Mock 16 – Cultural Studies & New Directions (Part 2)

Which of the following assertions is/are NOT true in the context of the culture industry?

1. A. The Frankfurt School used the term for the workings of mass media.
2. B. The dominant class instils its values in the working class.
3. C. 'Industry' signals the mass production of cultural goods.
4. D. Authentic working-class culture is preserved and protected.
5. E. Mass culture fosters activism and critical thinking among the young.

Assertion (A): Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language. Reason (R): This is mainly because several different though related meanings have emerged at particular moments in its long history.

Which of the following works were published in 1791?

1. A. Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
2. B. James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson
3. C. Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language
4. D. Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents
5. E. Thomas Paine, Rights of Man

Arrange the following works of T. S. Eliot in chronological order:

1. A. The Sacred Wood
2. B. Notes towards the Definition of Culture
3. C. 'The Metaphysical Poets'
4. D. 'The Function of Criticism'
5. E. The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism

Arrange the following books in order of publication:

1. A. Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture
2. B. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cornel West, The Future of the Race
3. C. Henry Louis Gates Jr. (ed.), Black Literature and Literary Theory
4. D. Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Signifying Monkey
5. E. Hazel V. Carby, Reconstructing Womanhood

According to Andrew Milner, which three of Williams's early meanings of 'culture' survive in Keywords?

1. A. A general state or habit of the individual mind
2. B. The general state of intellectual development of a whole society
3. C. The general body of the arts
4. D. A whole way of life of a group or people
5. E. Elitism

Who held that 'significant breaks', where old lines of thought are disrupted and elements regrouped around new premises, matter most in cultural studies?

Which of the following features are generally accepted as true of Birmingham cultural studies, as described by Stuart Hall?

1. A. It strengthened the barrier between high and low culture.
2. B. It privileged text over context.
3. C. It could accommodate the study of working-class lives.
4. D. It promoted readings based on social and political contexts.
5. E. It was essentially apolitical.

Statement I: Criticism is the judgement of the merits and faults of something. Statement II: Criticism may be theoretical, practical, impressionistic, affective, prescriptive or descriptive.

Which of the following is Peter Brook's study of theatre?

Which of the following were written by Stuart Hall?

1. A. 'Encoding/Decoding'
2. B. 'The Rediscovery of "Ideology": Return of the Repressed in Media Studies'
3. C. The Raw and the Cooked
4. D. 'What Is Digital Humanities?'
5. E. 'The Culture Industry'

Assertion (A): The experience of homosexuality in a homophobic culture differs for whites and blacks. Reason (R): Sexuality and sexual identity are experienced differently by whites and blacks.

What does Bourdieu mean by 'habitus'?

Assertion (A): Cultural studies holds that culture is political rather than aesthetic or humanist in emphasis. Reason (R): The object of cultural studies is high art and the exalted literary canon.

Which theorist has written on 'affective economies'?

To whom is the term 'thick description' attributed?

As a 'proto-discipline' in the 1960s, cultural studies chiefly explored:

What does CCCS stand for in cultural studies?

According to Stuart Hall, which concept played a seminal role in cultural studies?

Which of the following statements about cyberpunk are true?

1. A. It is science fiction.
2. B. It uses postmodernist techniques and posthumanist themes.
3. C. Events often take place in virtual reality.
4. D. It is fiction written on online platforms.
5. E. Laurence Sterne wrote the first cyberpunk novel.

What is Francis Quarles's Emblems (1635)?

Which of the following apply to the term 'carnival'?

1. A. It became important through Mikhail Bakhtin's work.
2. B. Popular humour subverts official authority in classical, medieval and Renaissance culture.
3. C. It overturns hierarchy and creates a popular, democratic counter-culture.
4. D. It brings out the serious elements in literature.
5. E. It is used chiefly as a tool for interpreting poetry.