This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Theory > Literary Theory And Criticism – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Theory And Criticism Quiz 2 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which school of literary theory is associated with the phrase "to make the stones stonier" ? A) Humanism. B) Formalism. C) Structuralism. D) Marxism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Formalism. 2. On the Sublime is written in A) Greek. B) Latin. C) Hebrew. D) Italian. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Greek. 3. Who said that Keat's love letters of a surgeon's apprentice? A) Arnold. B) Shelley. C) Byron. D) Hazlitt. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Arnold. 4. Which literary theorist argues that "there is nothing outside the text" ? A) T.S. Eliot. B) Jacques Lacan. C) Jacques Derrida. D) Stanley Fish. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jacques Derrida. 5. Reader-response theory is focused on considering which of the following? A) How readers learn to read. B) How readers imagine visual images in a text. C) How readers participate in creating the meaning of a text. D) How readers regard critics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) How readers participate in creating the meaning of a text. 6. Who established the Lyceum? A) Plato. B) Aristotle. C) Horace. D) Longinus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aristotle. 7. Who was the most illustrious pupil of Plato? A) Aristotle. B) Longinus. C) Aristophanes. D) Socrates. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aristotle. 8. Who is the writer of 'Hamlet and Oedipus' (1949) A) Carl Jung. B) Harold Bloom. C) Ernest Jones. D) Erik Erikson. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ernest Jones. 9. What does Sidney say about the observance of the three Dramatic Unities in drama? A) They must be observed. B) It is not necessary to observe them. C) He favours the observance of the Unity of Action only. D) Their observance depends upon the nature of the theme of the play. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They must be observed. 10. Horace was a friend of A) Alexander the Great. B) Emperor Augustus. C) Julius Caesar. D) Pompey. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emperor Augustus. 11. How does Wolfgang Iser envision the reader? A) The reader fills in the gaps imposed by an author's intention. B) The reader is sublimated beneath the author. C) The reader is less important than the author's context. D) All of the above answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The reader fills in the gaps imposed by an author's intention. 12. How many poets were included in Jhonson's 'The Lives of Most Eminent English Poets'? A) 48. B) 50. C) 52. D) 54. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 52. 13. Poetic Diction was taken to be the standard language for poetry in: A) The Elizabethan Age. B) The Neo-Classical Age. C) The Romantic Age. D) The Victorian Age. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Neo-Classical Age. 14. In which capter of Biographia Lieraria, Coleridge make a distinction between fancy and imagination? A) 14. B) 15. C) 12. D) 13. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 13. 15. Aristotle discusses the theory of Tragedy in : A) Art Poetique. B) Poetics. C) Rhetoric. D) Ars Poetica. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poetics. 16. What does the critical term 'esemplatic' mean? A) The unifying power. B) Ability to coin new word. C) Power of imagination. D) Negative capability. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The unifying power. 17. Coleridge considered imagination as A) Critical faculty. B) Modifying power. C) A psychological experience. D) A product of intellect. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Modifying power. 18. "Poetry is emotions recollected in tranquility." Who has defined poetry in these words? A) Shelley. B) Wordsworth. C) Coleridge. D) Matthew Arnold. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wordsworth. 19. Coleridge's Biographia Literaria appeared in the year.....? . A) 1817. B) 1818. C) 1718. D) 1717. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1817. 20. From where has the term Oedipus Complex originated? A) Oedipus the Rex. B) Oedipus at Colonus. C) Antigone. D) Jocasta, the Queen of Thebes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oedipus the Rex. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIntroductions QuizzesLiterary Theory And Criticism Quiz 1Literary 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