Structuralist Literary Approach

1. When and where a story takes place

A. character
B. climax
C. exposition
D. setting
ANSWER:D

2. What’s happening, the how and the why of a story

A. character
B. climax
C. plot
D. problem
ANSWER: C

3. Who or what a story is about

A. character
B. climax
C. exposition
D. setting
ANSWER: A

4. Topic or subject of a story

A. exposition
B. main idea
C. plot
D. problem
ANSWER: B

5. The overall difficulty that the main character(s) face

A. character
B. climax
C. conflict
D. Conclusion
ANSWER: C
6. This is the turning point of a story, just before the falling action
A. character
B. climax
C. conflict
D. Conclusion
ANSWER: B

7. Can be summed up in one or 2 sentences and contains the most important information
in a piece
A. conflict
B. main idea
C. theme
D. point of view
ANSWER: C

8. Beginning of the story; characters, background, and setting are revealed.

A. exposition
B. main idea
C. plot
D. problem
ANSWER: A

9. The angle from which the story is told.

A. conflict
B. main idea
C. theme
D. point of view
ANSWER:D

10. What literary approach analyses the material by examining underlying structures,
such as characterization or plot, and attempted to show how these patterns could be
used to develop general conclusions?
A. feminist
B. formalist
C. Marxist
D. structuralist
ANSWER:D