This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Theory And Criticism – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Theory And Criticism Quiz 7 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What approach to literary criticism requires the critic to know about the author's life and times? A) Historical. B) Formalist. C) Mimetic. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Historical. 2. In which book of the Republic did Plato ban poets from his ideal world? A) Book 7. B) Book 10. C) Book 1. D) Book 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Book 10. 3. 'Gynocriticism' is associated with A) Elaine Showalter. B) Ellen Moors. C) Julia Kristeva. D) Kate Millet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elaine Showalter. 4. In which chapter of Biographia Literaria Coleridge criticize the theory of language of Wordsworth? A) 16. B) 17. C) 14. D) 15. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 14. 5. This poet might be described as a moral or philosophical critic for arguing that works must have "high seriousness." A) T.S. Eliot. B) Matthew Arnold. C) Elizabeth Browning. D) Virginia Woolf. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Matthew Arnold. 6. In a Freudian approach to literature, concave images are usually seen as: A) Female symbols. B) Phallic symbols. C) Male symbols. D) Evidence of an Oedipus complex. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Female symbols. 7. Who accused Aristotle of social snobbishness and arrogance? A) Willy Loman. B) Arthur Miller. C) Henry James. D) David. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Arthur Miller. 8. Identify the bust of Plato A) . B) . C) . D) . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) . 9. Who is this very famous English Romantic Poet? A) Lord Byron. B) John Keats. C) P.B. Shelley. D) William Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Keats. 10. Dryden wrote An Essay of Dramatic Poesy. Is this? A) An Essay. B) A Drama. C) A Poetical Work. D) An Interlocution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An Interlocution. 11. The concept of otherness is related to which of the following theories? A) Psychoanalytic theory. B) Feminist theory. C) Ethnic criticism. D) All of the above answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above answers are correct. 12. Plato's Republic is written in the form of A) Drama. B) Narrative mode. C) Poetry. D) Dialogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dialogue. 13. Sublimity has A) 2 sources. B) 3 sources. C) 4 sources. D) 5 sources. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 5 sources. 14. Regarding the observance of the three Classical Unities in a play, Dr. Johnson's view is that: A) Only the Unity of Time should be observed. B) Only the Unity of Place should be observed. C) Only the Unity of Action should be observed. D) All the three Unities should be observed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Only the Unity of Action should be observed. 15. The name "Ars Poetica" (Art of Poetry) was given to Horace's Epistle to the Pisos by A) Horace. B) Quintillion. C) Cicero. D) Virgil. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quintillion. 16. Who coined the term 'esemplastic'? A) William Worsworth. B) Browning. C) Coleridge. D) Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Coleridge. 17. The term Electra Complex has originated from a tragedy entitled Electra. Who is the author of his tragedy? A) Aeschylus. B) Sophocles. C) Euripides. D) Seneca. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sophocles. 18. Plato equated poetry with painting, and Aristotle equated it with A) Drama. B) Music. C) Dance. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Music. 19. Who contributed the term "to see the object as in itself it really is" ? A) Wordsworth. B) Coleridge. C) Arnold. D) Goethe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Arnold. 20. What is phenomenology? A) The examination of structures informing our conscious experience. B) The examination of desires informing our consciousness. C) The examination of our unconscious experience. D) The examination of intricate structures within our unconscious. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The examination of structures informing our conscious experience. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesLiterary Theory And Criticism Quiz 1Literary Theory And Criticism Quiz 2Literary Theory And Criticism Quiz 3Literary Theory And Criticism Quiz 4Literary Theory And Criticism Quiz 5Literary Theory And Criticism Quiz 6Literary Theory And Criticism Quiz 8Literary Theory And Criticism Quiz 9Elements Of Literature QuizEnglish Literature (1) QuizEnglish Literature QuizIntroduction To Literary Studies QuizLiterary Criticism QuizLiterary Devices QuizLiterary Genres QuizLiterary Movements QuizLiterary Studies QuizLiterary Techniques QuizLiterary Themes QuizLiterary Theory Post World War Ii QuizLiterary Theory QuizLiterature Terms QuizLiterature Vocabulary QuizMiscelleneous Questions QuizOverview Of English Literature QuizResearch Methods And Materials In English QuizTheme In Literature Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books