This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Structuralism > Structuralism – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Structuralism Quiz 4 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. According to Saussure the universal and innate capacity in human beings corresponds to ..... A) Parole. B) Language. C) Language. D) Linguistics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Language. 2. Linguistics help us to ..... A) 1.understand our world. B) 2.improving communiction between people. C) 3. One & two is right. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3. One & two is right. 3. The relationship between the signifier and the signified is: A) Causal. B) Arbitrary. C) Literal. D) Relative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Arbitrary. 4. According to Marx, what determines the change in the social system? A) Political climate. B) Economic climate. C) Technological advancements. D) Cultural factors. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Technological advancements. 5. In Structuralism, the perspective of the author is A) Important because it give us an insight of their intentions. B) Not important because it only focusses on the aesthetic of the text. C) Important because it allow us to analyse properly the text and its message. D) Not important because it only focusses on the parts of the text. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Not important because it only focusses on the parts of the text. 6. Wilhelm Wundt A) The founder of modern psychology. B) The founder of modern philosophy. C) A Greek mathematician. D) An American Psychologist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The founder of modern psychology. 7. FORMALISM connects the work of a particular author with works of similar structures, while STRUCTURALISM only analyses one particular work at a time. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 8. It is an interpretive approach that emphasizes literary form and the study of literary devices "within" the text. A) Formalism. B) Structuralism. C) Literary Devices. D) Literary Criticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Formalism. 9. Structuralism is primarily concerned with: A) Studying the unconscious mind. B) Examining the structure of society. C) Investigating human behavior through experiments. D) Analyzing the underlying structures of language and thought. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Analyzing the underlying structures of language and thought. 10. FORMALISM analyses the genre, mode, form and discourse while rejecting bibliographical, cultural, historical and social contexts, while STRUCTURALISM analyses universal, underlying structures in a text. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 11. These are signs where the signifier is caused by the signified. A) Icon. B) Symbol. C) Index. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Index. 12. The ..... is the general philosophical theory of signs and symbols. A) Semiology. B) Semiotics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Semiotics. 13. It deals about discovering the structures or rules that govern groups of literary works.e.g. narrative elements (plot, character, conflict, setting, point of view); there are certain principles or structures that can be found in all novels, or other types of literature. A) Structuralism. B) Formalism. C) Poststructualism. D) Literary Criticsm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Structuralism. 14. According to Saussure the concrete use of the language that each individual has, corresponds to ..... A) Language. B) Language. C) Parole. D) Diachrony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parole. 15. According to the text indicate if the following sentence is true or false: "A structuralist approach in its general framework looks at the syntactic relations which are defined and exhibited in terms of operations" . A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 16. The signifier is perceived as resembling on imitating the signified. Which sign is being described? A) Icon. B) Symbol. C) Index. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Icon. 17. When we understand something by what it isn't, we are using what? A) Close reading. B) Our brains. C) Binary oppoisition. D) Ambiguity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Binary oppoisition. 18. It adds new information to the ongoing communicative action A) Theme. B) Rheme. C) Parole. D) Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rheme. 19. How did the magazine cover of an African boy saluting the French flag support the mythology of the French Colonial Empire? A) They do not exist outside the systems we use to make sense of things. B) It showed that the African colonies enjoyed being oppressed, serving France, and embracing their identity as French instead of as Africans. Thus, that French imperialism is good, that France is unified despite that many people think that what the French govt was doing was not right. C) When buying products that support your "identity" but are at the same time involved in hurting other people. D) They are just like you, but nothing like you at all. They are just like you because they eat dogs, but they are nothing like you because, like a god, their eating hot dogs is newsworthy. E) They promote a narrative about themselves:I eat trendy, healthy, portable foods in fun places like parks. I travel, I am active and fun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It showed that the African colonies enjoyed being oppressed, serving France, and embracing their identity as French instead of as Africans. Thus, that French imperialism is good, that France is unified despite that many people think that what the French govt was doing was not right. 20. ..... focuses on micro scale of interpreting the society. A) Structuralism. B) Interpretivism. 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