This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Criticism > Literary Criticism – Quiz 16 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Criticism Quiz 16 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. According to Reader Response Criticism meaning is created when ..... meet. A) Reader and writer. B) Text and writer. C) Text and reader. D) All of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Text and reader. 2. The title of Philip Sidney's work is ..... A) Defense of Poetry. B) Four Kinds of Meaning. C) An Apology for Poetry. D) Poetics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An Apology for Poetry. 3. The origin of the word "critique" means to ..... A) Analyze. B) Appreciate. C) Evaluate. D) Summarize. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Evaluate. 4. If I analyze Wealtheow's power in Beowulf, I am using which type of literary criticism? A) Feminism. B) Historical. C) Archetypal. D) Psychoanalytical. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Feminism. 5. What does reception theory do? A) It asks the reader to read the works of a particular era. B) It asks the critic to examine the public's response to works of a particular era. C) It asks the critic to analyze the authors of current era. D) None of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It asks the critic to examine the public's response to works of a particular era. 6. This school of literary criticism focuses on how writing has been affected by the imperial process throughout history A) Marxism. B) Post-colonialism. C) Feminism. D) Psychoanalytical. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Post-colonialism. 7. 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. 8. A sample question for this theory:Did you like the story? A) Reader Response. B) Moral Philosophical. C) Formalism. D) Structuralism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reader Response. 9. 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) Reader-Response. B) Marxism. C) Historical. D) Formalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Historical. 10. 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) Feminism. B) Marxism. C) Historical. D) Formalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Marxism. 11. Anagornsis can be best defined as A) Tragic flaw. B) Recognition. C) Tragic flaw. D) Reversal of fortune. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Recognition. 12. I. A Richards elaborated on the aspects of human utterances, select the correct combination of aspects A) Sense, Humour, Epic, Feeling. B) Sense, Feeling, Tone, Intention. C) Tone, Feeling, Epic, Sense. D) Feeling, Humour, Intention, Epic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sense, Feeling, Tone, Intention. 13. 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. 14. What is the beginning sound of Octopus? A) /a/. B) /o/. C) /i/. D) /u/. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) /o/. 15. ..... ..... 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. 16. What type of criticism deals with social issues that were happening during the time period in which the piece was published? A) Formalist criticism. B) Marxist criticism. C) Reader Response criticism. D) Historical criticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Historical criticism. 17. Who said this-Justice is rendering each man his due-benefits to friends and harm to enemies A) Thrasymachus. B) Polemarchus. C) Glaucon. D) Socrates. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Polemarchus. 18. A critic who focuses on diction would be looking through what type of lens? A) Historical. B) Archetypal. C) Formalist. D) Reader-response. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Formalist. 19. Why was Socrates killed? A) They found that he plagiarized from other philosophers. B) He taught students how to think for themselves, which was viewed as problematic. C) He committed treason against Athens. D) He stole military weapons from Sparta. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He taught students how to think for themselves, which was viewed as problematic. 20. Plato condemned all literature because ..... A) It makes men lazy. B) It stirs up the passions-lust, desire, pain, anger-rather than nurtures the intellect. C) It makes one imagine things. D) It entertains. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It stirs up the passions-lust, desire, pain, anger-rather than nurtures the intellect. ← 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