English · UNIT 04 · MOCK TEST

Mock 3 – Renaissance to Victorian Criticism (Part 2)

Unit 4: Literary Criticism and Theory · 26 questions · about 31 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. Reflections on the Revolution in France
B. Preface to Shakespeare
C. The Social Contract
D. A Treatise of Human Nature
E. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

AA, B, C, D, E BC, A, B, E, D CD, E, C, B, A DB, C, A, D, E

Q2.

Which critic held that poetry contains the same elements as prose, and differs from it in how they are combined and in its purpose?

AJohn Dryden BSamuel Taylor Coleridge CAlexander Pope DPhilip Sidney

Q3.

Arrange the following in chronological order:

A. Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
B. Sidney, An Apology for Poetry
C. Addison and Steele, The Spectator
D. Lamb, 'My Relations'
E. Browning, 'How It Strikes a Contemporary'

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

Q4.

In Dryden's An Essay of Dramatic Poesy, which speaker argues for the superiority of French drama over English?

ANeander BLisideius CCrites DEugenius

Q5.

Arrange the following in chronological order of publication:

A. Dryden, An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
B. Woolf, A Room of One's Own
C. Arnold, Culture and Anarchy
D. Johnson, Lives of the Poets
E. Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads

AA, D, E, C, B BD, A, E, B, C CA, C, D, E, B DE, D, C, A, B

Q6.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Concept	List II: Critic
A. Egotistical sublime	I. Matthew Arnold
B. Willing suspension of disbelief	II. Joseph Addison
C. Touchstone	III. John Keats
D. Pleasures of the Imagination	IV. S. T. Coleridge

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

Q7.

An Account of the Life of Mr Richard Savage (1744) was the first major biography published by:

AAlexander Pope BJoseph Addison CSamuel Johnson DJames Boswell

Q8.

The 'Condition of England' debate was initiated by:

AWilliam Hazlitt BWalter Bagehot CThomas Carlyle DMatthew Arnold

Q9.

Who wrote that Charlotte Brontë's mind contained 'nothing but hunger, rebellion, and rage'?

AElizabeth Gaskell BMatthew Arnold CCharles Dickens DMary Shelley

Q10.

Thomas Love Peacock wrote the essay:

A'Revolt of the Tartars' B'An Essay on the Principles of Human Action' C'The Four Ages of Poetry' DThe Seven Lamps of Architecture

Q11.

Which of the following are significant texts of Victorian criticism?

A. Pater, Studies in the History of the Renaissance
B. Jessie Weston, From Ritual to Romance
C. Eliot, 'Hamlet and His Problems'
D. Arnold, 'The Function of Criticism at the Present Time'
E. Ruskin, Modern Painters

AB, C and D only BA, D and E only CA, C and D only DB, D and E only

Q12.

Arrange the following prose writers in order of birth:

A. Joseph Addison
B. Francis Bacon
C. Charles Lamb
D. Virginia Woolf
E. Matthew Arnold

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

Q13.

Which of the following statements about Sidney and Gosson are correct?

A. Sidney wrote An Apology for Poetry.
B. It was a counterblast to Gosson's The Schoole of Abuse.
C. Gosson wrote in the euphuistic style.
D. Sidney's style was neoclassically restrained.
E. Both wrote in the eighteenth century.

AA, B and C only BA, C and D only CA, D and E only DA, C and E only

Q14.

When was Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language published?

A1751 B1753 C1755 D1757

Q15.

Who wrote An Essay on the Principles of Human Action?

ACharles Lamb BJean-Jacques Rousseau CWilliam Godwin DWilliam Hazlitt

Q16.

Which of the following is NOT a work of P. B. Shelley?

AThe Mask of Anarchy BQueen Mab CA Vision of Judgement DThe Revolt of Islam

Q17.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Author	List II: Work
A. Plato	I. Rhetoric
B. Aristotle	II. Symposium
C. P. B. Shelley	III. An Apology for Poetry
D. Philip Sidney	IV. A Defence of Poetry

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

Q18.

Which of the following statements about Pope's An Essay on Criticism are correct?

A. It analyses the causes of faulty criticism and praises the great critics of antiquity.
B. It analyses the causes of faulty criticism and describes the good critic.
C. It analyses the structure of a good essay and praises great critics.
D. It analyses how to turn a good essay into good criticism.
E. It analyses Wordsworth's poetry and praises great critics.

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

Q19.

What does Arnold mean by 'Hebraism' in Culture and Anarchy?

AMoral education — strictness of conscience and conduct BIntellectual autonomy CA rational outlook DA pragmatic attitude

Q20.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Concept	List II: Critic
A. Negative capability	I. Matthew Arnold
B. Sweetness and light	II. S. T. Coleridge
C. Esemplastic	III. T. S. Eliot
D. Dissociation of sensibility	IV. John Keats

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

Q21.

Arrange the following texts in chronological order of publication:

A. Foucault, Madness and Civilization
B. Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge
C. Lacan, The Language of the Self (tr. Wilden)
D. Foucault, The Birth of the Clinic
E. Arnold, Culture and Anarchy

AE, B, D, C, A BE, A, D, C, B CE, B, D, A, C DC, A, B, D, E

Q22.

Arrange the following works in chronological order:

A. Arnold, Culture and Anarchy
B. The Anatomy of Melancholy
C. Hobbes, Leviathan
D. Pater, Studies in the History of the Renaissance
E. Shelley, A Defence of Poetry

AB, C, E, A, D BA, B, C, D, E CC, D, E, A, B DD, C, B, A, E

Q23.

Statement I: The best poetry has a power of forming, sustaining and delighting us as nothing else can. Statement II: No man has ever been a great poet without being at the same time a great critic.

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 I is false but Statement II is true

Q24.

Which of the following hold true for Pope's An Essay on Criticism?

A. It is an inquiry into the nature and value of poetry.
B. It offers generalisations about good taste.
C. It explores the difficulty of impartial, just criticism.
D. It sets out the qualities of the good critic.
E. It reflects critically on Plato's rejection of poetry.

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

Q25.

A passage urging writers to distinguish nature from custom and not to fear rules set by 'literary dictators' is considered the death-knell of neoclassical criticism. Who wrote it?

AJohn Dryden BAlexander Pope CSamuel Johnson DJoseph Addison

Q26.

Who used the phrase 'gaudiness and inane phraseology' of neoclassical poetic diction?

AWilliam Wordsworth BS. T. Coleridge CMatthew Arnold DT. S. Eliot

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