This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Literary Criticism > Literary Criticism – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Criticism Quiz 6 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. This school of literary criticism focuses on how writing has been affected by the imperial process throughout history A) Marxism. B) Feminism. C) Psychoanalytical. D) Post-colonialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Post-colonialism. 2. What is the meaning of post colonial criticism? A) Focuses on the study of cultural behavior and expression in relationship to the colonized world. B) Language, structure, & tone. C) Generally focused on how the reader responds to the text. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Focuses on the study of cultural behavior and expression in relationship to the colonized world. 3. A sample question for this theory:Did you like the story? A) Reader Response. B) Structuralism. C) Formalism. D) Moral Philosophical. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reader Response. 4. Identify which approach is used for this literary criticism:THE MOVIE, MIRACLE IN CELL NO. 7, IS BASED FROM A TRUE STORY AS EXPERIENCED BY THE WRITER. A) Historical. B) Marxism. C) Formalism. D) Reader-Response. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Historical. 5. If you were to ask yourself:" Does the work suggest a solution to society's class conflicts?" which critical lens would you be using? A) Historical. B) Formalism. C) Marxism. D) Feminism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Marxism. 6. Anagornsis can be best defined as A) Recognition. B) Tragic flaw. C) Reversal of fortune. D) Tragic flaw. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Recognition. 7. I. A Richards elaborated on the aspects of human utterances, select the correct combination of aspects A) Tone, Feeling, Epic, Sense. B) Feeling, Humour, Intention, Epic. C) Sense, Feeling, Tone, Intention. D) Sense, Humour, Epic, Feeling. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sense, Feeling, Tone, Intention. 8. Where do we base the critical theories in doing literary criticism? A) The text. B) The rhetorical triangle. C) The reader and the author. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The rhetorical triangle. 9. What is the beginning sound of Octopus? A) /o/. B) /a/. C) /i/. D) /u/. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) /o/. 10. ..... ..... attempts to explain and evaluate literature. Critics attempt to create meaning by examining many factors. A) Literary criticism. B) Short Story. C) Postcolonial Criticism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Literary criticism. 11. What type of criticism deals with social issues that were happening during the time period in which the piece was published? A) Reader Response criticism. B) Marxist criticism. C) Formalist criticism. D) Historical criticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Historical criticism. 12. Who said this-Justice is rendering each man his due-benefits to friends and harm to enemies A) Socrates. B) Thrasymachus. C) Polemarchus. D) Glaucon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Polemarchus. 13. A critic who focuses on diction would be looking through what type of lens? A) Archetypal. B) Reader-response. C) Formalist. D) Historical. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Formalist. 14. Why was Socrates killed? A) He taught students how to think for themselves, which was viewed as problematic. B) They found that he plagiarized from other philosophers. C) He stole military weapons from Sparta. D) He committed treason against Athens. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He taught students how to think for themselves, which was viewed as problematic. 15. Plato condemned all literature because ..... A) It makes men lazy. B) It makes one imagine things. C) It stirs up the passions-lust, desire, pain, anger-rather than nurtures the intellect. D) It entertains. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It stirs up the passions-lust, desire, pain, anger-rather than nurtures the intellect. 16. Which of the following movies shows oppression of the poor? A) Les Miserables. B) Frozen. C) Life of Pi. D) E.T. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Les Miserables. 17. What was IA Richards' contribution in Reader Response Theory? A) He asked his students at cambridge to write main themes of selected novels. B) He asked his students at cambridge to read about lives of writers of that era. C) He asked his students at cambridge to write responses to short stories. D) He asked his students at cambridge to write responses to short poems. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He asked his students at cambridge to write responses to short poems. 18. Name the patient in Freud's case study officially titled ' Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria' A) Dora. B) Katherine. C) Anna O. D) Nancy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dora. 19. Who said this-Justice is the same thing everywhere, the advantage of the stronger A) Thrasymachus. B) Glaucon. C) Socrates. D) Polemarchus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thrasymachus. 20. Close Reading Criticism was about the ..... itself. A) Text. B) Author. C) Meaning. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Text. 21. The parts of a soul according to Plato are A) Ruler, Army, Traders. B) Id, Ego, Superego. C) Wisdom, Courage, Moderation, Justice. D) Reason, Spirit, Desire. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reason, Spirit, Desire. 22. Why is it important to criticize a literary piece? A) Helps to have a better sense of the work and form judgement about literature. B) Allows study different points of view. C) Enables judge if A certain literary work is worth reading. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 23. Which of the following items in King Arthur represent an archetype? A) Excalibur. B) Damsel in distress. C) The quest. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 24. A story is described as historical if ..... A) It is based on real people or events from the past. B) The action takes place over the course of many years. C) The characters learn from their past experiences. D) The writer lived many years ago. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is based on real people or events from the past. 25. What archetypes do we find in Alice in Wonderland? A) Outlaw. B) Fairy god mother. C) Orphan girl. D) Wise old man. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wise old man. 26. Carlito was assumed by the american army as what? A) Pig. B) Grasshopper. C) Wild flower. D) Wild boar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wild boar. 27. Do places where the author grew up appear in his or her work? A) Reader-response. B) Mimeticism. C) Biographical. D) Intertextuality. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biographical. 28. Which of the below is an example of a simile? A) My dad is a teddy bear. B) She was a crazy person. C) Her heart smiled. D) The weight was as light as a feather. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The weight was as light as a feather. 29. One of the strengths of Feminist Criticism is ..... A) It ignores the author's intentions. B) It only examines one element of the text. C) It examines how women are represented. D) It divorces literature from its larger cultural context. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It examines how women are represented. 30. What are the initials of Emily's partner? A) RH. B) HR. C) HB. D) BH. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) HB. 31. Who, in his 'The Great Tradition' talked of a canon of the English novel form which enshrined the artistic and creative abilities of specific authors, whilst at the same time praising their moral seriousness and weight? A) F. R Leavis. B) Derrida. C) ST Coleridge. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) F. R Leavis. 32. They are said to be the greatest colonizers. A) American. B) Japanese. C) Spanish. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) American. 33. What is the Sanskrit term for realism used in the Natyasastra? A) Lokadharmi. B) Natyadharmi. C) Bhava. D) Karana. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lokadharmi. 34. The theory of 'mirror stage' is associated with? A) Claude Levi-Strauss. B) Sigmund Freud. C) Jacques Derrida. D) Jacques Lacan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jacques Lacan. 35. Which is the approach that focuses only on the work itself and disregards any connection such as the author? A) Reader-response Criticism. B) Formalist Criticism. C) Deconstructionist Criticism. D) Inter-textual Criticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Formalist Criticism. 36. If you were to ask yourself " What types of roles do women have in the text?", which critical lens are you using? A) Reader Response. B) Feminism. C) Post-colonialism. D) Marxism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Feminism. 37. What is the nearest cause of death of Emily's Father? A) He was poisoned by Emily. B) He had his stiff neck. C) He was murdered by guards. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He was poisoned by Emily. 38. ..... defined itself as the scientific and objective study of texts, using what was seen as textual data and employing its own terminology. A) Formalism. B) Stylistics. C) Close Reading. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stylistics. 39. Plot is compared to a ..... by Aristotle. A) Complete. B) Organism. C) Sword. D) Table. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Organism. 40. What question might someone doing an archetypal criticism ask? A) What social classes do I see represented in the text?. B) Why did the author break the chapters where they did?. C) Does the main character seem similar to other main characters in several other novels I've read?. D) What was going on in the world during the time when the author published the book?. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Does the main character seem similar to other main characters in several other novels I've read?. 41. ..... ..... argues that because there is no single meaning of any word, there is no single meaning of any text. A) Deconstructionist criticism. B) Construction criticism. C) Good criticism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deconstructionist criticism. 42. Examines a text as independent from its time period, social setting, and author's background. A text is an independent entity. A) Historical. B) Marxist. C) Feminist. D) Formalist. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Formalist. 43. The Criticism that asserts that a great deal of meaning in a text lies with how the reader responds to it. A) Reading-Response. B) Reader-Response. C) Reading-Response. D) Responsive-Reading. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reader-Response. 44. It means a reflection of reality. A) Mimesis. B) Catharsis. C) Purgation. D) Hubris. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mimesis. 45. The three arts forms concerned with everything are A) The writer's, the reader's, the imitator's. B) The user's, the maker's, the imitator's. C) The creator's, the maker's, the imitator's. D) The user's, the architect's, the doer's. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The user's, the maker's, the imitator's. 46. The value of a commodity can be objectively measured by the average number of labor hours required to produce that commodity A) Proletariat. B) Communism. C) Labor Theory of Value. D) Socialist realism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Labor Theory of Value. 47. ' Dialogics' is associated with A) Bakhtin. B) Plato. C) Aristotle. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bakhtin. 48. It concerns about the learnings/lessons from the milieu of the text. A) Formalism. B) Structuralism. C) Reader Response. D) Moral Philosophical. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Moral Philosophical. 49. Which philosopher proclaims 'I think therefore I am'. A) Aristotle. B) Voltair. C) Descartes. D) Socrates. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Descartes. 50. Which among the following is not one of Plato's three main beliefs? A) Philosophers should run the government. B) Democracy is dysfunctional, or not a good form of government. C) There is a real perfect form of everything, and everything else is an imitation. D) We should question everything that happens within our lives. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) We should question everything that happens within our lives. 51. Criticizing "Upuan" by Gloc 9 from the perception of Gloria's regime as the Philippine President. A) Archetypal. B) Biological. C) Sociological. D) Historical. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Historical. 52. Why can the Greek orators be called the ancestors of Reader Response Theory? A) Because of their concern for how to persuade an audience. B) Because of the invention of Catharsis. C) Because of their analytical approach. D) All of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because of their concern for how to persuade an audience. 53. Who among the following belong to Anglo-American Feminism? A) Kate Millet. B) Elaine Showalter. C) Germaine Greer. D) All of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of them. 54. C. K. Ogden and I.A. Richards were reputed in 1930s for introducing A) New Criticism. B) Standard English Project. C) Practical Criticism. D) New English Project. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Practical Criticism. 55. It is a process when you consider how a text has been put together-you dissect it, more or less, to see how it works. A) Analyze. B) Conclusion. C) Summarize. D) Discussion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Analyze. 56. Which of the following responses to a story is the most specific? A) I didn't like the story. It wasn't interesting. Nothing much happened. B) I liked the characters. They seemed like nice people. The main character was especially nice. C) I didn't like the plot. It wasn't clear why events took place, so the story wasn't logical. D) I liked the characters, and the plot was good. This was a great story. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I didn't like the plot. It wasn't clear why events took place, so the story wasn't logical. 57. What aspects or characters of the text do you identify with, and how does this process of identification affect your response to the text? A) Intertextuality. B) Biographical. C) Reader-response. D) Mimeticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reader-response. 58. A sample question for this theory:How is the text influenced by other texts? A) Post Modernism. B) Structuralism. C) Formalism. D) Post Colonialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Structuralism. 59. What is the term used by Aristotle for "recognition" or " discovery" in a tragedy. A) Hamartia. B) Anagnorisis. C) Peripetia. D) Mimesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anagnorisis. 60. Hamartia is a moral fault . A) Yes. B) No. C) May be. D) None of above. 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