Fifth Sem - Methodology Of Literature

        METHODOLOGY OF LITERATURE

QUESTION BANK

1. The study of signs is called_ a. Linguistics

b. Semiotics

c. Scientology

d. Stylistics

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

3. Who is the author of A House for Mr. Biswas?

a. Shiv Naipaul

b. Kushwant Singh

c. Dom Moraes

d. VS Naipaul

4. Who wrote Things fall Apart?

a. Chinua Achebe

b. Wole Soyinka

c. Ismuth Chugthai

d. Yeats

5. Train to Pakistan is a famous novel by Kushwant Singh based on

a. Partition

b. Untouchables

c. Prostitution

d. Famine

6. Who wrote Summer in Calcutta ?

a. Kamla Das

b. Mahasweta Devi

c. Mihir Sen

d. Satyajit Ray

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

8. Achebe belongs to_ a. Nigeria

b. Sudan

c. South Africa

d. Ethiopia

9. The poem which lends the title of Things fall Apart by Achebe is

a. Easter 1916

b. Byzantium

c. Second Coming

d. Daffodils

10. An Area of Darkness by VS Naipaul is a

a. Travelogue

b. Novel

c. Shortstory

d. Drama

11.

a. Snake

b. Voss

c. Cosmos

is a novel by Patrick White, the Australian novelist.

d. Raj Quartet

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

13. The Guide is a novel written by

a. RK Narayan

b. KR Narayanan

c. Anita Desai

d. KiranDesai

14. Mukta Dhara is a play by

a. Tagore

b. R K Narayanan

c. Anita Desai

d. Manjula Padmanaban

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

16. Who wrote the introduction to Gitanjali?

a. WB Yeats

b. Tagore

c. Eliot

d. Louis Fischer

17. Rabindra Nath Tagore the first Indian to get Nobel Prize was awarded Nobel Prize

in for literature.

18. 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

19. Who wrote the book The Western Canon?

a. Harold Bloom

b. David Lodge

c. William wordsworth

d. F R Leavis

20. Literary Theory: An Introduction is a book written by

a. Harold Bloom

b. Terry Eagleton

c. F.R.Leavis

d. Northrop Frye

21. Who wrote the book The Common Pursuit?

a. Harold Bloom

b. Terry Eagleton

c. F.R Leavis

d. Coleridge

22. “Of the standard of Taste” is an essay by

a. David Hume

b. Harold Bloom

c. David Lodge

d. Plato

23. The term canon originaly meanin g a measuring rod, is of

a. Hebrew

b. Arab

c. Chinese

d. Greek

origin

24. 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

25. Macaulay’s “Minutes on Indian Education” dates back to

a. 1835

b. 1935

c. 1845

d. 1925

26. 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

27. Who made a distinction between implied reader and actual reader?

a. Wolf Gang Iser

b. Kamla Das

c. Mahasweta Devi

d. Terry Eagleton

28. Who translated Rubaiyat of the Persian poet Omar Khayyam into English?

a. Homer

b. Edward Fitzgerald

c. Harold Bloom

d. Terry Eagleton

29. 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

30. Who spoke about the concept of value in literature?

a. T S Eliot

b. Coleridge

c. Frank Kermode

d. Wordsworth

31. 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

32. “Piers Plowman” is a poem by

a. Cervantes,

b. Wycliffe

c. William Langland

d. Tyndale

33. means intended to give instruction, is applied to a work with an

educational value

a. Didacticism

b. Structure

c. Textual criticism

d. Sensualism

34. Aestheticism means intended for_ a. Learning

b. Pleasure

c. Teaching

d. Spirituality

35. My story is a fictional autobiography of

a. Kamala Das

b. A K Ramanujam

c. Indira nooyi

d. Nissim Ezikial

36. Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is of

a. Nirad Chaudhri

b. Kamaladas

c. Kushwant Singh

d. Dom Moraes

37. Who wrote the famous essay “What is an Author?” 1969?

a. Roland Bartthes

b. Michel Foucault

c. David Crystal

d. David Lodge

38. 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

39. Who wrote Poetics?

a. Plato

b. Aristotle

c. Longinus

d. Horace

40. What does the idea of “catharsis” by Aristotle mean?

a. Emotion

b. Fear

c. Pity

d. Purgation of pity and fear

41. In which century did Shakespeare live?

a. Eighteenth

b. Nineteenth

c. Twentieth

d. Sixteenth

42. Who wrote the essay “From work to Text”?

a. Roman Jakobson

b. Roland Barthes

c. Todorov

d. David Cristal

43. 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

44. 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

45. 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

46. A brand of criticism that argues that writing in English continues colonialism is called

a. Neocolonialism

b. Nativism

c. Regionalism

d. Practicalism

47. Whose book is Imaginary Home lands?

a. Salman Rushdie

b. Naipaul

c. Vikram Seth

d. Bilkram Chandra

48. Who is considered as the father of sociology?

a. Bipin Chandra

b. Romila Thapar

c. Emile Durkheim

d. D D Kosambi

49. A book of synonyms is called

a. Dictionary

b. Reverse Dictionary

c. Thesaurus

d. Oxymoron

50. Who is the only writer who has won the Booker of Booker prize?

a. Rushdie

b. Hanif Kureishi

c. Arundhadi Roy

d. David Lodge

51. Slavoj Zizek is a native of

a. Iran

b. America

c. Slovenia

d. Italy

52. O f the following

a. In defence of lost causes

b. The Fragile Absolute

c. The Ticklish subject

d. The Cultural Turn

is not a book by Zizek.

53. 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

54. Zizek’s favourite philosopher who influences his works most is

a. Jacques lacan

b. Lyotard

c. Foucault

d. Habermas

55. Who is called “the French Freud”?

a. C J Yung

b. Jacques Lacan.

c. Lyotard

d. Foucault

56. 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

57. “The Insistence of the Letter in the Unconscious” is a celebrated essay by

a. Jacques lacan

b. Bakhtin

c. Derrida

d. Foucault

58. Ferdinand de Saussure who played an important part in the development of

structuralism is a _ linguist.

a. German

b. Italian

c. British

d. Swiss

59. Course in General linguistics published in 1975 is written by

a. Barthes

b. Derrida

c. Saussure

d. Lacan

60. 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

61. “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

62. Which of the following books is not of Jacques Derrida?

a. Of Grammatology

b. Dissemination

c. Writing and Dif erence

d. Waste Land

63. 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

64. Who is the proponent of affective stylistics?

a. Harold Bloom

b. Derrida

c. Lacan

d. Stanley Fish

65. Who says that all “reading is …….misreading”?

a. Harold Bloom

b. Foucault

c. M H Abrams

d. Todorov

66. Which critical school has its ideal the establishment of an authentic text?

a. New criticism

b. Aesthetic criticism

c. Textual criticism

d. Structuralism

67. wrote the text Principles of Textual Criticism . a. James Thorpe

b. Vladimir Propp

c. Eliot

d. Eagleton

68. Who wrote the famous essay “The Death of the Author”?

a. Roland Barthes

b. Lacan

c. Foucault

d. Derrida

69. Whose book is The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis?

a. Jacques Lacan

b. Siigmund Freud

c. Earnest Jones

d. Jung

70. “The Philosophy of Composition” is by

a. Keats

b. Edgar Allan Poe

c. Coleridge

d. Tennison

71. 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

72. wrote After the New Criticism(1980)

a. F R Leavis

b. Samuel Jonson

c. Frank Lentricchia

d. Shelley

73. wrote Defence of poetry

a. Shelley

b. Keats

c. Longinus

d. Shakespeare

74. 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

75. 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

76. According to Freud all human behavior is motivated by or Sexual energy.

a. Libido

b. Thanatos

c. Eros

d. Oedipus complex

77. Oedipus Complex is a hypothesis developed by

a. Adler

b. Freud

c. Jung

d. Piaget

78. 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

79. Hamlet is a

a. Tragedy

b. Comedy

c. Farce

d. Novel

80. Which critic spoke about four kinds of meaning?

a. IA Richards

b. T.S.Eliot

c. F RLeavis

d. Coleridge Freud

81. 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

82. Gusto is a concept of the Romantic critic

a. Hazlitt

b. Coleridge

c. Wordsworth

d. F.R.Leavis

83. “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

84. Ecriture the French word is used for

a. Speaking

b. Reading

c. Writing

d. Note making

85. Writing Degree Zero is a book written by

a. Geoffrey Hartman

b. Roland Barthes

c. Derrida

d. Barthes

86. “Writerly books” and “Readerly books” are a distinction made by

a. Samuel Johnson

b. Umberto Eco

c. Derrida

d. Roland Barthes

87. The book The New Criticism 1941 is written by

a. John Crowe Ranson

b. IA Richards

c. T.S.Eliot

d. Milton

88. Which group of critics relied on “explication” or “close reading”?

a. Structuralist

b. New critics

c. Romantics

d. Neo classical critics

89. Who wrote the book Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930)?

a. TS Eliot

b. William Empson

c. FR Leavis

d. IA Richards

90. According to Allan Tate the meaning of good poetry is its _ a. Tension

b. Irony

c. Paradox

d. Extension

91. 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

92. Who used the phrase “the heresy of paraphrase”?

a. Cleanth Brooks

b. Austin warren

c. Rene Wellek

d. William Empson

93. 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

94. 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

95. Multiple meaning and plurisignation are alternative terms for the word

a. Ambiguity

b. Paradox

c. Simile

d. Metaphor

96. The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) by Albert Camus is an important work on

a. Expressionism

b. Impressionism

c. Ambiguity

d. Existentialism

97. 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

98. The idea of “depth psychology” an important antecedent of archetypal criticism is of

a. Freud

b. Adler

c. CG Jung

d. Piaget

99. 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

100. 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

101. 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

102. Who wrote Second Sex, an important work of feminism?

a. Simon De Bouveur

b. Sartre

c. Toril Moi

d. Spivak

103. 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

104. As a revolt against caste oppression Dr Ambedkar got converted to

October 1956.

a. Buddhism

b. Jainism

c. Islam

d. Christianity

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105. Siddhartha Sahitya Sangha initiated the process ofDalith Literature as a movement

and convened the first Dalit Literacy Conference in Bombay in _

106. Why I am not a Hindu is a work by_ a. Kanjah Illaiah

b. B R Ambedkar

c. Spivak

d. Bama

107. 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

108. 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

109. 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

110. Who coined the word Gynocriticism?

a. Shakespeare

b. Elaine Showalter

c. Virginia Wolf

d. Toril Moi

111. The suffragette movement is connected with _ a. Marxism

b. Ecocriticism

c. Feminism

d. Orientalism

112. 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

113. Who wrote the essay “The Black Arts Movement” of 1968?

a. Larry Neal

b. Mal com

c. HL Gates

d. Gayle

114. _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

115. 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

116. Imamu Amiri Baraka was born as

a. Le Roi Jones

b. Wole Soyinka

c. Mary Anne Evans

d. Martin luther

117. Baraka’s play, Dutchman is often considered an exemplary product of the_ a. Black Arts Movement

b. Feminism

c. New criticism

d. Ecoaesthetics

118. “I have a Dream” is a famous speech by

a. Malcom x

b. Martin Luther King

c. Nehru

d. Abdul Kalam

119. Id, egoand Super ego are the bi partition of the human psyche made by

a. Freud

b. Adler

c. Althusser

d. S Ramachandran

120. 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

121. Donna Harraway’s notion of the “creature of the post – gender world” is called

a. Cyborg

b. Bisexual

c. hetero sexual

d. Tansgender

122. 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

123. Who coined the term subaltern?

a. Antonio Gramsci

b. Althusser

c. Antonia Negri

d. Gayathri Spivak

124. 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

125. 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

126. Sudras in Ancient India is a book written by . a. Bipin Chandra

b. RS Sharma

c. N Ram

d. Kosambi

127. “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

128. Who was the leader of Dravida Munneta Kazhakam?

a. EV Ramaswami Naikar

b. George Fernandes

c. VK Krisna Menon

d. Chandrik Kumaratunge

129. Who edited the first volume of Subaltern Studies?

a. TT Sree Kumar

b. Ranajith Guhe

c. Ijas Ahammed

d. Gayathri Spivak

130. Who authored the book In Theory?

a. TT Sree Kumar

b. Ranajith Gune

c. Ijas Ahamed

d. Gayathri Spivak

131. Towards Dalit Aesthetics is a book by

a. Bama

b. Saram Kumar Limbalai

c. Omprakash Valmiki

d. Ismath Chugthai

132. Myth literature and African world is a book by

a. Nelson Mandela

b. Wole Soyinka

c. Naipaul

d. Rushdie

133. A female homo sexual is called a

a. Bisexual

b. Transgender

c. Lesbian

d. Queer

134. The stone‐wall riot which is an important event in the development of gay rights took

place in

140. often designates the combined area of gay and lesbian studies.

a. Feminist theory

b. Subaltern studies

c. Queer theory

d. Chaos theory

141. The term used for a male homosexual is

a. Queer

b. Gay

c. Lesbian

d. Hetro Sexual

137. is a person, especially a man who enjoys dressing as a member of the

opposite sex.

a. Transsexual

b. Transvestite

c. Hermaphrodite

d. Bisexual

138. is a person who feels comfortable living as a member of the opposite sex.

a. Queer

b. Gay

c. Transsexual

d. Hetro Sexual

139. Who is the author of History of Sexuality?

a. Derrida

b. Foucault

c. Henry Miller

d. DH Lawrence

140. Who is the author of Coming Out?

a. Henry Miller

b. Jidith Butler

c. Jeffrey Week

d. Sinfield

141. Who wrote the book Orientalism?

a. Edward Said

b. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

c. Franz Fanon

d. Gandhi

142. The term oriental and occidental mean and _respectively.

a. European and Western

b. European and Eastern

c. Eastern and Western

d. Western and Eastern

143. Who wrote the book The Wretched of the Earth?

a. Chinua Achebe

b. Wole Soyinka

c. Franz Fanon

d. Edward Said

144. 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

145. Who wrote the essay “Can the Subaltern Speak?”

a. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

b. Chinua Achebe

c. Wole Soyinka

d. Edward Said

146. Who wrote the book The Location of Culture?

a. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

b. Chinua Achebe

c. Raymond Williams

d. Homi J Bhabha

147. Interventions is an international journal of

a. Post Colonial studies

b. New Historicism

c. New Criticism

d. Post Modernism

148. 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

149. In which year Richard Hoggart established the Burmingham Centre of Contemporary

Cultural Studies?

a. 1946

b. 1956

c. 1967

d. 1964

150. Mythologies a precursor of modern cultural studies is written by

a. Roland Barthes

b. Homi J Bhabha

c. W B Yeats

d. Northrop Frye

151. Who used the term “cultural materialism” for the first time?

a. Raymond Williams

b. Jonathan Dollimore

c. Alan Sinfield

d. Karl Marx

152. 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

153. 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

154. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels jointly published Communist Manifesto in ........

a. 1884

b. 1948

c. 1848

d. 1947

155. 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

156. 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

157. 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

158. 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

159. Who used the term “ecocriticism” for the first time in 1978?

a. WIlliam Rueckert

b. Raymond Williams

c. Leo Marx

d. Donald Worster

160. 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

161. The Association for the study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) of USA now

the major organization for ecocritics world wide was founded in ..........

a. 1992

b. 1990

c. 1993

d. 1991

162. The book Romantic Ecology (1991) is written by the British critic

a. Rachel Carlson

b. Joseph Meeker

c. Raymond Williams

d. Jonathan Bate

163. 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

164. 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

165. Who coined the term “Literary ecology” in 1972?

a. William Ruckert

b. Rachel Carlson

c. Joseph Meeker

d. Raymond Williams

166. 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

167. 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

168. 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

169. 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

170. The main charge of cultural Materialists against New Historicists is that their

readings are

a. Non political

b. Historical

c. Economical

d. Political

171. A term that regularly occurs in New Historicists books is_ a. Hybridity

b. Dialogism

c. Intertextuality

d. Circulation

172. is an alternative term for Cultural Materialism

a. New historicism

b. Deconstruction

c. Structuralism

d. Cultural Poetics

173. Of the following which is not a feature of post modernist writing

a. Pastiche

b. Parody

c. Eclectic approach

d. Symbolism

174. 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. 175. 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

176. Who made a distinction between ‘open’ and ‘closed texts?

a. Gayathri Spivak

b. Derrida

c. Lacan

d. Umberto Eco

177. In post colonialism the condition of being the subject of cross‐breeding is

called_ a. Marginality

b. Colonialism

c. Hybridity

d. Modernism

178. 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

179. Simulation and simulacra are whose notions?

a. Jean Budrillard’s

b. Lyotard’s

c. Barthe’s

d. Babha’s

180. The term “Social realism” is connected with

a. Structuralism

b. Marxist Criticism

c. Modernism

d. Post structuralism

181. 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

182. Which Marxist playwright is connected with the epic theatre?

a. Bertolt Brecht

b. Theodor Adorno

c. George Lukas

d. Engels

183. 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

184. Whose definition is “Art is the negative knowledge of the actual world”?

a. Theodore Adorno

b. Marcuse

c. Horkheimer

d. Herbert Marcuse

185. 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

186. Which Marxist critic developed the theory of homologies?

a. Lucien Goldman

b. Adorno

c. Lukacs

d. Walter Benjamin

187. The first English Marxist Critic of note was who wrote Illusion and Reality is

a. Brecht

b. Gramsci

c. Christopher Caudwell

d. Althusser

188. Cyberpunk is a subspecies of

a. Science fiction

b. Novel

c. Drama

d. Poetry

189. Fiction dealing with fiction is called

a. Metafiction

b. Metadrama

c. Metanarative

d. Metacriticism

190. Grand narrative/metanarrative is a concept of_ a. Lyotard

b. Barthes

c. Baudrillard

d. Paul de Man