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This section includes 1084 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Logical and Verbal Reasoning knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 51. |
In ancient India Varnas are divided into: |
| A. | three |
| B. | six |
| C. | seven |
| D. | four |
| Answer» E. | |
| 52. |
Modern India Caste system based on ------------------- called Jati and Varna. |
| A. | political grouping |
| B. | social grouping |
| C. | economic grouping |
| D. | language grouping |
| Answer» C. economic grouping | |
| 53. |
Caste system has -------------- significance in India. |
| A. | economic |
| B. | spiritual |
| C. | natural |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. spiritual | |
| 54. |
--------------- is a form of social stratification. |
| A. | gende |
| B. | wealth |
| C. | caste |
| D. | government |
| Answer» D. government | |
| 55. |
Grand narrative/metanarrative is a concept of_ |
| A. | lyotard |
| B. | barthes |
| C. | baudrillard |
| D. | paul de man |
| Answer» B. barthes | |
| 56. |
Fiction dealing with fiction is called |
| A. | metafiction |
| B. | metadrama |
| C. | metanarative |
| D. | metacriticism |
| Answer» B. metadrama | |
| 57. |
Cyberpunk is a subspecies of |
| A. | science fiction |
| B. | novel |
| C. | drama |
| D. | poetry |
| Answer» B. novel | |
| 58. |
The first English Marxist Critic of note was who wrote Illusion and Reality is |
| A. | brecht |
| B. | gramsci |
| C. | christopher caudwell |
| D. | althusser |
| Answer» D. althusser | |
| 59. |
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» B. bertolt brecht | |
| 60. |
Whose definition is “Art is the negative knowledge of the actual world”? |
| A. | theodore adorno |
| B. | marcuse |
| C. | horkheimer |
| D. | herbert marcuse |
| Answer» B. marcuse | |
| 61. |
Which Marxist critic developed the theory of homologies? |
| A. | lucien goldman |
| B. | adorno |
| C. | lukacs |
| D. | walter benjamin |
| Answer» B. adorno | |
| 62. |
Who of the following figures is not associated with Frankfurt School of Marxistaesthetics founded in 1923? |
| A. | theodor adorno |
| B. | max horkheimer |
| C. | herbert marcuse |
| D. | bertolt brecht |
| Answer» E. | |
| 63. |
Which Marxist playwright is connected with the epic theatre? |
| A. | bertolt brecht |
| B. | theodor adorno |
| C. | george lukas |
| D. | engels |
| Answer» B. theodor adorno | |
| 64. |
Hungarian Marxist Critic Georg Lukacs developed a theory known asseeing literary works as reflections of a kind of system that was gradually unfolding |
| A. | realism |
| B. | expressionism |
| C. | reflection |
| D. | dadaism |
| Answer» D. dadaism | |
| 65. |
Simulation and simulacra are whose notions? |
| A. | jean budrillard’s |
| B. | lyotard’s |
| C. | barthe’s |
| D. | babha’s |
| Answer» B. lyotard’s | |
| 66. |
The term “Social realism” is connected with |
| A. | structuralism |
| B. | marxist criticism |
| C. | modernism |
| D. | post structuralism |
| Answer» C. modernism | |
| 67. |
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» C. lyotard | |
| 68. |
In post colonialism the condition of being the subject of cross‐breeding iscalled_ |
| A. | marginality |
| B. | colonialism |
| C. | hybridity |
| D. | modernism |
| Answer» D. modernism | |
| 69. |
Who made a distinction between ‘open’ and ‘closed texts? |
| A. | gayathri spivak |
| B. | derrida |
| C. | lacan |
| D. | umberto eco |
| Answer» E. | |
| 70. |
Who wrote The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1984) which is ananalysis of various aspects of post modernism? |
| A. | jean–francois lyotard |
| B. | saussure |
| C. | barthes |
| D. | terry eagleton. |
| Answer» B. saussure | |
| 71. |
Who put forward the proposition that all literary texts have gaps or lacunae, which isan important concept in reader‐response theory? |
| A. | wolfgang iser |
| B. | saussure |
| C. | lacan |
| D. | freud |
| Answer» B. saussure | |
| 72. |
is an alternative term for Cultural Materialism |
| A. | new historicism |
| B. | deconstruction |
| C. | structuralism |
| D. | cultural poetics |
| Answer» E. | |
| 73. |
Of the following which is not a feature of post modernist writing |
| A. | pastiche |
| B. | parody |
| C. | eclectic approach |
| D. | symbolism |
| Answer» E. | |
| 74. |
Vandana Shiva’s book_ an important ecofeminist book saw ancient Indiaas possessing a more environment friendly culture. |
| A. | mother earth |
| B. | moby dick |
| C. | staying alive |
| D. | made from this earth |
| Answer» D. made from this earth | |
| 75. |
A term that regularly occurs in New Historicists books is_ |
| A. | hybridity |
| B. | dialogism |
| C. | intertextuality |
| D. | circulation |
| Answer» E. | |
| 76. |
The main charge of cultural Materialists against New Historicists is that theirreadings are |
| A. | non political |
| B. | historical |
| C. | economical |
| D. | political |
| Answer» B. historical | |
| 77. |
argue that patriarchal societies’ values and beliefs have resulted in theoppression of both women and nature. |
| A. | ecofeminists |
| B. | feminists |
| C. | ecologists |
| D. | economists |
| Answer» B. feminists | |
| 78. |
Who wrote The Population Bomb (1972) one of the most popular environmentalistbooks ever written? |
| A. | rachel carlson |
| B. | paul ehrlich |
| C. | joseph meeker |
| D. | jonathan bate |
| Answer» C. joseph meeker | |
| 79. |
Who wrote the essay “nature” which argued that all human actions are irrationalbecause they try to change or alter the course of nature? |
| A. | js mill |
| B. | rachel carlson |
| C. | joseph meeker |
| D. | wordsworth |
| Answer» B. rachel carlson | |
| 80. |
Who coined the term “Literary ecology” in 1972? |
| A. | william ruckert |
| B. | rachel carlson |
| C. | joseph meeker |
| D. | raymond williams |
| Answer» D. raymond williams | |
| 81. |
is a term used for placing human beings at the centre of everything andits opposite is ecocentrism. |
| A. | anthropocentrism |
| B. | phonocentricism |
| C. | logocentricism |
| D. | technocentricsm |
| Answer» B. phonocentricism | |
| 82. |
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» B. william rueckert | |
| 83. |
The book Romantic Ecology (1991) is written by the British critic |
| A. | rachel carlson |
| B. | joseph meeker |
| C. | raymond williams |
| D. | jonathan bate |
| Answer» E. | |
| 84. |
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» B. william rueckert | |
| 85. |
Who used the term “ecocriticism” for the first time in 1978? |
| A. | william rueckert |
| B. | raymond williams |
| C. | leo marx |
| D. | donald worster |
| Answer» B. raymond williams | |
| 86. |
The book The New Historicism, a collection of essays by new historicists, LouisMontrose, Stephen Green Blatt and others is edited by_ |
| A. | h aram veeser |
| B. | louis montrose |
| C. | stephen green blatt |
| D. | catherine galager |
| Answer» B. louis montrose | |
| 87. |
is the term used by new historicists to suggest verbal formations whichare the “Ideological products” or “cultural constructs” of a specific area. |
| A. | representations |
| B. | mythologies |
| C. | products |
| D. | ideology |
| Answer» B. mythologies | |
| 88. |
Who described new historicism as “a reciprocal concern with the historicity of textsand textuality of history? |
| A. | louis montrose |
| B. | stephen green blatt |
| C. | catherine galager |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. stephen green blatt | |
| 89. |
Which work begins with the statement “The History of all hitherto existing society isthe history of class struggles”. |
| A. | german ideology |
| B. | das capital |
| C. | proletarians |
| D. | communist manifesto |
| Answer» E. | |
| 90. |
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels jointly published Communist Manifesto in |
| A. | 1992 |
| B. | 1990 |
| C. | 1993 |
| D. | 1991 |
| Answer» D. 1991 | |
| 91. |
Clifford Geertz, the new historicist used the term for the close analysisor “reading” of a particular social production or event to recover its meanings. |
| A. | descriptions |
| B. | thick descriptions |
| C. | analysis |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. analysis | |
| 92. |
Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield the British cultural materialists jointly wrotethe 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» B. essays in cultural materialism | |
| 93. |
In which year Richard Hoggart established the Burmingham Centre of ContemporaryCultural Studies? |
| A. | 1946 |
| B. | 1956 |
| C. | 1967 |
| D. | 1964 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 94. |
Who used the term “cultural materialism” for the first time? |
| A. | raymond williams |
| B. | jonathan dollimore |
| C. | alan sinfield |
| D. | karl marx |
| Answer» B. jonathan dollimore | |
| 95. |
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» B. homi j bhabha | |
| 96. |
Interventions is an international journal of |
| A. | post colonial studies |
| B. | new historicism |
| C. | new criticism |
| D. | post modernism |
| Answer» B. new historicism | |
| 97. |
The books Culture and Society (1958) and theUses of Literacy (1958) whichinaugurated movement are written by Raymond Williams and Richard Hoggart respectively. |
| A. | cultural studies |
| B. | post colonial studies |
| C. | new historicism |
| D. | deconstruction |
| Answer» B. post colonial studies | |
| 98. |
Who wrote the essay “Can the Subaltern Speak?” |
| A. | gayatri chakravorty spivak |
| B. | chinua achebe |
| C. | wole soyinka |
| D. | edward said |
| Answer» B. chinua achebe | |
| 99. |
Who wrote the book The Location of Culture? |
| A. | gayatri chakravorty spivak |
| B. | chinua achebe |
| C. | raymond williams |
| D. | homi j bhabha |
| Answer» E. | |
| 100. |
The subtitle of the book The Empire Writes Back by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths andHellen 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» D. practice in post colonial literatures | |