MY DEAR FRIEND
In the
mid-1840s a thirteen-year-old British cabin boy, Gemmy Fairley, is cast ashore
in the far north of Australia and taken in by aborigines. Sixteen years later
he moves back into the world of Europeans, among hopeful yet terrified settlers
who are staking out their small patch of home in an alien place. To them, Gemmy
stands as a different kind of challenge: he is a force that at once fascinates
and repels. His own identity in this new world is as unsettling to him as the
knowledge he brings to others of the savage, the aboriginal. The novel is
A)
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
B) the
solid mandala by Patrick White
C) wild
cat falling by colin Johnson
D) the
history of the Kelly gang by Peter Carey.
Ans:A
The story begins with a strange man walking out
of the Australian wilderness, or bush, into an English settlement in the early
1860's. The settlers are suspicious of the visitor. Even though he proves he is
in fact, English, he was raised by black natives and is therefore viewed by
some as untrustworthy. The man, Gemmy, speaks limited English and makes some
notable friends in the settlement. The novel is
A)
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
B) the
solid mandala by Patrick White
C) wild
cat falling by colin Johnson
D) the
history of the Kelly gang by Peter Carey.
Ans:A
BICYCLE AND OTHER
POEMS (1970), WILD LEMONS (1980), and FIRST THINGS LAST (1981), as well as for
his ambitious novels, including AN IMAGINARY LIFE (1978), HARLAND’S HALF ACRE
(1984), and THE GREAT WORLD (1990). In -------- once again uses his native
Queensland as the locale of a most intriguing story. British settlers,
struggling to make a life for themselves in Australia, meet up with a young man
who has been living with the Aboriginals for sixteen years. Fill the gap.
A)
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
B) the
solid mandala by Patrick White
C) wild
cat falling by colin Johnson
D) the
history of the Kelly gang by Peter Carey.
Ans:A
The book is set in north-east Victoria, in
and around small towns like Mansfield, Benalla, Wangaratta and Bendigo, is both
an exploration of his cultural heritage and a strange act of nostalgia. As an
adolescent, Carey was sent to Geelong Grammar, one of Australia’s top boarding
schools. For the son of a motor car salesman from Bacchus Marsh, this was a
dislocating experience. In his Paris Review interview, he describes his parent’s sacrifice to send him to a top
school.
A)
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
B) the
solid mandala by Patrick White
C) wild
cat falling by colin Johnson
D) the
history of the Kelly gang by Peter Carey.
Ans: D
Ned Kelly’s voice, like so many in colonial
Australia, is Irish. In his Paris Review interview, he addresses this explicitly: “When I got to --------, I let myself do something
that goes back to the beginning of my reading. I was 19 and just discovering
literature. I was reading Joyce, and at the same time I read the Jerilderie
letter, a letter written by Ned Kelly in a town where he was robbing a bank.
It’s a very Irish voice. I know it’s not Joyce, but it does suggest even to a
19-year-old the possibility of creating a poetic voice that grows out of
Australian soil, that is true to its place and hasn’t existed before. I had
that in my mind from very, very early. It was astonishing to me that I could
finally do it.” Here the book is—
A)
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
B) the
solid mandala by Patrick White
C) wild
cat falling by colin Johnson
D) the
history of the Kelly gang by Peter Carey.
Ans: D
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