What does the phrase \White Man’s Burden,\ coined by Kipling, refer to ?

Related Mcqs:

1. What does the phrase “White Man’s Burden,” coined by Kipling, refer to ?

   A. Britain’s manifest destiny to colonize the world
   B. the moral responsibility to bring civilization and Christianity to the peoples of the world
   C. the British need to improve technology and transportation in other parts of the world
   D. the importance of solving economic and social problems in England before tackling the world’s problems

2. What was the “white man’s burden” that Kipling speaks of in his poem of the same title ?

   A. The pressure of conforming to preexisting social conventions
   B. The burden of white colonizers who are forced to learn to live in new lands
   C. The Eurocentric idea that the colonizer has a social responsibility to civilize other nations
   D. The concept that all white men do not share the same imperial duties

3. To what does the phrase \the stigma of print\refer ?

   A. lead poisoning contracted from handling printer’s ink
   B. the brutal punishment for printing without a license
   C. the pre-Reformation ban on printing the Bible in English
   D. the perception among court poets that printed verses were less exclusive

4. Fill in the blanks from Tennyson’s The Princess. Man for the field and woman for the _________ Man for the sword and for the ____________ she: Man with the head and woman with the …..: Man to command and woman to ____________?

   A. crop; scabbard; foot; agree
   B. throne; scepter; soul; decree
   C. school; scalpel; pen; set free
   D. hearth; needle; heart; obey

5. One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is described below: A formalist approach might enable us to choose between a reading which sees the dissolution of society in Lord of the Flies as being caused by too strict a suppression of the “bestial” side of man and one which sees it as resulting from too little suppression. We can look to the text and ask: What textual evidence is there for the suppression or indulgence of the “bestial” side of man? Does Ralph suppress Jack when he tries to indulge his bestial side in hunting? Does it appear from the text that an imposition of stricter law and order would have prevented the breakdown? Did it work in the “grownup” world of the novel? What purpose does this prescribe to ?

   A. To help resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the reading.
   B. To help decide which is the better of two conflicting readings.
   C. To enable to form judgments about literature.
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

6. Who coined the phrase ‘Egotistical Sublime’ ?

   A. William Wordsworth
   B. P.B Shelley
   C. S. T. Coleridge
   D. John Keats

7. Who coined the phrase ‘Lost Generation’ ?

   A. Hemingway
   B. Gertude Stein
   C. F. Scott Fitzserald
   D. Sherwood Anderson

8. In his poem Kipling said ’If you can meet with triumph and _____________’?

   A. Glory
   B. Ruin
   C. Disaster
   D. victory

9. Fill in the blanks from Tennyson’s The Princess. Man for the field and woman for the …..: Man for the sword and for the ___________ she: Man with the head and woman with the __________Man to command and woman to _____________?

   A. crop; scabbard; foot; agree
   B. throne; scepter; soul; decree
   C. school; scalpel; pen; set free
   D. hearth; needle; heart; obey

10. Who wrote “Take up the White Man’s burden-/ Send forth the best ye breed-” in order to inspire Western Europeans to propagate benevolent, enlightened colonialism ?

    A. Charles Baudelaire
    B. William Butler Yeats
    C. Rudyard Kipling
    D. Napoleon III