M.A.

I SEM 2019-20
QUIZ: ASSESSMENT OF LITERARY THEORY AND CULTURAL STUDIES
All the MCQ are compulsory. Put the correct mark in front of the right answer. Each question carries 0.5 marks.

1-What is humanism?

(a)an idea traditionally associated with the renaissance.

(b)a school of theory devoted to the revival of classical literature.

(c)a theory that values restraint, form and imitation.

(d) all of the above

2-Which of the following figures is considered to be the father of the linguistic theory known as structuralism?

(a)Karl Marx

(b)Ferdinand De Saussure

(c)Sigmund Freud

(d)Cleanth Brooks

3-In Of Grammatology, Jacques Derrida argues what about literature?

(a)No fixed, stable meaning is possible.

(b)Language must be studied in conjunction with history in order to create meaning.

(c)Literature is timeless and thus meaning does not change.

(d)All of the above

4-Jacques Derrida’s concept of difference challenges us to think about language as a system that

(a)involves a constant process of deferred meaning.

(b)prevents us from communicating through writing and speech.

(c)mirrors our physical evolution as human beings.

(d) all of the above

5-Which literary theorist argues that “there is nothing outside the text’?

(a)Jacques Lacan

(b)Jacques Derrida

(c)Ferdinand De Saussure

(d)Michal Foucault

6-Who defined eco-criticism as “the study of the relationship between literature and the physical
environment.”

(a)Bate

(b)Michal Foucault

(c)Peter Barry
(d)Cheryll Glotfelty

7-Who authored ‘Capitalism and schizophrenia”?

(a)Gilles Deleuz

(b)Ferdinand De Saussure

(c)Jacques Lacan

(d)Michal Foucault

8-who wrote “Course in General Linguistics”?

(a)Ferdinand De Saussure

(b)Charles Bally

(c)Albert Sechehaye

(d)None of the above

9-Who wrote “Writing Degree Zero”?

(a)Roland Barthes

(b)Claude Levi Strauss

(c)Jacques Lacan

(d) Jacques Derrida

10-With whom the terms “signifier” and “signified” are associated?

(a)Ferdinand De Saussure

(b)Karl marx

(c)Jacques Derrida

(d)Roland Barthes

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