MCQ for Literary Theory:

1.Who is associated with the term Deconstruction?

A. Foucault

B. Jacques Lacan

C. Jacques Derrida

D. Ferdinand Saussure

2.Derrida coined the term -------to identify the privileging of masculine gender in
the construction of meaning?

A. Phallocentrism

B. Logocentrism

C. Phonocentrism

D. Phallagocentrism

3.In Freudian psychoanalysis, what is termed as the primitive and instinctual part
of the mind

A. Id

B. Ego

C. Superego

D. None of the above

4.who coined the term 'narratology'?

A. Tzvetan Todorov
B. Jan Mukarovsky

C. Eve Kosofsky

D. Leo Tolstoy

5.Who among the following is regarded as the ‘Father of Modern Linguistics and
Semiotics’?

A. Derrida

B. Saussure

C. IA Richards

D. FR Leavis

6.A foundational theoretical text in Marxism, Das Kapital (1867) was authored by
----?

A. Lenin

B. Karl Marx

C. Friedrich Engels

D. Stuart Hal

7.Who coined the term 'cultural materialism'?

A. Stephen Greenblatt

B. Raymond Williams

C. Louis Montrose

D. None of the above

8.Which of Woolf’s essay demanded women to get a single room to contemplate
and produce

artistic creations

A. Jacob’s Room

B. A Room of One’s Own

C. Madwoman in the Attic

D. In a Room

9.Which is the term adopted by postcolonial critics as an alternative to 'otherness'?

A. Hybridity

B. Alterity

C. Connectivity

D. Activity