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Mock 10 – Structuralism, Post-structuralism & Deconstruction (Part 4)

Unit 4: Literary Criticism and Theory · 22 questions · about 26 minutes. Press End Mock any time to see your score and the correct answers.

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Q1.

Which of the following essays are in Bakhtin's The Dialogic Imagination?

A. 'From the History of Novelistic Discourse'
B. 'Discourse in the Novel'
C. 'Romance and Novel'
D. 'Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel'

AA and B only BB and C only CA and D only DB and D only

Q2.

Who wrote 'The Typology of Detective Fiction'?

AG. K. Chesterton BUmberto Eco CTzvetan Todorov DVladimir Propp

Q3.

Assertion (A): The 'implied reader' shifts attention from the actual reader to a disembodied dimension of reception built into the text. Reason (R): The 'Dear Reader' addressed in realist novels is a fictional representation of the audience.

ABoth A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A BBoth A and R are correct but R is NOT the correct explanation of A CA is correct but R is not correct DA is not correct but R is correct

Q4.

Arrange the following terms in the chronological order of their use in literary theory:

A. Gynesis
B. Scriptible
C. Négritude
D. Paratext

AD, A, C, B BA, B, C, D CC, B, A, D DB, C, D, A

Q5.

Which cluster does Kristeva associate with the 'semiotic'?

AAuthority, order and patriarchy BDisplacement, slippage and condensation CRepression, control and normalcy DLogic, reason and power

Q6.

Who claimed that the Gulf War (1990–91) 'did not take place'?

AZygmunt Bauman BJean Baudrillard CJacques Derrida DJürgen Habermas

Q7.

Assertion (A): Postmodern narratives focus on the unstable, indeterminate nature of textuality and subjectivity. Reason (R): Postmodern narratives treat stories and characters as tentative constructions of writing and identity.

Q8.

Which two concepts are used in Fredric Jameson's work?

A. Pastiche
B. The hyperreal
C. Schizophrenia
D. Habitus

AA and B only BC and D only CB and D only DA and C only

Q9.

Which of the following does a deconstructive reading show?

A. A text must always be read in context.
B. 'Il n'y a pas de hors-texte' (there is no outside-text).
C. A text may betray itself.
D. A text may have an ascertainable meaning.
E. Meaning is endlessly deferred.

AA, B and C only BC, D and E only CB, C and E only DB, C and D only

Q10.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Linguist / theorist	List II: Work
A. Ferdinand de Saussure	I. 'Two Aspects of Language and Two Types of Aphasic Disturbances'
B. Edward Sapir	II. Of Grammatology
C. Jacques Derrida	III. Course in General Linguistics
D. Roman Jakobson	IV. Language

AA-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV BA-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I CA-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV DA-IV, B-I, C-III, D-II

Q11.

Who described the novel as 'multiform in style and variform in speech and voice'?

AE. M. Forster BMikhail Bakhtin CHenry James DErich Auerbach

Q12.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Concept pair	List II: Theorist
A. Competence / performance	I. Noam Chomsky
B. Signifier / signified	II. Roman Jakobson
C. Metaphor / metonymy	III. Louis Hjelmslev
D. Content / expression	IV. Ferdinand de Saussure

AA-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV BA-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I CA-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV DA-I, B-IV, C-II, D-III

Q13.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Term	List II: Theorist
A. Heteroglossia	I. Michel Foucault
B. Heterotopia	II. Louis Althusser
C. Grand narrative	III. Mikhail Bakhtin
D. Interpellation	IV. Jean-François Lyotard

AA-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III BA-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II CA-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I DA-IV, B-I, C-III, D-II

Q14.

Who developed the idea of 'interpretive communities'?

ATerry Eagleton BRoland Barthes CJane Tompkins DStanley Fish

Q15.

Which of the following are features of Barthes's 'writerly' text?

A. The reader accepts its meaning with little effort.
B. It focuses attention on what is written.
C. It makes the reader a producer of the text.
D. It tends to be self-conscious.

AA and B only BA and C only CB and C only DC and D only

Q16.

Which of the following describe the basic assumptions of structuralism?

A. It is concerned with signs and signification.
B. It considers only verbal conventions and codes.
C. It began with the works of Jacques Derrida.
D. It challenges the belief that literature reflects a given reality.
E. All signs are arbitrary, yet necessary for comprehending reality.

AA, C and E only BA, D and E only CA, B and C only DA, B and E only

Q17.

Arrange the following in chronological order of publication:

A. Chomsky, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
B. Saussure, Course in General Linguistics
C. Eco, Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
D. Austin, How to Do Things with Words

AD, B, A, C BC, B, A, D CB, D, A, C DB, A, D, C

Q18.

Who proposed the 'multi-accentuality' of the sign, the sign's inner dialectic and its 'evaluative accent'?

ARoland Barthes BStuart Hall CJacques Derrida DValentin Voloshinov

Q19.

Which theorist particularly emphasised the social and historical dimensions of a text's reception?

AHans Robert Jauss BStanley Fish CWolfgang Iser DPierre Bourdieu

Q20.

Which assumption best expresses the position of post-structuralist criticism?

ADefinite structures underlie empirical events. BOur apprehension of reality is a construct. CLanguage is representational. DKnowledge operates by axiomatic procedures.

Q21.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Term	List II: Theorist
A. Superreader	I. Michel Foucault
B. Biopower	II. Mikhail Bakhtin
C. Bricolage	III. Michael Riffaterre
D. Chronotope	IV. Claude Lévi-Strauss

AA-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I BA-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II CA-IV, B-I, C-III, D-II DA-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III

Q22.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Term	List II: Theorist
A. Arche-écriture	I. Julia Kristeva
B. Cyborg	II. Donna Haraway
C. Genotext	III. Friedrich Schleiermacher
D. Hermeneutic circle	IV. Jacques Derrida

AA-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III BA-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV CA-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I DA-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III

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