English GUETA – Notes – Dr.

Kshipra Purani

BA Sem – 6 (2017-18) English (Core) – 313

Literary Criticism
Multiple Choice Questions:

1. According to Arnold, criticism is a _____________ to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the
world.
(a) labour (b) disinterested endeavour
(c) hard work (d) intuition
2. Arnold believed that every critic must have ______________ to discharge his duty as a literary critic.
(a) information (b) good opinion
(c) love for books (d) knowledge
3. Matthew Arnold is the father of the _____________ Method.
(a) Touchstone (b) Creative
(c) Evaluative (d) Judgmental
4. The two fallacious estimates, according to Arnold are ________________
(a) the fictitious and the imaginary (b) the real and the artificial

(c) the personal and the historic (d) the judgmental and the impressionistic
5. Arnold criticised the poetry of __________ for its treatment of Scotch drink, Scotch religion and scotch manners.
(a) Wordsworth (b) Burns

(c) Keats (d) Shelley

6. Eliot believed that a critic’s task is to _____________.
(a) Judge (b) give opinions

(c) elucidate (d) analyse

7. According to Eliot, some creative writers are superior to others because their _____________ is superior.
(a) critical faculty (b) imagination

(c) reading (d) language

8. The phrase “impersonal theory of poetry” was used by _____________.
(a) Matthew Arnold (b) I. A. Richards

(c) T. S. Eliot (d) Philip Sidney

9. Who said, “the progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.”?
(a) Wordsworth (b) Coleridge

(c) Derrida (d) T. S. Eliot

10. Eliot does not consider ____________ to be criticism.
(a) factual analysis (b) interpretation

(c) creative impressions (d) exercise of intellect

11. While examining the working of the human mind, I. A. Richards considers it to be a system of _____________.
(a) feelings (b) impulses

(c) thoughts (d) impressions

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12. Poetry, for Richards, is a representation of uniquely ordered ____________.
(a) state of mind (b) arrangement of words

(c) arrangement of ideas (d) thoughts

13. For Richards, the two uses of language are: ___________________.
(a) analytical and absolute (b) descriptive and argumentative

(c) communicative and explanatory (d) scientific and emotive

14. Which of the following work is not written by I. A. Richards?
(a) Principles of Literary Criticism (b) Practical Criticism

(c) The Study of Poetry (d) Coleridge on Imagination

15. Who is the father of the theory of “deconstruction”?
(a) I. A. Richards (b) Terry Eagleton

(c) Ferdinand Saussure (d) Jacques Derrida

16. The most fundamental project of deconstruction is to display the operations of __________ in any text.
(a) Egocentrism (b) theocentrism

(c) logocentrism (d) metacentrism

17. The most significant opposition treated by Derrida is that between _____________.
(a) speech and writing (b) reading and writing

(c) poetry and fiction (d) all of these

18. The theory of deconstruction is primarily concerned with certain features of the history of Western metaphysics
issuing from ____________ .
(a) religion and politics (b) structure and center

(c) philosophy and anthropology (d) physics and astronomy

19. Derrida was influenced by the work of the French structural anthropologist ____________.
(a) Jacues Lacan (b) C. H. Dodd

(c) F. R. Leavis (d) Claude Levi-Strauss

20. According to Derrida, Western science and philosophy has always been dominated by the concept of
____________.
(a) structure (b) physics

(c) ideology (d) language

21. A branch of literary criticism that tries to subvert the distinctions between “high literature and art” and “low
literature and art” is known as _______________.
(a) magic realism (b) cultural studies

(c) structural criticism (d) mimetic criticism

22. The founder of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies was __________.
(a) Richard Hoggart (b) Jacques Derrida

(c) Charles Darwin (d) Salman Rushdie

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23. The endeavour of the proponents of cultural studies is to move to the centre those works which have been
____________.
(a) elevated (b) awarded prizes

(c) canonized (d) marginalised

24. French structuralism was inaugurated in the 1950s by the cultural anthropologist __________.
(a) Ramon Jakobson (b) Leon Edel

(c) Claude Levi Strauss (d) Dorothy Richardson

25. Structuralist critics apply a variety of _____________ to the analysis of literary texts.
(a) imaginary ideas (b) linguistic concepts

(c) literary narratives (d) interior monologues

26. Structuralism is in explicit opposition to ______________.
(a) mimetic and expressive criticism (b) feminist criticism

(c) modernist criticism (d) none of these

27. ____________ considers a literary text as “situated” within the totality of the institutions, social practices and
discourses that constitute the culture of a particular time and place.

(a) Marxism (b) Imagism

(c) New Historicism (d) Realism
28. Who described new historicism as “a reciprocal concern with the historicity of texts and the textuality of history.”?
(a) Raymond Williams (b) Alan Sinfield

(c) Paul Hamilton (d) Louis Montrose

29. The term “magic realism” was originally applied to a school of surrealist __________.
(a) German painters (b) French musicians

(c) British singers (d) American dancers

30. Which of the following characteristic does not belong to magic realism?
(a) fantastical elements (b) metafiction

(c) philosophical musings (d) distortions of time and identity

31. A type of writing in which ordinary events and details of reality are combined with fantastic and dreamlike
elements is known as ____________.
(a) fantastic writing (b) realistic writing

(c) surrealism (d) magic realism

32. _______________ is not a writer of magic realism.
(a) Salman Rushdie (b) Gunter Grass

(c) Gabriel Garcia Marquez (d) Karl Marx

33. Critical writings which explore the relations between literature and the biological and physical environment are
known as _____________.
(a) natural criticism (b) ecocriticism

(c) Darwinian criticism (d) real criticism

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34. Ecocritics in the Unites States concern themselves with the _____________ of the Native Americans.
(a) oral traditions (b) natural behaviour

(c) religious rituals (d) marriage rituals

35. Ecocritics claimed that the reigning religions and philosophies of Western civilization are deeply ___________.
(a) logocentric (b) women centric

(c) myth centric (d) anthropocentric

36. Ecocriticism is also referred to as ____________.
(a) simple studies (b) plant studies

(c) green studies (d) wild life studies

37. In the Dhvanyaloka, Anadvardhana establishes his theory that ________ is the soul of poetry.
(a) emotion (b) suggested sense

(c) lyricism (d) thought

38. The two aspects of meaning, according to Anandvardhana, are __________.
(a) the explicit and the implicit (b) the clearer and the opaque

(c) broad and narrow (d) useful and utilitarian

39. When the suggested sense is conveyed through figures of speech, it is called ___________ dhvani.
(a) sphota (b) lakshana
(c) vyanjana (d) alankar
40. Which of the following is not one of the kinds of suggested sense?
(a) an idea (b) a figure of speech
(c) a word (d) an emotion

________________________

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