1.
‘Seven Types of Ambiguity’ is the first and the
most famous work of :
a. Jacques Derrida
b.
T.S.Eliot
c. William Empson
d. Samuel Johnson
2.
William Empson is best suited in :
a. New Criticism
b.
Practical Criticism
c. Marxist
Criticism
d. Romantic Criticism
3.
Which of the following is a work by William
Empson?
a. Face of the Buddha
b. Essays on Shakespeare
c.
Faustus and the Censor
d. All of them
4.
Which one of William Empson’s work is often
described as a sustained attack on Christianity?
a. Faustus and the Censor
b. Milton’s God
c.
Some Versions of Pastoral
d.
Using Biography
5.
In literary Criticism, careful sustained
interpretation of a brief passage of a text is called :
a. Close reading
b.
Ambiguity
c.
Sublimity
d.
deconstruction
6.
A type of uncertainty of meaning in which several interpretations
are plausible is called :
a. Sublimity
b.
Ambiguity
c. Formalism
d. Negative Capability
7.
The first type of ambiguity described by Empson
in his work ‘Seven Types of Ambiguity’ is :
a. Metaphor
b.
Simile
c. Sublimity
d. Negative Capability
8.
'The Well-Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry' is a work by :
a. William Empson
b.
Jacques Derrida
c. I.A.Richards
d. Cleanth Brooks
9.
‘The Southern Review’ is a journal associated
with :
a. William Empson
b.
Jacques Derrida
c. I.A. Richards
d.
Cleanth Brooks
10.
Which one of the following is a work of Cleanth
Brooks?
a. Understanding Poetry
b. William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country
c.
William Faulkner: Toward Yoknapatawpha and Beyond
d. All of them
11.
An anomalous juxtaposition of incongruous ideas
for the sake of striking exposition or unexpected insight is :
a. Irony
b.
Objective Correlation
c.
Paradox
d. Sublimity
12.
‘Paradox
was so essential to poetic meaning that paradox was almost identical to
poetry’ is possibly a view of :
a. Cleanth Brooks
b.
I.A.Richards
c. William
Empson
d. T.S.Eliot
13.
Which of one of the following is a work of
I.A.Richards?
a. Principles of Literary Criticism
b. Practical Criticism
c. The Philosophy of Rhetoric
d. All of them
14.
Which among the following critics is not related
to ‘New Criticism’?
a. F.R.Leavis
b.
I.A.Richards
c. William
Empson
d. Cleanth Brooks
15.
Which among the following book is NOT a
foundational document for the methodology of the New Criticism?
a. Principles of Literary Criticism
b. Practical Criticism
c. Essays in Criticism
d.
Seven Types of Ambiguity
16.
The theory and methodology of interpretation, especially the interpretation of biblical text, wisdom literature and philosophical texts is referred to :
a. Hermeneutics
b.
Ambiguity
c. Rhetoric
d. Semantic
17.
Feedforward - a method of teaching and learning that illustrates or indicates a desired future behavior or path to
a goal is coined by :
a. F.R.Leavis
b.
I.A.Richards
c. William
Empson
d. Cleanth Brooks
18.
Which one of the following is true?
a.
According to Richards, feedforward is the
concept of anticipating the effect of one's words by acting as our own critic.
b.
I.A. Richards and C.K. Ogden created the
semantic triangle to deliver improved understanding to how words come to mean.
c.
The semantic triangle has three parts, the
symbol or word, the referent, and the thought or reference.
d.
All of them
19.
Match the following :
i.
The New Criticism - (a)T.S.Eliot
ii.
The Meaning of Meaning - (b)John Crowe Ransom
iii.
Tradition and the Individual Talent - (c)William Empson
iv.
Some Versions of Pastoral - (d)I.A.Richards
a. (i)-d,(ii)-a,(iii)-b,(iv)-c
b.
(i)-c,(ii)-a,(iii)-d,(iv)-b
c.
(i)-b,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-c
d.
(i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-a,(iv)-d
20.
Which of the following is a work of Northrop
Frye?
a. Fearful Symmetry
b. Anatomy of Criticism
c. The Bush Garden
d. All of them
21.
Who among the following uses the terms
'centripetal' and 'centrifugal' to describe his critical method?
a. Northrop Frye
b.
I.A.Richards
c. William
Empson
d. Cleanth Brooks
22.
A type of critical theory that interprets a text by focusing on recurring myths is referred to :
a. New Criticism
b.
Archetypal Criticism
c.
Practical Criticism
d.
Marxist Criticism
23.
Match the following according to Northrop Frye’s
archetypal schema :
i.
Spring - (a)Tragedy
ii.
Summer - (b)Comedy
iii.
Autumn - (c)Satire
iv.
Winter - (d) Romance
a. (i)-d,(ii)-a,(iii)-b,(iv)-c
b.
(i)-c,(ii)-a,(iii)-d,(iv)-b
c.
(i)-b,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-c
d.
(i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-a,(iv)-d
24.
What is true about Liberal Humanism?
a. Good literature is timeless.
b. The context in which literature is
created should not be considered.
c. Humans are motivated and influenced by the same things throughout
history. Human nature is unchanging.
d.
All of them
25.
Any object that can be "read" :
a. Word
b.
Sign
c. Text
d. Work
26.
The OPOJAZ, the Society for the Study of Poetic
Language group is associated with :
a. Marxism
b.
Russian Formalism
c. Feminism
d. Post Structuralism
27.
Which one of the following is true about Russian
Formalism?
a.
Story, fabula, is a chronological sequence of
events.
b.
Plot, sjuzhet, can unfold in non-chronological
order.
c.
Art is a sum of literary and artistic devices
that the artist manipulates to craft his work.
d.
All of them
28.
‘Literature itself is a social institution and
has a specific ideological function, based on the background and ideology of
the author’ is the concept of :
a. Russian Formalist
b. Marxists
c.
Feminist
d. Modernist
29.
Which one of the following is a work of Karl
Marx?
a. The Communist Manifesto
b. Preface to the Contribution to
the Critique of Political Economy
c.
Capital
d. All of them
30.
Which one of the following is NOT a concept of
Karl Marx?
a. the base is the whole of productive
relationships, not only a given economic element, e.g. the working class
b. the superstructure varies and develops
unevenly in society's different activities; for example, art, politics,
economics, etc
c. the base–superstructure relationship is reciprocal
d. All of them
31.
Marx’s superstructure is divided into political society
and civil society by :
a. Max Weber
b.
Althusser
c. Gramsci
d. Nicos Poulantzas
32.
Who among the following is commonly referred as
structural Marxist?
a. Louis Althusser
b.
Antonio Gramsci
c. Friedrich
Engels
d. Raymond Williams
33.
Which one of the following is a work by Louis
Althusser?
a. For Marx
b.
Reading Capital
c. Philosophy
of the Encounter
d. All of them
34.
Who among the following wrote ‘Prison Notebooks’?
a. Louis Althusser
b.
Antonio Gramsci
c. Friedrich
Engels
d. Raymond Williams
35.
Match the following :
i.
Antonio Gramsci - (a)Russian Formalism
ii.
Louis Althusser - (b)Cultural hegemony
iii.
Karl Marx - (c)Structural Marxist
iv.
Viktor Shklovsky - (d)Dialectical Materialism
a. (i)-d,(ii)-a,(iii)-b,(iv)-c
b.
(i)-c,(ii)-a,(iii)-d,(iv)-b
c.
(i)-b,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-c
d.
(i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-d,(iv)-a
36.
Which one of the following is true?
a. The most influential and important current in
Neo-Marxist thought is the Frankfurt School.
b.
The "neo-Marxisms" include analytical
Marxism, Hegelian Marxism, Antonio Gramsci's theory of hegemony, Marxist
feminism, ecological Marxism, post-Marxism, the various critical social
theories (the original Frankfurt School, new critical theory, etc.), critical
pedagogy, and many others.
c.
Neo-Marxists view class divisions under
capitalism as more important than gender/sex divisions or issues of race and
ethnicity.
d.
All of them
37.
Match the following :
i.
Parole - (a)considers
a language at a moment in time without taking its history into account.
ii.
Langue - (b) laryngeal theory
iii.
Sonant coefficients - (c)
the system underlying speech activity
iv.
Synchrony - (d) the speech of the individual
person
a. (i)-d,(ii)-c,(iii)-b,(iv)-a
b.
(i)-c,(ii)-a,(iii)-d,(iv)-b
c.
(i)-b,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-c
d.
(i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-d,(iv)-a
38.
Who introduced the terms ‘langue and parole’ in
linguistics?
a. Levi Strauss
b.
Ferdinand Saussure
c. Jürgen Habermas
d.
Michel Foucault
39.
‘Course in General Linguistics’ is a work of :
a. Levi Strauss
b.
Ferdinand Saussure
c. Jürgen Habermas
d.
Michel Foucault
40.
A language is a
self-contained relational structure, the elements of which derive their
existence and their value from their distribution and oppositions in texts or
discourse. This principle is called :
a. Laryngeal theory
b.
Semiotics
c. Structuralism
d. Diachrony
41.
Who among the following is considered as the
founding father of semiotics?
a. I.A.Richards
b.
Ferdinand Saussure
c. Jürgen Habermas
d.
Michel Foucault
42.
Match the following :
i.
Ferdinand Saussure - (a)
Bricolage
ii.
Roland Barthes - (b)Deconstruction
iii.
Levi Strauss - (c) Father of modern linguistics
iv.
Jacques Derrida - (d) Writing Degree Zero
a. (i)-d,(ii)-c,(iii)-b,(iv)-a
b.
(i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-b
c.
(i)-b,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-c
d.
(i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-d,(iv)-a
43.
'Tristes Tropiques' is a famous book of :
a. Levi Strauss
b.
Ferdinand Saussure
c. Jürgen Habermas
d.
Michel Foucault
44.
Which one of the following is a work by Levi
Strauss?
a. The story of Lynx
b. The Savage Mind
c.
The View from Afar
d. All of them
45.
Bricoleur and Engineer is compared in which of
the Levi Strauss’s work :
a. The story of Lynx
b. The Savage Mind
c.
The View from Afar
d. Tristes Tropiques
46.
The concept ‘culinary triangle’ developed by
Levi Strauss is related to :
a. Cooking
b.
Engineering
c. Gardening
d. Semiotics
47.
‘Myth is language’ is a claim made by :
a. Levi Strauss
b.
Ferdinand Saussure
c. Jürgen Habermas
d.
Michel Foucault
48.
Which one of the following is true?
a.
The alliance theory is a structuralist method of studying kinship relations.
b.
A mytheme is a fundamental generic unit of
narrative structure from which myths are thought to be constructed.
c.
The culinary triangle is a concept involving
three types of cooking-boiling, roasting,
and smoking.
d.
All of them
49.
Match the following :
i.
The Heresy of Paraphrase - (a)Michel Foucault
ii.
The Critical Path - (b)Cleanth Brooks
iii.
The Structuralist Activity - (c)Northrop Frye
iv.
What Is an Author? - (d)Roland
Barthes
a. (i)-d,(ii)-c,(iii)-b,(iv)-d
b.
(i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-b
c.
(i)-b,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-c
d.
(i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-d,(iv)-a
50.
Match the following :
i.
Edward Said - (a) Irony as a Principle of
Structure
ii.
Chinua Achebe - (b) Truth and Power
iii.
Michel Foucault - (c) Colonialist Criticism
iv.
Cleanth Brooks - (d) The World, the Text, and
the Critic
a. (i)-d,(ii)-c,(iii)-b,(iv)-a
b.
(i)-c,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-b
c.
(i)-b,(ii)-d,(iii)-a,(iv)-c
d.
(i)-b,(ii)-c,(iii)-d,(iv)-a
1. C
ReplyDelete2. A
3. D
4. B
5. A
6. B
7. A
8. D
9. D
10. D
11. C
12. A
13. D
14. A
15. C
16. A
17. B
18. D
19. C
20. D
21. A
22. B
23. C
24. D
25. C
26. B
27. D
28. B
29. D
30. D
31. C
32. A
33. D
34. B
35. D
36. D
37. A
38. B
39. B
40. C
41. B
42. B
43. A
44. D
45. B
46. A
47. A
48. D
49. D
50. A