Lesson 4.1.1.17

4.1.1.17 The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak Quiz: AQA English Literature, Unit 1

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The 20 questions

  1. Who wrote the 2021 novel The Island of Missing Trees?

    • Elif Shafak
    • Orhan Pamuk
    • Hanan al-Shaykh
    • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  2. Which Mediterranean island serves as the primary setting for The Island of Missing Trees?

    • Malta
    • Cyprus
    • Sicily
    • Crete

  3. Which non-Cypriot city serves as the main UK setting in The Island of Missing Trees?

    • Bristol
    • London
    • Manchester
    • Edinburgh

  4. Which non-human narrator features prominently in Elif Shafak's The Island of Missing Trees?

    • A stray dog
    • A songbird
    • A fig tree
    • An olive tree

  5. In which year was Cyprus divided, forming the historical background of the novel?

    • 1960
    • 1974
    • 1992
    • 1983

  6. Which central theme connects the character trajectories in The Island of Missing Trees?

    • Financial ambition
    • Trauma and displacement
    • Romantic comedy
    • Technological progress

  7. What literary function does the fig tree narrator serve regarding human history?

    • A political leader
    • A comic relief
    • An unreliable villain
    • An enduring witness

  8. Which literary device is used when the fig tree represents memory and roots?

    • Onomatopoeia
    • Irony
    • Symbolism
    • Hyperbole

  9. Which narrative structure best describes the timeline and viewpoints in the novel?

    • Dramatic monologue
    • Dual timeline
    • Linear chronology
    • Epistolary journal

  10. How does the novel structurally represent the lingering impact of historical trauma?

    • Real-time dialogue
    • Rhyming couplets
    • Alphabetical chapters
    • Shifting timelines

  11. In Shafak's novel, ethnic conflict is primarily presented as affecting which level of society?

    • Intergenerational families
    • Global corporations
    • Foreign tourists
    • Ancient empires

  12. In the novel, a person's sense of belonging is primarily shaped by what?

    • Memory and heritage
    • Climate and weather
    • Passport nation only
    • Wealth and status

  13. What do the 'missing trees' in the title principally represent?

    • Deforestation campaigns
    • Industrial pollution
    • Garden design
    • Lost homelands

  14. How is history primarily presented in The Island of Missing Trees?

    • Military tactics
    • Economic charts
    • Official state records
    • Personal lived experiences

  15. Which setting contrast connects the characters' past experiences to their migrant present?

    • Cyprus and London
    • Paris and Berlin
    • Nicosia and Istanbul
    • Athens and Rome

  16. What type of narrative perspective is provided by the fig tree in Shafak's novel?

    • Third-person omniscient
    • Non-human perspective
    • Second-person perspective
    • Unreliable narrator

  17. In *The Island of Missing Trees*, what key process offers a possibility of post-trauma healing?

    • Emigration and exile
    • Political activism
    • Memory and reconnection
    • Forgetting the past

  18. In *The Island of Missing Trees*, what primary function does memory serve?

    • Erasing historical trauma
    • Preserving the lost
    • Encouraging strict neutrality
    • Justifying revenge

  19. What structural device does Shafak use to present conflicting accounts of history in her novel?

    • Single third-person voice
    • Multiple narrative viewpoints
    • Epistolary framing
    • Linear chronology

  20. Which literary device gives human consciousness and speech to the fig tree narrator?

    • Hyperbole
    • Alliteration
    • Onomatopoeia
    • Personification

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