Methodology of Literature Multiple Choice Questions
1. The study of signs is called_
A. linguistics
B. semiotics
C. scientology
D. stylistics
Answer:
B. semiotics
2. Who coined the word netspeak to denote the language used in internet communication?
A. roland bartthes
B. michel foucault
C. david crystal
D. david lodge
Answer:
C. david crystal
3. Who is the author of A House for Mr. Biswas?
A. shiv naipaul
B. kushwant singh
C. dom moraes
D. vs naipaul
Answer:
D. vs naipaul
4. Who wrote Things fall Apart?
A. chinua achebe
B. wole soyinka
C. ismuth chugthai
D. yeats
Answer:
A. chinua achebe
5. Train to Pakistan is a famous novel by Kushwant Singh based on
A. partition
B. untouchables
C. prostitution
D. famine
Answer:
A. partition
6. Who wrote Summer in Calcutta ?
A. kamla das
B. mahasweta devi
C. mihir sen
D. satyajit ray
Answer:
A. kamla das
7. Which of the following is not a novel by Chinua Achebe?
A. no longer at ease
B. arrow of god
C. a man of people
D. shame
Answer:
D. shame
8. Achebe belongs to_
A. nigeria
B. sudan
C. south africa
D. ethiopia
Answer:
A. nigeria
9. The poem which lends the title of Things fall Apart by Achebe is
A. easter 1916
B. byzantium
C. second coming
D. daffodils
Answer:
C. second coming
10. An Area of Darkness by VS Naipaul is a
A. travelogue
B. novel
C. shortstory
D. drama
Answer:
A. travelogue
11. is a novel by Patrick White, the Australian novelist.
A. snake
B. voss
C. cosmos
D. raj quartet
Answer:
B. voss
12. The Stone Angel is a novel written by Margaret Lawrence, a native Neepawa in
A. africa
B. england
C. australia
D. u s a
Answer:
A. africa
13. The Guide is a novel written by
A. rk narayan
B. kr narayanan
C. anita desai
D. kirandesai
Answer:
A. rk narayan
14. Mukta Dhara is a play by
A. tagore
B. r k narayanan
C. anita desai
D. manjula padmanaban
Answer:
A. tagore
15. The term “Gitanjali” of the poem of the same name by Tagore means
A. god songs
B. good songs
C. verses
D. song offerings
Answer:
D. song offerings
16. Who wrote the introduction to Gitanjali?
A. wb yeats
B. tagore
C. eliot
D. louis fischer
Answer:
A. wb yeats
17. Douglas Steward who wrote many verse plays like Kelly, Shipwreck, The Golden Lover and Fischer’s Ghost originally belonged to
A. australia
B. new zealand
C. trinidad
D. china
Answer:
B. new zealand
18. Who wrote the book The Western Canon?
A. harold bloom
B. david lodge
C. william wordsworth
D. f r leavis
Answer:
A. harold bloom
19. Literary Theory: An Introduction is a book written by
A. harold bloom
B. terry eagleton
C. f.r.leavis
D. northrop frye
Answer:
B. terry eagleton
20. Who wrote the book The Common Pursuit?
A. harold bloom
B. terry eagleton
C. f.r leavis
D. coleridge
Answer:
C. f.r leavis
21. “Of the standard of Taste” is an essay by
A. david hume
B. harold bloom
C. david lodge
D. plato
Answer:
A. david hume
22. The term canon originaly meanin g a measuring rod, is of
A. hebrew
B. arab
C. chinese
D. greek
Answer:
D. greek
23. The famous book on culture wars in USA, Illiberal Education : The politics of Sex and Race on Campus is written by
A. dinesh d’souza
B. amartya sen
C. arundhadi roy
D. noam chomsky
Answer:
A. dinesh d’souza
24. Macaulay’s “Minutes on Indian Education” dates back to
A. 1835
B. 1935
C. 1845
D. 1925
Answer:
A. 1835
25. What does the acronym DWEM stands for ?
A. dear white european males
B. dead white english man
C. dead white european male
D. dear white english man
Answer:
C. dead white european male
26. Who made a distinction between implied reader and actual reader?
A. wolf gang iser
B. kamla das
C. mahasweta devi
D. terry eagleton
Answer:
A. wolf gang iser
27. Who translated Rubaiyat of the Persian poet Omar Khayyam into English?
A. homer
B. edward fitzgerald
C. harold bloom
D. terry eagleton
Answer:
B. edward fitzgerald
28. Who wrote the book Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars (1992)?
A. henry louis gates
B. harold bloom
C. dinesh d’souza
D. milton
Answer:
A. henry louis gates
29. Who spoke about the concept of value in literature?
A. t s eliot
B. coleridge
C. frank kermode
D. wordsworth
Answer:
C. frank kermode
30. The word for copying another person’s ideas, words, or work and using as if they are yours is called
A. plagiarism
B. theft
C. robbery
D. copyright
Answer:
A. plagiarism
31. “Piers Plowman” is a poem by
A. cervantes,
B. wycliffe
C. william langland
D. tyndale
Answer:
C. william langland
32. means intended to give instruction, is applied to a work with an educational value
A. didacticism
B. structure
C. textual criticism
D. sensualism
Answer:
A. didacticism
33. Aestheticism means intended for_
A. learning
B. pleasure
C. teaching
D. spirituality
Answer:
B. pleasure
34. My story is a fictional autobiography of
A. kamala das
B. a k ramanujam
C. indira nooyi
D. nissim ezikial
Answer:
A. kamala das
35. Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is of
A. nirad chaudhri
B. kamaladas
C. kushwant singh
D. dom moraes
Answer:
A. nirad chaudhri
36. Who wrote the famous essay “What is an Author?” 1969?
A. roland bartthes
B. michel foucault
C. david crystal
D. david lodge
Answer:
B. michel foucault
37. Which of the following is a novel by Mulk Raj Anand?
A. a fine balance
B. untouchables
C. bye bye black bird
D. maneater of malgudi
Answer:
B. untouchables
38. Who wrote Poetics?
A. plato
B. aristotle
C. longinus
D. horace
Answer:
B. aristotle
39. What does the idea of “catharsis” by Aristotle mean?
A. emotion
B. fear
C. pity
D. purgation of pity and fear
Answer:
D. purgation of pity and fear
40. In which century did Shakespeare live?
A. eighteenth
B. nineteenth
C. twentieth
D. sixteenth
Answer:
D. sixteenth
41. Who wrote the essay “From work to Text”?
A. roman jakobson
B. roland barthes
C. todorov
D. david cristal
Answer:
B. roland barthes
42. The comparison between two different things by using like or as as in “O my love’s
like a red red rose” is called a
A. metaphor
B. simile
C. epic simile
D. conceit
Answer:
B. simile
43. The comparison between two different things by not using like or as as in “O my
love’s a red red rose” is called a_
A. metaphor
B. simile
C. epic simile
D. conceit
Answer:
A. metaphor
44. Who used the word social construction for the first time in the book The Social
Construction of Reality ?
A. david crystal
B. peter berger& tomas luckman
C. tomas luckman
D. eagleton
Answer:
B. peter berger& tomas luckman
45. A brand of criticism that argues that writing in English continues colonialism is called
A. neocolonialism
B. nativism
C. regionalism
D. practicalism
Answer:
B. nativism
46. Whose book is Imaginary Home lands?
A. salman rushdie
B. naipaul
C. vikram seth
D. bilkram chandra
Answer:
A. salman rushdie
47. Who is considered as the father of sociology?
A. bipin chandra
B. romila thapar
C. emile durkheim
D. d d kosambi
Answer:
C. emile durkheim
48. A book of synonyms is called
A. dictionary
B. reverse dictionary
C. thesaurus
D. oxymoron
Answer:
C. thesaurus
49. Who is the only writer who has won the Booker of Booker prize?
A. rushdie
B. hanif kureishi
C. arundhadi roy
D. david lodge
Answer:
A. rushdie
50. Slavoj Zizek is a native of
A. iran
B. america
C. slovenia
D. italy
Answer:
C. slovenia
51. O f the following
A. in defence of lost causes
B. the fragile absolute
C. the ticklish subject
D. the cultural turn
Answer:
B. the fragile absolute
52. What is the subtitle of The Fragile Absolute by Slavoj Zizek?.
A. why is the christian legacy worth fighting for?
B. is the christian legacy worth fighting for?
C. christian legacy
D. none of these
Answer:
A. why is the christian legacy worth fighting for?
53. Zizek’s favourite philosopher who influences his works most is
A. jacques lacan
B. lyotard
C. foucault
D. habermas
Answer:
A. jacques lacan
54. Who is called “the French Freud”?
A. c j yung
B. jacques lacan.
C. lyotard
D. foucault
Answer:
B. jacques lacan.
55. Jacques lacan’s formulation of the concept of psycho‐sexual development has the
following three stages of symbolic, imagination and the
A. object
B. subject
C. self
D. mirror stage
Answer:
D. mirror stage
56. “The Insistence of the Letter in the Unconscious” is a celebrated essay by
A. jacques lacan
B. bakhtin
C. derrida
D. foucault
Answer:
A. jacques lacan
57. Ferdinand de Saussure who played an important part in the development of
structuralism is a _ linguist.
A. german
B. italian
C. british
D. swiss
Answer:
D. swiss
58. Course in General linguistics published in 1975 is written by
A. barthes
B. derrida
C. saussure
D. lacan
Answer:
C. saussure
59. The figure of speech in which a part of something is used to signify the whole as in
“ten hands” for “ten workers” is called
A. simile
B. metaphor
C. personification
D. synecdoche
Answer:
D. synecdoche
60. “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human sciences” is an essay by
A. saussure
B. lacan
C. jacques derrida
D. julia kristeva
Answer:
C. jacques derrida
61. Which of the following books is not of Jacques Derrida?
A. of grammatology
B. dissemination
C. writing and dif erence
D. waste land
Answer:
D. waste land
62. Who coined the new word “difference” to mean “to differ” and “to defer” at the same
time?
A. lacan
B. derrida
C. barthes
D. tudor
Answer:
B. derrida
63. Who is the proponent of affective stylistics?
A. harold bloom
B. derrida
C. lacan
D. stanley fish
Answer:
D. stanley fish
64. Who says that all “reading is …….misreading”?
A. harold bloom
B. foucault
C. m h abrams
D. todorov
Answer:
A. harold bloom
65. Which critical school has its ideal the establishment of an authentic text?
A. new criticism
B. aesthetic criticism
C. textual criticism
D. structuralism
Answer:
C. textual criticism
66. wrote the text Principles of Textual Criticism .
A. james thorpe
B. vladimir propp
C. eliot
D. eagleton
Answer:
A. james thorpe
67. Who wrote the famous essay “The Death of the Author”?
A. roland barthes
B. lacan
C. foucault
D. derrida
Answer:
A. roland barthes
68. Whose book is The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis?
A. jacques lacan
B. siigmund freud
C. earnest jones
D. jung
Answer:
A. jacques lacan
69. “The Philosophy of Composition” is by
A. keats
B. edgar allan poe
C. coleridge
D. tennison
Answer:
B. edgar allan poe
70. Which critic made a revaluation of Metaphysical poets and praised them for blending
states of mind and feeling
A. t s eliot
B. f r leavis
C. samuel jonson
D. shelley
Answer:
A. t s eliot
71. wrote After the New Criticism(1980)
A. f r leavis
B. samuel jonson
C. frank lentricchia
D. shelley
Answer:
C. frank lentricchia
72. wrote Defence of poetry
A. shelley
B. keats
C. longinus
D. shakespeare
Answer:
A. shelley
73. The title of the book The Well Wrought Urn (1947) by Cleanth Brooks is taken from
the poem by John Donne.
A. the flee
B. valediction
C. the canonization
D. the anniversary
Answer:
C. the canonization
74. The term is suggestive of carefully worked out images that were
elaborated over a number of lines.
A. well wrought
B. simile
C. humour
D. zeitgeist
Answer:
A. well wrought
75. According to Freud all human behavior is motivated by or Sexual energy.
A. libido
B. thanatos
C. eros
D. oedipus complex
Answer:
A. libido
76. Oedipus Complex is a hypothesis developed by
A. adler
B. freud
C. jung
D. piaget
Answer:
B. freud
77. Ernest Jones Hamlet and Oedipus originally published in 1910in the first full
scale study of major work
A. formalist
B. psychoanalytic
C. structuralist
D. textual
Answer:
B. psychoanalytic
78. Hamlet is a
A. tragedy
B. comedy
C. farce
D. novel
Answer:
A. tragedy
79. Which critic spoke about four kinds of meaning?
A. ia richards
B. t.s.eliot
C. f rleavis
D. coleridge freud
Answer:
A. ia richards
80. Who defined a good work as one which successfully communicates a valuable
experience?
A. coleridge
B. t.s.eliot
C. f.r.leavis
D. ia richards
Answer:
D. ia richards
81. Gusto is a concept of the Romantic critic
A. hazlitt
B. coleridge
C. wordsworth
D. f.r.leavis
Answer:
A. hazlitt
82. “Horizon of expectation “ is a term used in the reception theory of
A. hans robert gauss
B. george gardener
C. robert c holub
D. j p stern
Answer:
A. hans robert gauss
83. Ecriture the French word is used for
A. speaking
B. reading
C. writing
D. note making
Answer:
C. writing
84. Writing Degree Zero is a book written by
A. geoffrey hartman
B. roland barthes
C. derrida
D. barthes
Answer:
B. roland barthes
85. “Writerly books” and “Readerly books” are a distinction made by
A. samuel johnson
B. umberto eco
C. derrida
D. roland barthes
Answer:
B. umberto eco
86. The book The New Criticism 1941 is written by
A. john crowe ranson
B. ia richards
C. t.s.eliot
D. milton
Answer:
A. john crowe ranson
87. Which group of critics relied on “explication” or “close reading”?
A. structuralist
B. new critics
C. romantics
D. neo classical critics
Answer:
A. structuralist
88. Who wrote the book Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930)?
A. ts eliot
B. william empson
C. fr leavis
D. ia richards
Answer:
B. william empson
89. According to Allan Tate the meaning of good poetry is its _
A. tension
B. irony
C. paradox
D. extension
Answer:
A. tension
90. Rene Wellek, American critic and Austin warren coauthored the book_ in
1949
A. principles of literary criticism
B. theory of literature
C. language of fiction
D. on the sublime
Answer:
B. theory of literature
91. Who used the phrase “the heresy of paraphrase”?
A. cleanth brooks
B. austin warren
C. rene wellek
D. william empson
Answer:
A. cleanth brooks
92. Who wrote the works Practical criticism (1929) and Principles of Literacy Criticism (1924)
A. ia richards
B. austin warren
C. rene wellek
D. william empson
Answer:
A. ia richards
93. Which important writer other than George Eliot and Henry James according to FR
Leavis formed The Great Tradition in English novel?
A. d h lawrence
B. emilebronte
C. joseph conrad
D. golding
Answer:
C. joseph conrad
94. Multiple meaning and plurisignation are alternative terms for the word
A. ambiguity
B. paradox
C. simile
D. metaphor
Answer:
A. ambiguity
95. The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) by Albert Camus is an important work on
A. expressionism
B. impressionism
C. ambiguity
D. existentialism
Answer:
D. existentialism
96. Who criticizes William Empson’s theory of ambiguity in “William Empson,
Contemporary criticism and poetic diction”?
A. ezra pound
B. elder olson
C. allan tate
D. r s crane
Answer:
B. elder olson
97. The idea of “depth psychology” an important antecedent of archetypal criticism is of
A. freud
B. adler
C. cg jung
D. piaget
Answer:
C. cg jung
98. Allan Tate’s “Tension in poetry” appears in the book
A. one the limits of poetry
B. tensions in poetry
C. the limits of poetry
D. poetry
Answer:
A. one the limits of poetry
99. denotes recurrent narrative designs, patterns of action, character
types, themes and images which are identifiable in literature, myths, dreams and even social rituals.
A. image
B. motif
C. archetype
D. mythology
Answer:
C. archetype
100. The slogan of the cultural movement launched by clack students in Paris in 1932 is
A. negritude
B. black art movement
C. black aesthetics
D. black movement
Answer:
A. negritude
101. Who wrote Second Sex, an important work of feminism?
A. simon de bouveur
B. sartre
C. toril moi
D. spivak
Answer:
A. simon de bouveur
102. Who was the person who led the Chavadar lake satyagraha on 25 December 1927?
A. dr ambedkar
B. gandhi
C. nehru
D. subash chandra bose
Answer:
A. dr ambedkar
103. As a revolt against caste oppression Dr Ambedkar got converted to
October 1956.
A. buddhism
B. jainism
C. islam
D. christianity
Answer:
A. buddhism
104. Why I am not a Hindu is a work by_
A. kanjah illaiah
B. b r ambedkar
C. spivak
D. bama
Answer:
A. kanjah illaiah
105. WEB Du Bois’s idea that black people could never see oneself through their eyes but
only through the eyes of the white is called
A. white myth
B. multiple consciousnesses
C. double consciousness
D. false consciousness
Answer:
C. double consciousness
106. WEB Du Bois argued that the view that blacks were biologically inferior is not
scientific in his book
A. the souls of the black folk
B. black skin white masks
C. the wretched of the earth
D. good earth
Answer:
A. the souls of the black folk
107. Dirk Hoerder brilliant argues the European Renaissance understood as exclusively
European phenomena was in fact a mixture of cultural contributions in his book
A. cultures in contact
B. black skin white masks
C. the wretched of the earth
D. culture and anarchy
Answer:
A. cultures in contact
108. Who coined the word Gynocriticism?
A. shakespeare
B. elaine showalter
C. virginia wolf
D. toril moi
Answer:
B. elaine showalter
109. The suffragette movement is connected with _
A. marxism
B. ecocriticism
C. feminism
D. orientalism
Answer:
C. feminism
110. Which is Mary Wollstonecraft’s work on feminism
A. mad woman in the attic
B. a vindication of the rights of woman (1792
C. the subjection of women (1869
D. on the rights of women
Answer:
B. a vindication of the rights of woman (1792
111. Who wrote the essay “The Black Arts Movement” of 1968?
A. larry neal
B. mal com
C. hl gates
D. gayle
Answer:
A. larry neal
112. _represents a number of Afro‐Americans whose work shaped the social
and political turbulence of the 1960s
A. black arts movement
B. dalit movement
C. romantic movement
D. renaissance
Answer:
A. black arts movement
113. Who founded the Black Arts Repertory Theater/School in 1965 at Harlem?
A. martin luther king
B. imamu amiri baraka
C. le roi jones
D. wole soyinka
Answer:
B. imamu amiri baraka
114. Imamu Amiri Baraka was born as
A. le roi jones
B. wole soyinka
C. mary anne evans
D. martin luther
Answer:
A. le roi jones
115. Baraka’s play, Dutchman is often considered an exemplary product of the_
A. black arts movement
B. feminism
C. new criticism
D. ecoaesthetics
Answer:
A. black arts movement
116. “I have a Dream” is a famous speech by
A. malcom x
B. martin luther king
C. nehru
D. abdul kalam
Answer:
B. martin luther king
117. Id, egoand Super ego are the bi partition of the human psyche made by
A. freud
B. adler
C. althusser
D. s ramachandran
Answer:
A. freud
118. Which feminist critic spoke about the need of a room for a woman to become a
writer?
A. simon de boeuver
B. virginia wolf
C. toril moi
D. alice walker
Answer:
B. virginia wolf
119. Donna Harraway’s notion of the “creature of the post – gender world” is called
A. cyborg
B. bisexual
C. hetero sexual
D. tansgender
Answer:
A. cyborg
120. The term the French writer Halen Cixious used for feminine writing which is typically
feminine in style, language, tome and feeling is called
A. ecriture feminine
B. exciter feminine
C. feminist
D. feminism
Answer:
A. ecriture feminine
121. Who coined the term subaltern?
A. antonio gramsci
B. althusser
C. antonia negri
D. gayathri spivak
Answer:
A. antonio gramsci
122. Which of the following is a not a novel by Toni Morrison the 1993 Afro‐American
nobel prize winner?
A. the bluest eye
B. sula
C. song of solomon
D. a suitable boy
Answer:
D. a suitable boy
123. Who classified the feminist authors into three main types : Femine phase 1840 – 1880, Feminist phase 1890 ‐ 1920s and the female phase.
A. elaine showalter
B. susan gubar
C. sandra gilbert
D. virginia wolf
Answer:
A. elaine showalter
124. Sudras in Ancient India is a book written by .
A. bipin chandra
B. rs sharma
C. n ram
D. kosambi
Answer:
B. rs sharma
125. “Who was Sudras?”, book authored by DR BR Ambedakar was dedicated to .
A. ev ramaswami naikar
B. jyothi rao phule
C. bipin chandra
D. nehru
Answer:
B. jyothi rao phule
126. Who was the leader of Dravida Munneta Kazhakam?
A. ev ramaswami naikar
B. george fernandes
C. vk krisna menon
D. chandrik kumaratunge
Answer:
A. ev ramaswami naikar
127. Who edited the first volume of Subaltern Studies?
A. tt sree kumar
B. ranajith guhe
C. ijas ahammed
D. gayathri spivak
Answer:
B. ranajith guhe
128. Who authored the book In Theory?
A. tt sree kumar
B. ranajith gune
C. ijas ahamed
D. gayathri spivak
Answer:
C. ijas ahamed
129. Towards Dalit Aesthetics is a book by
A. bama
B. saram kumar limbalai
C. omprakash valmiki
D. ismath chugthai
Answer:
B. saram kumar limbalai
130. Myth literature and African world is a book by
A. nelson mandela
B. wole soyinka
C. naipaul
D. rushdie
Answer:
B. wole soyinka
131. A female homo sexual is called a
A. bisexual
B. transgender
C. lesbian
D. queer
Answer:
C. lesbian
132. Who is the author of Coming Out?
A. henry miller
B. jidith butler
C. jeffrey week
D. sinfield
Answer:
C. jeffrey week
133. Who wrote the book Orientalism?
A. edward said
B. gayatri chakravorty spivak
C. franz fanon
D. gandhi
Answer:
A. edward said
134. is a person, especially a man who enjoys dressing as a member of the
opposite sex.
A. transsexual
B. transvestite
C. hermaphrodite
D. bisexual
Answer:
B. transvestite
135. is a person who feels comfortable living as a member of the opposite sex.
A. queer
B. gay
C. transsexual
D. hetro sexual
Answer:
C. transsexual
136. Who is the author of History of Sexuality?
A. derrida
B. foucault
C. henry miller
D. dh lawrence
Answer:
B. foucault
137. The term oriental and occidental mean and _respectively.
A. european and western
B. european and eastern
C. eastern and western
D. western and eastern
Answer:
C. eastern and western
138. Who wrote the book The Wretched of the Earth?
A. chinua achebe
B. wole soyinka
C. franz fanon
D. edward said
Answer:
C. franz fanon
139. The subtitle of the book The Empire Writes Back by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and
Hellen Tiffin is ?
A. theory and practice
B. theory in post colonial literatures
C. theory and practice in post colonial literatures
D. practice in post colonial literatures
Answer:
C. theory and practice in post colonial literatures
140. Who wrote the essay “Can the Subaltern Speak?”
A. gayatri chakravorty spivak
B. chinua achebe
C. wole soyinka
D. edward said
Answer:
A. gayatri chakravorty spivak
141. Who wrote the book The Location of Culture?
A. gayatri chakravorty spivak
B. chinua achebe
C. raymond williams
D. homi j bhabha
Answer:
D. homi j bhabha
142. Interventions is an international journal of
A. post colonial studies
B. new historicism
C. new criticism
D. post modernism
Answer:
A. post colonial studies
143. The books Culture and Society (1958) and theUses of Literacy (1958) which
inaugurated movement are written by Raymond Williams and Richard Hoggart respectively.
A. cultural studies
B. post colonial studies
C. new historicism
D. deconstruction
Answer:
A. cultural studies
144. In which year Richard Hoggart established the Burmingham Centre of Contemporary
Cultural Studies?
A. 1946
B. 1956
C. 1967
D. 1964
Answer:
D. 1964
145. Mythologies a precursor of modern cultural studies is written by
A. roland barthes
B. homi j bhabha
C. w b yeats
D. northrop frye
Answer:
A. roland barthes
146. Who used the term “cultural materialism” for the first time?
A. raymond williams
B. jonathan dollimore
C. alan sinfield
D. karl marx
Answer:
A. raymond williams
147. Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield the British cultural materialists jointly wrote
the book Political Shakespeare(1985). Its subtitle is_
A. new essays in cultural materialism
B. essays in cultural materialism
C. cultural materialism : a reader
D. none of these
Answer:
A. new essays in cultural materialism
148. Clifford Geertz, the new historicist used the term for the close analysis
or “reading” of a particular social production or event to recover its meanings.
A. descriptions
B. thick descriptions
C. analysis
D. none of these
Answer:
B. thick descriptions
149. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels jointly published Communist Manifesto in
A. 1992
B. 1990
C. 1993
D. 1991
Answer:
C. 1993
150. Which work begins with the statement “The History of all hitherto existing society is
the history of class struggles”.
A. german ideology
B. das capital
C. proletarians
D. communist manifesto
Answer:
D. communist manifesto
151. Who described new historicism as “a reciprocal concern with the historicity of texts
and textuality of history?
A. louis montrose
B. stephen green blatt
C. catherine galager
D. none of these
Answer:
A. louis montrose
152. is the term used by new historicists to suggest verbal formations which
are the “Ideological products” or “cultural constructs” of a specific area.
A. representations
B. mythologies
C. products
D. ideology
Answer:
A. representations
153. The book The New Historicism, a collection of essays by new historicists, Louis
Montrose, Stephen Green Blatt and others is edited by_
A. h aram veeser
B. louis montrose
C. stephen green blatt
D. catherine galager
Answer:
A. h aram veeser
154. Who used the term “ecocriticism” for the first time in 1978?
A. william rueckert
B. raymond williams
C. leo marx
D. donald worster
Answer:
A. william rueckert
155. An early ecocritical work The country and the City (1973) is written by
A. raymond williams
B. william rueckert
C. leo marx
D. donald worster
Answer:
A. raymond williams
156. The book Romantic Ecology (1991) is written by the British critic
A. rachel carlson
B. joseph meeker
C. raymond williams
D. jonathan bate
Answer:
D. jonathan bate
157. Who wrote the book Silent Spring (1962) on toxic effects of residue of chemicals?
A. rachel carson
B. william rueckert
C. raymond williams
D. leo marx
Answer:
A. rachel carson
158. is a term used for placing human beings at the centre of everything and
its opposite is ecocentrism.
A. anthropocentrism
B. phonocentricism
C. logocentricism
D. technocentricsm
Answer:
A. anthropocentrism
159. Who coined the term “Literary ecology” in 1972?
A. william ruckert
B. rachel carlson
C. joseph meeker
D. raymond williams
Answer:
C. joseph meeker
160. Who wrote the essay “nature” which argued that all human actions are irrational
because they try to change or alter the course of nature?
A. js mill
B. rachel carlson
C. joseph meeker
D. wordsworth
Answer:
A. js mill
161. Who wrote The Population Bomb (1972) one of the most popular environmentalist
books ever written?
A. rachel carlson
B. paul ehrlich
C. joseph meeker
D. jonathan bate
Answer:
B. paul ehrlich
162. argue that patriarchal societies’ values and beliefs have resulted in the
oppression of both women and nature.
A. ecofeminists
B. feminists
C. ecologists
D. economists
Answer:
A. ecofeminists
163. Vandana Shiva’s book_ an important ecofeminist book saw ancient India
as possessing a more environment friendly culture.
A. mother earth
B. moby dick
C. staying alive
D. made from this earth
Answer:
C. staying alive
164. The main charge of cultural Materialists against New Historicists is that their
readings are
A. non political
B. historical
C. economical
D. political
Answer:
A. non political
165. A term that regularly occurs in New Historicists books is_
A. hybridity
B. dialogism
C. intertextuality
D. circulation
Answer:
D. circulation
166. is an alternative term for Cultural Materialism
A. new historicism
B. deconstruction
C. structuralism
D. cultural poetics
Answer:
D. cultural poetics
167. Of the following which is not a feature of post modernist writing
A. pastiche
B. parody
C. eclectic approach
D. symbolism
Answer:
D. symbolism
168. Who wrote The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1984) which is an
analysis of various aspects of post modernism?
A. jean–francois lyotard
B. saussure
C. barthes
D. terry eagleton.
Answer:
A. jean–francois lyotard
169. Who put forward the proposition that all literary texts have gaps or lacunae, which is
an important concept in reader‐response theory?
A. wolfgang iser
B. saussure
C. lacan
D. freud
Answer:
A. wolfgang iser
170. Who made a distinction between ‘open’ and ‘closed texts?
A. gayathri spivak
B. derrida
C. lacan
D. umberto eco
Answer:
D. umberto eco
171. In post colonialism the condition of being the subject of cross‐breeding is
called_
A. marginality
B. colonialism
C. hybridity
D. modernism
Answer:
C. hybridity
172. Who made a controversy by famously saying that the Gulf war did not take place
A. barthes
B. jean baudrillard
C. lyotard
D. saddam hussein
Answer:
B. jean baudrillard
173. Simulation and simulacra are whose notions?
A. jean budrillard’s
B. lyotard’s
C. barthe’s
D. babha’s
Answer:
A. jean budrillard’s
174. The term “Social realism” is connected with
A. structuralism
B. marxist criticism
C. modernism
D. post structuralism
Answer:
B. marxist criticism
175. Hungarian Marxist Critic Georg Lukacs developed a theory known as
seeing literary works as reflections of a kind of system that was gradually unfolding
A. realism
B. expressionism
C. reflection
D. dadaism
Answer:
C. reflection
176. Which Marxist playwright is connected with the epic theatre?
A. bertolt brecht
B. theodor adorno
C. george lukas
D. engels
Answer:
A. bertolt brecht
177. Who of the following figures is not associated with Frankfurt School of Marxist
aesthetics founded in 1923?
A. theodor adorno
B. max horkheimer
C. herbert marcuse
D. bertolt brecht
Answer:
D. bertolt brecht
178. Whose definition is “Art is the negative knowledge of the actual world”?
A. theodore adorno
B. marcuse
C. horkheimer
D. herbert marcuse
Answer:
A. theodore adorno
179. Who wrote the essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Porduction”?
A. walter benjamin
B. bertolt brecht
C. theodor adorno
D. edward said
Answer:
A. walter benjamin
180. Which Marxist critic developed the theory of homologies?
A. lucien goldman
B. adorno
C. lukacs
D. walter benjamin
Answer:
A. lucien goldman
181. The first English Marxist Critic of note was who wrote Illusion and Reality is
A. brecht
B. gramsci
C. christopher caudwell
D. althusser
Answer:
C. christopher caudwell
182. Cyberpunk is a subspecies of
A. science fiction
B. novel
C. drama
D. poetry
Answer:
A. science fiction
183. Fiction dealing with fiction is called
A. metafiction
B. metadrama
C. metanarative
D. metacriticism
Answer:
A. metafiction
184. Grand narrative/metanarrative is a concept of_
A. lyotard
B. barthes
C. baudrillard
D. paul de man
Answer:
A. lyotard