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TEST 1
This question paper contains MCQs on three short poems from common wealth
literature each poem have 30 plus textual questions.
1.The poem A song of hope published in ........year
a.1960
b.1967
c 1950
d.1985
2.what is the other names of kath walker?
a oodgeroo Noonuccal
b.kathleen Ruska
c walker page
d.a and b
3.In which army the kath walker joined in ......and worked as a.......
a.Australian women's Army service, signaller,1942
b.Aboriginal women's Army service,signaller,1972
c.Abrigde women's Army service, signaller,1790
d.c is the answer
4.which award given by government to kath walker and return to them in anger?
a .The member of the order of the British empire
b.The member of the order of the British council
c.The member of the order of the British consultant
d.The member of the order of the British Army
5.she returned her award to the government in .......?
year
a.1986
b.1948
c.1988
d.1978
6.kath walker first volume of poetry collection called...........
a.They are Going
b.We are Going
c . Aboriginal are Going
d.people are Going
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7.In which year kath walker started Noonuccal-Nughie Education and cultural centre
in North strad broke Island
a 1972
b.1973
c 1974
d.1975
8.what is the central theme of the kath walker poem?
a hope for future
b free from discrimination and inequality
c.none of these
d.a and b
9.what is the poem phrase " dawn breaking " symbolizes?
a.emergence of a new era with hope and opportunities
b .early morning
c.sun rising
d.breaking of dawn
10.What is meant by the phrase" juster justice"?
a. Aboriginal people hope that there will be no discrimination or racism against
them in social or state
b. Aboriginal people hope that there will be discrimination or racism against
them in social or state
c. Aboriginal people doesn’t have hope that there will be no discrimination or
racism against them in social or state
d. none of these
11.what is meant by "No brood no more"?
a. don’t have to feel sad about what has happened to them.
b.feels happy and conentbon their generation
c.Aboriginal people will be die one day
d.hope for future
12.The dawn is breaking.
The world is waking.
To a new bright day
what is the promise or prophecy of the author in these lines?
a shame and disrespec
b. no more hopes for future
c.hate and hurt
d. The new era for Aboriginal.
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13.In this line"points the bone no longer"what does the poet try to convey ?
a. colonization and their disrespectful attitude
b. talking about skeleton of ancestor
c. Aboriginal witchcraft practices that were depicted as misery during
colonialism.
d.no longer to toil under the colonizers
14."In our new Dream Time" in this line whose dream does talked out by our author
kath walker?
a .Dream time is a way of living according to their ancestors.
b.way of living according to the colonizers
c.colonizers dreamz of living
d.b and c
15 what is the figure speech used in these poem lines “A Song of Hope” by kath
walker?
To our fathers’ fathers The pain, the sorrow;
To our children’s children The glad tomorrow.
a.metaphor
b.personification
c.simile
d.allegory
16."When none defame us, No restriction tame us, Nor colour shame us, Nor sneer
dismay"
what is the figure of speech used here?
a.allegory
b.a.metaphor
c.personification
d.simile
17. "New rights will greet us, New mateship meet us"
what is the figure of speech used here?
a.personification
b.simile
c Parallelism
d.oxymoron
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18.The hope,freedom and the fight of the indigenous people of Australia or commonly
called ..........
a.Aborigines.
b.poor people
c.immigirants
d.emmigrants
19.what is the tone and mood of the poem?
a.dishonour and disrespectful
b.hopeful and optimistic
c.poverty and starvation
d.none of these
20.How does the speaker encourage the people to move forward?
a.to work hard
b.to stop brooding over the past
c.to superstitious beliefs
d looking the present time
21.what is the term "Night's nearly over"?
a. death
b.equality
c freedom
d.sufferings
22.How does the poet describes the journey of indigenous people?
a.short and painful
b.long and arduous
c.medium and shameful
d.all of these
23.When a juster justice Grown wise and stronger what is the figure of speech used
here?
a.Parallelism
b.simile
c personification
d.alliteration
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24.who is the author first aboriginal australian to publish a book of verse?
a.kath walker
b.oodgeroo Noonuccal
c.kathleen Ruska
d. all of the above
25. who is kath walker?
a.political activist
b artist
c.educator
d.all the above
26.the dawn is breaking ,the world is .....
a .sleeping
b.walking
c.waking
d.alone
27.what is the first line of the poem A song of hope by kath walker?
a stand up
b.look up
c.see after
d.new era
28.when did kath walker died?
a.1997
b.1994
c.1995
d.1993
29.why did kath walker changed her name as oodgeroo Noonuccal?
a.because it's stylish in sense
b.to resume her traditional name
c.she doesn't like her name
d.she disliked australians
30.How many stanzas are there in a poem A song of hope?
a6
b7
c.5
d.3
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31. The poem A song of hope addresses the issue of ...........and .........
a.pain and sorrow
b.love and hatred
c.racism and discrimination
d.anger and shame
32.what shall guide us?
a.birds
b.stars
c.light
d.sun
33.To a new bright day,
When none ......us,
No restriction ....... us,
Nor colour .......us,
Nor sneer dismay.
fill the dashes with right answer
a.pain,sorrow,hatred
b.love,toil,work hard
c.defame,tame,shame
d.tame,defame,shame
34.How does the poet describes the current state of indigenous people ?
a.bound and frustrated
b.shame and hatred
c.restriction to live
d.none
35. who is waltzing matilda?
a.man travelling with a paper
b.man travelling with a swag
c.man travelling with a cover
d.man travelling with a rug
36.waltzing Matilda is a song developed in the Australian style of poetry and folk
music called ...........
a.folk song
b.ballad
c.fusion sing
d.bush ballad
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37.which is considered as an unofficial national anthem?
a. a song of hope
b.jana mana
c.waltzing Matilda
d.none of these
38.who composed the tune for the ballad waltzing matilda?
a.christina macpherson
b.thomas bulchs
c.craigielee
d.march
39.which is the first published setting of waltzing matilda ?
a.Harry Northens on 2nd February 1902
b.Harry williams on 20 dec 1902
c.Harry Nathans on 20 dec 1902
d Harry london on 7th oct 1902
40. which is A.B. Banjo paterson's work?
a.A song of hope
b.Telephone conversation
c.waltzing Matilda
d.Australia
41.when did waltzing Matilda got first published?
a.1902
b.1903
c1905
d.1907
42.Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong, what is billabong?
a . water hole
b pond
c lake
d.sea
43.waltzing Matilda is based on a historical event that happened in the 1800s where a
group of ............ went on a strike for better pay.
a.shearer
b.barbar
c.hair dresser
d .haircutter
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43.what is the rhyme scheme in this poem waltzing Matilda?
a. AABB
b. ABCB
c. ABBA
d. AABB
44.oh ! there once was a swagman camped in the billabong, under the shade of ......
tree. Under what type of tree did the swagman camped?
a peepal tree
b.banyan tree
c coolabah tree
d.coconut tree
45."who'll come a waltzing Matilda with me"
who'llcome a waltzing Matilda,my darling
who'll come a waltzing Matilda with me,"
what is the figure of speech used in these lines?
a .personification
b.simile
c refrain
d.oxymoron
46.And he sang as he looked at his old billy boiling? what is billy?
a.bucket
b.pot
c cup
d plate
47.In waltzing Matilda swagman grabbed a jumbuck that was watering at the
waterhole.what the heck is a "jumbuck''?
a.sheep
b kangaroo
c.cow
d.bird
48.How many policemen rode up and tired to arrest the swagman in the poem
waltzing Matilda?
a. 3
b. 4
c. 5
d. 7
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49. whose is that jumpbuck you've got in the tucker bag ? what was the policemen
asked the swagman in waltzing Matilda so whose was it?
a .matilda's
b.swagman
c . squatters
d.no one
50.In waltzing Matilda what happened after the swagman confronted by the
policemen?
a.He ran away
b.He gavehimself up
c He pulled out of gun and shot all the policemen
d He jumped into the waterhole and drowned
51.Banjo paterson began writing waltzing Matilda at Dagworth station near winton in
which Australian state?
a.victoria
b.Newsouth wales
c.Queensland
d.south Australia
52.who sang waltzing Matilda at the closing ceremony of 2000olympics games in
sydney?
a slim dusty
b.tex morton
c.drance
d.longwit
53.what is coolibah ?
a.eucalyptus tree
b.coconut tree
c.banyan tree
d .pine tree
54.The song is called waltzing Matilda .what does the Matilda refers to?
a.swagman's bag
b swagman's wife
c.swagman's son⁰
d.swagman's brother
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55.His good luck rapidly changesto bad as a squatters rides up mounted on his
thoroughbred. who is squatters here?
a.swagman
b.sheep
c.landowner
d.teapot
56.Was Waltzing Matilda the national anthem?
a. yes ,it is official national anthem
b .no,it's advanced Australian Fair
c. both waltzing Matilda and advanced Australian Fair are National anthem
d. none of these answers
57. what does the poem waltzing Matilda portrays indirectly?
a.the hardships of the Australia's Farms workers under squatters
b.tells about the happy swagman
c.about the wanderer with swag
d.tells about the death and spirit of swagman
58.Banjo written the ballad waltzing Matilda in which year?
a.1895
b.1875
c.1888
d.1897
59.where did the swagman jumped and killed himself?
a.billabong
b.dusty well
c.ocean
d.mountain
60."Whose is the jumbuck you’ve got in the tucker bag?
You’ll come a’waltzing Matilda with we.”
who said these lines to whom?
a swagman to squatters
b.swagman to policemen
c.police to swagman
d squatter to swagman
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70.And he sang as he looked at the old billy boiling, what is the figure of speech used
here?
a simile
b.personificatiom
c.metaphor
d alliteration
71.what was the plan of swagman about the jumbuck?
a .take to home
b .killed and eat it
c.plan to sell in market
d. send safely to the squatter
72.How does the poem waltzing Matilda ends story of swagman as
a. his ghost sings by the billabong as Who’ll come a’waltzing Matilda with
me.
b.his ghost scares the people by the billabong
c.he pretend to be death at waterhole and escaped
d.he was caught by policend sentenced to death
73.who was thefirst Black African to be awarded the noble prize?
a.achebe
b.wole soyinka
c.Banjo
d. kath walker
74.who was the author of Telephone conversation?
a.john arthur
b.A.D.Hope
c wole soyinka
d.Banjo
75.when did the Poem Telephone conversation got published?
a.1967
b.1963
c.1973
d 1987
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76.The author wole soyinka is a...,..........writer
a Nigerian writer
b.African writer
c.Australian writer
d.c is the correct answer
77. The poem Telephone conversation there is a conversation between landlady
and..........
a.her brother
b.her mother
c.african
d.her boyfriend
78.For what purpose the speaker call the landlady
a.for renting the house
b.for paying the bill
c for warning the landlady
d.to give her keys
79.The poem Telephone conversation written in............form
a.free verse ,no rhyme
b.blank verse,no rhyme
c.irregular verse,no rhyme
d.none
80.how many lines and stanzas are there in the poem Telephone conversation
a.single stanza,37 lines
b.single.stanza,38 lines
c.double stanza,37 lines
d double stanza,38 lines
81.Telephone Conversation' is a ........... against the widespread racism still
prevalent in the modern western society.
a.conversation
b.speech
c.poetic satire
d.free verse
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82.why did the British land lady shockingly changes her attitude towards the man?
a.soon after he reveals his racial identity.
b.soon after he reveals his rental amount
c.soon after he reveals his name
d.soon after he reveals his job
83. The motif of microcosmic telephone conversation is employed by the poet to apply
to a much broader .............level.
a.maximum level
b.minimum level
c.lowest level
d.macrocosmic level
84. when did wole soyinka received the noble prize for literature?
a 1987
b.1986
c.1988
d.1999
85.Wole Soyinka's poem "Telephone Conversation" was first published in ........
a.Modern Poetry from Africa in 1963.
b.midmodern poetry from Africa in 1963.
c.Nigerian poetry Association in1963
d.African Revolutionary Thoughts in 1963
86.Who is the speaker in the poem "Telephone Conversation"?
a. the speaker is white people
b .the speaker is a lady
c.the speaker is a blackman
d.the speaker is owner
87.Why did Wole Soyinka write a Telephone Conversation?
a.express the anger
b.express the freedom of white people and black people
c.express the happiness of black people
d.express the racial discrimination between the black and the white.
88.what is the theme of the poem Telephone conversation?
a.hunger and thirsty
b.racisim and prejudice
c.love and hatred
d.sorrow and sufferings
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89.What does spectroscopic flight of fancy mean?
a.flight of colours and birds etc
b.dispersed flow of thoughts of the lady after talking to the poet.
c.imagination between peoples
d.long distance focus of light
90.what is described as peroxide blonde in poem?
a palm of my hand and soles of my feet
b my hands and legs
c.face
d.body
91.how did the speakers buttocks area changed due to the friction ?
a.black colour
b.brown colour
c raven black
d.white colour
92. how the speaker represent him facially?
a.bun
b.brunette
c.coffee
d.peroxide
93.what is the autobiographical work of wole soyinka?
a.the man died
b he died
c they died
d.we died
94.The phrase "west africa sepia' the colour mentioned in the poem is related to the
speakers..... ....
a.password
b.passport
c.photograph
d.none
95.you mean.......like plain or milk chocolate " identify the figure of speech
a.similie
b.personification
c metaphor
d alliteration
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96."silence for spectroscopic flight of fancy" find the figure of speech
a.similie
b.personification
c metaphor
d alliteration
97.what confession made by the speaker to the landlady?
a.im whiteman
b.im African
c.im politician
d.salesman
98."omnibus squelching the tar" omnibus symbolizes?
a.black
b.white
c.brown
d.red
99.the landlady in the poem described as women of...........
a colonizers
b.tyranny
c.goodbreeding
d.bad women
100.what does the speaker hated in the beginning of the poem?
a.wastedjourney
b.rental price
c. landlady off the premises
d. none
101.why does the author uses many colours in the poem Telephone conversation?
a.to show the racial discrimination
b.to show the different types of colours
c.to show the attitude of whitepeople
d.to show the names of African
102.how does the speaker described himself?
a milk
b.chocolate
c.vanilla
d.strawberry
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103.The telephone conversation is the great agent to
a.social change
b.economic change
c.environmental change
d nature change
104.The landlady questions all about the ......... of the speaker?
a.money
b.colour
c.natives
d.his bio
105.what was the first question the land lady asked after knowing that the speaker is
African?
a.how dark
b.are you very dark
c are you dark
d.are you light
106.what is the setting of the poem Telephone conversation?
a.house
b.road
c.bus
d.telephone booth
107.How does the poet describes the whitelady as?
a.lipstick coated
b.long gold rolled cigratted
c.holder puffed
d all the above
108.lipstick, thunderclap,mouthpiece,passport these are the words used in poem.
what form of grammar is this?
a.phrase
b.clause
c.compound words
d. action words
109."Red booth,Red pillar box,Red double-tired omnibus squelching the tar"
the red colour denotes.......
a.british people
b.black people
c.humans
d.none
