English · UNIT 04 · MOCK TEST

Mock 11 – Marxist, Feminist, Psychoanalytic & Other Theories (Part 1)

Unit 4: Literary Criticism and Theory · 27 questions · about 32 minutes. Press End Mock any time to see your score and the correct answers.

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Q1.

According to Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams, which symbol is NOT correctly glossed?

APonds as female symbols BFlowers as female symbols CTowers as symbols of sexual pleasure DLances as male symbols

Q2.

Who held that the interplay of introjection and projection builds the ego and superego and lays the ground for the Oedipus complex?

ASándor Ferenczi BRobert Young CSigmund Freud DMelanie Klein

Q3.

Which of the following were written or edited by Toril Moi?

A. French Feminist Thought: A Reader
B. Feminisms: A Reader
C. Feminist Literary Criticism
D. Sexual/Textual Politics
E. What Is a Woman?

AA, D and E only BA, B and C only CC, D and E only DB, C and D only

Q4.

Which writer asked why men drank wine and women water, and why one sex was so prosperous and the other so poor?

AVirginia Woolf BKate Millett CElaine Showalter DJane Freedman

Q5.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Concept	List II: Thinker
A. Habitus	I. Pierre Bourdieu
B. Anaclisis	II. Sigmund Freud
C. Fetishism (in the sexual sense)	III. Alfred Binet
D. Hyperreality	IV. Umberto Eco

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

Q6.

In which of Showalter's phases did women writers imitate the dominant male tradition?

AThe colonial-feminist phase BThe feminist phase CThe female phase DThe feminine phase

Q7.

Which is NOT part of Dollimore and Sinfield's definition of cultural materialism?

AHistorical context BTheoretical method CPolitical commitment DTranscendental significance

Q8.

According to Fiona Tolan, the one theme that runs through every feminist debate is:

Aecofeminism Bessentialism Cradical feminism Dgynocriticism

Q9.

Which critic defined colonialism as 'the conquest and control of other people's land and goods'?

AMeenakshi Mukherjee BLeela Gandhi CHarish Trivedi DAnia Loomba

Q10.

'Territorialization' is a term given by:

AGayatri C. Spivak BEdward Said CJohn McLeod DGilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari

Q11.

Identify the statements which are true for psychoanalytic criticism:

A. Freud established its premises and procedures.
B. Freud said artists are like neurotic patients.
C. Psychoanalysis can explain developments in the history of civilisation.
D. A repressed wish does not become fantasy.
E. Literature manifests the artist's repressed drives.

AA, B and D only BA, B and C only CB, A and D only DA, C and E only

Q12.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Text	List II: Critic
A. Bodies That Matter	I. Barbara Johnson
B. A World of Difference	II. Judith Butler
C. A Literature of Their Own	III. Camille Paglia
D. Vamps and Tramps	IV. Elaine Showalter

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

Q13.

Identify the correct statements about ecocriticism:

A. It explores the web of interrelations between human and non-human.
B. Human accountability to the environment is part of a text's ethics.
C. It explores the interplay between environment and body.
D. There is only one wave of ecocriticism.
E. It has not addressed gender.

AA, B, C only BB, C, D only CA, C, D only DA, B, D, E only

Q14.

Which of the following are true of the 'collective unconscious'?

A. Freud introduced the term.
B. Jung introduced the term.
C. It contains archetypes, universal primordial images and ideas.
D. It contains stereotypes and individual experiences.
E. It is the unconscious common to humanity, arising from the inherited structure of the brain.

AA, C, E only BB, C, E only CB, D, E only DC, D, E only

Q15.

In The Long Revolution (1961), Raymond Williams analysed the social origins of 350 writers from the Oxford Introduction to English Literature for the years:

A1789–1950 B1764–1939 C1450–1914 D1470–1920

Q16.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Work	List II: Author
A. Critique of Judgement	I. Martin Heidegger
B. The Phenomenology of Spirit	II. Sigmund Freud
C. Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego	III. Immanuel Kant
D. The Self-Assertion of the German University (rectoral address)	IV. G. W. F. Hegel

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

Q17.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Concept	List II: Thinker
A. Othering	I. Robert Young
B. Ecological imperialism	II. Gayatri Spivak
C. Colonial desire	III. Alfred W. Crosby
D. Third space	IV. Homi K. Bhabha

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

Q18.

Who among the following is NOT associated with lesbian and gay studies?

A. Jane Rule
B. Jonathan Dollimore
C. John Wamn
D. Elizabeth Jennings
E. Richard Dyer

AA and E only BC and D only CB and C only DD and E only

Q19.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Writer	List II: Work
A. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o	I. Toward the African Revolution
B. Aimé Césaire	II. There Was a Country
C. Frantz Fanon	III. The Language of Languages
D. Chinua Achebe	IV. Discourse on Colonialism

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

Q20.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Term	List II: Theorist
A. Culture industry	I. Raymond Williams
B. Anxiety of influence	II. Adorno and Horkheimer
C. Cultural materialism	III. Mikhail Bakhtin
D. Dialogism	IV. Harold Bloom

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

Q21.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Work	List II: Author
A. Lectures on the English Comic Writers	I. David Hume
B. Essays, Moral and Political	II. William Hazlitt
C. The Second Sex	III. Robert Lynd
D. The Pleasures of Ignorance	IV. Simone de Beauvoir

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

Q22.

Arrange the following critical texts in chronological order:

A. Georg Lukács, The Historical Novel (English tr.)
B. John Crowe Ransom, The New Criticism
C. Helen Gardner, The Business of Criticism
D. Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious
E. Louis Althusser, essays on ideology ('Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses')

AB, E, D, A, C BB, A, C, E, D CB, C, D, A, E DB, E, A, D, C

Q23.

Which of the following is NOT true about E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class?

A. It studies the development of working-class consciousness.
B. It treats class as a relationship, not a fixed structure.
C. It is a pioneering systematic study of working-class history.
D. It critiques Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own.
E. It reinforces race and ethnicity as forms of collective identity.

A(A) and (B) only B(C) and (D) only C(E) and (D) only D(B) and (D) only

Q24.

In which year was The Empire Writes Back published?

A1989 B1988 C1987 D1990

Q25.

Which of the following statements are true about New Historicism?

A. It does not use 'thick description'.
B. Literary works are not autonomous or timeless.
C. History is always narrated, a matter of interpretation.
D. All historical analysis is objective.
E. History is neither progressive nor linear.

A(A) and (E) only B(A) and (C) only C(C) and (E) only D(A) and (B) only

Q26.

Which of the following statements are true?

A. The Empire Writes Back is a non-fictional work on postcolonialism.
B. Black Skin, White Masks is a fictional narrative about a protagonist.
C. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason is by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
D. Said's autobiography is titled In Place.
E. Postcolonialism addresses questions that remain after the colonisers have left.

A(A), (C) and (E) only B(B), (C) and (D) only C(A), (D) and (E) only D(C), (D) and (E) only

Q27.

Who wrote Subculture: The Meaning of Style (1979)?

AStephen Greenblatt BStuart Hall CDick Hebdige DMax Weber

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