Understanding Literary Theory and Criticism: A Multiple Choice Practice

Understanding Literary Theory and Criticism: 

A Multiple Choice Practice

1. In English Literary criticism, 'Descriptive Criticism' begins with _____

    a) Dr. Johnson  b) Dryden  c) Sidney  d) Pope

2. What is the worst plot in drama according to Aristotle

    a) complex  b) episodic  c) double  d) organic

3. While composing epic and tragedy in his Poetics, Aristotle holds _____

    a) tragedy superior to epic  b) epic and tragedy of equal spirit  c) epic superior to tragedy  d) epic and 

    

        tragedy is not the same

4. Dryden's An Essay of Dramatic Poetry was published in _____

    a) 1662  b) 1661  c) 1751  d) 1668

5. Who said the following line? " To copy Homer is to copy Nature"

    a) Dryden  b) Virgil  c) Pope  d) Arnold

6. _____ defined novel as a 'Comic epic poem"

    a) Derrida  b) Henry Fielding  c) Ernest Jones  d) Henry James

7. When a character makes a critical discovery in a moment in a play or any other work  is called _____

    a) mimesis  b) anagnorisis  c) circumstance  d) chance

8. Who holds the relative merit of classical drama in An Essay of Dramatic Poetry?

    a) Neander  b) Crites  c) Eugenius  d) Lisideius

9. _____ praises Shakespeare as "the poet of nature"

    a) Wordsworth  b) Arnold  c) Dr. Johnson  d) Ben Jonson

10. Who declared Dryden and Pope are "classic of our prose?'

    a) Wordsworth  b) Arnold  c) T.S. Eliot  d) Keats

11. _____ calls Shakespeare's Hamlet "the Mona Lisa of Literature"

    a) Milton  b) Oscar Wilde  c) T.S. Eliot  d) John Ruskin

12. Roman Jakobson is a _____

    a) Structuralist  b) Marxist  c) Russian formalist  d) Formalist

13.  R.S. Crane, W.B. Keast, Norman Maclean are all associated with _____ school of criticism

    a) Russian  b) Chicago  c) Deconstruction  d) Formalism

14. Who coined the term " Cultural Materialism?"

    a) Arnold  b) Dryden  c) Raymond Willimas  d) Louis Althusser

15. ______ founded the school of "Cultural Studies"

    a) T.S. Eliot and F.R. Leavis  b) I.A. Richards and F.R. Leavis  c) Richard Hoggart and Raymond             

        Williams  d) I.A. Richards and William Empson

16. The term "dialogic" is associated with _____

    a) Derrida  b) Paul De Man  c) Roman Jakobson  d) Mikhal Bakhtin

17. Match the following works with their authors

        Works                                                                   Authors

    i) The Mirror and the Lamp                           -   Thomas De Quincy          

    ii) Specimens of English Poetry                     -   M.H. Abrams

    iii) The Spirit of the Age                                -   Charles Lamb

    iv) On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth -   William Hazlitt

18. Who among the following author says " It is... the task of criticism to establish principles to exalt 

        opinion to knowledge?"

a) Dr. Johnson  b) Milton  c) Sidney  d) Thomas Love Peacock

19. "Biopower" is a term coined by ____

    a) C.S. Lewis  b) Northorp Frye  c) Michel Foucault  d) Raymond Williams

20. Roland Barthes's Mythologies was published in _____

    a) 1951   b) 1519  c) 1957  d) 1958