This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Criticism > Literary Criticism – Quiz 13 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Criticism Quiz 13 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In every family with step-parents, there is always a competition between the new spouse and the children, as shown in Snow White, where the evil-stepmother is jealous of Snow White's beauty. A) Gender Criticism. B) Marxist Criticism. C) Psychoanalytic Criticism. D) New American Criticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Psychoanalytic Criticism. 2. Belinda was delighted when her father drove past his favorite burger joint at lunch. At last he's getting the message about how his diet affects his health, she thought. But just a few minutes later, she was disappointed when he used his cell phone to order fast-food to be delivered soon after they got home.Which of the following can be inferred from the passage above? A) Driving and talking on a cell phone is dangerous. B) Belinda's father drives a truck for a living. C) Belinda thinks her father's diet is not healthy. D) Belinda has a job at a fast-food business. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Belinda thinks her father's diet is not healthy. 3. It refers to the problem in a story. A) Setting. B) Conflict. C) Plot. D) Denouement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conflict. 4. What is Unity of time A) The action has to take place at one point in time. B) Only actions happening in one point in time should be dramatized. C) The entire action of the play should happen within one revolution of the sun. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The entire action of the play should happen within one revolution of the sun. 5. Dante's main area of interest in criticism is A) The function of poetry. B) The proper use of language in poetry. C) The proper language in poetry. D) Literary taste. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The proper language in poetry. 6. .What must the main character be trying to do A) The worst thing to others. B) The right thing. C) The best thing for himself. D) The best thing for everyone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The right thing. 7. 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. 8. 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. 9. 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. 10. 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. 11. 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. 12. What are the permanent emotions called? A) Rasa. B) Bhavas. C) Sthayins. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sthayins. 13. This theory assumes that the text is always heavily influenced by the life, thoughts, and feelings of the author A) Biographical. B) Historical. C) Formalism. D) Post-colonialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biographical. 14. Which theory? This theory looks at universal patterns in literature. A) Archetypal. B) Gender. C) Biographical. D) Historical. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Archetypal. 15. 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. 16. 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. 17. Does the text overtly or subtly ask the reader to sympathize or empathize in any way? A) Biographical. B) Reader-response. C) Mimeticism. D) Intertextuality. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reader-response. 18. 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. 19. A sample question for this theory:What are the archetypes used by the author? A) Formalism. B) Mythological archetypal. C) Post Colonialism. D) Post Modernism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mythological archetypal. 20. It refers to dualisms are very foundations of entire world-views A) Labels. B) Othering. C) Binary oppositions. D) Defamilarization. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Binary oppositions. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIntroductions QuizzesLiterary Criticism Quiz 1Literary Criticism Quiz 2Literary Criticism Quiz 3Literary Criticism Quiz 4Literary Criticism Quiz 5Literary Criticism Quiz 6Literary Criticism Quiz 7Literary Criticism Quiz 8Literary Criticism Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books