This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Literary Criticism > Literary Criticism – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Criticism Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Dante's main area of interest in criticism is A) The function of poetry. B) Literary taste. C) The proper use of language in poetry. D) The proper language in poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The proper language in poetry. 2. .What must the main character be trying to do A) The right thing. B) The best thing for everyone. C) The best thing for himself. D) The worst thing to others. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The right thing. 3. What are the functions of a Just city? A) To provision. B) To defend. C) To govern themselves. D) Al the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Al the above. 4. The magnitude of a plot depends on A) The principle of right size. B) The Function of Tragedy. C) The capacity of the Spectator. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 5. Criticism is concerned with the role, position, and influence of women in a literary text. A) Marxist. B) Feminist. C) Gender. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Feminist. 6. What was the idea behind Plato's Cave theory? A) That people sometimes are trapped without real understanding. B) The people should hide in a cave to get away from other people. C) Answers are always found in a cave. D) Seek to find the truth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) That people sometimes are trapped without real understanding. 7. What are the three parts of a Plot A) Time, Place and Action. B) Characters, Thought and DIction. C) Beginning, Middle and End. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beginning, Middle and End. 8. What are the permanent emotions called? A) Rasa. B) Bhavas. C) Sthayins. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sthayins. 9. This theory assumes that the text is always heavily influenced by the life, thoughts, and feelings of the author A) Formalism. B) Post-colonialism. C) Historical. D) Biographical. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Biographical. 10. Which theory? This theory looks at universal patterns in literature. A) Gender. B) Historical. C) Archetypal. D) Biographical. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Archetypal. 11. In the main features of a critique, where can you state the name or title of the work being reviewed as well as the date it was created and the name of the author or creator? A) Body. B) Conclusion. C) Introduction. D) Summary. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Introduction. 12. One of the weaknesses of Formalism is that ..... A) It assumes that readers can refrain from investing emotionally in their reading. B) It only examines one element of the text which is gender. C) Examines how and to what effect ancient sources are used. D) It dismissed the beauty of writing and does not allow the reader to simply enjoy the text. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It assumes that readers can refrain from investing emotionally in their reading. 13. Does the text overtly or subtly ask the reader to sympathize or empathize in any way? A) Mimeticism. B) Intertextuality. C) Biographical. D) Reader-response. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reader-response. 14. Name the Stuart King who was restored to power in 1660. A) Henry II. B) Charles II. C) Philip II. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Charles II. 15. A sample question for this theory:What are the archetypes used by the author? A) Post Colonialism. B) Formalism. C) Post Modernism. D) Mythological archetypal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mythological archetypal. 16. It refers to dualisms are very foundations of entire world-views A) Othering. B) Binary oppositions. C) Defamilarization. D) Labels. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Binary oppositions. 17. The two notions which form the core of Aristotle's Poetics are ..... and ..... A) Imitation and action. B) Imitation and Imagination. C) Reason and action. D) Logic and action. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imitation and action. 18. He is the first great English poet. A) Plato. B) Sir Philip Sydney. C) John Dryden. D) Aristotle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sir Philip Sydney. 19. Queen of England A) The Aristocracy. B) The Bourgeoisie. C) The Proletariat. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Aristocracy. 20. A literary theory which deals about the chaos, the moment, and it does not concern with labels. A) Structuralism. B) Post modernism. C) Post Colonialism. D) Historicism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Post modernism. 21. How was Aristotle's thinking different from Socrates? A) More scientific. B) Believed in enlightenment. C) Believed in seeking truth. D) Believed people will never understand the world. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) More scientific. 22. Who is the author of An Essay on Dramatic Poesy? A) Addison. B) Sydney. C) Dryden. D) Dr. Johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dryden. 23. Which of the following words contain a suffix? A) Wrote. B) Hopeful. C) Bottom. D) Level. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hopeful. 24. The correct order of plot stages is ..... A) Exposition, falling action, climax, resolution, rising action. B) Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution. C) Resolution, falling action, climax, rising action, resolution. D) Rising action, exposition, climax, resolution, falling action. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution. 25. Feminist Criticism includes all these except for ..... A) How to make feminist readings visible to readers. B) How women do not like male writers. C) How to make feminist readings visible to readers. D) How women read about themselves. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) How women do not like male writers. 26. What is the iconic line of Nora Aunor in Minsan may isang Gamo Gamo A) Mu brother is not you. B) My brother is not a boar. C) My brother is not a pig. D) My brother is a human. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) My brother is not a pig. 27. The setting of a story includes all of the following elements except ..... A) The location of the story. B) People's customs and activities. C) The time period in which the action takes place. D) The subject of the story. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The subject of the story. 28. Formalism is sometimes analyzed and written as ..... A) A close reading. B) A gender study. C) A study of patterns. D) A focus on inter-textual connections. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A close reading. 29. The way in which people become alienated from one another through power, money, and politics A) Feminist. B) Marxist. C) Sociological. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Marxist. 30. This school of literary theory says that a work is separate and not at all dependent upon the author's life or the culture in which the work is created A) Psychoanalytical. B) Formalism. C) Biographical. D) Post-colonialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Formalism. 31. What do you mean by unity of place A) The action should happen in the palace. B) All the action should be confined to a particular place. C) Actions happening in one place should be dramatised. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) All the action should be confined to a particular place. 32. Who coined the term Heresy of Paraphrase? A) Cleanth Brooks. B) Robert Penn Warren. C) J. C. Ransom. D) I. A. Richards. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cleanth Brooks. 33. Which of the following lines does NOT convey feminism? A) "You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.". B) "Women are weaker than men.". C) "If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.". D) "You deserve to be here. You deserve to exist. You deserve to take up space in this world of men.". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "Women are weaker than men.". 34. Who blunderingly killed Carlito in "Minsan May isang Gamo Gamo? A) Jhonny Bravo. B) Jhon Smith. C) Pepe Smith. D) Jhon Michael. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jhon Smith. 35. Mcdonald's Worker A) The Aristocracy. B) The Bourgeoisie. C) The Proletariat. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Proletariat. 36. How many years Cora will stay in United States? A) 18 months. B) 1 year and six months. C) 1 and a half year. D) 1 year and half month. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1 and a half year. 37. The transitory moods that depend on and reinforce the sthayins are called ..... A) Vyabhicaribhava. B) Anubhava. C) Alambanavibhava. D) Vibhava. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vyabhicaribhava. 38. Archetypal Criticism examines ..... A) How texts rely on patterns for their meanings. B) How texts are an isolated unit. C) How readers use history to analyze text. D) How readers emotionally respond to the text. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) How texts rely on patterns for their meanings. 39. It judges a literary work by their ethical teachings and by their effects on readers. Literature that is ethically sound and encourages virtue is praised. A) HISTORICAL. B) FORMALIST. C) MORALIST. D) FEMINIST. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) MORALIST. 40. In which phase women wrote in an effort to equal the intellectual achievements of the male culture? A) Female (1920). B) Feminine (1840-1880). C) Feminist (1880-1920). D) None of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Feminine (1840-1880). 41. Who is the colonel in "A Rose for Emily" ? A) Sartoris. B) Sartois. C) Dela Rosa. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sartoris. 42. The Father of Psychology A) Albert Einstein. B) Sigmund Freud. C) Thomas Edison. D) Karl Marx. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sigmund Freud. 43. Lyrical Ballads was published in the year ..... A) 1799. B) 1802. C) 1798. D) 1800. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1798. 44. Which one of the following is not one of the three unities mentioned by Aristotle? A) Action. B) Character. C) Time. D) Place. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Character. 45. Definition:text isn't as important & focuses on how reader responds to text, focuses on & feelings A) Readers response criticism. B) Formalist criticism. C) Post colonial criticism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Readers response criticism. 46. Identify the action:You unwrap a sweet, putting the paper in your mouth and throwing away the sweet. A) Forgetting. B) Bungled action. C) Superstitions. D) Slip of tongue. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bungled action. 47. The group hanging out in front of the movies cringed when Larry sauntered around the corner. His personality was so forceful that he could hardly keep from giving everyone a hard time. Jimmy spoke up to greet him, "Hey, Larry. I liked your speech today in class. You were quite, um, assertive when you jumped in and took Harold's turn." Henry chimed in, "Yeah, I thought that Harold was acting a bit too modestly to get on with it." Larry answered back favorably, "Thanks, guys. Do you mind if I join you?" "No, not at all, " said George, the group's unofficial leader. He was self-confident enough to take charge in any situation, figuring he was the best man for the job whether or not anyone else agreed. Larry got in line behind them, and when he stepped up to the counter to purchase his ticket, the young clerk at the window nervously rang up his ticket. She fumbled with his change. "Don't mind her, " grumbled the deliberately paced veteran from the back of the booth. "She's new, but I bet she'll get the hang of things in no time, " he offered with a rather unconvincing wink.What does the veteran ticket taker suggest of the female clerk by using the word new in the paragraph above? A) She is untrained. B) She is young. C) She is modern. D) She is different. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She is untrained. 48. Which of the following does not talk about historical criticism? A) It sees literature as both a reflection and product of the times and circumstances in which it is written. B) It describes everything the characters see or gives a complete history of where the scene occurs. C) It gives enough information to help readers understand a text better using its history as background. D) It criticizes historical figures who played part in treachery and betrayal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It criticizes historical figures who played part in treachery and betrayal. 49. Deals more with the process of creating meaning and experiencing a text as we read. A text is an experience, not an object. A) Reader-Response. B) Formalist. C) Combination of Reader and Formalist. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reader-Response. 50. A criticism that argues that social contexts must be considered when analyzing a text. A) Sociological. B) Feminist. C) Marxist. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sociological. 51. It contains the supporting paragraphs where you will provide the facts that prove your main idea and support your thesis. A) Summary. B) Body. C) Conclusion. D) Introduction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Body. 52. Which of the following lines suggests feminism? A) "The souls of women are so small, some believe they have none at all.". B) "I don't chase women, I just sit on my wallet and wait for them to come to me.". C) "A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.". D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.". 53. Some of the types of literary criticism covered in the PowerPoint are Formalist, Feminist, and ..... A) New Historicism. B) Psychoanalytic. C) Structuralist. D) Sociological. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) New Historicism. 54. How many colonizers Philippines had? A) 2. B) 3. C) 4. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3. 55. Reader Response Theory includes the belief that ..... A) Interpretation changes each time that the text is read the text due to experiences. B) Interpretation depends on the structure of the text. C) Meaning is in the text itself. D) Meaning is not emotionally charged. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Interpretation changes each time that the text is read the text due to experiences. 56. According to Reader Response Criticism meaning is created when ..... meet. A) Reader and writer. B) Text and writer. C) Text and reader. D) All of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Text and reader. 57. The title of Philip Sidney's work is ..... A) Poetics. B) An Apology for Poetry. C) Four Kinds of Meaning. D) Defense of Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An Apology for Poetry. 58. The origin of the word "critique" means to ..... A) Summarize. B) Analyze. C) Evaluate. D) Appreciate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Evaluate. 59. If I analyze Wealtheow's power in Beowulf, I am using which type of literary criticism? A) Archetypal. B) Historical. C) Psychoanalytical. D) Feminism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Feminism. 60. What does reception theory do? A) It asks the reader to read the works of a particular era. B) It asks the critic to examine the public's response to works of a particular era. C) It asks the critic to analyze the authors of current era. D) None of them. 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