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Mock 18 – Mixed Practice (Part 1)

Unit 4: Literary Criticism and Theory · 19 questions · about 22 minutes. Press End Mock any time to see your score and the correct answers.

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Q1.

Arrange the following in chronological order of publication:

A. J. G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition
B. Donna Haraway, When Species Meet
C. Thomas Friedman, The World Is Flat
D. Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man
E. William Gibson, Neuromancer

AC, D, B, A, E BA, E, D, C, B CE, C, D, A, B DD, E, C, B, A

Q2.

Mary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Who wrote 'the Rights of Man'?

AJ. S. Mill BThomas Paine CJohn Braine DKingsley Amis

Q3.

Arrange the following in chronological order of publication:

A. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Mistress of Spices
B. Anand Giridharadas, India Calling
C. V. S. Naipaul, India: A Wounded Civilization
D. Bharati Mukherjee, Desirable Daughters
E. Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children

AA, B, C, D, E BB, C, D, A, E CC, E, A, D, B DE, D, C, B, A

Q4.

Edgar Allan Poe defined 'the prose tale' as:

AA narrative which can be read at one sitting of from half an hour to two hours BA narrative which can be read within five minutes or less CA narrative that can be read at one sitting of from one hour to four hours DA narrative that may be enjoyed in a single spell of less than half an hour

Q5.

Arrange the following works of Richard Hoggart in chronological order:

A. An Imagined Life
B. The Uses of Literacy
C. Higher Education: Demand and Response
D. A Local Habitation
E. A Sort of Clowning

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

Q6.

Who wrote the 1582 pamphlet Playes Confuted in Five Actions, complaining that bawdy Latin, French, Italian and Spanish comedies had been 'thoroughly ransacked' to furnish London playhouses?

ABen Jonson BGeorge Gascoigne CStephen Gosson DGeorge Farquhar

Q7.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Author	List II: Work
A. David Hume	I. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
B. Edward Gibbon	II. A Complete History of England
C. William Godwin	III. A Treatise of Human Nature
D. Tobias Smollett	IV. An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice

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

Q8.

To whom did Francis Bacon dedicate The Advancement of Learning?

AKing James I BKing Henry IV CKing Richard II DQueen Elizabeth I

Q9.

In which year was Hobbes's Leviathan first published?

A1631 B1641 C1651 D1661

Q10.

Which of the following were written by John Dennis?

A. The Advancement and Reformation of Modern Poetry
B. The Christian Hero
C. The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry
D. The Conscious Lovers
E. An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Shakespear

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

Q11.

Which of the following were written by Thomas Carlyle?

A. Chartism
B. Past and Present
C. The French Revolution
D. Suspiria de Profundis
E. The English Mail-Coach

AA, B and C only BB, C and D only CA, B and D only DC, D and E only

Q12.

Statement I: Eric Bentley wrote The Life of the Drama. Statement II: The book focuses on the lives of seminal twentieth-century dramatists.

ABoth Statement I and Statement II are true BBoth Statement I and Statement II are false CStatement I is true but Statement II is false DStatement II is true but Statement I is false

Q13.

Arrange the following events, significant for literary criticism, in chronological order:

A. The first manned Moon landing
B. The end of the Second World War
C. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech
D. The Russian Revolution
E. Indian Independence

AC, D, E, A, B BD, A, E, B, C CC, E, B, D, A DD, B, E, C, A

Q14.

Which two kinds of 'truth' does Bacon distinguish in The Advancement of Learning?

ATheological truth and scientific truth BTheological truth and aesthetic truth CAesthetic truth and objective truth DMetaphysical truth and aesthetic truth

Q15.

Which of the following were NOT written by J. S. Mill?

A. The Subjection of Women
B. Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform
C. Past and Present
D. Explorations
E. On Liberty

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

Q16.

What did Thomas Rymer mean by 'poetic justice'?

A. The distribution of earthly rewards and punishments in proportion to virtue or vice
B. That a literary work should be governed by decorum and morality
C. That a literary work should reflect the random outcomes of everyday life
D. The metaphysical nature of poetic experience
E. Justifying poetry as part of the ideal republic

AA and B only BB and C only CC and D only DD and E only

Q17.

Who has written on narrative empathy?

AMichael Ryan BSuzanne Keen CToni Morrison DSara Ahmed

Q18.

Which of the following statements about phenomenology are true?

A. It is a 'methodological idealism' exploring human consciousness.
B. Edmund Husserl developed it as a philosophical method.
C. Martin Heidegger is one of its leading philosophers.
D. Heidegger's approach is 'essentialist'.
E. The text is purely an embodiment of the author's consciousness.

AA, B, C and D only BB, C and D only CA, B, C and E only DC, D and E only

Q19.

Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time (1976) draws on:

AShulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex BMargaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale CLewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland DDonna Haraway's 'A Cyborg Manifesto'

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