the dead bracken, greys the old grass, (frost: a frozen dew or vapour.) and the great hemisphere of air goes flying barren and cold from desert or polar seas, tattering fern and _______

A:) leaf

B:) bird

C:) tree

D:) nest

springline- Correct option: A:) leaf


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23. Judith Wright: In 2003, the National Library of Australia published an expanded edition of Wright's collection titled Birds. Most of these poems were written in the 1950s when she was living on Tamborine Mountain in southeast ______?

A:) Melbourn

B:) Sydney

C:) Queensland

D:) Hobart

springline- Correct option: C:) Queensland


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24. Judith Wright: Who goes on to say that 'many of these poems have a newly relaxed, almost conversational tone and rhythm, an often humorous ease and an intimacy of voice that surely reflects the new intimacies and joys of her life?

A:) Thea Astley

B:) Kim Scott

C:) Joseph Furphy

D:) McKinney

springline- Correct option: D:) McKinney


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25. Wright was also an impassioned advocate for the Aboriginal land rights movement. Who, reviewing With Love and Fury, her posthumous collection of selected letters published in 2007, comments that her letter on this topic to the Australian Prime Minister John Howard was 'almost brutal in its scorn?

A:) Helen Garner

B:) Alexis Wright

C:) Tom Shapcott

D:) Jane Harper

springline- Correct option: C:) Tom Shapcott


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26. The Judith Wright Award was awarded as part of the ACT Poetry Award by the ACT Government between 2005 and 2011, for a published book of poems by an Australian poet. The Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets , was established in 2007 by the magazine of____?

A:) Overland

B:) Dolly

C:) Network

D:) New Weekly

springline- Correct option: A:) Overland


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27. Judith Wright’s poems present an amazing variety with regard to their theme, treatment of various subjects, tonality and vision Judith wright was born in 1915 at New South Wales. Judith Wright is one of the most distinguished among the Australian poets. She is a prolific critic and short story writer who has published more than _____?

A:) 50 books

B:) 60 books

C:) 70 books

D:) 80 books

springline- Correct option: A:) 50 books


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28. Judith Wright was a respected woman poet of Australia. She was better known as Conservationist and a supporter of aboriginal rights. Her achievement in translating the Australian experience into poetry led in her best work to a rich inheritance of lyricism and directness. She began writing at the age of ______?

A:) Five

B:) six

C:) seven

D:) eight

springline- Correct option: B:) six


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29. Judith Wright was the founder and President of the Wild Life Preservation Society of Queensland and a member of National Parks Association of New South Wales. She was appointed as the first woman to the Council of Australian National University as the Governor General's nominee in _____?

A:) 1975

B:) 1976

C:) 1977

D:) 1978

springline- Correct option: A:) 1975


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30. Judith Wright she turned to protest and began promoting the reading and writing of poetry in schools, work on conservation and publicizing the plight of the aboriginal people. She was the second Australian to receive the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in _____?

A:) 1990

B:) 1991

C:) 1992

D:) 1994

springline- Correct option: B:) 1991