This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Theory And Criticism – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Theory And Criticism Quiz 6 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. They believe that this approach tends to reduce art to the level of biography and make it relative (to the times) rather than universal. What approach possess this disadvantage? A) Moral/Philosophical. B) Formalism/New Criticism. C) Historical/Biographical. D) Psychological. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Historical/Biographical. 2. Who said "theatre is not a hospital" ? A) F.L. Lucas. B) J K Atkins. C) Derrida. D) Hillis Miller. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) F.L. Lucas. 3. The structure of tragedy according to Aristotle is A) Simple. B) Complex. C) Loose. D) Episodic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Complex. 4. One of the potential disadvantages of this approach to literature is that it can reduce meaning to a certain time frame, rather than making it universal throughout the ages. A) Formalist. B) Historical. C) Feminist. D) Mimetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Historical. 5. This feminist critic proposed that all female characters in literature are in at least one of the following stages of development: the feminine, feminist, or female stage. A) Virginia Woolf. B) Elaine Showalter. C) Mary Wolstencraft. D) Ellen Mores. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elaine Showalter. 6. The phrase "willing suspension of disbelief" applies to which poet/critic? A) Charles Lamb. B) Joseph Conrad. C) Coleridge. D) Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Coleridge. 7. Arnold summarises the rule of English criticism in one word, in The Function Of Criticism. What is the word? A) Disintrestedness. B) Intresedness. C) Purification. D) Civilization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Disintrestedness. 8. The term 'collective unconscious' is coined by A) Carl Jung. B) Sigmund Freud. C) Ernest Jones. D) Erik Erikson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carl Jung. 9. The fall of the prison of Bacille, that marks the begining of French Revolution occured on..... A) June 14, 1789. B) June 14, 1798. C) July 14, 1789. D) July 14, 1798. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) July 14, 1789. 10. Among the following which is not a work by Aristotle? A) Ethics. B) Metaphysics. C) Rhetoric. D) Ars Poetica. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ars Poetica. 11. What is the original meaning of the term Hamartia? A) To miss the mark. B) Sin. C) Tragic flaw. D) Flaws. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To miss the mark. 12. 'On Translating Homer' is written by A) Mathew Arnold. B) Walter Pater. C) T. S. ELiot. D) William Hazlit. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mathew Arnold. 13. What did Sigmund Freud believe about the unconscious? A) A. It contains secret instincts and desires that are repressed. B) It is the only significant aspect of the human psyche. C) It can never be accessed. D) All of the above answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. It contains secret instincts and desires that are repressed. 14. Whom did Aristotle consider the most tragic of the Greek dramatists? A) Agathon. B) Aeschylus. C) Sophocles. D) Euripides. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Euripides. 15. Which of the following literary theorists is most closely associated with the concept that became known as liberal humanism? A) Aristotle. B) Viktor Shklovsky. C) Stanley Fish. D) Toni Morrison. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aristotle. 16. In which the following works Plato discusses his Theory of Poetry? A) Apology. B) Ion. C) The Republic. D) Phaedrus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Republic. 17. Seven is an archetype associated with: A) Perfection. B) Birth. C) Evil. D) Death. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Perfection. 18. The probable date of composition of Ars Poetica is A) 100 BC. B) 12 to 8 BC. C) 15 AD. D) 20 AD. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 12 to 8 BC. 19. The New Critics were: A) Psychological Critics. B) Feminist critics. C) Formalist critics. D) Marxist critics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Formalist critics. 20. Arnold's views on poetry and criticism are discussed in .....? A) Preface to the Poems. B) On translating Homer. C) "Scholar Gypsy". D) Culture and Anarchy. 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