Ecocriticism: Important Texts Quiz
Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Ecocriticism? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. "Consider all this; and then turn to the green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself?" Think of Muir's deified view of Nature—worthy of a capital N. Which novel contains this quote and can be analyzed with the idea that Nature and man are antagonists?
Animal Farm
Moby-Dick
Silent Spring
Frankenstein
Q. Which critical work deplores "the foul diseased and hideous cities and towns we live in, the constant petty tyranny of automatic washers and automobiles and TV machines and telephone"?
Silent Spring
Walden
Desert Solitaire
The Ecological Imagination
Q. When animals behave like humans, awful things happen. Which novel explores pigs behaving badly?
Animal Farm
Watership Down
Desert Solitaire
Frankenstein
Q. Which literary text depicts a man battling senility by trying to plant a garden?
Walden
A Sand County Almanac
Frankenstein
Death of a Salesman
Q. Which text contains the following passage? "So extravagant is Nature, with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert."
My First Summer in the Sierra
Desert Solitaire
Silent Spring
Walden