This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Theory > Literary Theory And Criticism – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Theory And Criticism Quiz 5 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Plato used the word mimesis in relation to literature with the meaning A) Copying. B) Criticism of life. C) Representation. D) Interpretation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Representation. 2. Who is the author of Symposium? A) Aristotle. B) Dante. C) Longinus. D) Plato. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plato. 3. Who made a distinction between Fancy and Imagination? A) Wordsworth. B) Coleridge. C) Southey. D) Hazlitt. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Coleridge. 4. What do many contemporary theorists find problematic about the literary canon? A) It includes too few works by non-European writers. B) It includes too few works by non-white writers. C) It includes too few works by women. D) All of the above answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above answers are correct. 5. Who directed Minsan ma yun Gamo Gamo? A) Lupina Aquino. B) Ninoy Aquino. C) Marina gonsalez. D) Eric Gonzales. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lupina Aquino. 6. Who was the first literary critic who said that "Art is twice removed from reality" ? A) Plato. B) Aristotle. C) Longinus. D) Horace. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plato. 7. In her essay "The Poem as Event, " Louise M. Rosenblatt sees the reader as performing what function? A) The reader participates in a transaction with the text. B) The reader is acted upon by the text. C) The reader acts upon the text. D) All of the above answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above answers are correct. 8. According to Plato, what is the moral purpose of art? A) To connect human beings with a higher ideal. B) To entertain those who enjoy it. C) To criticize society through satire. D) All of the above answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To connect human beings with a higher ideal. 9. To whom "poetry is the spontaneous over-flow of powerful passion." A) Keats. B) Shelley. C) Wordsworth. D) Coleridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wordsworth. 10. What is hermeneutics? A) A term that describes the absence of racial others in the canon. B) A term that describes the attempt to read homosexuality into literature. C) A term that describes the effect of autobiography on text. D) A term that describes the interpretation of meaning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A term that describes the interpretation of meaning. 11. Who for the first time discriminated between imagination and fancy? A) Coleridge. B) William Wordsworth. C) John Ruskin. D) Schegell. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Wordsworth. 12. Aristotle's critical work is entitled: A) Ars Poetica. B) Poetics. C) De Arte Poetica. D) Art Poetique. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poetics. 13. Which of the following critics preferred Shakespeare's Comedies to his Tragedies? A) Dryden. B) Pope. C) Dr. Johnson. D) Addison. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dr. Johnson. 14. How many principal sources of sublimity are there according to Longinus? A) Three. B) Four. C) Five. D) Six. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Five. 15. Which school of literary theory shows a particular interest in the role of testimony in literature? A) Trauma theory. B) Ecotheory. C) Chaos theory. D) Formalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trauma theory. 16. What does Ben Jonson mean by a 'Humorous Character'? A) A character who is always cheerful and gay. B) A character who is by nature melancholy. C) A character whose temper is determined by the predominance of one out of the four fluids in the human body. D) An eccentric person. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A character whose temper is determined by the predominance of one out of the four fluids in the human body. 17. The Lyrical Ballads was published in A) 1780. B) 1798. C) 1815. D) 1805. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1798. 18. Read the selection:. What is the message of the given part from "I am a Filipino" ? A) Introduction of Filipino. B) Responsibilities of a Filipino. C) Who are the Filipinos before. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Who are the Filipinos before. 19. Who was the originator of the Theory of Imitation in Literature? A) Longinus. B) Aristotle. C) Plato. D) Horace. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plato. 20. Who remarked, "Spenser write no language." A) Pope. B) Arnold. C) Dr. Jhonson. D) Ben Jonson. 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