This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Theory > Structuralism > Structuralism – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Structuralism Quiz 4 (42 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. THE FOLLOWING ARE EXAMPLES OF FUNCTIONALISM EXCEPT? A) OBEYING THE SPEED LIMIT. B) PUTTING YOUR PHONE AWAY WHEN A TEACHER WALKS BY. C) FINDING OUT CAUSES OF BEHAVIOR. D) THOUGHTS WHILE PERFORMING A TASK. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) THOUGHTS WHILE PERFORMING A TASK. 2. Structuralism can be difined as a methodology which explores SIGNS & CULTURE structure A) Wrong. B) Right. C) May be. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Right. 3. What is your real life like compared to your facebook page? A) It turns history into nature, a system of signs into a system of facts. B) Much more complex, you are not always smiling. C) When buying products that support your "identity" but are at the same time involved in hurting other people. D) They are just like you, but nothing like you at all. They are just like you because they eat dogs, but they are nothing like you because, like a god, their eating hot dogs is newsworthy. E) They promote a narrative about themselves:I eat trendy, healthy, portable foods in fun places like parks. I travel, I am active and fun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Much more complex, you are not always smiling. 4. Introduced a distinction between form, substance and purport (or 'matter'). A) Saussure. B) L. Hjelmslev. C) Sapir. D) R. Jakobson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) L. Hjelmslev. 5. The following are examples of teaching literature in a structuralist viewpoint, except for ..... A) Asking the sequence or plot of the story. B) Asking student's perception on what he/she read. C) Asking for the historical context of the narrative text. D) Asking for the symbolism used in the poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Asking for the historical context of the narrative text. 6. It appears that it describes the notion of a structure in a somewhat circular manner A) Nomalism. B) Ante Rem Structuralism. C) Platonism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ante Rem Structuralism. 7. Stream of Conscious Thought A) Random thoughts as they come and go from our minds. B) A list of things I need to focus on today. C) A little creek that flows from the mountains while I daydream. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Random thoughts as they come and go from our minds. 8. In doing the structuralism approach, the critic may find it difficult to know who controls the meaning of the text. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 9. Structuralism studies literature A) Diachronically. B) Synchronically. C) In a round-about way. D) Through aporias. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Synchronically. 10. Empiricism:the idea that knowledge comes from our senses and we can test with experiments. A) John Locke. B) Sigmund Freud. C) Plato. D) Aristotle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Locke. 11. Sebastian read the novel The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. His teacher gives them a seatwork which he will analyze or criticize the story as a structure of words while disregarding the details of Fitzgerald's life and the social and historical contexts of the novel. A) Formalism. B) Structuralism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Formalism. 12. What percentage of people in the UK engage with magazine brands in print or online? A) 75. B) 65. C) 71. D) 61. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 71. 13. What is Lenin known for? A) His role in the Russian revolution. B) His views on imperialism. C) His theory of history and critique of capitalism. D) His analysis of the financial crisis of 2007. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His views on imperialism. 14. What is the main goal of the World Trade Organization (WTO)? A) To promote free trade and resolve trade disputes between nations. B) To protect the interests of developing countries and reduce income inequality. C) To regulate global financial markets and prevent economic crises. D) To promote the interests of multinational corporations and increase their profits. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To promote free trade and resolve trade disputes between nations. 15. When presidential candidates and celebrities are shown in the media, what message about them is delivered? A) They do not exist outside the systems we use to make sense of things. B) It showed that the African colonies enjoyed being oppressed, serving France, and embracing their identity as French instead of as Africans. Thus, that French imperialism is good, that France is unified despite that many people think that what the French govt was doing was not right. C) When buying products that support your "identity" but are at the same time involved in hurting other people. D) They are just like you, but nothing like you at all. They are just like you because they eat dogs, but they are nothing like you because, like a god, their eating hot dogs is newsworthy. E) They promote a narrative about themselves:I eat trendy, healthy, portable foods in fun places like parks. I travel, I am active and fun. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They are just like you, but nothing like you at all. They are just like you because they eat dogs, but they are nothing like you because, like a god, their eating hot dogs is newsworthy. 16. Denies that any concrete physical system is the unique intended interpretation of analysis A) Nominalist structuralist. B) Ante Rem Structuralist. C) Platonist. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nominalist structuralist. 17. What is imperialism according to Lenin? A) The tendency of profits to decline and eventually disappear over time. B) The unequal distribution of income within nations. C) The expansion of control by advanced capitalist core states over colonial regions. D) The heavy investment in production leading to overproduction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The expansion of control by advanced capitalist core states over colonial regions. 18. If I analyse the role of women in Shakespeare's Hamlet and Homer's Odyssey, which literary theory am I using? A) Formalism and Structuralism. B) Historicism. C) Structuralism. D) Feminism and Structuralism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Feminism and Structuralism. 19. It is a theory in the philosophy of mathematics that holds that mathematical theories describe structures of mathematical objects. A) Nomalism. B) Structuralism. C) Platonism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Structuralism. 20. Focusing on our own thoughts and feelings in order to answer questions A) Introspection. B) Self absorption. C) Sensation and feeling. D) Aristotle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Introspection. 21. Who insists that a text is 'a multi dimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash? A) Saussure. B) Barthes. C) Derrida. D) Strauss. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Barthes. 22. The everyday calculations we do-from prices in shops to simple totaling-is an instance of A) Linguisitc Performance. B) Parole. C) Language. D) Structuralism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parole. 23. According to structuralists, who controls individuals' lives? A) Social forces. B) Political organizations. C) Themselves. D) Religious organizations. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Social forces. 24. Which of the following is a key method used in structuralism? A) Psychoanalysis. B) Behaviorism. C) Naturalistic observation. D) Introspection. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Introspection. 25. He published a paradigm changing article entitled "What Numbers Could Not Be" . A) Parsons. B) Benacerraf. C) Quine. D) Golde. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Benacerraf. 26. What is the focus of interpretivists in sociology? A) Society controlling individuals' lives. B) Macro scale. C) Social structures and institutions. D) Individual actions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Individual actions. 27. In doing structuralism, the critic should not focus on the deep and other hidden structures but must analyze the surface manifestations of meaning. A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) FALSE. 28. GATHERING INFORMATION WHILE A PERSON IS PERFORMING A TASK IN AN EXAMPLE OF? A) BEHAVIORISM. B) INTROSPECTION. C) STRUCTURALISM. D) FUNCTIONALISM. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) INTROSPECTION. 29. Shapiro and Resnik hold that all mathematical theories, even non-algebraic ones, describe ..... A) System. B) Structures. C) Non-algebraic theories. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Structures. 30. Which of the following fact about Structuralism is not correct? A) It studies literature synchronically. B) It is like a science. C) It seeks to analyze the underlying structure. D) It deals with the surface structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It deals with the surface structure. 31. Which of the following statements is true regarding the relationship between structuralism and functionalism? A) Structuralism and functionalism are essentially the same approach. B) Structuralism and functionalism represent contrasting approaches to psychology. C) Structuralism is a subfield of functionalism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Structuralism and functionalism represent contrasting approaches to psychology. 32. Formalism can be easily applied to most text. A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) TRUE. 33. Which field of study has strong ties to structuralism? A) C) Elements of the mental framework. B) D) the psychology of humanism. C) B) Psychodynamic theory. D) A Functionalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) D) the psychology of humanism. 34. Who introduced the term glosematics A) Sapir. B) Saussure. C) R. Jakobson. D) Louis Hjelmslev. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Louis Hjelmslev. 35. Structuralists are believing that if readers don't understand the signs, they may misread a text. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 36. In Literature, Structuralism focusses on A) The relationship between the elements of language. B) The genre of the text. C) The perception of the reader. D) The relationship between the elements of the text. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The relationship between the elements of the text. 37. It is the term used to describe the abstract system of language in the structuralism approach of literary criticism. A) Dialogic. B) Language. C) Parole. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Language. 38. Functionalism was influenced by the works of: A) B.F. Skinner. B) Ivan Pavlov. C) Wilhelm Wundt. D) Charles Darwin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wilhelm Wundt. 39. Vladimir Propp's "Morphology of the Folk Tale" deals with ..... generic characters A) 7. B) 5. C) 8. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 7. 40. Who is considered the founder of structuralism? A) Sigmund Freud. B) William James. C) Wilhelm Wundt. D) John Watson. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wilhelm Wundt. 41. The one who introduced the two dominant models (SIGNIFIER and SIGNIFIED). A) Ferdinand de Saussure. B) Ferdinand de Saussure. C) Ferdinand de Saussure. D) Ferdie's sure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ferdinand de Saussure. 42. Which theorist states that cultural industries minimise risk and maximise audience through vertical and horizontal integration? A) Gauntlett. B) Curran and Seaton. C) Hesmondhalgh. D) Levi Strauss. 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