This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Criticism > Literary Criticism – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Criticism Quiz 4 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A reader who examines recurring themes and motifs that reveal a writer's essential being A) True critic. B) Geneva critic. C) Analyzer. D) None of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Geneva critic. 2. What question might someone doing an historicists criticism ask? A) What social classes do I see represented in the text?. B) Why did the author break the chapters where they did?. C) Does the main character seem similar to other main characters in several other novels I've read?. D) What was going on in the world during the time when the author published the book?. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Does the main character seem similar to other main characters in several other novels I've read?. 3. It is the reader that you think the author had in mind while writing. A) Active reader. B) Implied reader. C) Ideal reader. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Implied reader. 4. A theme is usually expressed as ..... A) An idea, like love, PLUS what I think the author is saying about the idea. B) An idea, like love. C) A quote from the piece, like "I am the darker brother". D) A summary of what the piece is about, like "A man hears what's going on around him and says it's America". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An idea, like love, PLUS what I think the author is saying about the idea. 5. ..... ..... emphasizes the importance of the author's life and background into account when analyzing a text. A) Biographical Criticism. B) Literary Criticism. C) Postcolonial Criticism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biographical Criticism. 6. Which among the following is NOT used in Formalism? A) Literary devices. B) Figures of speech. C) Elements of literature. D) Grammar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Grammar. 7. Main area of interest in Criticism:The function of poetry. A) Hippolyte Adolphe Taine. B) William Wordsworth. C) Matthew Arnold. D) Henry James. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Matthew Arnold. 8. These are the different perspectives we consider when looking at a piece of literature. A) Literary Theories. B) Literary Criticisms. C) Critical approach. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Literary Criticisms. 9. What are some examples of formalist criticism? A) The boy in striped pajamas, book of ruth. B) Thirteen reasons why, lolita. C) Pocahontas, halfway road, mother india. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The boy in striped pajamas, book of ruth. 10. It is a genre of academic writing that briefly summarizes and critically evaluates a work or concept. A) Argumentative. B) Critique. C) Draft. D) Essay. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Critique. 11. Living amongst royalty does not always mean that one is happy and content with their life; for example, in the novel, Snow White, the princess chooses to leave the Kingdom and to live in the woods with the working class dwarves rather than be a part of the oppressive ruling class. A) Gender Criticism. B) Marxist Criticism. C) Psychoanalytic Criticism. D) New American Criticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Marxist Criticism. 12. It didn't take me long to realize that there was something unusual about my new next-door neighbor. My brother Tad and I were kicking a soccer ball around in the front yard when the moving van pulled up. A few minutes later, a car pulled into the driveway and a woman stepped out. Although the day was hot and sunny enough to send trickles of sweat down my back, the woman was all bundled up. She wore a full-length coat over her slacks, and a floppy straw hat swallowed her head. White netting hung down from the hat's brim, hiding her face. Long black gloves topped off her bizarre outfit. Was she just wearing a bunch of her clothes because it was easier than packing them? Or did she have something to hide? She said something to the men in the van, then hurried up to the front door, unlocked it, and disappeared inside. The next morning her car had disappeared into the garage. I never saw it parked outside again. Sometimes after dark, I noticed headlights pulling out of her driveway, even though I hadn't seen her car all day. I decided something suspicious was going on and dug my binoculars out of a box in the closet so I could figure out what. My binoculars didn't help much. All day long, our new neighbor kept her drapes closed. Why would she do that? No matter how carefully I watched, I never saw her venture outside during the day, but sometimes when I looked out of my window at night, I saw her walking by our house. One evening after work, Mom took over some cookies and introduced herself. She said our new neighbor seemed nice. "But why don't we ever see her outside during the day?" I asked. "She's probably too busy, Emily, " my mom answered. "She has her own desktop publishing business." She can't be busy every day, I thought. Why doesn't she come outside? The entire summer passed without our mysterious neighbor stepping foot outside until night blanketed the neighborhood. Finally, Tad asked the question we'd both been thinking but had not dared to ask. "Do you think she could be a vampire?"At the start of the story, Emily is curious because ..... A) Her brother Tad tells her that their new neighbor is strange. B) She sees that her neighbor refuses to speak to the movers. C) She does not see a car pull up when her new neighbor arrives. D) Her new neighbor is dressed in an extremely unusual way. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Her new neighbor is dressed in an extremely unusual way. 13. New Criticism considers text as a A) Cultural Construct. B) Historical Context. C) Autotelic. D) Linguistic Creation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Autotelic. 14. Complete this statement:"Literary Criticism asks what literature is, what is does, and ..... " A) What its purpose. B) What is its genre. C) What it is worth. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) What it is worth. 15. Aristotle requires what types of emotions to be purged? A) Fear & joy. B) Pity& joy. C) Joy & terror. D) Pity & fear. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pity & fear. 16. A Criticism that views a text as a revelation of its author's mind and personality. It is based on the work of Sigmund Freud. A) Psychological. B) Physiological. C) Phsycological. D) Physio analysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Psychological. 17. According to Plato poetry is ..... A) Imitation of an imitation. B) Imitation of reality. C) Imitation of the world. D) Imitation of the Divine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imitation of an imitation. 18. Name the work by Longinus? A) On the Sublime. B) Sublime. C) The History of Literary Criticism. D) Sublime and Thought. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) On the Sublime. 19. His catchphrase is a work of art is the result of given causes". A) William Wordsworth. B) Plato. C) Hippolyte Adolphe Taine. D) Matthew Arnold. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hippolyte Adolphe Taine. 20. It concerns about the emotions of the readers when reading a text A) Formalism. B) Reader-Response. C) Structuralism. D) Mythological-Archetypal Approach. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reader-Response. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIntroductions QuizzesLiterary Criticism Quiz 1Literary Criticism Quiz 2Literary Criticism Quiz 3Literary Criticism Quiz 5Literary Criticism Quiz 6Literary Criticism Quiz 7Literary Criticism Quiz 8Literary Criticism Quiz 9Literary Criticism Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books