Que- What event resulted from the premature death of Henry V ?
a. the Battle of Agincourt
b. the Battle of Hastings
c. the Norman Conquest
d. the War of the Roses
Answer- the War of the Roses
Que- Detractors argue that such an approach can be too "judgmental." Some believe literature should be judged primarily (if not solely) on its artistic merits. What approach possess this disadvantage ?
a. Psychological
b. Formalism/New Criticism
c. Moral/Philosophical
d. Historical/Biographical
Answer- Moral/Philosophical
Que- Modern literary theory began with the work of which theorist ?
a. Ferdinand de Saussure
b. Viktor Shklovsky
c. Roland Barthes
d. Michel Foucault
Answer- Ferdinand de Saussure
Que- One archetype in literature is the scapegoat. Which of these literary characters serves that purpose ?
a. Billy Budd
b. Hamlet
c. Captain Ahab
d. Ophelia
Answer- Billy Budd
Que- How does New Historicism differ from traditional historicism ?
a. New Historicism rejects the idea that history is neutral.
b. New Historicism does not make strict delineations between literary and non-literary texts.
c. New Historicism takes a particular interest in marginalized peoples.
d. All of the above answers are correct.
Answer- All of the above answers are correct.
Que- Plato used the word mimesis in relation to literature with the meaning ?
a. Copying
b. Criticism of life
c. Representation
d. Interpretation
Answer- Representation
Que- What is the main function of postcolonial criticism ?
a. To represent the relationship between colonizers and the colonized
b. To draw attention to the positive effects of colonization on literature
c. To explain why there are few examples of successful non-Western literature
d. To show the ways in which most Western literature is superior
Answer- To represent the relationship between colonizers and the colonized
Que- What approach is described by the paragraph? Users of this approach believe that all information essential to the interpretation of a work must be found within the work itself; there is no need to bring in outside information about the history, politics, or society of the time, or about the author's life ?
a. Historical/Biographical Approach
b. Moral/ Philosophical Approach
c. Formalism
d. Psychological Approach
Answer- Formalism
Que- Who proposed that poets should be banished from the ideal Republic ?
a. Plato
b. Aristotle
c. Sir Philip Sidney
d. Sir Thomas More
Answer- Plato
Que- What does gynocriticism recommend as an approach to literature ?
a. Examining only female-authored literature more critically
b. Considering women's literature outside of its historical context
c. Becoming more familiar with the history of women and women's writing
d. All of the above answers are correct.
Answer- Becoming more familiar with the history of women and women's writing
Que- Horace was a_____________?
a. Greek writer
b. Roman Writer
c. Italian writer
d. English writer
Answer- Roman Writer
Que- A critic examining Pope's "An Essay on Man" asks herself: How well does this poem accord with the real world? Is it accurate? Is it moral? She is most likely a critic?
a. Feminist
b. Reader Response
c. Formalist
d. Mimetic
Answer- Mimetic
Que- The statements below are steps on "How to Read and Understand an Expository Essay". Which comes in as an initial thing to do before writing an expository essay ?
a. Identify the Mode of Development
b. Analysis of the Author
c. Subsequent Readings/Reviews
d. All of the above answers are correct.
Answer- Analysis of the Author
Que- This literary critic warned: "We must remember that the greater part of our current reading matter is written for us by people who have no real belief in a supernatural order . . . And the greater part . . . is coming to be written by people who not only have no such belief, but are even ignorant of the fact that there are still people in the world so 'backward' or so 'eccentric' as to continue to believe." ?
a. C.S. Lewis
b. T.S. Eliot
c. G.K. Chesterton
d. Matthew Arnold
Answer- T.S. Eliot
Que- New trends in literary theory tend to do which of the following ?
a. Reject all previous modes of literary theory
b. Focus on a return to traditional critical methods
c. Make use of different literary theories in order to develop new theories
d. Work only with ideas developed by post- Marxist theorists
Answer- Make use of different literary theories in order to develop new theories
Que- In Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy there are four interlocuters representing four different ideologies. Which of them expresses Dryden's own views ?
a. Lisideius
b. Eugenius
c. Neander
d. Crites
Answer- Neander
Que- What do many contemporary theorists find problematic about the literary canon ?
a. It includes too few works by non- European writers.
b. It includes too few works by non-white writers.
c. It includes too few works by women.
d. All of the above answers are correct.
Answer- All of the above answers are correct.
Que- How does literary theory resemble the practice of philosophy as it was developed by Plato and Aristotle ?
a. Literary theory engages with theoretical rather than real-world issues.
b. Literary theory asks fundamental questions about literary interpretation, and at the same time builds specific systems of literary interpretation.
c. Literary theory relies totally on speculation rather than history.
d. All of the above answers are correct.
Answer- Literary theory asks fundamental questions about literary interpretation, and at the same time builds specific systems of literary interpretation.
Que- What did Sigmund Freud believe about the unconscious?
a. a. It contains secret instincts and desires that are repressed.
b. It is the only significant aspect of the human psyche.
c. It can never be accessed.
d. All of the above answers are correct.
Answer- a. It contains secret instincts and desires that are repressed.
Que- What approach is described by the paragraph? Those who apply this approach believe it is necessary to know about the author and the political, economical, and sociological context of his times in order to truly understand his works ?
a. Historical/Biographical Approach
b. Moral/ Philosophical Approach
c. Formalism
d. Psychological Approach
Answer- Historical/Biographical Approach
Que- In her essay "The Poem as Event," Louise M. Rosenblatt sees the reader as performing what function ?
a. The reader participates in a transaction with the text.
b. The reader is acted upon by the text.
c. The reader acts upon the text.
d. All of the above answers are correct.
Answer- All of the above answers are correct.
Que- Which of the following texts is considered the first example of postcolonial criticism ?
a. Harold Bloom's "An Elegy for the Canon"
b. Jacques Lacan's "The Mirror Stage . . . "
c. Cleanth Brooks's "Keats's Sylvan Historian"
d. Edward Said's Orientalism
Answer- Edward Said's Orientalism
Que- In his essay "What Is an Author?" what position(s) on authorship does Michel Foucault take ?
a. The idea of the author came into being at a certain point in history.
b. The names of authors serve a classificatory function.
c. The author may not always exist.
d. All of the above answers are correct.
Answer- All of the above answers are correct.
Que- Among the following which is not a work by Aristotle ?
a. Ethics
b. Metaphysics
c. Rhetoric
d. Ars Poetica
Answer- Ars Poetica
Que- In a Freudian approach to literature, concave images are usually seen as____________?
a. Female symbols
b. Phallic symbols
c. Male symbols
d. Evidence of an Oedipus complex
Answer- Female symbols
Que- Which literary theorist argues that "there is nothing outside the text" ?
a. T.S. Eliot
b. Jacques Lacan
c. Jacques Derrida
d. Stanley Fish
Answer- Jacques Derrida
Que- This feminist critic proposed that all female characters in literature are in at least one of the following stages of development: the feminine, feminist, or female stage ?
a. Virginia Woolf
b. Elaine Showalter
c. Mary Wolstencraft
d. Ellen Mores
Answer- Elaine Showalter
Que- Which of the following writers might be considered one of the early founders of firstwave feminism ?
a. Hélène Cixous
b. Judith Butler
c. Lucy Irigaray
d. Mary Wollstonecraft
Answer- Mary Wollstonecraft
Que- Poetic Diction was taken to be the standard language for poetry in______________?
a. The Elizabethan Age
b. The Neo-Classical Age
c. The Romantic Age
d. The Victorian Age
Answer- The Neo-Classical Age
Que- With which theorist is phenomenology associated ?
a. Edmund Husserl
b. Wolfgang Iser
c. Jean-Paul Sartre
d. All of the above answers are correct.
Answer- All of the above answers are correct.
Que- What does Sidney say about the observance of the three Dramatic Unities in drama ?
a. They must be observed
b. It is not necessary to observe them
c. He favours the observance of the Unity of Action only
d. Their observance depends upon the nature of the theme of the play
Answer- They must be observed
Que- What is phenomenology ?
a. The examination of structures informing our conscious experience
b. The examination of desires informing our consciousness
c. The examination of our unconscious experience
d. The examination of intricate structures within our unconscious
Answer- The examination of structures informing our conscious experience
Que- Who said "theatre is not a hospital" ?
a. F.L. Lucas
b. J K Atkins
c. Derrida
d. Hillis Miller
Answer- F.L. Lucas
Que- What is New Historicism ?
a. A theory that sees history as a form of writing and discourse
b. A theory that abandons the idea of history as an imitation of events
c. A theory that regards history as a series of narratives
d. All of the above answers are correct.
Answer- All of the above answers are correct.
Que- In general, what is Judith Butler's concept of gender ?
a. Women's gender is artificial, while men's gender is not.
b. While gender is not real, the stereotypes that accompany it are true.
c. Gender is largely a cultural construct.
d. All of the above answers are correct.
Answer- Gender is largely a cultural construct.
Que- Arnold's views on poetry and criticism are discussed in ?
a. Preface to the Poems
b. On translating Homer
c. Scholar Gypsy
d. Culture and Anarchy
Answer- Culture and Anarchy
Que- Which of the following theorists is associated with formalism ?
a. Viktor Shklovsky
b. Cleanth Brooks
c. Judith Butler
d. Mikhail Bakhtin
Answer- Viktor Shklovsky
Que- This poet might be described as a moral or philosophical critic for arguing that works must have "high seriousness." ?
a. T.S. Eliot
b. Matthew Arnold
c. Elizabeth Browning
d. Virginia Woolf
Answer- Matthew Arnold
Que- In Of Grammatology, Jacques Derrida argues what about literature ?
a. No fixed, stable meaning is possible.
b. Language must be studied in conjunction with history in order to create meaning.
c. Literature is timeless, and thus meaning does not change.
d. All of the above answers are correct.
Answer- No fixed, stable meaning is possible.
Que- In which chapter of Biographia Literaria Coleridge criticize the theory of language of Wordsworth ?
a. 16
b. 17
c. 14
d. 15
Answer- 14
Que- What is the original meaning of the term Hamartia ?
a. To miss the mark
b. Sin
c. Tragic flaw
d. Flaws
Answer- To miss the mark
Que- The term 'collective unconscious' is coined by_____________?
a. Carl Jung
b. Sigmund Freud
c. Ernest Jones
d. Erik Erikson
Answer- Carl Jung
Que- Who originated the term "objective correlative," which is often used in formalist criticism ?
a. C.S. Lewis
b. Virginia Woolf
c. Matthew Arnold
d. T.S. Eliot
Answer- T.S. Eliot
Que- Who accused Aristotle of social snobbishness and arrogance ?
a. Willy Loman
b. Arthur Miller
c. Henry James
d. David
Answer- Arthur Miller
Que- With which feminist theorist is gynocriticism most closely associated ?
a. Elaine Showalter
b. Julia Kristeva
c. Lucy Irigaray
d. Louise M. Rosenblatt
Answer- Elaine Showalter
Que- How did the New Critics view literature ?
a. As an aesthetic object that is independent of historical context
b. As an aesthetic object that is influenced by historical context
c. As a historical object that is also aesthetic
d. As a historical object that is not necessarily aesthetic
Answer- As an aesthetic object that is independent of historical context
Que- This literary critic coined the term "fancy." ?
a. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
b. Virginia Woolf
c. Matthew Arnold
d. Carl Jung
Answer- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Que- Who is the author of Symposium ?
a. Aristotle
b. Dante
c. Longinus
d. Plato
Answer- Plato
Que- What does Ben Jonson mean by a 'Humorous Character' ?
a. A character who is always cheerful and gay
b. A character who is by nature melancholy
c. A character whose temper is determined by the predominance of one out of the four fluids in the human body
d. An eccentric person
Answer- A character whose temper is determined by the predominance of one out of the four fluids in the human body
Que- Name the author of The New Criticism ?
a. F. R. Leavis
b. Allen Tate
c. John Crowe Ransom
d. R. P. Blackmur
Answer- John Crowe Ransom