English · UNIT 04 · MOCK TEST

Mock 5 – New Criticism, Formalism & Modernist Criticism (Part 1)

Unit 4: Literary Criticism and Theory · 21 questions · about 25 minutes. Press End Mock any time to see your score and the correct answers.

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Q1.

Which of the following are chapter titles in I. A. Richards' Principles of Literary Criticism (1924)?

A. 'Poetry for Poetry's Sake'
B. 'Critical Principles: The Indemonstrability of Values'
C. 'On Looking at a Picture'
D. 'The Theory of Interpretation'
E. 'The Analysis of a Poem'

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

Q2.

Arrange the following critical works in chronological order:

A. T. S. Eliot, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
B. J. C. Smith, A Study of Wordsworth
C. D. G. James, Scepticism and Poetry
D. Marjorie L. Barstow, Wordsworth's Theory of Poetic Diction
E. Josephine Miles, Pathetic Fallacy in the Nineteenth Century

AD, A, C, E, B BA, B, D, C, E CC, A, E, B, D DA, C, D, E, B

Q3.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Archetypal symbol	List II: Meaning
A. The sea	I. Creative energy
B. Rivers	II. Wisdom
C. The sun	III. The mother of all life
D. The serpent	IV. Death and rebirth

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

Q4.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Essay	List II: Writer
A. 'Keats's Sylvan Historian: History without Footnotes'	I. Gayatri C. Spivak
B. 'Tools for Reading Poetry'	II. Cleanth Brooks
C. 'Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism'	III. Herman Rapaport
D. 'The Linguistic Foundation'	IV. Jonathan Culler

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

Q5.

Assertion (A): The technique of art is to make objects 'unfamiliar', to make forms difficult, and to increase the difficulty and length of perception. Reason (R): The process of perception is an aesthetic end in itself and must be prolonged.

ABoth A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A BBoth A and R are correct but R is NOT the correct explanation of A CA is correct but R is not correct DA is not correct but R is correct

Q6.

Who wrote, 'The two pillars upon which a theory of criticism must rest are an account of value and an account of communication'?

AWilliam Empson BI. A. Richards CEzra Pound DJ. C. Ransom

Q7.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Concept	List II: Theorist
A. Defamiliarization	I. Giorgio Agamben
B. The Uncanny	II. Bruno Latour
C. Actor-Network Theory	III. Viktor Shklovsky
D. Homo Sacer	IV. Sigmund Freud

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

Q8.

What is 'Practical Criticism'?

AThe close analysis of literary texts so as to bring out their political meanings BA movement which wished to make literary criticism more relevant CThe close analysis of poems without taking account of any external information DThe study of ambiguity

Q9.

Identify the one who was not a New Critic:

AAllen Tate BRobert Penn Warren CCleanth Brooks DClaude Lévi-Strauss

Q10.

Who said that 'the object of study in literary science is not literature but literariness'?

AViktor Shklovsky BRoman Jakobson CCleanth Brooks DAllen Tate

Q11.

Who published The New Criticism (1941)?

AJohn Crowe Ransom BW. K. Wimsatt Jr. CMonroe C. Beardsley DAllen Tate

Q12.

Who wrote The Arte of Rhetorique?

ACleanth Brooks BSir Thomas Wilson CSir John Cheke DRaymond Williams

Q13.

Which of the following statements do NOT relate to Empson's Seven Types of Ambiguity?

A. Ambiguity is any verbal nuance that gives room for alternative reactions.
B. The first type is the simple metaphor, effective in several ways at once.
C. The third type gives two apparently unconnected meanings simultaneously.
D. The fifth type is an 'unfortunate confusion', illustrated from Shelley and Swinburne.
E. The seventh type marks a division in the reader's mind.

A(A) and (B) only B(B) and (C) only C(C) and (D) only D(D) and (E) only

Q14.

Who defined defamiliarisation as the renewal of perception?

AViktor Shklovsky BRoman Jakobson CJacques Derrida DVladimir Propp

Q15.

Which of the following was NOT written by F. R. Leavis?

AEducation and the University BCulture and Practical Reason CEnglish Literature in Our Time and the University DRevaluation

Q16.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Writer	List II: Concept
A. Hugo Gernsback	I. Biopolitics
B. Edmund Husserl	II. Phenomenology
C. John Crowe Ransom	III. Science fiction
D. Michel Foucault	IV. New Criticism

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

Q17.

Which of the following assumptions are true in the context of New Criticism?

A. It popularised close reading of the text.
B. Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, R. P. Blackmur and Kenneth Burke were among its leading critics.
C. It was used chiefly for novels and plays.
D. It tends to set aside historical, social and political contexts.
E. John Crowe Ransom's The New Criticism wholly endorses I. A. Richards, William Empson and T. S. Eliot.

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

Q18.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Text	List II: Critic
A. Practical Criticism	I. John Crowe Ransom
B. The New Criticism	II. F. R. Leavis
C. The Well Wrought Urn	III. I. A. Richards
D. The Great Tradition	IV. Cleanth Brooks

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

Q19.

Which of the following terms are integral to New Criticism?

A. Tension
B. Mirror stage
C. Irony
D. Polyphony
E. Paradox

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

Q20.

In which year was Empson's Seven Types of Ambiguity published?

A1920 B1924 C1927 D1930

Q21.

Which of the following pairs are correct?

A. Aristotle – Rhetoric
B. Quintilian – Institutio Oratoria
C. Brooks and Warren – Understanding Fiction
D. Allen Tate – The Verbal Icon
E. Harold Bloom – The Great Tradition

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

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