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1801. Which of the following statements D. structuralism.

best describes the worldview represented by Answer: Option A. psychoanalytic
postmodern theater ? criticism.
A. The world is a bright and interesting
place. 1804. In his essay, “The Significance of
B. Universal truth doesn’t exist, and Fictionalizing”, Wolfgang Iser argues which
audience members must discover truth for of the following points ?
themselves. A. Historically, writers have been considered
C. The world is so complex that it does not liars or at the very least irrelevant.
require literature or theater. B. Fictionalizing reality is a basic human
D. Mainstream audiences are so shallow that need.
it is not worth writing plays for them. C. Every text includes traces from the
Answer: Option B. Universal truth doesn’t outside world, including social, historical,
exist, and audience members must discover and literary remnants.
truth for themselves. D. All of these.
Answer: Option D. All of these.
1802. Which of the following offers the best
definition of the concept of narrative poetry 1805. Which of the following statements
? offers the best definition of a tragic hero ?
A. A narrative poem is vague and difficult in A. A noble person who becomes completely
style. corrupted
B. A narrative poem is a poem that does not B. A cowardly person who doubts himself or
have a plot or tell a story. herself despite possessing great wealth and
C. A narrative poem has a plot and tells a political power
story. C. A cowardly person who shows some
D. A narrative poem is a poem written in the personal strength when faced with a crisis
style of a conversation. D. A noble person who makes a costly
Answer: Option C. A narrative poem has a mistake
plot and tells a story. Answer: Option D. A noble person who
makes a costly mistake
1803. A work of criticism that considers how
the author’s childhood trauma influenced his 1806. Which of the following best describes
characters would be an example epic theater as defined by Berthold Brecht ?
of_____________? A. Epic theater is plot-driven theater.
A. psychoanalytic criticism. B. Epic theater turns the passive spectator
B. Marxist criticism. into an active observer.
C. New Criticism.
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C. Epic theater privileges feeling over B. A narrative with a unified, plausible plot
reason. structure
D. Epic theater maintains the illusion of C. A narrative that conveys the illusion of
realism. reality
Answer: Option B. Epic theater turns the D. All of these
passive spectator into an active observer. Answer: Option D. All of these
1807. Which of the following may be an 1811. According to Dr. Taormina, Victorian
antagonist to the protagonist of a novel ? novelists generally________________?
A. Another character A. wanted to subvert middle class values.
B. The protagonist B. accepted middle class values.
C. Society C. wrote in a hyperrealistic fashion.
D. All of these D. had a negative view of human nature.
Answer: Option D. All of these Answer: Option B. accepted middle class
values.
1808. In Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18”, the
poet does which of the following ? 1812. What are some of the hallmarks or
A. Compares his love to a winter storm conventions of the poetic form of the ode ?
B. Compares his love to a summer’s day A. Simplicity in language, brevity in form,
C. Compares his love to a turbulent sea and humorousness in attitude
D. Compares his love to his fear of death B. Complexity in language, lengthiness in
Answer: Option B. Compares his love to a form, and seriousness in attitude
summer’s day C. Simplicity in language, lengthiness in
form, and humorousness in attitude
1809. Ethos is important to establish in D. Complexity in language, brevity in form,
which of the following types of arguments ? and humorousness in attitude
A. Emotional arguments Answer: Option B. Complexity in
B. Political arguments language, lengthiness in form, and
C. Deductive arguments seriousness in attitude
D. Inductive arguments
Answer: Option B. Political arguments 1813. According to Dr. Frances Pritchett’s
version of Shamsur Rahman Faruqi’s “The
1810. In her text, “History of the Novel”, Historical Novel and the Historical
How does Dr. Agatha Taormina define the Narrative”, which of the following offers the
novel ? best definition of a “history” ?
A. A narrative that emphasizes character A. A narrative based entirely on verifiable
development facts
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B. A narrative that does not analyze B. Good things, including salvation, come to
characters on a situation-by-situation basis those who are patient.
C. A narrative without characters C. Redemption comes from surrendering to
D. A narrative that takes place in the past. a higher power.
Answer: Option B. A narrative that does D. People are fundamentally unable to
not analyze characters on a situation-by- realize any sort of inherent meaning in
situation basis existence.
Answer: Option D. People are
1814. In his essay, “Characters of fundamentally unable to realize any sort of
Shakespeare’s Plays”, William Hazlitt inherent meaning in existence.
conceptualizes Hamlet as_______________?
A. a disturbed and insane man. 1817. Which of the following descriptions
B. a man of tremendous humor, simplicity, best describes the character of Hamlet ?
and innate goodness and kindness. A. Hamlet is depressed yet highly intelligent.
C. a depressed but ultimately good and B. Hamlet is naive and simple minded.
nonviolent man. C. Hamlet is spoiled and manipulative.
D. a wicked and manipulative man. D. Hamlet is intellectually passive and
Answer: Option C. a depressed but deeply frightened of his father’s ghost.
ultimately good and nonviolent man. Answer: Option A. Hamlet is depressed
yet highly intelligent.
1815. In “Characters of Shakespeare’s
Plays”, how does William Hazlitt ultimately 1818. Which of the following statements
conceptualize the character of Hamlet ? about Greek tragedies is true ?
A. As a crazed fool A. They were not popular with ancient Greek
B. As a profound philosophical genius audiences.
C. As boyish and immature B. They were usually set in the past.
D. As a brilliant warrior C. They were almost never set in the past.
Answer: Option B. As a profound D. They were often done in honor of the
philosophical genius Greek god Zeus.
Answer: Option B. They were usually set
1816. Which of the following statements in the past.
best represents the main theme of Beckett’s
“Waiting for Godot” ? 1819. What is the central argument in Dr.
A. The world can be fully understood if Richard Kelly’s “The Novelist’s Eye” ?
people listen closely to what others are A. All novelists are painters at heart.
saying.

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B. George du Maurier felt that black- C. Provide insight into the play’s
andwhite illustrators could be as important mythological background
as novelists and painters. D. Remind the viewers of what kind of play
C. George du Maurier attacked the social they are viewing
position of the novelist in his illustrations. Answer: Option C. Provide insight into the
D. George du Maurier was a tremendous play’s mythological background
influence on Victorian novelists.
Answer: Option B. George du Maurier felt 1823. Aristotle felt that ethos was
that black-andwhite illustrators could be as established by a speaker or writer by
important as novelists and painters. convincing the audience that ?
A. the author or speaker was of good mind
1820. Reader-response theory focuses on and character.
considering how ? B. the author or speaker was emotionally
A. readers choose their favorite works of involved in the topic at hand.
literature. C. the author or speaker has provided
B. readers experience a literary work. proper logic and evidence in support of his
C. readers decide which works of literature topic.
to read. D. the author or speaker maintained the
D. readers develop their own unique and appropriate critical distance from the topic.
personal critical discourses. Answer: Option A. the author or speaker
Answer: Option B. readers experience a was of good mind and character.
literary work.
1824. Lauren Beth Signore’s essay, “Anne of
1821. In his “Poetics”, Aristotle suggests Green Gables: The Transformation from
that tragic literary works should be ? Bildungsroman to Romantic Comedy”,
A. logical in terms of plot and structure. argues that Anne of Green Gables is
B. complex in terms of plot and structure. ultimately what kind of character ?
C. without any sort of moral insight. A. A romantic awaiting true love
D. sad. B. A cynic awaiting the world’s destruction
Answer: Option A. logical in terms of plot C. A delusional girl with no grasp on reality
and structure. D. A young girl with a particularly dark
Mindset
1822. What does a prologue serve to do in a Answer: Option A. A romantic awaiting
Greek tragedy or comedy ? true love
A. Introduce the main characters
B. Preview the play’s conclusion

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1825. Which of the following descriptions of D. The manners and traditions of the upper
Jane Austen’s “Northanger Abbey” seems classes
most appropriate ? Answer: Option D. The manners and
A. It offers a critique of Romantic poetry traditions of the upper classes
and ideology.
B. It serves to parody gothic novels. 1828. According to Dr. Frances Pritchett’s
C. It is a horror novel. version of Shamsur Rahman Faruqi’s “The
D. It is a memoir based on Jane Austen’s Historical Novel and the Historical
childhood. Narrative”, what is the difference between a
Answer: Option B. It serves to parody historical narrative and a historical novel ?
gothic novels. A. A historical narrative and a historical
novel are the same thing.
1826. What is the difference between B. A historical narrative tells only part of the
traditional literary criticism and post-New story surrounding a historical event; a
Criticism literary theory ? historical novel tells the whole story.
A. Traditional literary criticism is mainly C. A historical novel focuses on providing
focused on exploring gender issues. the reader with only the central truth of a
B. Traditional literary criticism only examines historical event, while a historical narrative
pre-20th-century literary texts. attempts to tell the entire truth of a
C. Traditional literary criticism focused on historical event.
tracking influences and textual allusions and D. Faruqi actually argues that historical
considering the historical contexts of literary novels do not exist.
texts. Answer: Option C. A historical novel
D. Traditional literary criticism attempted to focuses on providing the reader with only
consider the psychological aspects of literary the central truth of a historical event, while
texts. a historical narrative attempts to tell the
Answer: Option C. Traditional literary entire truth of a historical event.
criticism focused on tracking influences and
textual allusions and considering the 1829. Marxist theory focuses on examining
historical contexts of literary texts. which of the following aspects of literary
texts ?
1827. A gothic novel will probably not deal A. The political and social meanings of
with which of the following themes ? literary texts
A. The sublime B. Characters who are sympathetic to issues
B. The supernatural facing the working classes
C. Love C. The relationship between economics and
the production of literary texts
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D. All of these D. begins with a preview of the play’s

Answer: Option D. All of these conclusion.
Answer: Option C. opens by plunging the
1830. Which of the following statements viewer into a crucial series of events.
best represents Lacan’s view of Ophelia in
his essay, “Desire and the Interpretation of 1833. Which of the following statements
Desire in ’Hamlet’” ? offers the best definition of the term
A. Hamlet desires his mother, not Ophelia. Bildungsroman ?
B. Hamlet desires revenge, not Ophelia. A. A story of one person’s fall from grace
C. Hamlet desires Ophelia, but only when and into destruction
she is unattainable. B. A story of one person’s growth and
D. Hamlet desires attaining the throne of development within a particular social order
Denmark, of which Ophelia is a symbol. C. A story of one person’s success within a
Answer: Option C. Hamlet desires Ophelia, capitalistic economic system
but only when she is unattainable. D. A story of one person’s selfrealization and
attempt to return to innocence
1831. Which of the following statements Answer: Option B. A story of one person’s
offers the best definition of an epistolary growth and development within a particular
novel ? social order
A. A novel set in the past
B. A novel that consists entirely of dialogue 1834. What is hermeneutics ?
C. A novel that is set in the countryside of A. A system for categorizing books
Europe B. The psychological study of authors
D. A novel that consists of a series of C. The study of textual interpretation
documents, such as diary entries, letters, D. A reader-response test
and newspaper articles Answer: Option C. The study of textual
Answer: Option D. A novel that consists of interpretation
a series of documents, such as diary entries,
letters, and newspaper articles 1835. Which of the following offers the best
description of literary theory ?
1832. A play that begins in medias A. Literary theory involves coming to a
res________________? precise understanding of a writer’s
A. begins at the apparent end of the story. psychology.
B. introduces the characters of the play one B. Literary theory involves measuring the
by one. quality of a literary work.
C. opens by plunging the viewer into a C. Literary theory involves considering the
crucial series of events. publication history of literary texts.
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D. Literary theory involves describing the D. “I wandered lonely as a cloud.”

underlying principles of a literary work. Answer: Option C. “Milton, thou shouldst
Answer: Option D. Literary theory involves be living at this hour: / England hath need
describing the underlying principles of a of thee.”
literary work.
1836. Which of the following offers the best definition of a Greek theatrical comedy ?
definition of a theatrical tragedy ? A. A play in which characters make
A. A play that depicts the downfall of a humorous remarks
noble person B. A play in which characters experience
B. A play in which someone gets revenge reversals of fortune, usually for the better
C. A play in which a hero faces likely defeat C. A play in which no characters die or
and overcomes it suffer
D. A play in which no form of humor D. A play in which elite members of society
appears are mocked
Answer: Option A. A play that depicts the Answer: Option B. A play in which
downfall of a noble person characters experience reversals of fortune,
usually for the better
1837. Dr. Allen Shoaf’s essay, “’Hamlet’:
Like Mother, Like Son”, argues which of the 1840. Which of the following offers the best
following points ? definition of the literary term motif ?
A. Hamlet’s father’s ghost is not really a A. A recurring element in a story that is
ghost. symbolically significant
B. Hamlet feels a sense of desire for both B. A character’s fatal flaw
his mother and his father. C. A rhyme scheme
C. Hamlet is truly insane in the play. D. A character’s moment of selfrealization in
D. Hamlet is an impossible play to truly a narrative
understand. Answer: Option A. A recurring element in
Answer: Option B. Hamlet feels a sense of a story that is symbolically significant
desire for both his mother and his father.
1838. Which of the following lines provides description of the concept of ethos ?
an example of a poetic apostrophe ? A. Ethos refers to a writer’s presentation of
A. “She is a woman of beauty and wonder.” character and image.
B. “Death, that which feels nothing.” B. Ethos refers to a writer’s ability to present
C. “Milton, thou shouldst be living at this evidence.
hour: / England hath need of thee.”
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C. Ethos refers to a writer’s ability to inspire B. Pathos refers to a writer’s ability to

action in readers. present evidence.
D. Ethos refers to a writer’s ability to inspire C. Pathos refers to a writer’s ability to
emotional responses in readers. inspire action in readers.
Answer: Option A. Ethos refers to a D. Pathos refers to a writer’s ability to
writer’s presentation of character and inspire emotional responses in readers.
image. Answer: Option D. Pathos refers to a
writer’s ability to inspire emotional
1842. As a mode of literary criticism or responses in readers.
theory, formalism attempted to bring which
of the following to literary studies ? 1845. What is one reason that Mystery Plays
A. An awareness of the historical are referred to as such ?
circumstances surrounding a text’s A. They involve the solving of a crime.
production B. They explore mysterious religious topics.
B. A set of objective criteria for critical C. They were written by medieval mystics.
analysis D. They were produced by medieval craft
C. An awareness of the economic guilds, which were knows as “mysteries”.
circumstances surrounding a literary text Answer: Option D. They were produced
D. Strict criteria for evaluating the quality of by medieval craft guilds, which were knows
a literary text as “mysteries”.
Answer: Option B. A set of objective
criteria for critical analysis 1846. Which of the following statements
offers the best characterization of a Greek
1843. In his preface to “Lyrical Ballads”, tragedy ?
Wordsworth calls for poetry to be written in A. In a Greek tragedy, evil people are
what kind of language? vanquished by the forces of good.
A. Typically poetic and fanciful language B. In a Greek tragedy, characters undergo
B. Ancient languages reversals of fortune, usually for the worse.
C. Complicated and difficult language C. In a Greek tragedy, the hero suffers but
D. Common, everyday language always survives at the end of the play.
Answer: Option D. Common, everyday D. In a Greek tragedy, the tragic hero dies
language at the end of the play.
Answer: Option B. In a Greek tragedy,
1844. Which of the following offers the best characters undergo reversals of fortune,
description of the concept of pathos ? usually for the worse.
A. Pathos refers to a writer’s presentation of
character and image.
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1847. Which of the following statements A. a feeling of being disconnected from the
demonstrates the use of pathos ? world.
A. According to research, 22 percent of the B. a sense of something being familiar and
American population owns an unsecured foreign at once.
handgun. C. terror at the thought of death.
B. I own a handgun and keep it in a secure D. a realization of one’s empowered position
place in my house. in the world.
C. Every month in the United States, at least Answer: Option B. a sense of something
100 children are wounded or killed as a being familiar and foreign at once.
result of unsecured handguns.
D. Handguns don’t kill people, people do 1850. Detractors argue that such an
Answer: Option C. Every month in the approach can be too “judgmental.” Some
United States, at least 100 children are believe literature should be judged primarily
wounded or killed as a result of unsecured (if not solely) on its artistic merits. What
handguns. approach possess this disadvantage ?
A. Psychological
1848. According to Anthony DiMatteo’s B. Formalism/New Criticism
“Shakespeare and the Public Discourse of C. Moral/Philosophical
Sovereignty: ’Reason of State’ in ’Hamlet’”, D. Historical/Biographical
how does Shakespeare tend to present Answer: Option C. Moral/Philosophical
political rulers in Hamlet?
A. Shakespeare presents political rulers as 1851. Modern literary theory began with the
flawless, perfect human beings. work of which theorist ?
B. Shakespeare presents political rulers as A. Ferdinand de Saussure
often meeting ruinous and violent endings. B. Viktor Shklovsky
C. Shakespeare only presents fictional C. Roland Barthes
political rulers and does not explore any D. Michel Foucault
political realities. Answer: Option A. Ferdinand de Saussure
D. Shakespeare considers all political rulers
to be corrupt. 1852. One archetype in literature is the
Answer: Option B. Shakespeare presents scapegoat. Which of these literary
political rulers as often meeting ruinous and characters serves that purpose ?
violent endings. A. Billy Budd
B. Hamlet
1849. The Freudian concept of “the C. Captain Ahab
uncanny” refers to_________________? D. Ophelia
Answer: Option A. Billy Budd
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1856. What approach is described by the

1853. How does New Historicism differ from paragraph? Users of this approach believe
traditional historicism ? that all information essential to the
A. New Historicism rejects the idea that interpretation of a work must be found
history is neutral. within the work itself; there is no need to
B. New Historicism does not make strict bring in outside information about the
delineations between literary and non- history, politics, or society of the time, or
literary texts. about the author’s life ?
C. New Historicism takes a particular A. Historical/Biographical Approach
interest in marginalized peoples. B. Moral/ Philosophical Approach
D. All of the above answers are correct. C. Formalism
Answer: Option D. All of the above D. Psychological Approach
answers are correct. Answer: Option C. Formalism
1854. Plato used the word mimesis in 1857. Who proposed that poets should be
relation to literature with the meaning ? banished from the ideal Republic ?
A. Copying A. Plato
B. Criticism of life B. Aristotle
C. Representation C. Sir Philip Sidney
D. Interpretation D. Sir Thomas More
Answer: Option C. Representation Answer: Option A. Plato
1855. What is the main function of 1858. What does gynocriticism recommend
postcolonial criticism ? as an approach to literature ?
A. To represent the relationship between A. Examining only female-authored literature
colonizers and the colonized more critically
B. To draw attention to the positive effects B. Considering women’s literature outside of
of colonization on literature its historical context
C. To explain why there are few examples of C. Becoming more familiar with the history
successful non-Western literature of women and women’s writing
D. To show the ways in which most Western D. All of the above answers are correct.
literature is superior Answer: Option C. Becoming more familiar
Answer: Option A. To represent the with the history of women and women’s
relationship between colonizers and the writing
colonized
1859. Horace was a_____________?
A. Greek writer
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B. Roman Writer B. T.S. Eliot

C. Italian writer C. G.K. Chesterton
D. English writer D. Matthew Arnold
Answer: Option B. Roman Writer Answer: Option B. T.S. Eliot
1860. A critic examining Pope’s “An Essay 1863. New trends in literary theory tend to
on Man” asks herself: How well does this do which of the following ?
poem accord with the real world? Is it A. Reject all previous modes of literary
accurate? Is it moral? She is most likely a theory
critic? B. Focus on a return to traditional critical
A. Feminist methods
B. Reader Response C. Make use of different literary theories in
C. Formalist order to develop new theories
D. Mimetic D. Work only with ideas developed by post-
Answer: Option D. Mimetic Marxist theorists
Answer: Option C. Make use of different
1861. The statements below are steps on literary theories in order to develop new
“How to Read and Understand an Expository theories
Essay”. Which comes in as an initial thing to
do before writing an expository essay ? 1864. In Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy
A. Identify the Mode of Development there are four interlocuters representing
B. Analysis of the Author four different ideologies. Which of them
C. Subsequent Readings/Reviews expresses Dryden’s own views ?
D. All of the above answers are correct. A. Lisideius
Answer: Option B. Analysis of the Author B. Eugenius
C. Neander
1862. This literary critic warned: “We must D. Crites
remember that the greater part of our Answer: Option C. Neander
current reading matter is written for us by
people who have no real belief in a 1865. What do many contemporary theorists
supernatural order . . . And the greater part find problematic about the literary canon ?
. . . is coming to be written by people who A. It includes too few works by non-
not only have no such belief, but are even European writers.
ignorant of the fact that there are still B. It includes too few works by non-white
people in the world so ’backward’ or so writers.
’eccentric’ as to continue to believe.” ? C. It includes too few works by women.
A. C.S. Lewis D. All of the above answers are correct.
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Answer: Option D. All of the above A. Historical/Biographical Approach

answers are correct. B. Moral/ Philosophical Approach
C. Formalism
1866. How does literary theory resemble the D. Psychological Approach
practice of philosophy as it was developed Answer: Option A. Historical/Biographical
by Plato and Aristotle ? Approach
A. Literary theory engages with theoretical
rather than real-world issues. 1869. In her essay “The Poem as Event,”
B. Literary theory asks fundamental Louise M. Rosenblatt sees the reader as
questions about literary interpretation, and performing what function ?
at the same time builds specific systems of A. The reader participates in a transaction
literary interpretation. with the text.
C. Literary theory relies totally on B. The reader is acted upon by the text.
speculation rather than history. C. The reader acts upon the text.
D. All of the above answers are correct. D. All of the above answers are correct.
Answer: Option B. Literary theory asks Answer: Option D. All of the above
fundamental questions about literary answers are correct.
interpretation, and at the same time builds
specific systems of literary interpretation. 1870. Which of the following texts is
considered the first example of postcolonial
1867. What did Sigmund Freud believe criticism ?
about the unconscious? A. Harold Bloom’s “An Elegy for the Canon”
A. a. It contains secret instincts and desires B. Jacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage . . . ”
that are repressed. C. Cleanth Brooks’s “Keats’s Sylvan
B. It is the only significant aspect of the Historian”
human psyche. D. Edward Said’s Orientalism
C. It can never be accessed. Answer: Option D. Edward Said’s
D. All of the above answers are correct. Orientalism
Answer: Option A. a. It contains secret
instincts and desires that are repressed. 1871. In his essay “What Is an Author?”
what position(s) on authorship does Michel
1868. What approach is described by the Foucault take ?
paragraph? Those who apply this approach A. The idea of the author came into being at
believe it is necessary to know about the a certain point in history.
author and the political, economical, and B. The names of authors serve a
sociological context of his times in order to classificatory function.
truly understand his works ? C. The author may not always exist.
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D. All of the above answers are correct. Answer: Option B. Elaine Showalter
Answer: Option D. All of the above
answers are correct. 1876. Which of the following writers might
be considered one of the early founders of
1872. Among the following which is not a firstwave feminism ?
work by Aristotle ? A. Hélène Cixous
A. Ethics B. Judith Butler
B. Metaphysics C. Lucy Irigaray
C. Rhetoric D. Mary Wollstonecraft
D. Ars Poetica Answer: Option D. Mary Wollstonecraft
Answer: Option D. Ars Poetica
1877. Poetic Diction was taken to be the
1873. In a Freudian approach to literature, standard language for poetry
concave images are usually seen in______________?
as____________? A. The Elizabethan Age
A. Female symbols B. The Neo-Classical Age
B. Phallic symbols C. The Romantic Age
C. Male symbols D. The Victorian Age
D. Evidence of an Oedipus complex Answer: Option B. The Neo-Classical Age
Answer: Option A. Female symbols
1878. With which theorist is phenomenology
1874. Which literary theorist argues that associated ?
“there is nothing outside the text” ? A. Edmund Husserl
A. T.S. Eliot B. Wolfgang Iser
B. Jacques Lacan C. Jean-Paul Sartre
C. Jacques Derrida D. All of the above answers are correct.
D. Stanley Fish Answer: Option D. All of the above
Answer: Option C. Jacques Derrida answers are correct.
1875. This feminist critic proposed that all 1879. What does Sidney say about the
female characters in literature are in at least observance of the three Dramatic Unities in
one of the following stages of development: drama ?
the feminine, feminist, or female stage ? A. They must be observed
A. Virginia Woolf B. It is not necessary to observe them
B. Elaine Showalter C. He favours the observance of the Unity of
C. Mary Wolstencraft Action only
D. Ellen Mores
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D. Their observance depends upon the A. Women’s gender is artificial, while men’s
nature of the theme of the play gender is not.
Answer: Option A. They must be observed B. While gender is not real, the stereotypes
that accompany it are true.
1880. What is phenomenology ? C. Gender is largely a cultural construct.
A. The examination of structures informing D. All of the above answers are correct.
our conscious experience Answer: Option C. Gender is largely a
B. The examination of desires informing our cultural construct.
consciousness
C. The examination of our unconscious 1884. Arnold’s views on poetry and criticism
experience are discussed in ?
D. The examination of intricate structures A. Preface to the Poems
within our unconscious B. On translating Homer
Answer: Option A. The examination of C. “Scholar Gypsy”
structures informing our conscious D. Culture and Anarchy
experience Answer: Option D. Culture and Anarchy
1881. Who said “theatre is not a hospital” ? 1885. Which of the following theorists is
A. F.L. Lucas associated with formalism ?
B. J K Atkins A. Viktor Shklovsky
C. Derrida B. Cleanth Brooks
D. Hillis Miller C. Judith Butler
Answer: Option A. F.L. Lucas D. Mikhail Bakhtin
Answer: Option A. Viktor Shklovsky
1882. What is New Historicism ?
A. A theory that sees history as a form of 1886. This poet might be described as a
writing and discourse moral or philosophical critic for arguing that
B. A theory that abandons the idea of works must have “high seriousness.” ?
history as an imitation of events A. T.S. Eliot
C. A theory that regards history as a series B. Matthew Arnold
of narratives C. Elizabeth Browning
D. All of the above answers are correct. D. Virginia Woolf
Answer: Option D. All of the above Answer: Option B. Matthew Arnold
answers are correct.
1887. In Of Grammatology, Jacques Derrida
1883. In general, what is Judith Butler’s argues what about literature ?
concept of gender ? A. No fixed, stable meaning is possible.
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B. Language must be studied in conjunction B. Virginia Woolf

with history in order to create meaning. C. Matthew Arnold
C. Literature is timeless, and thus meaning D. T.S. Eliot
does not change. Answer: Option D. T.S. Eliot
D. All of the above answers are correct.
Answer: Option A. No fixed, stable 1892. Who accused Aristotle of social
meaning is possible. snobbishness and arrogance ?
A. Willy Loman
1888. In which chapter of Biographia B. Arthur Miller
Literaria Coleridge criticize the theory of C. Henry James
language of Wordsworth ? D. David
A. 16 Answer: Option B. Arthur Miller
B. 17
C. 14 1893. With which feminist theorist is
D. 15 gynocriticism most closely associated ?
Answer: Option C. 14 A. Elaine Showalter
B. Julia Kristeva
1889. What is the original meaning of the C. Lucy Irigaray
term Hamartia ? D. Louise M. Rosenblatt
A. To miss the mark Answer: Option A. Elaine Showalter
B. Sin
C. Tragic flaw 1894. How did the New Critics view
D. Flaws literature ?
Answer: Option A. To miss the mark A. As an aesthetic object that is independent
of historical context
1890. The term ‘collective unconscious’ is B. As an aesthetic object that is influenced
coined by_____________? by historical context
A. Carl Jung C. As a historical object that is also aesthetic
B. Sigmund Freud D. As a historical object that is not
C. Ernest Jones necessarily aesthetic
D. Erik Erikson Answer: Option A. As an aesthetic object
Answer: Option A. Carl Jung that is independent of historical context
1891. Who originated the term “objective 1895. This literary critic coined the term
correlative,” which is often used in formalist “fancy.” ?
criticism ? A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A. C.S. Lewis B. Virginia Woolf
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C. Matthew Arnold B. Feminist theory

D. Carl Jung C. Ethnic criticism
Answer: Option A. Samuel Taylor D. All of the above answers are correct.
Coleridge Answer: Option D. All of the above
1896. Who is the author of Symposium ?
A. Aristotle 1900. Plato’s Republic is written in the form
B. Dante of______________?
C. Longinus A. Drama
D. Plato B. Narrative mode
Answer: Option D. Plato C. Poetry
D. Dialogue
1897. What does Ben Jonson mean by a Answer: Option D. Dialogue
‘Humorous Character’ ?
A. A character who is always cheerful and 1901. What is the philosophical theory
gay known as pragmatism ?
B. A character who is by nature melancholy A. A maxim of logic developed by Charles
C. A character whose temper is determined Sanders Peirce
by the predominance of one out of the four B. A theory of practical actions developed by
fluids in the human body William James
D. An eccentric person C. An idea used to guide conduct towards
Answer: Option C. A character whose clear objectives
temper is determined by the predominance D. All of the above answers are correct.
of one out of the four fluids in the human Answer: Option D. All of the above
body answers are correct.
1898. Name the author of The New Criticism 1902. Which of the following human
? behaviors is important to a Freudian
A. F. R. Leavis psychoanalytic study of William
B. Allen Tate Shakespeare’s Hamlet ?
C. John Crowe Ransom A. Neurotic behavior
D. R. P. Blackmur B. Changes in emotional states
Answer: Option C. John Crowe Ransom C. Slips of the tongue
1899. The concept of otherness is related to Answer: Option D. All of the above
which of the following theories ? answers are correct.
A. Psychoanalytic theory
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1903. What is the main function of literary Samson’s locks is symbolic of his castration
theory ? at the hands of Delilah. What kind of critical
A. To understand the importance of the approach is this critic using ?
formal elements of literary structure A. Mimetic approach
B. To formulate relationships among an B. Formalist approach
author, a reader, and a literary work C. Historical approach
C. To understand the role of sexuality, D. Psychological approach
gender, race, and ethnicity in literary study Answer: Option D. Psychological approach
Answer: Option D. All of the above 1907. Which of the following critics
answers are correct. preferred Shakespeare’s Comedies to his
Tragedies ?
1904. What does Elaine Showalter argue A. Dryden
about gender in terms of representations of B. Pope
the character of Ophelia in William C. Dr. Johnson
Shakespeare’s Hamlet ? D. Addison
A. Ophelia’s madness represents the social Answer: Option C. Dr. Johnson
oppression of women.
B. It is nearly impossible to represent 1908. Which literary theory would most
women as anything other than mad in directly explore questions of the role of
patriarchal discourses. spatial setting in a poem ?
C. Feminist critics need to re-appropriate A. Trauma theory
Ophelia for their own purposes. B. Ecotheory
D. All of the above answers are correct. C. Game theory
Answer: Option D. All of the above D. Marxist theory
answers are correct. Answer: Option B. Ecotheory
1905. With which theorist is the term 1909. With which theorist is the concept
implied reader associated ? imaginative geography associated ?
A. Wolfgang Iser A. Julia Kristeva
B. William Wimsatt B. Fredric Jameson
C. Cleanth Brooks C. Terry Eagleton
D. Harold Bloom D. Edward Said
Answer: Option B. William Wimsatt Answer: Option D. Edward Said
1906. A critic argues that in John Milton’s 1910. The statements below are steps on
“Samson Agonistes,” the shearing of “How to Read and Understand an Expository
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Essay”. Which comes in as an initial thing to C. Select specific passages in the text of the
do before writing an expository essay ? story that help you to develop each topic
A. Identify the Mode of Development sentence.
B. Analysis of the Author D. Build your paper to a climax; save your
C. Subsequent Readings/Reviews most engaging or important topic sentence
D. Identify External Factors Related to the for discussion last.
Work Answer: Option A. Begin your paper with
Answer: Option B. Analysis of the Author an introduction that identifies the purpose of
the paper and the text you are addressing.
1911. From whom did New Historicists draw
the idea of “self-regulating systems” ? 1914. What is mimesis ?
A. Theodor W. Adorno A. A reversal
B. Claude Lévi-Strauss B. An imitation
C. Julia Kristeva C. A satire
D. Jacques Derrida D. A poetic metaphor
Answer: Option B. Claude Lévi-Strauss Answer: Option B. An imitation
1912. Who called Dryden the Father of 1915. Who was the first literary critic who
English Criticism ? said that “Art is twice removed from reality”
A. Joseph Addison ?
B. Dr. Johnson A. Plato
C. Coleridge B. Aristotle
D. Matthew Arnold C. Longinus
Answer: Option B. Dr. Johnson D. Horace
Answer: Option A. Plato
1913. The statements below are parts of the
steps on “How to Write an Analytical Essay 1916. What do structuralist and formalist
about Short Fiction”. Which comes in as the critics have in common ?
last thing to do in the writing an essay about A. Both sets of critics reject the importance
short fiction ? of historical context in studying literature.
A. Begin your paper with an introduction B. Both sets of critics look for an objective
that identifies the purpose of the paper and way to view texts.
the text you are addressing. C. Both sets of critics focus on evaluating
B. Compose topic sentences (four or five, literature in a scientific manner.
perhaps) that support, explore, D. All of the above answers are correct.
demonstrate, or illustrate your thesis. Answer: Option D. All of the above
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Answer: Option C. Analyze the Staging

1917. The key word that characterised the
Romantic movement was_______________? 1921. Wordsworth’s theory of poetry
A. Inspiration appears in_____________?
B. Imagination A. Excursion
C. Fancy B. Tintern Abbey Lines
D. Decorum C. Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
Answer: Option B. Imagination D. Immortality Ode
Answer: Option C. Preface to the Lyrical
1918. The statements below are parts of the Ballads
steps on “How to Explicate Poetry”. Which
comes in as second to the last thing to do 1922. In which capter of Biographia Lieraria,
before writing a critical essay of a poem ? Coleridge make a distinction between fancy
A. Interpret the Poem. and imagination ?
B. Introduce External Support. A. 14
C. Analyze the Elements of the Poem B. 15
D. Evaluate the Poem. C. 12
Answer: Option A. Interpret the Poem. D. 13
Answer: Option D. 13
1919. Is Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy a
work of ? 1923. Ultimately, the literary theory of
A. Interpretative Criticism deconstruction argues that ?
B. Legislative Criticism A. the meaning of a text always relies on
C. Comparative Criticism context.
D. Textual Criticism B. texts are always heterogeneous.
Answer: Option C. Comparative Criticism C. any system for the production of meaning
is inevitably bound by context, yet also
1920. The statements below are parts of the limitless.
steps on “How to Analyze a Play”. Which D. All of the above answers are correct.
comes in as second thing to do before Answer: Option D. All of the above
writing a critical essay of a play ? answers are correct.
A. Identify External Factors Related to the
Work 1924. They believe that this approach tends
B. Interpret the Play to reduce art to the level of biography and
C. Analyze the Staging make it relative (to the times) rather than
D. Analyze the Essential Elements of the universal. What approach possess this
Play disadvantage ?
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A. Moral/Philosophical
B. Formalism/New Criticism 1928. The name “Ars Poetica” (Art of
C. Historical/Biographical Poetry) was given to Horace’s Epistle to the
D. Psychological Pisos by____________?
Answer: Option C. Historical/Biographical A. Horace
B. Quintillion
1925. Which of the following figures is C. Cicero
considered to be the father of the linguistic D. Virgil
theory known as structuralism ? Answer: Option B. Quintillion
A. Cleanth Brooks
B. Ferdinand de Saussure 1929. What is humanism ?
C. Karl Marx A. An idea traditionally associated with the
D. Toni Morrison Renaissance
Answer: Option B. Ferdinand de Saussure B. A humanity-centered view of the universe
C. A theory that values restraint, form, and
1926. To whom “poetry is the spontaneous imitation
overflow of powerful passion.” ? D. All of the above answers are correct.
A. Keats Answer: Option D. All of the above
B. Shelley answers are correct.
C. Wordsworth
D. Coleridge 1930. What fundamental idea does
Answer: Option C. Wordsworth psychoanalytic criticism hold about literary
texts ?
1927. A critic of Thomas Otway’s “Venice A. Literary texts should not be read as a
Preserv’d” wishes to know why the play’s projection of the author’s psyche.
conspirators, despite the horrible, bloody B. Literary texts solely reflect an author’s
details of their obviously brutish plan, are intentions.
portrayed in a sympathetic light. She C. Literary texts reveal secret elements of
examines the author’s life and times and an author’s unconscious.
discovers that there are obvious similarities D. All of the above answers are correct.
between the conspiracy in the play and the Answer: Option C. Literary texts reveal
Popish Plot. She is most likely a critic ? secret elements of an author’s unconscious.
A. Historical
B. Feminist 1931. He was an influential force in
C. Tory archetypal criticism ?
D. Psychological A. Freud
Answer: Option A. Historical B. Tate
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C. Richards B. Marlowe’s
D. Jung C. Spenser’s
Answer: Option D. Jung D. Sidney’s
Answer: Option D. Sidney’s
1932. Jacques Derrida’s concept of
différance challenges us to think about 1935. Who is the meaning of the term
language as a system that____________? Peripeteia as used by Aristotle in his Theory
A. mirrors our physical evolution as human of Tragedy ?
beings. A. Change in the fortune of the hero from
B. prevents us from communicating through bad to good
writing or speech. B. Change in the fortune of the hero from
C. involves a constant process of deferred good to bad
meaning. C. Constancy in the fortune of the hero
D. All of the above answers are correct. D. Fluctuations occurring in the fortune of
Answer: Option C. involves a constant the hero
process of deferred meaning. Answer: Option B. Change in the fortune
of the hero from good to bad
1933. In his essay “The Business of Theory,”
William Deresiewicz argues which of the 1936. ‘On Translating Homer’ is written
following about Terry Eagleton’s book After by________________?
Theory ? A. Mathew Arnold
A. It offers a strong outline for how theory B. Walter Pater
can be conducted in the 21st century. C. T. S. ELiot
B. It should not be read or considered by D. William Hazlit
any student or scholar. Answer: Option A. Mathew Arnold
C. It offers some valid ideas and critiques,
but its author is not entirely trustworthy. 1937. Which of the following statements
D. It offers a strong counterpoint to Jacques best explains Mikhail Bakhtin’s philosophy of
Derrida’s notion of deconstruction. language ?
Answer: Option C. It offers some valid A. Language includes multiple social dialects
ideas and critiques, but its author is not and jargons.
entirely trustworthy. B. Language can include socio-ideological
contradictions from the past.
1934. “It is not rhyming and versing that C. Language exhibits and is bound up in the
maketh a poet no more than a long gown social lives and historical context of the
maketh an advocate”. Whose view is this ? people who speak it.
A. Shakespeare’s
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D. Language is loaded with the intentions of 1941. What is affective fallacy ?

others. A. A term first used by literary theorists
Answer: Option C. Language exhibits and William Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley
is bound up in the social lives and historical B. A term that suggests that a critic should
context of the people who speak it. study the structural and thematic elements
of a poem rather than the effect it has on
1938. What is the meaning of the term the emotions of the reader
Anagnorisis as used by Aristotle in his C. An important term in the field of New
Theory of Tragedy ? Historicism
A. The hero’s recognition of his tragic flaw D. All of the above answers are correct.
B. The hero’s ignorance about his tragic flaw Answer: Option D. All of the above
C. The hero’s recognition of his adversary answers are correct.
D. The hero’s recognition of his tragic end
Answer: Option B. The hero’s ignorance 1942. What does the critical term
about his tragic flaw ’esemplatic’ mean ?
A. The unifying power
1939. With which theorist is the term B. Ability to coin new word
identity thinking most closely associated ? C. Power of imagination
A. Sigmund Freud D. Negative capability
B. Carl Jung Answer: Option A. The unifying power
C. William James
D. Theodor W. Adorno 1943. What is generally considered to be
Answer: Option D. Theodor W. Adorno Theodor W. Adorno’s primary concern as a
theorist ?
1940. What is false consciousness ? A. The effect of literature in enlightening the
A. A term for the false neuroses expressed human mind
in dreams B. The effect of modern society on human
B. A feminist term for the state that occurs suffering
when texts written by women are not C. The effect of the economy on women’s
considered in the study of literature concerns
C. Another term for the unconscious D. All of the above answers are correct.
D. An ideology that involves dominating the Answer: Option B. The effect of modern
consciousness of exploited classes society on human suffering
Answer: Option D. An ideology that
involves dominating the consciousness of 1944. Which school of literary theory is
exploited classes associated with the phrase “to make the
stones stonier” ?
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A. Humanism D. It is impossible to separate a text from

B. Formalism the linguistics that compose it.
C. Structuralism Answer: Option A. It is impossible to view
D. Marxism a piece of literature as its author intended.
Answer: Option B. Formalism
1948. According to trauma theorists, a
1945. Some critics of literary theory argue testifying subject needs which of the
that literary theory is problematic for which following to deliver a successful testimony ?
reason ? A. A figure of judgment
A. Literary theory tends to be too political. B. Religious belief
B. Literary theory does not offer a holistic C. A witness
interpretation of a text. D. Psychological treatment
C. Literary theory depends on specialized Answer: Option C. A witness
knowledge that is outside the realm of
literary studies. 1949. Which of the following best defines
D. All of the above answers are correct. the work of a deconstructionist critic ?
Answer: Option D. All of the above A. Calling into question the possibility of the
answers are correct. coherence of discourse
B. Suggesting that the study of literature is
1946. ‘Gynocriticism’ is associated based on the breakdown of language into
with_________________? signs
A. Elaine Showalter C. Arguing that language, and therefore
B. Ellen Moors literary texts, relies on the difference
C. Julia Kristeva between terms and therefore constantly
D. Kate Millet defers meaning.
Answer: Option A. Elaine Showalter D. All of the above answers are correct.
Answer: Option D. All of the above
1947. What does hermeneutic theory answers are correct.
suggest about how readers view literature ?
A. It is impossible to view a piece of 1950. How many principal sources of
literature as its author intended. sublimity are there according to Longinus ?
B. It is impossible to divorce a text from A. Three
capitalist ideology. B. Four
C. It is impossible to view a piece of C. Five
literature correctly, because we can only D. Six
work within the hetero-normative paradigm. Answer: Option C. Five

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1951. In his essay “The Death of the Answer: Option D. Marxism

Author,” Roland Barthes argues what about
literature ? 1955. On the Sublime is written
A. Biographical information about the author in_________________?
must be considered when evaluating A. Greek
literature. B. Latin
B. A text and its author text are unrelated. C. Hebrew
C. It is possible to distill meaning from a D. Italian
work based on the author’s politics. Answer: Option A. Greek
D. Literature is inextricably connected to its
creator. 1956. Which of the following statements
Answer: Option B. A text and its author best describes Cleanth Brooks’s attitude
text are unrelated. towards studying literature ?
A. Critics should examine historical
1952. Who is the author of the notorious information surrounding a literary work.
book entitled The School of Abuse ? B. Critics should develop universal readings
A. Roger Ascham of texts.
B. Stephen Hawes C. Critics should attempt to paraphrase texts
C. John Skelton in order to find out what they mean.
D. Stephen Gosson D. Critics should look at the biographical
Answer: Option D. Stephen Gosson information of authors.
Answer: Option B. Critics should develop
1953. Preface to the Lyrical Ballads was universal readings of texts.
written by_______________?
A. Wordsworth 1957. Which theorist is most closely
B. Coleridge associated with the idea of art as imitation ?
C. Southey A. Jacques Derrida
D. Shelly B. Jacques Lacan
Answer: Option A. Wordsworth C. Edward Said
D. Plato
1954. The Frankfurt School of literary theory Answer: Option D. Plato
was most greatly influenced by which of the
following schools of thought ? 1958. Who said that Keat’s love letters of a
A. Formalism surgeon’s apprentice ?
B. Structuralism A. Arnold
C. Poststructuralism B. Shelley
D. Marxism C. Byron
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D. Hazlitt 1963. Philip Sidney’s Apologie for Poetrie is

Answer: Option A. Arnold a defence of poetry against the charges
brought against it by____________?
1959. Which theorist is associated with the A. Henry Howard
idea that art is a copy of a copy ? B. Roger Ascham
A. Plato C. John Skelton
B. Julia Kristeva D. Stephen Gosson
C. Walter Benjamin Answer: Option D. Stephen Gosson
D. Louis Althusser
Answer: Option A. Plato 1964. The statements below are steps on
“How to Read a Short Story Critically”.
1960. The structure of tragedy according to Which comes in as the last thing to do in the
Aristotle is________________? critical reading of a narrative ?
A. Simple A. Analyze the Structure of the Story
B. Complex B. Analyze Rhetorical Elements
C. Loose C. Analyze the Meaning of the Story
D. Episodic (Interpretation)
Answer: Option B. Complex D. Analyze the Essential Elements of the
Story
1961. Who is the writer of ‘Hamlet and Answer: Option B. Analyze Rhetorical
Oedipus’ (1949) ? Elements
A. Carl Jung
B. Harold Bloom 1965. Who coined the term ’esemplastic’ ?
C. Ernest Jones A. William Worsworth
D. Erik Erikson B. Browning
Answer: Option C. Ernest Jones C. Coleridge
D. Eliot
1962. What is dialogism ? Answer: Option C. Coleridge
A. A term developed by Mikhail Bakhtin
B. A term used to describe how texts include 1966. The fall of the prison of Bacille, that
a variety of styles marks the begining of French Revolution
C. A term used to explain the use of multiple occurred on______________?
points of view in literature A. June 14,1789
D. All of the above answers are correct. B. June 14, 1798
Answer: Option D. All of the above C. July 14, 1789
answers are correct. D. July 14,1798
Answer: Option C. July 14, 1789
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1970. With what literary critic is the term

1967. One of the disadvantages of this the author function most closely associated
school of criticism is that it tends to make ?
readings too subjective ? A. Claude Lévi-Strauss
A. Reader Response Criticism B. Jacques Derrida
B. Formalist Criticism C. Jacques Lacan
C. Historical Criticism D. Michel Foucault
D. These are all equally subjective Answer: Option D. Michel Foucault
Answer: Option A. Reader Response
Criticism 1971. Who made a difference between
‘poetry’ and ‘poem’ ?
1968. An Elizabethan Puritan critic A. Coleridge
denounced the poets as ‘fathers of B. Addison
lies’,’schools of abuse’ and’caterpillars of a C. Arnold
commonwealth’. Mark him out from the D. Eliot
following crities________________? Answer: Option A. Coleridge
A. William Tyndale
B. Roger Ascham 1972. According to the Geneva School, what
C. Stephen Gosson is the function of the reader ?
D. Henry Howard A. Understanding the author’s ideas in the
Answer: Option C. Stephen Gosson context of the real world
B. Entering the author’s mind through his or
1969. What is dialectical materialism ? her literary works
A. A form of literary criticism that is based C. Reproducing the author’s thoughts in a
on historical context critical context
B. A form of literary criticism that does not D. All of the above answers are correct.
incorporate economic concerns Answer: Option D. All of the above
C. A form of literary criticism based on answers are correct.
linguistic analysis
D. A term related to gender theory that 1973. How many poets were included in
argues that men are dominant in society by Jhonson’s ‘The Lives of Most Eminent
virtue of their economic privilege English Poets’ ?
Answer: Option A. A form of literary A. 48
criticism that is based on historical context B. 50
C. 52
D. 54
Answer: Option C. 52
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D. Melodrama
1974. Plato equated poetry with painting, Answer: Option B. Tragedy
and Aristotle equated it
with_______________? 1978. What is denouement ____________?
A. drama A. The ending of a tragedy
B. music B. The ending of a comedy
C. dance C. The climax in a tragedy
D. none D. The climax in a comedy
Answer: Option B. music Answer: Option B. The ending of a
comedy
1975. The New Critics
were_________________? 1979. According to Jacques Lacan, the
A. Psychological Critics mirror stage is the point at which a child
B. Feminist critics _______________?
C. Formalist critics A. refuses maternal bonds.
D. Marxist critics B. is able to separate the “I” from the
Answer: Option C. Formalist critics “Other.”
C. looks into a mirror for the first time.
1976. Which of the following descriptions D. All of the above answers are correct.
best defines the literary theory known as Answer: Option B. is able to separate the
formalism ? “I” from the “Other.”
A. An approach that emphasizes literary
devices in a text 1980. Who was the most illustrious disciple
B. An approach that emphasizes the of Socrates ?
historical context of a text A. Sophocles
C. An approach that emphasizes the B. Plautus
biographical intent of a text C. Plato
D. An approach that emphasizes racial D. Critus
issues in a text Answer: Option C. Plato
Answer: Option A. An approach that
emphasizes literary devices in a text 1981. Which of the following literary
theorists is most closely associated with the
1977. According to Aristotle pity and fear concept that became known as liberal
are evoked by_______________? humanism ?
A. Comedy A. Aristotle
B. Tragedy B. Viktor Shklovsky
C. Satire C. Stanley Fish
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D. Toni Morrison 1985. Who said that Arnold was a

Answer: Option A. Aristotle propagandist for literature rather than a
critic ?
1982. What are some common criticisms of A. Carlyle
literary theory ? B. Ruskin
A. Theory has replaced literary appreciation C. T. S. Eliot
with formulas for understanding D. F. R. Leavis
B. The reasoning of theory is often too Answer: Option C. T. S. Eliot
circular
C. Many theories have been pushed too far 1986. Literary Theory and
into abstraction Criticism________________?
D. All of the above answers are correct A. Dryden
Answer: Option D. All of the above B. Pope
answers are correct C. Dr. Johnson
D. Addison
1983. Plato said that art is an imperfect Answer: Option B. Pope
reflection of the real world
because______________? 1987. From where has the term Oedipus
A. Art presents only part of the world Complex originated ?
B. Art describes only what appears and not A. Oedipus the Rex
what is real B. Oedipus at Colonus
C. Art tells lies about the world C. Antigone
D. Art is an exaggeration of the world D. Jocasta, the Queen of Thebes
Answer: Option B. Art describes only what Answer: Option A. Oedipus the Rex
appears and not what is real
1984. Plato has a positive view of art, in so definition of écriture féminine ?
far as_______________? A. How women really feel about male
A. It represents the nature writers
B. It contributes to the spiritual growth of B. The inscription of womanhood and
people femininity in texts
C. It shows a tragedy C. Second-wave feminism
D. It imitates nobility D. Psychological studies of women
Answer: Option B. It contributes to the Answer: Option B. The inscription of
spiritual growth of people womanhood and femininity in texts

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1989. How do Marxist theorists react to environmental issues in literature and

ideology ? culture
A. They accept ideology as an essential, B. How writers have damaged the
although sometimes problematic, part of environment
society. C. How the environment can be repaired
B. They subject all ideologies to critique in D. Who is responsible for damaging the
order to expose biased interests. environment
C. They reject the idea that ideology has Answer: Option A. How writers
real effects on social progress. conceptualize natural environments and the
D. All of the above answers are correct. representation of environmental issues in
Answer: Option B. They subject all literature and culture
ideologies to critique in order to expose
biased interests. 1993. Which school of theorists is most
closely associated with phenomenology ?
1990. What approach to literary criticism A. The Moscow School
requires the critic to know about the B. The Chicago School
author’s life and times ? C. The Frankfurt School
A. Historical D. The Geneva School
B. Formalist Answer: Option D. The Geneva School
C. Mimetic
D. All of these 1994. What has Dryden to say about the
Answer: Option A. Historical observance of the three Classical Dramatic
Unities ?
1991. How many times do the word A. He advocates their strict observance
Katharsis appear in the B. He does not advocate their strict
Poetics________________? observance
A. 3 C. He says that every dramatist should
B. 2 decide it for himself
C. 4 D. He is silent about this issue
D. 6 Answer: Option B. He does not advocate
Answer: Option B. 2 their strict observance
1992. Ecotheorists tend to show an interest 1995. What is the purpose of feminist theory
in which of the following ? ?
A. How writers conceptualize natural A. To advocate for women’s rights
environments and the representation of B. To create literary subjects with which
female readers can identify
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C. To critique phallocentric assumptions Answer: Option B. William Wordsworth

about literature
D. All of the above answers are correct. 2000. Which of the following statements
Answer: Option D. All of the above best explains the main objective of New
answers are correct. Historicism ?
A. Texts are examined to see how colonizers
1996. On the Sublime is considered and the colonized interact.
______________? B. Texts are examined to see how the
A. A classical approach formal aspects of the text create meaning.
B. Romantic approach C. Texts are examined to determine how
C. Neo-classical approach they reveal social realities.
D. None of these D. Texts are examined to determine the
Answer: Option B. Romantic approach author’s intent.
Answer: Option C. Texts are examined to
1997. Who coined the expression “objective determine how they reveal social realities.
corelative” ?
A. Coleridge
B. T. S. Eliot
C. Allen Tate
D. F. R. Leavis
Answer: Option B. T. S. Eliot
1998. Which of the following texts provides

the best example of defamiliarization ?
A. Aristotle’s Poetics
B. Leo Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata
C. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
D. W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk
Answer: Option B. Leo Tolstoy’s The
Kreutzer Sonata
1999. Who for the first time discriminated

between imagination and fancy ?
A. Coleridge
B. William Wordsworth
C. John Ruskin
D. Schegell

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1801. Which of the following statements D. structuralism.

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D. All of these D. begins with a preview of the play’s

D. Literary theory involves describing the D. “I wandered lonely as a cloud.”

C. Ethos refers to a writer’s ability to inspire B. Pathos refers to a writer’s ability to

1856. What approach is described by the

B. Roman Writer B. T.S. Eliot

Answer: Option D. All of the above A. Historical/Biographical Approach

B. Language must be studied in conjunction B. Virginia Woolf

C. Matthew Arnold B. Feminist theory

Answer: Option C. Analyze the Staging

D. Language is loaded with the intentions of 1941. What is affective fallacy ?

A. Humanism D. It is impossible to separate a text from

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1951. In his essay “The Death of the Answer: Option D. Marxism

D. Hazlitt 1963. Philip Sidney’s Apologie for Poetrie is

1970. With what literary critic is the term

D. Toni Morrison 1985. Who said that Arnold was a

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1989. How do Marxist theorists react to environmental issues in literature and

C. To critique phallocentric assumptions Answer: Option B. William Wordsworth

1998. Which of the following texts provides

1999. Who for the first time discriminated

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