Subject : Literary theory

Lectures 16 to 20
MCQS*

Lecture # 16

 Reader response theory began in

a) 1930

b) 1940

c) 1950

d) 1960

 Reader response theory got prominence in

a) 1940

b) 1950

c) 1960

d) 1970

 Reader response theory is a reaction against

a) Classicism

b) New criticism

c) Modernism

d) Romanticism

 Reader response theory based on

a) Text

b) Reader

c) Method

d) Aproach

 In Reader response theory the primary focus is on

 a) Text

b) Reading

c) Method

d) Approach

 Approach of reader response theory help students to understand why they focus on

a) Text

b) Reading

c) Particular elements

d) Method

 In subjective reader response students can compare

a) Ideas

b) Thoughts

c) Understanding

d) Responses

 In subjective reader response theory group discussion help in understanding

a) Thoughts

b) Ideas

c) Tastes

d) Response

 Factors in this theory that contribute in like or dislike are

a) Assentional

b) Important

c) Good

d) Helpful in understanding

 Carlisle describes the reader response theory in

a) 1999
 b) 2000

c) 2001

d) 2002

 Rosanblatt describes the reader response theory in

a) 1977

b) 1978

c) 1979

d) 1980

 Reader response theory "emphasizes the role of the reader" is described by

a) Garzon

b) Pena

c) Carlisle

d) Rosenblatt

 Garzon and Pena define the interaction between the text and reader in

a) 2013

b) 2014

c) 2015

d) 2016

 Literary work takes place in mutual relationship between

a) Reader and reading

b) Text and method

c) Reader and text

d) Text and reading approach

 Thomson proceeds to define the level of development in

a) 1984

b) 1985
 c) 1986

d) 1987

 "Readers are experiance builders and the text is an activating stimulus" describe by

a) Rosanblatt

b) Garzon

c) Pena

d) Carlisle

 The symbolism in literature also invite different responses in different

a) Text

b) Method

c) Readers

d) Tastes

 Which scholar said that "the reader co-authors the litrery text

a) Justman

b) Rosenblatt

c) Garzon

d) Carlisle

 Background knowledge, Historical and cultural and cultural knowledge of reader

helped in developing

a) Reader sense

b) Literary sense

c) Reader method

d) Particular respone

Lecture # 17

 Deconstruction theory first initiated by

a) Jacques Derrida
 b) Rosanblatt

c) Carlisle

d) Justman

 A particular method of textual analysis and philosophical argument is

a) Reader response theory

b) Deconstruction

c) Post colonial theory

d) Post structuralism

 Theory of deconstruction reveals ______ imcompatibilities between the explicit and

implicit of discourse

a) Logical

b) Important

c) Necessary

d) Hidden

 Deconstruction exposes how the incompatibilities are disguised by

a) Reader

b) Author

c) Text

d) Litrature

 Deconstruction exposes unquestionable metaphysical assumption and internal

contradiction in ______

a) Text

b) Method

c) Approach

d) Literary language

 A form of textual practice to demonstrate the inherent instability of both

a) Language and meaning

 b) Text and method

c) Approach and thoughts

d) Feelings and thoughts

 Deconstructionism challenges structuralist of discoverning

a) Author's idea

b) Reader's idea

c) Meaning

d) Hidden meanings

 Deconstruction as a strategy "Rules for reading, interpretation and writing explained

by

a) Justman

b) Rosanblatt

c) Carlisle

d) Jacques Darrida

 Langauge is a primary means of

a) Word

b) Meaning

c) Thought

d) Signification

 A science that seeks to understand how a system works in a language is called

a) Deconstruction

b) Modernism

c) Structuralism

d) Classicism

 The structure of language comes from the

a) Words of language
 b) Meanings of a word

c) Significant mind

d) Human mind

 Achieve meaning through linguistic signs and other symbols is

a) Understanding

b) Signification

c) Proceeding

d) Discovering

 Language comprises it's own rule governed system to

a) Better understanding

b) Better learning

c) Achieve meaning

d) Achieve word

 Everything including language can only be understood in

a) Word

b) Meaning

c) Text

d) Context

 The meaning we assign to word are

a) Arbitrary

b) Literary

c) Approximately

d) Logically

 Words constitute our

a) Learnings

b) Thoughts
 c) Experiences

d) Feelings

 There is no truth outside of

a) Words

b) Meanings

c) Thoughts

d) Language

 Act of reading is a cultural and social practice that contains

a) Symbols

b) Codes

c) Formulas

d) Decodes

 In a text which thing is resides in a codes

a) Words

b) Meanings

c) Symbols

d) Formulas

 Readers has mastered in ____ before he ever picks up the text

a) Language

b) Method

c) Structure

d) Codes

 Proper study of literature is inquiry into conditions surrounding the act of

a) Interpretation

b) Structuralism

c) Classicism
 d) Investigation

 Structuralists seek to discover the overall system that accounts for the

a) Individual participation

b) Individual criticism

c) Individual interpretation

d) Individual investagation

 Deconstrutionism is a reaction against structuralism is orderly vision of

a) Language and meanings

b) Language and method

c) Language and text

d) Language and human experiance

 Text's meaning can be discovered through examination the

a) Text

b) Language

c) Structure

d) Structural codes

 Deconstruction casts doubts on previously held theories that sought to find in a text

a) Complexities

b) Queries

c) Meanings

d) Allusions

 Deconstruction is often regarged as undermining all tendency toward

a) Structuralism

b) Criticism

c) Systematization

d) Clarification
 The most fundamental project of deconstruction is to display the operation of
logocentrism in

a) Text

b) Language

c) Thoughts

d) Ideas

 Logocentrism refers to any system of thought which is founded on the

a) Stability and text

b) Stability and structure

c) Stability and authority

d) Stability and solidity

 Deconstruction tries to reinstate _____ within the connections of various terms

a) Text

b) Structure

c) Method

d) Language

 Language consist only of chains of

a) Words

b) Letters

c) Symbols

d) Signifiers

 Language is

a) Referential

b) Non referential

c) Symbolized

d) Non symbolized
  What is the wholly ideological and ground being

a) Litrature

b) Language

c) Mind

d) Thought

 Deconstruction looks at the ambiguities in

a) Text

b) Language

c) Method

d) Signifiers

Lecture # 18

 Attempt to reach a critical understanding of literary text from every aspect is:

a) Literature

b) Literary criticism

c) Literary Theory

d) None

 Literary Theory is a systematic process to literary texts that impose…...to text:

a) Reasoning

b) Meaning

c) Logic

d) Particular Lenz

 Binaries tend to be associated with:

a) Positive

b) Negative

c) Positive or negative
d) None

 According to Derrida,binaries are arbitrary and---

a) Stable

b) Unstable

c) Rigid

d) None of them

 The rejection of privilege of---

a) Signifier

b) Signified

c) Signified over signifier

d) Signifier over signified

 --- is as an anti-structuralist forum:

a) Formalism

b) Deconstruction

c) Structuralism

d) None

 Human tendency to think in terms of oppositions, is idea of---:

a) Structuralist

b) Formalist

c) Deconstructionist

d) Cololism

 Deconstructionism challenged the logocentric at heart of --- metaphysics.

a) Eastern

b) Western
 c) Northern

d) Southern

 Role of speech in language is ----:

a) Minor

b) Major

c) Basic

d) Central

 Writing is derived from ----

a) Speech

b) Language

c) Vocabulary

d) Arbitrary notion

 Logocentrism is___ in language.

a) Central principle

b) Minor principle

c) Major principle

d) Play ni role

 Speech is central by logocentrism, writing is----'

a) Foundation

b) Marginalized

c) Borrowed

d) None

 Transcendental signified that transcends all signifiers & a meaning that transcends all-
---

a) Vocabulary
 b) Signs

c) Words

d) Speech

 Supplement is a inessential extra added to something --- in itself.

a) Complete

b) Incomplete

c) Vital

d) None

 What is complete in itself cannot be --- to.

a) Added

b) Deleted

c) Moved

d) Fixed

Lecture # 19

 Deconstruction is a reading ---- to interpret literary text.

a) Method

b) Strategy

c) Scheme

d) Way

 In France, Deconstruction theory is influenced by Jacques Derrida in---.

a) 1950's

b) 1960's

c) 1970's
d) 1980's

 According to Deconstructionism, structure is---.

a) Central

b) Not-central

c) Rigid

d) Less important

 According to Deconstructionism, binary opposition is ----.

a) Dependable

b) Not dependable

c) Central

d) None

 Being 'arbitrary' is the notion of ---.

a) Meaning

b) Words

c) Vocabulary

d) Grammar

 According to structuralism, meanings are ---.

a) Fixed

b) Unified

c) Fixed & unified

d) None

 Text has multiple layers & structures of meanings, is according to---.

a) Formalists
b) Deconstructionist

c) Structuralist

d) None

 In Deconstructionism, meanings are not from ---

a) Outside the text

b) Beyond the text

c) a & b

d) None

 Notions of structure cause a difference in --- to clear understanding.

a) Meaning

b) Structure

c) Vocabulary

d) Spelling

 When you remove the center of system, nothing is holding the elements in place
then,----'

a) System is stable

b) System is unstable

c) System us paralysed

d) System will remain sane

 According to Deconstructionism, for the analysis of 'Mending Wall', including

characters.

a) Only speaker

b) Only listener

c) Speaker Vs listener
 d) Supposed character

Lecture # 20

 Reader replaces the author, without central fixation,is in --- theory.

a) Formalism

b) Structuralism

c) Deconstructionism

d) None

 Post-structuralism examine other sources for meaning including ----.

a) Readers

b) Cultures

c) Other Literature

d) All of above

 Literary text has ----.

a) Multiple meaning

b) Single meaning

c) Opposite meaning

d) No meaning

 Concept of metalanguage is given by ----.

a) Writers of post-structuralism

b) Writers of formalism

c) Writers of structuralism

d) Readers response Theory

 Structuralism & post-structuralism have great deal ---.

a) In common

b) In difference

c) With society

d) With literature

 Structuralism's emphasis in language retains by ----.

a) Formalism

b) Structuralism

c) Post-structuralism

d) Deconstructionism

 Post-structuralism is a response to ----.

a) Formalism

b) Structuralism

c) Deconstructionism

d) Colocolism

 Post-structuralism is closely related to ----.

a) Structuralism

b) Modernism

c) Post- modernism

d) Deconstructionism

 Post-structuralism must be ---.

a) Knowledge-based

b) Meaning-based

c) Structure based

d) Cultural based
 Structuralism & post-structuralism having difference of ----.

a) Origin

b) Tone & style

c) Attitude to language

d) All of above

 To identify meaning & true meaning of words, is ---.

a) Formalism

b) Structuralism

c) Deconstructionism

d) Strategy

 Free play of meaning is -----.

a) Literature

b) Philosophy

c) Psychology

d) Sociology

 Deconstruction is a form of philosophy & ---.

a) Literary criticism

b) Literary analysis

c) Literary conflict

d) Literature
 Subject: SEMANTICS AND PREGMATICS
MCQ’s (Lec no. 16-20)

LEC 16, 17, 18

 Politeness is a system of interpersonal relations designed to facilitate the

interaction by:
A) By minimizing the potentials for the conflict
B) By maximizing the potentials for the conflict
C) By avoiding the potentials for the conflict
D) By making conflict easy
 Who defines politeness as forms of behavior that establish and maintain
comity?
A) Leech in 1973
B) Yule in 1993
C) Leech in 1983
D) Yule in 1983
 Pragmatics is concerned with the study of meaning as communicated by a
speaker and interpreted by a listener. This definition is given by?
A) By Yule in 1986
B) By Yule in 1983
C) By Yule in 1993
D) By Yule in 1996
 How many basic acts are in politeness principle?
A) Three
B) Two
C) Four
D) Five
 Which utterance tends to be more polite?
A) Direct
B) Indirect
C) Indirect and Direct both
D) None of these
 In direct utterance sometimes a speaker says something directly, but?
A) It does not minimize the politeness degree
B) It minimize the politeness degree
C) It does not affect the politeness degree
D) It maximize the politeness degree
 Choose the example of indirect politeness?
A) Have another sandwich
B) Help yourself
C) Could you pass me that paper please
D) All of these
 Which scale represents the social status relationship between the
participants?
A) Social distance scale
B) Authority scale
C) Optionality scale
D) Cost benefit scale
 Politeness principle is divided into how many maxims?
A) Two
B) Four
C) Five
D) Six
 Tact maxim requires participants to?
A) Maximize cost to other and minimize benefit to other
B) Minimize cost to self and maximize cost to self
C) Minimize cost to other and maximize benefit to other
D) Minimize cost to other and maximize cost to self
 Which maxim requires the speaker to minimize dispraise to others?
A) Generosity maxim
B) Approbation maxim
C) Tact maxim
D) Modesty maxim
 Which maxim requires the speaker to minimize praise of self, but he must
maximize dispraise of others?
 A) Tact maxim
B) Generosity maxim
C) Approbation maxim
D) Modesty maxim
 Generosity maxim requires the participants to?
A) Minimize dispraise to others
B) Minimize benefit to self and maximize cost to self
C) Maximize benefit to self and minimize cost to self
D) Minimize benefit to self and minimize cost to self
 Mrs. Burns: you are very creative , Marisa
Marisa: Thank you ma’am
This example is from which maxim?
A) Approbation
B) Modesty
C) Agreement
D) Sympathy
 Modesty maxim requires the speaker to?
A) Maximize the praise of self but he must maximize dispraise of self
B) Minimize praise of self but he must maximize praise to other
C) Maximize praise of self but he must minimize dispraise of self
D) Minimize praise of self but he must maximize dispraise of self
 Polite behavior is a?
A) Non standard behavior
B) Standard behavior
C) Stable behavior
D) None of these
 According to whom there is a politeness principle with conversational
maxims?
A) Yule
B) Brown
C) Levinson
D) Geoffery Leech
 Who gives politeness theory?
 A) Levinson
B) Geoffery leech
C) Brown
D) Both A and C
 Social value, age, status and power are?
A) Internal factors
B) External factors
C) Both
D) None of these
 Which statement is correct about positive face?
A) Desire to be approved of an appreciated by the interlocutor
B) To have independent point of view
C) To have dependant point of view
D) All of these
 In order to enter into social relationship all people must acknowledge the
face of other people, who gives this conclusion?
A) Brown Levinson in 1968
B) Brown Levinson in 1976
C) Brown Levinson in 1966
D) Brown Levinson in 1978
 Which one is not a face threatening act?
A) Do an FTA badly with positive politeness
B) Do an FTA with negative politeness
C) Do an FTA indirectly or of record
D) Do an FTA badly, with politeness
 Which one is positive politeness strategy?
A) Do not notice attend to the addressee’s need
B) Appologize
C) Exaggerate interest ( approval /Sypathy)
D) Do not do the FTA
 By performing negative politeness, addresser acknowledge that addressee
has negative face wants?
A) Having a performance not to be imposed on
 B) Having performance to be imposed on
C) Expresses approval or support
D) Do not Express approval or support
 Which one is negative politeness strategy?
A) Be conventionally direct
B) Be conventionally indirect
C) Personalize the addresser and addressee
D) Intensity ( show interest to addressee)
 How many approaches are in politeness?
A) Three
B) Four
C) Five
D) Six
 Variables in degrees of politeness are?
A) Social distance of speaker only
B) Relative power of speaker and hearer
C) Absolute ranking of impositions in the particular culture
D) Ranking of positions in every culture
 Politeness degree is not universally valid, Why?
A) Languages differ in their politeness scale
B) There is no difference in politeness scale in all languages
C) Some languages don’t accept politeness degree
D) All of these
 Being polite builds our?
A) Personality
B) Self esteem
C) Ego
D) Both a and b
 When theory of politeness was formulated and revised by Brown and
Levinson?
A) 1978- 1997
B) 1978- 1987
C) 1968- 1987
 D) 1968- 1997
 Who defines politeness as a genuine desire to be pleasant to others?
A) Thomas in 1995
B) Thomas in 2001
C) Holmes in 1995
D) Holmes in 2001
 Holmes defines politeness as?
A) Politeness is a genuine desire to be pleasant to others
B) It is concerned with meaning as communicated by speaker and
interpreted by listener
C) Linguistically polite involves speaking to people appropriately in the
light of relationship
D) None of these
 A corner stone for notion of politeness is given by ?
A) Grice
B) Lakoff
C) Thomas
D) Holmes
 What are lakoff politeness rules?
A) Positive face
B) Rudeness
C) Non- polite behavior.com
D) Both b and c
 Impoliteness can be done in which ways?
A) Speaker unintentionally attacks face
B) Listener did not perceive face attack
C) Speaker intentionally attacks face
D) None of these
 Criticism and shortcomings of the theory of politeness are?
A) Universally valid
B) Different personal pronouns may occur in other languages
C) Noun, interrogative pronouns create politeness differences
D) Not universally valid
  Which is device of politeness?
A) Indirectness
B) Directness
C) Both a and b
D) None of these
 Pragmatics is only covered with?
A) Intentional Indirectness
B) Unintentional indirectness
C) Intentional directness
D) Unintentional directness
 What signify level of politeness?
A) Stylish variation
B) No variation
C) Levels of formality
D) Both a and c

MCQ’s
LEC 19&20
1: Cooperative principle exists between ….

(a) Listener and reader

(b) Speaker and listener
(c) Speaker and reader
(d) None of these

2: it was introduced by:

(a) Panel Grice

(b) Aristotle
(c) Lewis Carroll
(d) Dale Renton

3: cooperative principle introduced by panel Grice in:

 (a) 1889
(b) 1989
(c) 1975
(d) 1875

4: Which principle describe, how to make an effective conversational

communication…

(a) Reader response theory

(b) Cooperative principle
(c) General method principle
(d) None of these

5: Grice claim that conversation is (should be) governed by….

(a) General method principle

(b) Cooperative principle
(c) Reader response theory
(d) A and C

6: what is essential principle, in which participants work together to manage their

speech….

(a) General method principle

(b) Cooperative principle
(c) Both of these
(d) None of these

7: in cooperative principle we talk about, what……

(a) Was discussed

(b) Will discuss
(c) Topic is going on
(d) None of these

8: Grice holds the view that speaker intend to be cooperative…

(a) When they talk

 (b) When they listen
(c) When they read
(d) All of these

9: who said, make your conversational contribution such as is required at the

stage at which it occurs…

(a) Aristotle
(b) Dale Renton
(c) Panel Grice
(d) Lewis Carroll

10: Grice said, make your conversational contribution as is required at the stage
at which it occurs, in……..

(a) 1869
(b) 1969
(c) 1875
(d) 1975

11: we cooperate with one another to achieve the……

(a) Mutual end of conversation

(b) Open end of conversation
(c) Close end conversation
(d) Beginning of conversation

12: Which one is not related to maxim by Grice

(a) Quality
(b) Quantity
(c) Implicature
(d) Manner

13: The maxim of quality informs about ….

(a) Relativity
(b) Quality
 (c) Quantity
(d) Manner

14: Do not say what you believe to be false, the maxim of

(a) Relativity
(b) Quality
(c) Quantity
(d) Manner

15: Do not say that which you lack adequate evidence, is the maxim of

(a) Manner
(b) Quantity
(c) Relevance
(d) Quality

16: The quantity of information is concerned with this maxim of

(a) Relativity
(b) Quality
(c) Quantity
(d) Manner

17: Make your contribution as informative as is required, this maxim is

(a) Relativity
(b) Quality
(c) Quantity
(d) Manner

18: What is your age?

I am 18 years old.

The example is from the maxim of

(a) Relativity
 (b) Quality
(c) Quantity
(d) Manner

19: The maxim of relevance is refers to

(a) Quality of information

(b) Relevant information
(c) Appropriate information
(d) Quantity of information

20: The maxim of relevance relate your point to……

(a) What is already talked about

(b) What will talk about
(c) Which topic is going on
(d) None of these

21: In which maxim there is no chance of ambiguity…

(a) Relativity
(b) Quality
(c) Quantity
(d) Manner

22: Which one is not from the maxim of the manner

(a) Avoid obscurity

(b) Be brief
(c) Be orderly
(d) Related to relevant topic

23: Infringing is the ……

(a) Violation
(b) Contribution
(c) Both
(d) None of these
24: Maxim may be violated as for example “White lies”, it is the

(a) Infringing maxim

(b) Relevance of maxim
(c) Implicature of maxim
(d) Manner of maxim

25: To confuse or to bore, is the maxim of ….

(a) Maxim of quantity

(b) Maxim of quality
(c) Maxim of manner
(d) Maxim of relevance

26: _______ is the origin of implicated meanings conveyed….

(a) Implicature
(b) Flouting
(c) Infringing
(d) None of these

27: in infringing the maxim “white lies”, is the maxim of…..

(a) Manner
(b) Quality
(c) Quantity
(d) Relevance

28: force of utterance is derived by the….

(a) Speaker
(b) Reader
(c) Hearer
(d) None of these

29: rational process of inference based on….

(a) Specific ideas

 (b) General assumption
(c) Particular assumption
(d) All of these

30: much of the contextual force of an utterance is derived by the hearer, said
by….

(a) Dale Renton

(b) Grice
(c) Aristotle
(d) Lewis Carroll

31: In Grice treatment we often talked in..

(a) Less literal

(b) Much more literal
(c) Reserve literal
(d) Short literal

32: Rational process of inference based on general assumptions in frame work

of….

(a) Cooperative speech

(b) Biased speech
(c) Neutral speech
(d) Uncooperative speech
 Subject: Psycholinguistic
MCQ’s lectures 16 to 20.

Lec No. 16

1. Second language deals with acquisitions of additional language in both :

a) Children and teenager
b) Male and female
c) Children and adults
d) Adults and old people
Correct Answer : children and adults
2.Pakistani students learning Chinese in Pakistan Is the example of :
a) Second language learning
b) Foreign language learning
c) First language learning
d) Third language learning
Correct Answer : foreign language learning
3.language acquisition Is the study of process through which human acquire :
a) Customs
b) Culture
c) Language
d) Ethics
Correct answer : language
4.Second language learning is a language spoken in the :
a) Outside community
b) Inside Community
c) Outside country
d) Inside Culture
Correct answer : out side community
5.Acquisition is a process of :
a) Conscious
b) Sub conscious
c) Unconscious
d) None
Correct Anwer: Subconscious
6. Learning based on :
a) Taught by teacher
b) Taught by parents
c) Taught by friends
d) Taught by itself
Correct answer :taught by teacher
7. Learning is a process of :
a) Conscious
b) Subconscious
c) Unconscious
d) All of these
Correct Answer : Conscious
8. Language learning requires a --------about the language then fluency :
a) Domain knowledge
b) Encoded knowledge
c) Formal knowledge
d) Non-formal knowledge
Correct Answer : formal knowledge
9.Which factor affect negative experience regarding language learning :
a) Embarrassment / unwilling
b) Lack of empathy
c) Dull textbook/ classroom environment
d) All of these
Correct Answer :all of these
10. Which factor include in second language acquisition :
a) Age
b) Learning style
c) Foreign language proficiency
d) Above A and B
Correct Answer : A and B
11.How Many stages of second language acquisition :
a) 2
b) 6
c) 8
d) 4
Correct Answer : 4
12. Choose the name of third stage of second language acquisition :
a) Intermediate
b) Advanced
c) Silent
d) Production
Correct Answer : Intermediate
13. Which stage is an active learning Stage :
a) Production
b) Silent
c) Intermediate
d) Advanced
Correct Answer : Silent

14. On which stage students produces language on a regular basis :

a) Intermediate
b) Silent
c) Production
d) Advanced
Correct Answer : Production
15.How many words students learn in second stage :
a) 1000 to 3000
b) 2000 to 4000
c) 3000 to 4000
d) 2000 to 3000
Correct Answer :1000 to 3000
16. In which stage student make frustration and grammatical error :
a) Advanced
b) Intermediate
c) Silent
d) Production
Correct Answer : Production
17. How approximately words students understand in intermediate stage :
a) 3000
b) 5000
c) 6000
d) 8000
Correct Answer : 6000
18. Inter-language produced by:
a) Second language
b) Foreign language
c) First language
d) Second and foreign language
Correct Answer : Second and foreign language
19.How fossilization produced :
a) When Inter-language stop
b) When Inter-language start
c) During Inter-language
d) None
Correct Answer : When Inter-language stops
20. In which process people use ladies word for a single lady :
a) Fossilization
b) Inter-language
c) Learning
d) Acquisition
Correct Answer: Fossilization

Lec No. 17
1.How many school of thought provide thoerical paradigms in language acquisition
:
a) 2
b) 3
c) 5
d) 6
Correct Answer : 3
2. Behaviorism introduced by:
a) Skinner
b) Chomsky
c) Kreshan
d) Richard
Correct Answer : Skinner
3.Chomsky theory name was :
a) Monitor theory
b) Behaviorism theory
c) Innatism theory
d) Nativism theory
Correct Answer : innatism theory
4. Behaviorism theory introduced in the era :
 a) 1940 to 1960
b) 1960 to 1970
c) 1930 to 1940
d) 1940 to 1950
Correct Answer : 1940 to 1950
5.F.B Skinner theory based on the research of :
a) Pavlov
b) Richard
c) Rodger
d) Chomsky
Correct Answer : Pavlov
6. Tabula Rasa mean :
a) A blank plate
b) A blank cup
c) A white slate
d) A blank slate
Correct Answer : A blank Slate
7.”Give me a child and I will give shape him to anything” Skinner said these lines
in:
a) News 1960
b) T. V show 1960
c) Drama 1960
d) T. V Interview 1960
Correct Answer: T. V Interview 1960
8. Language is a behavior defined as :
a) Set of customs
b) Set of emotions
c) Set of habits
d) None of these
Correct Answer : set of habits
9. Teaching should be done through :
a) Conditioning
b) Unconditioning
c) Natural
d) Artificial
Correct Answer : conditioning
10. According to B. F Skinner behaviorist theory lerning is the result of :
a) Imitation
b) Practice
c) Feedback on success
d) All of these
Correct Answer : All of these

11.Audio-lingual method is supported by :

a) Theory of Richard
b) Theory of Skinner
c) Theory of Kreshan
d) Theory of Chomsky
Correct Answer : theory of skinner
12.Chomsky theory of innatism is introduced in :
a) 1960
b) 1955
c) 1945
d) 1959
Correct Answer : 1959
13. Theory of Innatism is introduced by :
a) Skinner
b) J. B Watson
c) Chomsky
d) Rodger
Correct Answer : Chomsky
14. Which theory contradicted B. F Skinner theory :
a) Innatism theory
b) LAD theory
c) Monitor theory
d) Nativism theory
Correct Answer : LAD theory
15. Richard and Rodger said language is created and generative but not a habit in :
a) 2013
b) 1811
c) 1913
d) 2011
Correct Answer: 2011

16. Chomsky refuted the Audio-lingual method on the basis of :

a) Monitor theory
b) Innatism theory
c) Behaviorist theory
d) LAD theory
Correct Answer : behaviorist theory
17. How many hypothesis in Kreshan’s Theory:
a) 10
b) 6
c) 5
d) 3
Correct Answer :5
18. According to Kreshan how many independent system :
a) 2
b) 3
c) 5
 d) 1
Correct Answer : 2
19. The acquired system is the product of :
a) Conscious process
b) Unconscious process
c) Subconscious process
d) None of these
Correct Answer : Subconscious process
20. What is limited in SLA :
a) Oral learning
b) Conscious learning
c) Written learning
d) Above A And B
Correct Answer: conscious learning

21. How many conditions needed to use monitor :

a) 5
b) 3
c) 7
d) 4
Correct Answer : 3
22. What is independent of the learner’s age in which hypothesis :

a) The Moniter hypothesis

b) The input hypothesis
c) The natural order hypothesis
d) The acquisition learning hypothesis
Correct Answer : the natural order hypothesis
23. The input hypothesis is only concerned with :
 a) Learning
b) Acquisition
c) Acquisition and learning
d) None of these
Correct Answer Acquisition

Lec No. 18

1.Needed for education, employment and the other basic purposes :

a) First language
b) Second language
c) Foreign language
d) Third language
Correct Answer : second language
2.Additional language is called :
a) Second language
b) Foreign language
c) First language
d) Third language
Correct Answer : second language
3.Language is presented in class room enviroment :
a) Word by word
b) Step by step
c) Paragraph by paragraph
d) All of these
Correct Answer : step by step
4.In class room eenvironment there are :
a) Multiple Interlocutor
b) Single Interlocutor
c) Double Interlocutor
d) Above B and C
Correct Answer : Single Interlocater
5.Rules and Grammar are used in :
a) Learning
b) Acquisition
c) Learning and acquisition
d) None of these
Correct Answer : learning

6.Learning has :
a) Two functions
b) Three functions
c) One function
d) Four Function
Correct Answer : one function
7. Which condition is necessary for Moniter use :
a) Time
b) Focus on form / correctness
c) Know the rule
d) All of these
Correct Answer : All of these
8. Who do not use the Moniter :
a) Adults
b) Children
c) Old people
d) Teenagers
Correct Answer : Children
9. It is only in the--------- development that children do better :
a) Psychological
b) Biological
 c) Phonological
d) Morphological
Correct Answer : phonological
10. In the Affective filter hypothesis variable include:
a) Motivation
b) Self confidence
c) Anxiety
d) All of these
Correct Answer : All of these

Lec No. 19

1. “Foreign language learning is actually a life long commitment” these lines

said by:
a) Horvage 1996
b) Rubio 1996
c) Browning 1996
d) Tennyson 1996
Correct Answer : Horvage 1996
2. Anxiety experienced in the course of learning and foreign language is :
a) Specific
b) Unique
c) Normal
d) Above A and B
Correct Answer : above A and b
3. An anxiety is the enemy of language learning :
a) Bailey ET Al
b) Rubio
c) Horwitz At Al
d) Browning
Correct Answer : Rubio
 4. Speaking in the -----------------seems to be the most threathing aspect of
foreign language learning :
a) Second language
b) Target language
c) First language
d) Third language
Correct Answer : target language
5. An anxiety is the feeling of :
a) Tension
b) Apprehension
c) Nervousness And worry
d) All of these
Correct Answer : All of these
6. How many types of anxiety :
a) Four
b) Three
c) Five
d) Two
Correct Answer : two
7. Trait anxiety is related to :
a) Learner’s personality
b) Learner’s attitude
c) Learner’s dressing
d) Learner’s speaking style
Correct answer : learner’s personality
8. Which types of anxiety are introduced in Psycholinguistic :
a) Trait and state
b) Panic and state
c) Social and trait
d) Social and agrophobia
Correct Answer : trait and state
 9. State anxiety is :
a) Permanent
b) Temporary
c) Constant
d) Unstable
Correct Answer temporary
10.Most of the learner’s anxiety comes from :
a) Teacher concept
b) Fellow concept
c) Self concept
d) Family concept
Correct Answer : Self concept
11.Which skill is most important in foreign language that students percieve :
a) Listening skill
b) Speaking skill
c) Writing skill
d) Reading skill
Correct Answer : speaking skill
12.Learners are afraid to speak out loud in front of :
a) Class
b) Family
c) Friends
d) Native Speaker
Correct Answer : class
13.Which skill learner compare with peers, teacher and native Speaker :
a) Reading skill
b) Writing skill
c) Speaking skill
d) Listening skills
Correct Answer : Speaking
14.When student put down wrong answer in test anxiety :
a) In problem
 b) Over_confidence
c) Nervousness
d) Unsure
Correct Answer :Nervousness
15.Which anxiety is harmful anxiety :
a) Facilitative
b) Debilitative
c) Test
d) Communication
Correct Answer : Debilitative

16.Which anxiety is helpful anxiety :

a) Debilitative
b) Test
c) Communication
d) Facilitative
Correct Answer : Facilitative
17.Foreign language enjoyment scale is introduced by :
a) Bailey ET Al 2016
b) Horwitz At Al 2016
c) Dewaele and Maclntyre 2016
d) Rubio 2016
Correct Answer : Dewaele and Maclntyre 2016

Lec No. 20
 Who used general and specific anxiety terms to define anxiety?
A) Horwitz and Cope in 1996
B) Horwitz and Cope in 1976
C) Horwitz and Cope in 1981
 D) Horwitz and Cope in 1986
 When approaches to identify FLA were given by Horwitz and Cope?
A) 1991
B) 1981
C) 1986
D) 1976
 How many approaches were given by Horwitz and Cope?
A) Two
B) Three
C) Four
D) Five
 FLA achievement is correlated with FLA but not with any other type of
anxiety. Which approach is this?
A) Transfer approach
B) Unique approach
C) Both
D) None of these
 Transfer approach can be defined as?
A) Where FLA is correlated with other forms of anxiety?
B) Where FLA is correlated with FLA but not with other types of anxiety
C) Where FLA is not viewed as a manifestation of forms of anxiety
D) Where FLA is viewed as a manifestation of forms of anxiety
 Why students feel fear to perform in front of audience because sometimes?
A) Audience cheer up student
B) Audience don’t listen student
C) Audience reaction is not good
D) None of these
 Mental disturbance can be because of
A) Illness
B) Family problems
C) Low intelligence level
D) Both a and b
 Intra lingual factors result from contact of?
A) Two language system
B) More than two language system
 C) Only one language system
D) None of these
 Extra – lingual factors are believed to affect FLA more?
A) Extensively than lingual method
B) Intensively than lingual method
C) No more than lingual method
D) Not affect it at all
 Which one determinants of FLA result from learner personal characteristics,
their beliefs and attitudes within foreign language?
A) Inter lingual
B) Intra lingual
C) Inter personal
D) Intra personal
 Which statement is correct?
A) Intra - personal determinants are bound to inter personal interactions
during learning process
B) Inter personal determinants of FLA result from learner personal
characteristics
C) Inter personal determinants are bound to inter personal interactions
during learning process
D) Inter personal determinants are not bound to inter personal interactions
during learning process
 How one can cope with language anxiety?
A) Prepare assignments carelessly
B) Stay quite
C) Hide his anxiety
D) Learn to deal with fear
 Anxiety is the ------- for students performance in learning?
A) Most powerful and positive predictor
B) Less powerful and negative predictor
C) Most powerful and positive predictor
D) None of these
 What can help in reducing anxiety in language learning?
A) Building strict classroom environment
B) Setting realistic and achieve able goals
C) Building relaxing classroom environment
D) Both b and c
 Subject: ENGLISH POETRY
MCQ’s LECTURES 16 TO 20

LECTURE 16

The 'blithe spirit' is like a ____.

● Cloud of fire
● Cloud of water
● Cloud of snow
● Cloud of storm

In Shelley's poetry, rose empowered in its own ____ leaves.

● White
● Green
● Yellow
● Black

___ is Shelley's romantic ode.

● West Wind
● Liberty
● Skylark
● The Cloud

Shelley's romantic ode is sparked by___.

● Light
● Inspiration
● Love
● Hate

The themes discussed in skylark are____:

 ● Happiness
● Sadness
● Freedom
● All of above

'Skylark' ode is ___ insight.

● Romantic
● Philosophy
● a&b
● None

This poem illustrates Shelley's ___.

● Soaring idealism
● Intensity of thoughts
● Colouring & feeling
● All of above

Power of ___ is the theme of Shelley's poetry.

● Under dance
● Nature
● Hate
● Jealously

In skylark,there are also discussed the concepts of ____.

● Tyranny
● Atheism
● Revolution
● All of above are mentioned in this poem
 LECTURE 17
(1) When Robert Browning was born?
(a) 7 May 1812
(b) 8 Nov 1765
(c) 10 May 1855
Answer # A
(2) Which of the work Robert's that was most noted?
(a) Asalanda
(b) The Ring and the book
(c) None of these
Answer # B
(3) When Robert's was died?
(a) 15 Nov 1755
(b) 12 Sept 1661
(c) 12 Dec 1889
Answer # C
(4) Where Robert Browning was died?
(a) At Hospital
(b) At home
(c) At son's home
Answer # C
(5) Whom Robert browning was married?
(a) Elizabeth Berrett
(b) Christina Rossetti
(c) Latitia Elizabeth
Answer # A
(6) Who was the major English poet of the Victorian age?
(a) Robert Browning
(b) Alfred Tennyson
(c) Thomas Hardy
Answer # A
(7) Robert's writing style was?
(a) Complex and difficult
(b) Easy
(c) Both
Answer # A
(8) Browning Optimisim finds the passion of?
(a) Worry
(b) Joy
(c) None of these
Answer # B
(9)Browning is a thinker of_______ philosophy of life
(a) Passimistic
(b) Optimistic
(c) Both
Answer # B
(10) Optimisim in poetry is intensely charged with the purpose?
(a) Unethical
(b) Immoral
(c) Moral
Answer # C
(11) Which kind of the poet Robert was?
(a) Optimist
(c) Passimist
(c) Detracter
Answer # A

LECTURE 18
(1) Browning as a poet of religious and moral values evil is as permanent as
___?
(a) Good
(b) Bad
(c) Both
Answer # A
(2) Browning is a religious poet in the age of?
(a) Victorian
(b) Modern
(c) None of these
Answer # A
(3) According to Browning victorian women are lived?
(a) Freely
(b) Happily
(c) Miserably
Answer # C
(4) According to Browning victorian women are lack of?
(a) Beauty
(b) Happiness
(c) Love
Answer # C
(5) In victorian age women lived as?
(a) Daughter
(b) Slaves
(c) Princes
Answer # B
(6) Browning is a poet of?
(a) Religious
(b) Modern
(c) Realistic
Answer # A
(7) Browning wrote the poems about?
(a) Religion
(b) Religious
(c) None of these
Answer # A
(8) Browning profound believer of?
(a) God
(b) The son
(c) Both
Answer # A
(9) Browning belief in the divinity of?
(a) Jesus
(b) God
(c) The son
Answer # A
(10) Browning's poetry defends?
(a)Women
(b) Man
(c) Children
Answer # A
(11) Browning represent the idea that women lived in victorian era as?
(a) Princes
(b) Person
(c) None of these
Answer # B
(12) In Browning poetry the image of women is?
(a) Stereotypical
(b) Neology
(c)None of these
Answer # A
(13) In Browning poetry Sphere for women was?
(a) Same
(b) Seperate
(c) Various
Answer # B
(14) In victorian era women are?
(a) Oppressing
(b) Protect
(c) pressure
Answer # A
(15) In victorian age materialism is?
(a) Attractive
(b) Lovely
(c) Ugly
Answer # C
(16) In victorian era cruelty of man against?
(a) Women
(b) Children
(c) Both
Answer # A
(17) In victorian age man's authority and women's?
(a)Chance
(b) Binded
(c) Freedom
Answer # C
(18) In victorian age women approach have?
(a) Feminist
(b) Mesculinism
(c) prejudice
Answer # A
(19) In victorian age concept of female in _____ classes?
(a) One
(b) Three
(c) Various
Answer # C
(20) Browning as a religious poet postulate of the ____ life.
(a) Unethical
(b) Moral
(c) None of these
Answer # B
(21) Which characteristics ignore in victorian age?
(a) Moral
(b) Religious
(c) Racial
Answer # C
(22) Browning religious elements in the canvas of his most famous poems?
(a) Christmas _Eve
(b) Easter _Day
(c) Both
Answer #

LECTURE 19

1- “My last Duchess” is the poem by…

(a) Robert Browning
(b) Jhon Keats
(c) P.B Shelley
 (d) W. Wordsworth
2- In “my last Duchess” the ambiguous word is…
(a) My
(b) Last
(c) Duchess
(d) None of these
3- In “my last Duchess” the word last mean is…..
(a) Ex-wife
(b) Latest wife
(c) Someone who has passed away
(d) All of these
4- Duke of Ferrara’s palace was in …..
(a) Paris
(b) Italy
(c) England
(d) Japan
5- My last Duchess is a …..
(a) Ode
(b) Sonnet
(c) Dramatic monologue
(d) Lyrical balled

6- Who was the fictitious painter in the poem “My last Duchess”…..
(a) Fra Pandolf
(b) Duke
(c) Officious fool
(d) None of these
7- Duke is very ________ by nature….
(a) Obstinate
(b) Possessive
(c) Dramatic
(d) Serious
8- Who is the guest of duke?
(a) Brother in law
(b) Father in law
(c) Friend
(d) Cousin
9- When Browning wrote the poem “My last Duchess”?
(a) 1642
(b) 1742
(c) 1842
(d) 1942
10- Who was the Ferrara?
(a) Wife of king
(b) Wife of prince
(c) Wife of duke
(d) Daughter of Duke
11- The duke now wants to merry the _______ daughter….
(a) Officious fool
(b) Count’s
(c) Prince’s
(d) King’s

12- During the conversation and tour Duke reveals a portrait of his….
(a) Previous maid
(b) Previous wife
(c) Mother
(d) Daughter
13- Duke claimed that it is very _______ to made her happy…
(a) Hard
(b) Not possible
(c) Easy
(d) Polite
14- Duke claim that Duchess ______ everything…..
(a) Like
(b) Dislike
(c) Love
(d) Touch
15- ______ was ogling everyone who crossed her path…..
(a) Queen
 (b) Princess
(c) Duchess
(d) Servant
16- There was a brooch that duchess wore at her…..
(a) Neck
(b) Arm
(c) Chest
(d) Hair
17- Duke claimed that she would say the same word and gave the same
blush in the response to…..
(a) All of them
(b) Only her family
(c) Only her husband
(d) Special one

18- The Duke’s pedigree and social position was from the time of……
(a) 1000 year old
(b) 500 year old
(c) 100 year old
(d) 900 year old
19- According to duke duchess give ______ same smile as well…..
(a) No one
(b) Special one
(c) Husband
(d) Everyone
20- Duke explains, duchess began smiling at others even more, so he gave
orders and her smiles stopped….
(a) For a while
(b) For a month
(c) Forever
(d) For a year
21- Duke had Duchess _______.
(a) Killed
(b) Hanged
 (c) To imprisoned
(d) None of these
22- The Duchess lives on in a_______.
(a) Painting
(b) A small house
(c) Farm house
(d) Cottage
23- The duke ends his speech by demanding that he and _______
emissary go to downstairs together…
(a) Father
(b) Father in law
(c) Cousin
(d) Brother in law

24- The Duke directs the emissary’s attention to ________ at the end…..
(a) A statue of God Neptune
(b) A portrait of his wife
(c) A wall clock
(d) A big tree
25- The speaker tells the story is from_____.....
th
(a) 16 century
(b) 17th century
(c) 18th century
(d) 19th century
26- The name of artist is ________ who cast the statue of Neptune …..
(a) Claus of Innsbruk
(b) Rodin
(c) Donatello
(d) Michelangelo
27- We can analyze this poem as a……
(a) Dramatic monologue
(b) Abuse of power
(c) Silent listener
(d) All of these
 Lec No. 20

1- Which one option is not the theme from the poem “my last Duchess”….
(a) Power
(b) Art and culture
(c) Language and communication
(d) Immortality
2- Which one option is the theme of poem “ my last Duchess” …..
(a) Role of women in society
(b) Madness and jealousy
(c) Power
(d) All of these
3- A wealthy Duke of Ferrara is looking for…..
(a) A new maid
(b) A new wife
(c) A new daughter in law
(d) A new ground
4- Duke is trying to impress the messenger of his in laws by…….
(a) Showing off his connection
(b) Boasting of his collection of sculpture “Neptune”
(c) None of these
(d) Both a and b
5- “No just pretense/ of mine for dowry will be disallowed”. In this sentence
the duke is expressing ….
(a) His demand
(b) His anger
(c) His kind heart
(d) His courtesy
6- By uncurtaining the portrait and life of his duchess, he is hinting as to what
he…..
(a) Expect in next life
(b) Expect in next wife
(c) Expect in his officious fools
(d) None of these
7- She ranked/ Duke’s gifts with…..
 (a) No one’s gift
(b) Anybody’s gift
(c) Her mother’s gift
(d) Her father’s gift
8- She liked whatever, she was “ too soon made ………
(a) Glade
(b) Easily impressed
(c) Angry
(d) A and B
9- Why Duke was irritated from her harmless smile?
(a) Because her smile is for everyone
(b) Her smile was for her cousin
(c) Her smile was for her husband
(d) Her smile is not for him
10- What Duke was looking for in a wife?
(a) Love
(b) Absolute obedience
(c) Beauty
(d) All of these
11- What was the expectation of the Duke from his in laws?
(a) A heavy dowry and complete license to mistreat his daughter
(b) His wealth and property
(c) License to treat her daughter like his last Duchess
(d) He was not expected a heavy dowry from them

12- Duke has experience of previous..

(a) Relationship
(b) Knowledge
(c) Life
(d) Love affair
13- Duke has absolute command to_______ at his will………
(a) Kill
(b) Burn
(c) Make slave
 (d) Treat like servant
14- Insane jealousy and madness is in…..
(a) Duke
(b) Duchess
(c) Count
(d) King
15- The _______ are present in Duke’s behavior…
(a) mood switching
(b) mood swing
(c) mutual understanding
(d) appropriate attitude
16- Why patriarch are ready to throw their daughter in front of Duke as
his slave?
(a) Because they thought rich son in law may profit some
(b) Because they bother their daughters as a bad luck
(c) Because they were poor
(d) Because they want to connect to a noble family
17- Patriarch consider women as goods and chattel, and can exchange
them______...
(a) For the sake of his pleasure
(b) For the sake of his social name
(c) For the sake of money
(d) For the sake of fame

18- Dumb mute women are consider as …….

(a) Normal women
(b) Abnormal women
(c) Unusual women
(d) Disable women
19- It is social crime for women to have…..
(a) Diamond ring
(b) Voice
(c) Liberty
(d) All of these
20- Women without their individual identity consider as an_____.
(a) Object
(b) Safe
(c) Unsafe
(d) Unimportant
21- According to the poem “my last Duchess” women are ______ in the
hands of patriarch.
(a) Goods
(b) Chattel
(c) Puppets
(d) Objects
22- At that time the groom was decided by her…
(a) Own choice
(b) Brother
(c) Father
(d) Both b and c
23- According to “My last Duchess” husband is complete ________.
(a) Monarch
(b) Possessive
(c) Liberal
(d) Conservative
24- In this poem the voice of mother is…..
(a) Appear
(b) Missing
(c) More valuable then father
(d) Less valuable then father
25- It is ______ for girls to be “fair” in “My last Duchess”….
(a) Optional
(b) Unforced
(c) Voluntary
(d) Mandatory
26- Who was the artist who painted a portrait of my “My last Duchess”…
(a) Fra Pandolf
(b) Duke
(c) Officious fool
 (d) None of these
27- “My last Duchess is a ……
(a) Iconic dramatic monologue
(b) Lyrical ballad
(c) Epic
(d) Sonnet
28- Dramatic monologue of “My last Duchess” is written in
(a) Iambic pentameter
(b) Blank verse
(c) Free verse
(d) Stanza
29- In “My last Duchess” there is …….
(a) Quality of lyrical balled
(b) Quality of poem
(c) Dramatic quality
(d) All of these

30- “My last Duchess” remind us of……

(a) Shakespearian plays
(b) Oscar wild’s play
(c) Arthur Miller’s play
(d) Milton’s play