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INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA
Class Test 2
Semester 1, Session 2014-2015, ENGL 1515: Literary Genres I: Poetry
Time 30 minutes

Full marks 10

Answer all of the following questions.

1. I have lost today / All strength and courage. Fight not with ..: / I have done harm
enough. Which character in Rustam and Sohrab says this and what is the missing word?
Answer: Rustam; Turan

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2. From which English village did T S Eliot ancestors migrate to America in the seventeenth
century?
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Answer: East Cooker
3. Who is regarded as American Islams poet laureate?
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Answer: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
4. How many poems does Ramadan Sonnets (2005) contain?
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Answer: 64
5. Almighty Lord! / Protect Thy slave in his extremity. / O holy Fosterer! I ask again / My
former strength. Who says this?
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Answer: Rustam
6. Which poet (we have discussed in this semester) has a Jewish father and a Christian mother?
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Answer: Michael Majid Wolfe

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7. Originally who started writing Shah Nameh?

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Answer: Daqiqi
8. Who is the producer of the documentary The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain (2006)?
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Answer: Michael Majid Wolfe
9. Who was the chief ruler of the Ghaznavi Empire?

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Answer: Sultan Mahmud

10. How many couplets does Firdawsis Shah Nameh (1010) contain?
Answer: 60,000

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11. What does shah nameh mean?

Answer: Story of Kings or The Great Book

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12. I came down the steps with my pitcher

And must wait, must stand and wait, for there he was at the trough before me. To whom does
the pronoun he refer in this excerpt?
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Answer: the snake
13. On the day of Sicilian July, with . smoking.
The voice of my education said to me
He must be killed,
For in Sicily the black, black snakes are innocent, the .. are venomous. What are the
missing words?
Answer: Etna; gold

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14. And I thought of the albatross

And I wished he would come back, my snake. To which poem does D H Lawrence allude in this
excerpt and who is the author of that poem?
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Answer: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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14. According to / when Icarus fell / it was spring / a farmer was ploughing / his
field. What is the missing word?
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Answer: Brueghel
15. off the coast / there was / a splash quite unnoticed / this was / drowning. What
is the missing word?
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Answer: Icarus
16. AND NOW / the women of Europe and America / after drinking and carousing / on my
sweat / rise up to castigate and / castrate their menfolk / from the cushions of a world / I have
built! From which poem has this excerpt been taken?
Answer: Letter to a Feminist Friend

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17. The wile of the colonizer, / the juggernaut of apartheid / the massacres of
and Langa, / interrogation unto death / unreal inquests have / your friends seen these? / like the
children of ..? What are the missing words?
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Answer: Sharpeville; Soweto
18. When / at home and across the seas / is truly free / there will be a time for me /
and time for you / to share the cooking / and change the nappies / till then, / first .
first! What are the missing words?
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Answer: Africa; things

19. The .. of these faces in the crowd; / Petals on a wet, black . What are the
missing words?
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Answer: apparition; bough
20. The showers beat / On broken .. and chimney-pots, / And at the corner of the
street / A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. / And then the lighting of the . What
are the missing words?
Answer: blinds; lamps

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21. That lion-man, / Who striveth with me, is as tall as I am / And hath a dauntless heart. He
favoureth me / In shoulder, breast, and arm, and thou wouldst say / That some skilled workman
laid us by line. Which character in Rustam and Sohram says this? Who is that lion-man?
Answer: Sohrab; Rustam

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22. Who is the author of Jealous Lover?

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Answer: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
23. Undo my breastplate, view my body bare, / Behold thy jewel, see .. treat sons! Who
says this and what is the missing word?
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Answer: Sohrab; how sires

24. Who is the author of The Waste Land?

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Answer: T S Eliot
25. Who is the author of The Hadj: An American's Pilgrimage to Mecca (1993)?
Answer: Michael Majid Wolfe

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