This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Theory > Literary Theory And Criticism – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Theory And Criticism Quiz 1 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Trauma theory primarily developed out of the work of which psychoanalyst? A) Sigmund Freud. B) Carl Jung. C) Michel Foucault. D) Jacques Derrida. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sigmund Freud. 2. With which theorist is the term identity thinking most closely associated? A) Sigmund Freud. B) Carl Jung. C) William James. D) Theodor W. Adorno. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theodor W. Adorno. 3. Who coined the term New Historicism? A) Jacques Derrida. B) Terry Eagleton. C) Fredric Jameson. D) Stephen Greenblatt. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stephen Greenblatt. 4. According to Aristotle pity and fear are evoked by A) Comedy. B) Tragedy. C) Satire. D) Melodrama. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tragedy. 5. What is dialogism? A) A term developed by Mikhail Bakhtin. B) A term used to describe how texts include a variety of styles. C) A term used to explain the use of multiple points of view in literature. D) All of the above answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above answers are correct. 6. Twelve delicious means ..... A) Delighting and entertaining. B) Poetic justice. C) Pity and fear. D) Three unities. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Delighting and entertaining. 7. Biographia Literaria was written by A) Wordsworth. B) Coleridge. C) Keats. D) Charles Lamb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Coleridge. 8. What is mimesis? A) A reversal. B) An imitation. C) A satire. D) A poetic metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An imitation. 9. Who considers poetry 'a mother of lies' A) Aristotle. B) Plato. C) Pope. D) Stephen Gosson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plato. 10. What is the purpose of feminist theory? A) To advocate for women's rights. B) To create literary subjects with which female readers can identify. C) To critique phallocentric assumptions about literature. D) All of the above answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above answers are correct. 11. Philip Sidney's Apologie for Poetrie is a defence of poetry against the charges brought against it by: A) Henry Howard. B) Roger Ascham. C) John Skelton. D) Stephen Gosson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stephen Gosson. 12. What has Dryden to say about the observance of the three Classical Dramatic Unities? A) He advocates their strict observance. B) He does not advocate their strict observance. C) He says that every dramatist should decide it for himself. D) He is silent about this issue. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He does not advocate their strict observance. 13. Which theorist is associated with the idea that art is a copy of a copy? A) Plato. B) Julia Kristeva. C) Walter Benjamin. D) Louis Althusser. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plato. 14. Who proposed that poets should be banished from the ideal Republic? A) Plato. B) Aristotle. C) Sir Philip Sidney. D) Sir Thomas More. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plato. 15. In general, what is Judith Butler's concept of gender? A) Women's gender is artificial, while men's gender is not. B) While gender is not real, the stereotypes that accompany it are true. C) Gender is largely a cultural construct. D) All of the above answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gender is largely a cultural construct. 16. Who used the words "romanticism" and "romantic" first? A) Wordsworth. B) Coleridge. C) Carlyle. D) Schlegel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carlyle. 17. "Of all philosopher's Plato is the most poetic." Who said this A) Philiph Sidney. B) Shelley. C) Aristlotle. D) Keats. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Philiph Sidney. 18. Name the author of The New Criticism. A) F. R. Leavis. B) Allen Tate. C) John Crowe Ransom. D) R. P. Blackmur. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John Crowe Ransom. 19. What is double consciousness? A) An early aspect of ethnic criticism. B) An understanding of how double experiences create identity. C) A concept developed by W.E.B Du Bois. D) All of the above answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above answers are correct. 20. Wordsworth's Preface to the Lyrical Ballads is believed to be the Preamble to Romantic Criticism. In which year was it published? A) 1798. B) 1800. C) 1801. D) 1802. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1800. Next →Related QuizzesIntroductions QuizzesLiterary 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 7Literary Theory And Criticism Quiz 8Literary Theory And Criticism Quiz 9Literary Theory Post World War Ii QuizLiterary Theory Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books