This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Structuralism > Structuralism – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Structuralism Quiz 9 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which type of text would be most useful when applying Formalism? A) Poem. B) Play. C) Novel. D) News Report. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poem. 2. According to saussure some factors that refer to the rules and structures of the language corresponds to ..... A) Language. B) Semiotics. C) Internal Linguistics. D) External Linguistics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Internal Linguistics. 3. He developed an argument against the ontology of set-theoretic Platonism. A) Benacerraf. B) Parsons. C) Golde. D) Quine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Benacerraf. 4. 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) Formalism. B) Structuralism. C) Literary Devices. D) Literary Criticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Structuralism. 5. When Titchener died, the era of structuralism collapsed. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 6. Introspection is a key method used in structuralist research. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. What is the law of concentration according to Marx? A) The tendency of profits to decline and eventually disappear over time. B) The problem of under consumption in capitalism. C) The creation of increasing inequality in the distribution of income and wealth. D) The tendency of capitalism to create increasing inequality in the distribution of income and wealth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The tendency of capitalism to create increasing inequality in the distribution of income and wealth. 8. What does the structuralist version of globalization call for? A) Greater unity among workers and international trade and investment arrangements. B) The collapse of the capitalist mode of production. C) The exploitation of vulnerable developing countries. D) Coordinated political action by those with more economic resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Greater unity among workers and international trade and investment arrangements. 9. What is a problem in thinking in binaries? A) It turns history into nature, a system of signs into a system of facts. B) Much more complex, you are not always smiling. C) When buying products that support your "identity" but are at the same time involved in hurting other people. D) It is sometimes difficult to decide where the line of binary is drawn. (When is a table clean?). 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: D) It is sometimes difficult to decide where the line of binary is drawn. (When is a table clean?). 10. What is synchronic for Saussure? A) It is interested in the evolution of a language. B) It is in charge of the recovery of ancient dialects. C) It is interested in a language at a precise moment in history. D) Study animal communication. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It is interested in a language at a precise moment in history. 11. Structuralism concentrates on examining: A) A) Notable actions. B) B) Instinctive wants. C) C.) Mental components and structures. D) D) External triggers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) C.) Mental components and structures. 12. Sometimes described as "structuralism without structures A) Nominalist structuralism. B) Ante Rem Structuralism. C) Rebus structuralism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rebus structuralism. 13. Which perspective laid the foundation for modern psychology's focus on cognition? A) Structuralism. B) Functionalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Functionalism. 14. Titchener's system was marked by mechanism. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 15. What is the focus of structuralists in sociology? A) Social structures and institutions. B) Individual actions. C) Micro scale. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Social structures and institutions. 16. Who was considered the 'Father of Linguistics A) William James. B) Ferdinand de Saussure. C) Leonard Bloomfield. D) Noam Chomsky. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ferdinand de Saussure. 17. It consists of places that stand in structural relations to each other A) System. B) Structures. C) Non-algebraic theories. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Structures. 18. A major effect of applying Structuralist principles to literary works is to enrich them A) Symbolically. B) Structurally. C) Semantically. D) Syntactically. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Semantically. 19. Titchener defined exactly what he meant by the introspective method. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 20. For Saussure, the social element of language, indeed of all sign-making practices, constitutes the field of ..... A) Semiology. B) Structuralism. C) Morphology. D) Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Semiology. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesTheory QuizzesStructuralism Quiz 1Structuralism Quiz 2Structuralism Quiz 3Structuralism Quiz 4Structuralism Quiz 5Structuralism Quiz 6Structuralism Quiz 7Structuralism Quiz 8Structuralism Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books