Mock 12 – Marxist, Feminist, Psychoanalytic & Other Theories (Part 2)

Who described neo-colonialism as 'the worst form of imperialism', meaning 'exploitation without redress'?

What is the goal of schizoanalysis?

Which of the following statements are NOT true about the feminist movement?

1. A. Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman challenges the idea that women exist only to please men.
2. B. Women's suffrage dominated international feminism for more than fifty years.
3. C. The Female Eunuch was written by the African writer Sarah Millin.
4. D. Kate Millett's Sexual Politics broadens 'politics' to all power-structured relationships.
5. E. The second wave was led by Generation X.

Which of the following assumptions about post-feminism are NOT true?

1. A. Post-feminism rests on the postulates laid down by Elaine Showalter.
2. B. It is a discourse popularised by the media in the 1990s, reacting against feminism of the 1970s–80s.
3. C. It re-establishes a gender binary in which man is essentially powerful.
4. D. It foregrounds femininity and the 'career woman'.
5. E. Its discourse extends into ecofeminism and cyberfeminism.

Which of the following are basic issues in feminist literary criticism?

1. A. Women are trapped in the 'prison-house' of a male-centred language.
2. B. Gender equality is just an idea and largely unachievable.
3. C. Society is largely entrenched in patriarchal ideology.
4. D. Sex and gender cannot be treated as distinct categories.
5. E. A single universal feminism is the remedy for historical subjugation.

Which of the following attributes of society, concerning the objectification of women's bodies, are NOT accepted by feminist critics?

1. A. Beauty contests commodify women's bodies for the male gaze.
2. B. All women suffer from 'penis envy'.
3. C. Cosmetic surgery and adornment become 'feminine' modes.
4. D. The nation is imaged as a woman's body needing male protection.
5. E. Men are rational while women are irrational or emotional.

Arrange the following texts in chronological order of publication:

1. A. Elaine Showalter, A Literature of Their Own
2. B. Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
3. C. Gilbert and Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic
4. D. Kate Millett, Sexual Politics
5. E. Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

Choose the correct option(s) in the New Historicist reading of Dalit writing:

1. A. Dalit writing does not essentialise Indian society, culture and identity.
2. B. Dalit writing has inflected the immanent metanarratives.
3. C. There is no single location of Dalit writing.
4. D. Dalit writing is only a political category.
5. E. Dalit writing is not grounded in history.

Arrange the following in chronological order of publication:

1. A. Michel Foucault, The Order of Things
2. B. M. K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj
3. C. Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve
4. D. Donna Haraway, When Species Meet
5. E. Tony Bennett, Formalism and Marxism

Statement I: A Room of One's Own is a feminist essay by Virginia Woolf about women's education, exclusion and writing. Statement II: In Other Worlds is a collection of essays by Edward W. Said on psychoanalysis and social theory.

'All writers since Chaucer have come from the middle class… have had a good, at least an expensive, education…' Where does Virginia Woolf argue this?

Match List I with List II:

According to Freud, civilization is to some extent the cumulative product of our psychology. Choose the correct option(s):

1. A. The purpose of human life is the pursuit of happiness.
2. B. Man is wholly good.
3. C. Abolition of private property will remove ill-will and hostility among men.
4. D. Creative art reflects the purpose of human life.
5. E. Civilisation is analogous with the human psyche.

'Being a white man, in short, was a very concrete manner of being-in-the-world, a way of taking hold of reality, language and thought.' What does 'white man' signify here?

Identify the correct order of the publications given below:

1. A. Simon Gikandi, Maps of Englishness
2. B. Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
3. C. Homi K. Bhabha (ed.), Nation and Narration
4. D. Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism
5. E. Robert Young, Colonial Desire

Which of the following statements are valid for postcolonial theory and literature?

1. A. Abrogation, resistance and assertion form the basis of postcolonial thought.
2. B. Postcolonial theory upholds binaries such as master/slave, white/black, coloniser/colonised.
3. C. Weep Not, Child is the first English novel by an East African writer, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
4. D. Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea is based on the experiences of colonised Africans.
5. E. Homi K. Bhabha, Edward W. Said and Gayatri Spivak are key postcolonial thinkers.

Which is the correct option in Antonio Gramsci's definition of the intellectual?

1. A. Every social group arising in production creates its own 'organic' intellectuals.
2. B. Intellectuals give their group homogeneity and awareness of its function.
3. C. Intellectuals do not work to consolidate their group's power.
4. D. The ecclesiastics are organically bound to the bourgeoisie.
5. E. The ecclesiastics' monopoly of the superstructure was contested.

Which of the following is NOT true about Raymond Williams's views on culture?

Who among the following is NOT associated with Cultural Materialism?

Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks primarily deal with:

The term 'gynocriticism' refers to:

Match List I with List II:

Arrange the following works in order of first publication:

1. A. Edward Said, Orientalism
2. B. Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious
3. C. T. S. Eliot, Notes towards the Definition of Culture
4. D. Raymond Williams, Keywords
5. E. Ian Watt, The Rise of the Novel

Which of the following books was NOT written by Raymond Williams?

Along with Richard Hoggart and Stuart Hall, who is a founding figure of British cultural studies?

Match List I with List II:

Who made the term 'the Name of the Father' famous?