English · UNIT 04 · MOCK TEST

Mock 19 – Mixed Practice (Part 2)

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

All 19 topic-wise mocks in this unit

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Q1.

In which period did the 'Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns' arise?

ATwentieth century CE BSixteenth century CE CFifth century CE DSeventeenth century CE

Q2.

Which of the following is NOT true about Lyrical Ballads?

AIt moved English poetry away from the sophistication of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. BIt is very particular about poetic form and structure. CIt moved poetry from reason towards unspoiled nature. DIt is a manifesto of Romantic poetry.

Q3.

Statement I: Hannah Arendt's 'defactualisation' is very close to the concept of 'post-truth'. Statement II: Post-truth relies on absolute lies.

ABoth Statement I and Statement II are correct BBoth Statement I and Statement II are incorrect CStatement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect DStatement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct

Q4.

Montaigne's 'Of Cannibals' is primarily concerned with which country?

AIndia BBrazil CJapan DBorneo

Q5.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Text	List II: Author
A. The Advancement of Learning	I. Susan Sontag
B. Past and Present	II. Francis Bacon
C. English Traits	III. Thomas Carlyle
D. Illness as Metaphor	IV. R. W. Emerson

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

Q6.

Which of the following books were written by Noam Chomsky?

A. Syntactic Structures
B. Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior
C. Language and Society
D. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
E. The Pragmatics of Politeness

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

Q7.

Who wrote Radiant Textuality?

ARichard D. Altick BJames Thorpe CGerald Graff DJerome McGann

Q8.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Author	List II: Form
A. Pindar	I. Epinicia
B. Menander	II. Old Comedy
C. Sappho	III. Lyric poetry
D. Aristophanes	IV. New Comedy

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

Q9.

Which two 'bad habits' of written English does Orwell list in 'Politics and the English Language'?

A. Obsolete words
B. Pretentious diction
C. Dying metaphors
D. False modifiers

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

Q10.

In A Book of Answers, A. D. Hope writes poetic replies to which two writers?

A. Tolstoy
B. Dostoevsky
C. Mallarmé
D. Goethe

AA and D only BB and C only CB and D only DA and C only

Q11.

Into which three kinds does Bacon divide poetry in The Advancement of Learning?

APhilosophical, religious, imaginative BEpic, dramatic, lyrical CNarrative, representative, allusive (parabolical) DOdes, sonnets, eclogues

Q12.

In which essay does Pound define the Image as 'that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time'?

A'A Retrospect' B'The Renaissance' C'The Tradition' D'How to Read'

Q13.

Arrange the following works in chronological order:

A. Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
B. Swift, A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue
C. Partridge, Usage and Abusage
D. Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language

AD, B, C, A BB, D, A, C CB, C, D, A DD, C, A, B

Q14.

Which two edited This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color?

A. Audre Lorde
B. Barbara Smith
C. Gloria Anzaldúa
D. Cherríe Moraga

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

Q15.

Which science does Hobbes call 'the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind'?

AAstronomy BArchitecture CThe occult sciences DGeometry

Q16.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Essayist	List II: Essay
A. George Orwell	I. 'On the Artificial Comedy of the Last Century'
B. Montaigne	II. 'Why I Write'
C. Charles Lamb	III. 'A Modest Proposal'
D. Jonathan Swift	IV. 'Of Cannibals'

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

Q17.

Which two terms are specifically associated with Pierre Bourdieu?

A. Habitus
B. Consciousness
C. Desire
D. Distinction

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

Q18.

Statement I: Consumption is driven by self-interest and the maximisation of personal pleasure. Statement II: Social status correlates strongly with housing styles, musical tastes and food preferences.

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

Q19.

Which two books are explorations of the art of the novel by novelists?

A. The Brief Compass
B. Orhan Pamuk, The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
C. Harold Bloom, The Visionary Company
D. Milan Kundera, Testaments Betrayed

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