This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Literary Theory > Literary Theory And Criticism – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Theory And Criticism Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the meaning of the term Hamartia as used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy? A) Tragic end of the tragedy. B) A strong quality in the character of the hero. C) Working of fate against the hero. D) A weak trait in the character of the hero. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A weak trait in the character of the hero. 2. Who called Aristotle "the very Alexander of criticism" ? A) Saintsbury. B) Atkins. C) Murray. D) Tyllard. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Saintsbury. 3. Which of the following texts provides the best example of defamiliarization? A) Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. B) Aristotle's Poetics. C) W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk. D) Leo Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Leo Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata. 4. Who coined the expression "objective corelative" ? A) Coleridge. B) T. S. Eliot. C) Allen Tate. D) F. R. Leavis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) T. S. Eliot. 5. How many times do the word Katharsis appear in the Poetics A) 4. B) 6. C) 2. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2. 6. Formalist critics believe that the value of a work cannot be determined by the author's intention. What term do they use when speaking of this belief? A) The pathetic fallacy. B) The intentional fallacy. C) The affective fallacy. D) The objective correlative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The intentional fallacy. 7. What is humanism? A) An idea traditionally associated with the Renaissance. B) A humanity-centered view of the universe. C) A theory that values restraint, form, and imitation. D) All of the above answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above answers are correct. 8. Which of the following figures is considered to be the father of the linguistic theory known as structuralism? A) Cleanth Brooks. B) Ferdinand de Saussure. C) Karl Marx. D) Toni Morrison. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ferdinand de Saussure. 9. 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. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Neander. 10. This literary critic coined the term "fancy." A) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. B) Carl Jung. C) Matthew Arnold. D) Virginia Woolf. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 11. One of the disadvantages of this school of criticism is that it tends to make readings too subjective. A) Reader Response Criticism. B) Formalist Criticism. C) Historical Criticism. D) These are all equally subjective. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reader Response Criticism. 12. With which theorist is phenomenology associated? A) Edmund Husserl. B) Wolfgang Iser. C) Jean-Paul Sartre. D) All of the above answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above answers are correct. 13. 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) Formalist. B) Reader Response. C) Mimetic. D) Feminist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mimetic. 14. Trauma theory is tremendously influenced by which theoretical school? A) Deconstruction. B) Marxism. C) Psychoanalysis. D) Feminism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Psychoanalysis. 15. He was an influential force in archetypal criticism. A) Freud. B) Richards. C) Tate. D) Jung. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jung. 16. With which theorist is the term implied reader associated? A) Wolfgang Iser. B) Harold Bloom. C) Cleanth Brooks. D) William Wimsatt. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Wimsatt. 17. What is defamiliarization? A) A term that describes how literature exposes its own artificiality. B) An idea explored by Viktor Shklovsky. C) A term that describes the capacity of art to counter the effects of habit. D) All of the above answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above answers are correct. 18. Michael Foucault was the major practitioner of this school of criticism. A) Deconstructionism. B) Formalist Criticism. C) Structuralism. D) Mimetic Criticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Structuralism. 19. According to Aristotle the unravelling of the plot A) Should arise from the circumstances of the plot itself. B) By the choral odes. C) By supernatural machinery. D) By narration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Should arise from the circumstances of the plot itself. 20. Plato used the word mimesis in relation to literature with the meaning A) Criticism of life. B) Representation. C) Interpretation. D) Copying. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Representation. 21. Who is the author of Symposium? A) Plato. B) Longinus. C) Aristotle. D) Dante. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plato. 22. Who made a distinction between Fancy and Imagination? A) Southey. B) Hazlitt. C) Coleridge. D) Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Coleridge. 23. 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. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above answers are correct. 24. Who directed Minsan ma yun Gamo Gamo? A) Eric Gonzales. B) Ninoy Aquino. C) Marina gonsalez. D) Lupina Aquino. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lupina Aquino. 25. Who was the first literary critic who said that "Art is twice removed from reality" ? A) Plato. B) Aristotle. C) Horace. D) Longinus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plato. 26. 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. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above answers are correct. 27. According to Plato, what is the moral purpose of art? A) To connect human beings with a higher ideal. B) To entertain those who enjoy it. C) To criticize society through satire. D) All of the above answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To connect human beings with a higher ideal. 28. To whom "poetry is the spontaneous over-flow of powerful passion." A) Coleridge. B) Keats. C) Shelley. D) Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wordsworth. 29. What is hermeneutics? A) A term that describes the interpretation of meaning. B) A term that describes the effect of autobiography on text. C) A term that describes the absence of racial others in the canon. D) A term that describes the attempt to read homosexuality into literature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A term that describes the interpretation of meaning. 30. Who for the first time discriminated between imagination and fancy? A) William Wordsworth. B) Schegell. C) Coleridge. D) John Ruskin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William Wordsworth. 31. Aristotle's critical work is entitled: A) Art Poetique. B) De Arte Poetica. C) Ars Poetica. D) Poetics. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poetics. 32. Which of the following critics preferred Shakespeare's Comedies to his Tragedies? A) Addison. B) Pope. C) Dryden. D) Dr. Johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dr. Johnson. 33. How many principal sources of sublimity are there according to Longinus? A) Five. B) Three. C) Six. D) Four. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Five. 34. Which school of literary theory shows a particular interest in the role of testimony in literature? A) Trauma theory. B) Chaos theory. C) Ecotheory. D) Formalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trauma theory. 35. 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. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A character whose temper is determined by the predominance of one out of the four fluids in the human body. 36. The Lyrical Ballads was published in A) 1798. B) 1780. C) 1815. D) 1805. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1798. 37. Read the selection:. What is the message of the given part from "I am a Filipino" ? A) Introduction of Filipino. B) Responsibilities of a Filipino. C) Who are the Filipinos before. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Who are the Filipinos before. 38. Who was the originator of the Theory of Imitation in Literature? A) Plato. B) Horace. C) Aristotle. D) Longinus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plato. 39. Who remarked, "Spenser write no language." A) Ben Jonson. B) Arnold. C) Pope. D) Dr. Jhonson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ben Jonson. 40. Who originated the term "objective correlative, " which is often used in formalist criticism? A) Matthew Arnold. B) Virginia Woolf. C) T.S. Eliot. D) C.S. Lewis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) T.S. Eliot. 41. They believe that this approach tends to reduce art to the level of biography and make it relative (to the times) rather than universal. What approach possess this disadvantage? A) Historical/Biographical. B) Formalism/New Criticism. C) Moral/Philosophical. D) Psychological. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Historical/Biographical. 42. Who said "theatre is not a hospital" ? A) J K Atkins. B) F.L. Lucas. C) Hillis Miller. D) Derrida. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) F.L. Lucas. 43. The structure of tragedy according to Aristotle is A) Loose. B) Simple. C) Complex. D) Episodic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Complex. 44. One of the potential disadvantages of this approach to literature is that it can reduce meaning to a certain time frame, rather than making it universal throughout the ages. A) Formalist. B) Mimetic. C) Historical. D) Feminist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Historical. 45. 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) Mary Wolstencraft. B) Elaine Showalter. C) Virginia Woolf. D) Ellen Mores. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elaine Showalter. 46. The phrase "willing suspension of disbelief" applies to which poet/critic? A) Joseph Conrad. B) Coleridge. C) Charles Lamb. D) Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Coleridge. 47. Arnold summarises the rule of English criticism in one word, in The Function Of Criticism. What is the word? A) Disintrestedness. B) Intresedness. C) Purification. D) Civilization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Disintrestedness. 48. The term 'collective unconscious' is coined by A) Ernest Jones. B) Sigmund Freud. C) Carl Jung. D) Erik Erikson. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carl Jung. 49. The fall of the prison of Bacille, that marks the begining of French Revolution occured on..... A) July 14, 1798. B) June 14, 1798. C) July 14, 1789. D) June 14, 1789. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) July 14, 1789. 50. Among the following which is not a work by Aristotle? A) Rhetoric. B) Ars Poetica. C) Metaphysics. D) Ethics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ars Poetica. 51. What is the original meaning of the term Hamartia? A) Tragic flaw. B) Sin. C) Flaws. D) To miss the mark. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To miss the mark. 52. 'On Translating Homer' is written by A) Mathew Arnold. B) William Hazlit. C) Walter Pater. D) T. S. ELiot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mathew Arnold. 53. 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. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. It contains secret instincts and desires that are repressed. 54. Whom did Aristotle consider the most tragic of the Greek dramatists? A) Aeschylus. B) Agathon. C) Euripides. D) Sophocles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Euripides. 55. Which of the following literary theorists is most closely associated with the concept that became known as liberal humanism? A) Aristotle. B) Viktor Shklovsky. C) Stanley Fish. D) Toni Morrison. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aristotle. 56. In which the following works Plato discusses his Theory of Poetry? A) Apology. B) The Republic. C) Ion. D) Phaedrus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Republic. 57. Seven is an archetype associated with: A) Perfection. B) Birth. C) Evil. D) Death. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Perfection. 58. The probable date of composition of Ars Poetica is A) 15 AD. B) 20 AD. C) 100 BC. D) 12 to 8 BC. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 12 to 8 BC. 59. The New Critics were: A) Marxist critics. B) Psychological Critics. C) Formalist critics. D) Feminist critics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Formalist critics. 60. 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. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Culture and Anarchy. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIntroductions QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesLiterary Theory And Criticism Quiz 1Literary Theory And Criticism Quiz 3Literary Theory Post World War Ii QuizLiterary Theory Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books