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This section includes 225 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your English Literature knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
Which of the following statements offers the best definition of the concept of strange attractors in chaos theory ? |
| A. | Strange attractors are mysterious forces that are entirely random. |
| B. | Strange attractors are complex forces that are determined by the laws of physics. |
| C. | Strange attractors are mysterious forces that are both random and determined. |
| D. | Strange attractors are complex forces that are entirely random |
| Answer» D. Strange attractors are complex forces that are entirely random | |
| 2. |
Which of the following texts is considered the first example of postcolonial criticism ? |
| A. | Harold Bloom’s “An Elegy for the Canon” |
| B. | Jacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage . . . ” |
| C. | Cleanth Brooks’s “Keats’s Sylvan Historian” |
| D. | Edward Said’s Orientalism |
| Answer» E. | |
| 3. |
Which of the following texts is the BEST example of the argument that a work’s meaning does not come entirely from the imagination of the author ? |
| A. | Plato’s The Republic |
| B. | T.S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” |
| C. | Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology |
| D. | Jacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage….. |
| Answer» C. Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology | |
| 4. |
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» C. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness | |
| 5. |
Which of the following theorists is associated with formalism ? |
| A. | Viktor Shklovsky |
| B. | Cleanth Brooks |
| C. | Judith Butler |
| D. | Mikhail Bakhtin |
| Answer» B. Cleanth Brooks | |
| 6. |
Which of the following writers might be considered one of the early founders of firstwave feminism ? |
| A. | Hélène Cixous |
| B. | Judith Butler |
| C. | Lucy Irigaray |
| D. | Mary Wollstonecraft |
| Answer» E. | |
| 7. |
Which school of literary theory shows a particular interest in the role of testimony in literature ? |
| A. | Trauma theory |
| B. | Ecotheory |
| C. | Chaos theory |
| D. | Formalism |
| Answer» B. Ecotheory | |
| 8. |
Which school of literary theory is associated with the phrase “to make the stones stonier” ? |
| A. | Humanism |
| B. | Formalism |
| C. | Structuralism |
| D. | Marxism |
| Answer» C. Structuralism | |
| 9. |
Which school of theorists is most closely associated with phenomenology ? |
| A. | The Moscow School |
| B. | The Chicago School |
| C. | The Frankfurt School |
| D. | The Geneva School |
| Answer» E. | |
| 10. |
Which text argues that, as infants, human beings begin to define their identities against the identities of others ? |
| A. | Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble |
| B. | W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk |
| C. | Roland Barthes’s “The Death of the Author” |
| D. | Jacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage . . . “ |
| Answer» E. | |
| 11. |
Which theorist is associated with the idea that art is a copy of a copy ? |
| A. | Plato |
| B. | Julia Kristeva |
| C. | Walter Benjamin |
| D. | Louis Althusser |
| Answer» B. Julia Kristeva | |
| 12. |
Who accused Aristotle of social snobbishness and arrogance ? |
| A. | Willy Loman |
| B. | Arthur Miller |
| C. | Henry James |
| D. | David |
| Answer» C. Henry James | |
| 13. |
Who called Aristotle “the very Alexander of criticism” ? |
| A. | Saintsbury |
| B. | Murray |
| C. | Atkins |
| D. | Tyllard |
| Answer» B. Murray | |
| 14. |
Who called Dryden the Father of English Criticism ? |
| A. | Joseph Addison |
| B. | Dr. Johnson |
| C. | Coleridge |
| D. | Matthew Arnold |
| Answer» C. Coleridge | |
| 15. |
Who coined the expression “objective corelative” ? |
| A. | Coleridge |
| B. | T. S. Eliot |
| C. | Allen Tate |
| D. | F. R. Leavis |
| Answer» C. Allen Tate | |
| 16. |
Who coined the term ’esemplastic’ ? |
| A. | William Worsworth |
| B. | Browning |
| C. | Coleridge |
| D. | Eliot |
| Answer» D. Eliot | |
| 17. |
Who coined the term New Historicism ? |
| A. | Jacques Derrida |
| B. | Terry Eagleton |
| C. | Fredric Jameson |
| D. | Stephen Greenblatt |
| Answer» E. | |
| 18. |
Who considers poetry ‘a mother of lies’ ? |
| A. | Aristotle |
| B. | Plato |
| C. | Pope |
| D. | Stephen Gosson |
| Answer» E. | |
| 19. |
Who contributed the term “to see the object as in itself it really is” ? |
| A. | Wordsworth |
| B. | Coleridge |
| C. | Arnold |
| D. | Goethe |
| Answer» D. Goethe | |
| 20. |
Who established the Lyceum ? |
| A. | Plato |
| B. | Aristotle |
| C. | Horace |
| D. | Longinus |
| Answer» C. Horace | |
| 21. |
Who for the first time discriminated between imagination and fancy ? |
| A. | Coleridge |
| B. | William Wordsworth |
| C. | John Ruskin |
| D. | Schegell |
| Answer» C. John Ruskin | |
| 22. |
Who is the author of Ars Poetica ? |
| A. | Plato |
| B. | Aristotle |
| C. | Horace |
| D. | Longinus |
| Answer» D. Longinus | |
| 23. |
Who is the author of Symposium ? |
| A. | Aristotle |
| B. | Dante |
| C. | Longinus |
| D. | Plato |
| Answer» E. | |
| 24. |
Who is the author of the notorious book entitled The School of Abuse ? |
| A. | Roger Ascham |
| B. | Stephen Hawes |
| C. | John Skelton |
| D. | Stephen Gosson |
| Answer» E. | |
| 25. |
Who is the meaning of the term Peripeteia as used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy ? |
| A. | Change in the fortune of the hero from bad to good |
| B. | Change in the fortune of the hero from good to bad |
| C. | Constancy in the fortune of the hero |
| D. | Fluctuations occurring in the fortune of the hero |
| Answer» C. Constancy in the fortune of the hero | |
| 26. |
Who is the writer of ‘Hamlet and Oedipus’ (1949) ? |
| A. | Carl Jung |
| B. | Harold Bloom |
| C. | Ernest Jones |
| D. | Erik Erikson |
| Answer» D. Erik Erikson | |
| 27. |
Who made a difference between ‘poetry’ and ‘poem’ ? |
| A. | Coleridge |
| B. | Addison |
| C. | Arnold |
| D. | Eliot |
| Answer» B. Addison | |
| 28. |
Who made a distinction between Fancy and Imagination ? |
| A. | Wordsworth |
| B. | Coleridge |
| C. | Southey |
| D. | Hazlitt |
| Answer» C. Southey | |
| 29. |
Who originated the term “objective correlative,” which is often used in formalist criticism ? |
| A. | C.S. Lewis |
| B. | Virginia Woolf |
| C. | Matthew Arnold |
| D. | T.S. Eliot |
| Answer» E. | |
| 30. |
Who proposed that poets should be banished from the ideal Republic ? |
| A. | Plato |
| B. | Aristotle |
| C. | Sir Philip Sidney |
| D. | Sir Thomas More |
| Answer» B. Aristotle | |
| 31. |
Who remarked, “Spenser write no language.” ? |
| A. | Pope |
| B. | Arnold |
| C. | Dr. Jhonson |
| D. | Ben Jonson |
| Answer» E. | |
| 32. |
Who said that Arnold was a propagandist for literature rather than a critic ? |
| A. | Carlyle |
| B. | Ruskin |
| C. | T. S. Eliot |
| D. | F. R. Leavis |
| Answer» D. F. R. Leavis | |
| 33. |
Who said that Keat’s love letters of a surgeon’s apprentice ? |
| A. | Arnold |
| B. | Shelley |
| C. | Byron |
| D. | Hazlitt |
| Answer» B. Shelley | |
| 34. |
Who said “theatre is not a hospital” ? |
| A. | F.L. Lucas |
| B. | J K Atkins |
| C. | Derrida |
| D. | Hillis Miller |
| Answer» B. J K Atkins | |
| 35. |
Who used the words “romanticism” and “romantic” first ? |
| A. | Wordsworth |
| B. | Coleridge |
| C. | Carlyle |
| D. | Schlegel |
| Answer» E. | |
| 36. |
Who was the first literary critic who said that “Art is twice removed from reality” ? |
| A. | Plato |
| B. | Aristotle |
| C. | Longinus |
| D. | Horace |
| Answer» B. Aristotle | |
| 37. |
Who was the most illustrious disciple of Socrates ? |
| A. | Sophocles |
| B. | Plautus |
| C. | Plato |
| D. | Critus |
| Answer» D. Critus | |
| 38. |
Who was the most illustrious pupil of Plato ? |
| A. | Aristotle |
| B. | Longinus |
| C. | Aristophanes |
| D. | Socrates |
| Answer» B. Longinus | |
| 39. |
Who was the originator of the Theory of Imitation in Literature ? |
| A. | Longinus |
| B. | Aristotle |
| C. | Plato |
| D. | Horace |
| Answer» D. Horace | |
| 40. |
Whom did Aristotle consider the most tragic of the Greek dramatists ? |
| A. | Agathon |
| B. | Aeschylus |
| C. | Sophocles |
| D. | Euripides |
| Answer» E. | |
| 41. |
With what literary critic is the term the author function most closely associated ? |
| A. | Claude Lévi-Strauss |
| B. | Jacques Derrida |
| C. | Jacques Lacan |
| D. | Michel Foucault |
| Answer» E. | |
| 42. |
With which feminist theorist is gynocriticism most closely associated ? |
| A. | Elaine Showalter |
| B. | Julia Kristeva |
| C. | Lucy Irigaray |
| D. | Louise M. Rosenblatt |
| Answer» B. Julia Kristeva | |
| 43. |
With which theorist is the term implied reader associated ? |
| A. | Wolfgang Iser |
| B. | William Wimsatt |
| C. | Cleanth Brooks |
| D. | Harold Bloom |
| Answer» C. Cleanth Brooks | |
| 44. |
With which theorist is phenomenology associated ? |
| A. | Edmund Husserl |
| B. | Wolfgang Iser |
| C. | Jean-Paul Sartre |
| D. | All of the above answers are correct. |
| Answer» E. | |
| 45. |
With which theorist is the concept imaginative geography associated ? |
| A. | Julia Kristeva |
| B. | Fredric Jameson |
| C. | Terry Eagleton |
| D. | Edward Said |
| Answer» E. | |
| 46. |
With which theorist is the term identity thinking most closely associated ? |
| A. | Sigmund Freud |
| B. | Carl Jung |
| C. | William James |
| D. | Theodor W. Adorno |
| Answer» E. | |
| 47. |
Wordsworth’s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads is believed to be the Preamble to Romantic Criticism. In which year was it published ? |
| A. | 1798 |
| B. | 1800 |
| C. | 1801 |
| D. | 1802 |
| Answer» C. 1801 | |
| 48. |
Wordsworth’s theory of poetry appears in_____________? |
| A. | Excursion |
| B. | Tintern Abbey Lines |
| C. | Preface to the Lyrical Ballads |
| D. | Immortality Ode |
| Answer» D. Immortality Ode | |
| 49. |
Which of the following statements best explains the main objective of New Historicism ? |
| A. | Texts are examined to see how colonizers and the colonized interact. |
| B. | Texts are examined to see how the formal aspects of the text create meaning. |
| C. | Texts are examined to determine how they reveal social realities. |
| D. | Texts are examined to determine the author’s intent. |
| Answer» D. Texts are examined to determine the author’s intent. | |
| 50. |
Which of the following statements best explains Mikhail Bakhtin’s philosophy of language ? |
| A. | Language includes multiple social dialects and jargons. |
| B. | Language can include socio-ideological contradictions from the past. |
| C. | Language exhibits and is bound up in the social lives and historical context of the people who speak it. |
| D. | Language is loaded with the intentions of others. |
| Answer» D. Language is loaded with the intentions of others. | |