This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Literary Theory > Literary Theory Post World War Ii – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Theory Post World War Ii Quiz 1 (31 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Do feminist literary critics analyze and critique archaic texts A) No. B) Maybe. C) Yes. D) I don't know. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Yes. 2. If you were looking at a work closely for literary devices, repetition, syntax, punctuation, etc., which critical lens are you most likely using? A) Formalism. B) Historical. C) Reader Response. D) Biographical. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Formalism. 3. If you were to write an essay about exposing the patriarchal ideology what literary theory would it be? A) Marxism. B) Feminism. C) Formalism. D) Reader Response. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Feminism. 4. What does the formalist perspective concentrate on? A) Forming a list. B) Bourgeoisie. C) Form. D) How the reader responds to the literature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Form. 5. Which of the following schools of literary criticism did we use to analyze "The Destructors" ? A) Post-colonialism. B) Psychoanalytical. C) Marxism. D) Feminism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Marxism. 6. Who is the Psychological literary theory based of off? A) Carl Jung. B) Siegfried Roy. C) Sigmund Freud. D) Figmund Sreud. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sigmund Freud. 7. Feminist literary theory could be described as ..... A) The struggles women face in society and the ways these struggles are reflected and questioned (or not) in literature. B) Criticising male characters in literature. C) Focusing only on stories with strong female role models. D) A relatively new theory, from 2000 onwards. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The struggles women face in society and the ways these struggles are reflected and questioned (or not) in literature. 8. Fowler's decision to pursue Phuong can be described as a triumph of which aspect of Psychoanalysis? A) ID. B) Instinct. C) Ego. D) Super Ego. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ID. 9. What happens when the Ego is too strong? A) Extremely guilty all the time. B) Extremely rational and efficient, but cold, boring, and distant. C) Extremely selfish and uncaring. D) Extremely rational and insufferable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Extremely rational and efficient, but cold, boring, and distant. 10. In terms of Psychoanalysis, which of the following refers to the product of the conflict we feel between what we desire and what society tells us we cannot have A) Eggo Waffle. B) Superego. C) Ego. D) Id. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ego. 11. Who is the author of "A Rose for Emily" ? A) William Faulkner. B) Ernest Hemingway. C) Charlotte Perkins Gilman. D) F. Scott Fitzgerald. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William Faulkner. 12. What novels had been analyzed in the presentation A) Wife's bath tale, sir Gaiwan and the Green Knight, Macbeth, how to talk to girls at parties. B) A vindication devoted for women's right, the yellow wallpaper, a literature of their own and othello. C) Othello, the feminine mystique, the bell jar and the color purple. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A vindication devoted for women's right, the yellow wallpaper, a literature of their own and othello. 13. What happens when the ID is too strong? A) Feels guilty all the time. B) Turns into the hulk. C) Extremely rational and efficient, but cold, boring, and distant. D) Bound up in self-gratification, selfishness and uncaring towards others. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bound up in self-gratification, selfishness and uncaring towards others. 14. Which of the following schools of literary criticism did we use to analyze "Interpreter of Maladies" ? A) Psychoanalytical. B) Formalism. C) Formalist. D) Post-Colonial. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Post-Colonial. 15. Who is the author of "Indian Camp" ? A) F. Scott Fitzgerald. B) Ernest Hemingway. C) Charlotte Perkins Gilman. D) William Faulkner. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ernest Hemingway. 16. What is the first phase women had gone through in writing according to Elain Showalter A) Feminist phase. B) Female phase. C) Feminine phase. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Feminine phase. 17. What does the Reader Response literary theory focus on? A) Focuses upon the active response of the reader to a text. B) Focuses on the theoretical framework. C) Focuses on the Bourgeoisie & the Proletariat. D) Focuses on prevailing concepts of gender. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Focuses upon the active response of the reader to a text. 18. What are the 3 functional aspects to the mind according to Freud? A) Id, Superduperego, Ego. B) It, Superego, Ego. C) Id, Superego, Ego. D) Id, Superego, Eggo. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Id, Superego, Ego. 19. This school of literary criticism is concerned with gender identities and the traditional view in which the role of women is negated or minimized A) Post-colonialism. B) Biographical. C) Feminism. D) Reader Response. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Feminism. 20. Which of the following schools of literary criticism did we use to analyze "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" ? A) Psychoanalytical. B) Post-colonialism. C) Feminism. D) Marxism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Marxism. 21. Post Colonialism could be described as the study of ..... A) The break up of Empires. B) Racism. C) How literature has traditionally marginalised the experiences of non western people. D) How literature has traditionally marginalised the experiences of non male Westerners. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) How literature has traditionally marginalised the experiences of non western people. 22. What happens when the Superego is too strong? A) Becomes the primitive mind. B) Stores and enforces rules. C) Feeling guilty all the time; insufferable saintly personality. D) Becomes the moral part of the mind. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Feeling guilty all the time; insufferable saintly personality. 23. Marxist literary theory could be described as ..... A) Focusing on the struggles between social classes and those who oppress and those are oppressed. B) Focusing on communism. C) A criticism of any rich characters. D) Being irrelevant after 1991. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Focusing on the struggles between social classes and those who oppress and those are oppressed. 24. Which of the following schools of literary criticism did we use to analyze "The Story of an Hour" ? A) Reader Response. B) Psychoanalytical. C) Formalism. D) Biographical. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Psychoanalytical. 25. This school of literary criticism claims that literature presents a masculine-patriarchal view in which the role of women is negated or minimized A) Feminism. B) Post-colonialism. C) Biographical. D) Reader Response. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Feminism. 26. In terms of Psychoanalysis, which of the following refers to the psychological reservoir of our instincts devoted to gratifying all our prohibited desires? A) Id. B) Waldo. C) Superego. D) Ego. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Id. 27. This school of literary theory focuses on the language of the text, and not at all on the author's life or the culture in which the work is created A) Formalism. B) Biographical. C) Post-colonialism. D) Psychoanalytical. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Formalism. 28. Name two other things that a Formalist look for in literature? A) Diction & Unity. B) Symbolism & Allusions. C) Id, Superego and Ego. D) Metaphor & Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Diction & Unity. 29. This school of literary criticism claims that the text is always influenced by time period and culture A) Post-colonialism. B) Historical. C) Biographical. D) Formalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Historical. 30. If you were to ask yourself: "What unconscious motives are operating in the main characters?" which critical lens would you be using? A) Post-colonialism. B) Feminism. C) Psychoanalytical. D) Reader Response. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Psychoanalytical. 31. What are the 2 classes of the Marxism theory? A) The Pourgeoisie & The Boor. B) Property Owners & Sales People. C) The Bourgeoisie & The Proletariat. D) The Bourgeoisie & The Poor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Bourgeoisie & The Proletariat. Related QuizzesIntroductions QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesLiterary Theory And Criticism QuizLiterary Theory Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books