English Literature MCQs

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In his essay “What Is an Author?” what position(s) on authorship does Michel Foucault take ?


aThe idea of the author came into being at a certain point in history.


bThe names of authors serve a classificatory function.


cThe author may not always exist.


dAll of the above answers are correct.



Which of the following texts is considered the first example of postcolonial criticism ?


aHarold Bloom’s “An Elegy for the Canon”


bJacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage . . . ”


cCleanth Brooks’s “Keats’s Sylvan Historian”


dEdward Said’s Orientalism



In her essay “The Poem as Event,” Louise M. Rosenblatt sees the reader as performing what function ?


aThe reader participates in a transaction with the text.


bThe reader is acted upon by the text.


cThe reader acts upon the text.


dAll of the above answers are correct.



What approach is described by the paragraph? Those who apply this approach believe it is necessary to know about the author and the political, economical, and sociological context of his times in order to truly understand his works ?


aHistorical/Biographical Approach


bMoral/ Philosophical Approach


cFormalism


dPsychological Approach



What did Sigmund Freud believe about the unconscious?


aIt contains secret instincts and desires that are repressed.


bIt is the only significant aspect of the human psyche.


cIt can never be accessed.


dAll of the above answers are correct.



How does literary theory resemble the practice of philosophy as it was developed by Plato and Aristotle ?


aLiterary theory engages with theoretical rather than real-world issues


bLiterary theory asks fundamental questions about literary interpretation, and at the same time builds specific systems of literary interpretation.


cLiterary theory relies totally on speculation rather than history.


dAll of the above answers are correct.



What do many contemporary theorists find problematic about the literary canon ?


aIt includes too few works by non- European writers.


bIt includes too few works by non-white writers.


cIt includes too few works by women.


dAll of the above answers are correct.



In Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy there are four interlocuters representing four different ideologies. Which of them expresses Dryden’s own views ?


aLisideius


bEugenius


cNeander


dCrites


View Answer Neander

New trends in literary theory tend to do which of the following ?


aReject all previous modes of literary theory


bFocus on a return to traditional critical methods


cMake use of different literary theories in order to develop new theories


dWork only with ideas developed by post- Marxist theorists



This literary critic warned: “We must remember that the greater part of our current reading matter is written for us by people who have no real belief in a supernatural order . . . And the greater part . . . is coming to be written by people who not only have no such belief, but are even ignorant of the fact that there are still people in the world so ’backward’ or so ’eccentric’ as to continue to believe.” ?


aC.S. Lewis


bT.S. Eliot


cG.K. Chesterton


dMatthew Arnold


View Answer T.S. Eliot

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