KALYANI VALLATH’S QUIZZES ON

LITERARY THEORY
 The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies is a
1925 essay by a French sociologist discussed by J. Hillis Miller in
"The Critic as Host". Here the sociologist talks about the practice of
giving and receiving food as gift. Who is the sociologist?

A. Louis Chauvel

B. Robert Castel

C. Marcel Mauss

D. Bruno Latour

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 The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies is a
1925 essay by a French sociologist discussed by J. Hillis Miller in
"The Critic as Host". Here the sociologist talks about the practice of
giving and receiving food as gift. Who is the sociologist?

ANS: MARCEL MAUSS

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 "This passage quotes a ‘certain Chinese encyclopaedia’ in
which it is written that ‘animals are divided into: (a) belonging
to the Emperor, (b) embalmed, (c) tame, (d) suckling pigs, (e)
sirens, (f) fabulous, (g) stray dogs……”
This is an excerpt from _____

A. Of Grammatology

B. The Order of Things

C. Mythologies

D. The Structural Study of Myth

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 "This passage quotes a ‘certain Chinese encyclopaedia’ in
which it is written that ‘animals are divided into: (a) belonging
to the Emperor, (b) embalmed, (c) tame, (d) suckling pigs, (e)
sirens, (f) fabulous, (g) stray dogs……”
This is an excerpt from _____

ANS: THE ORDER OF THINGS

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 "Before explaining his solution, Dupin launches into a long spiel about
mathematics and the nature of reasoning. In particular, he criticizes
the Prefect for attacking the problem along purely mathematical
angles, when the thief in question is both mathematician and poet."

This excerpt is from which story analyzed by Lacan?

A. The Purloined Letter

B. The Oval Portrait

C. The Pit and the Pendulum

D. The Tell-Tale Heart

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 "Before explaining his solution, Dupin launches into a long spiel about
mathematics and the nature of reasoning. In particular, he criticizes
the Prefect for attacking the problem along purely mathematical
angles, when the thief in question is both mathematician and poet."

This excerpt is from which story analyzed by Lacan?

ANS:
THE PURLOINED LETTER

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 Viktor Shklovsky discussed the short story "Shame" which
"defamiliarizes" the idea of flogging in this way: "to strip people
who have broken the law, to hurl them to the floor, and "to rap
on their bottoms with switches," and, after a few lines, "to lash
about on the naked buttocks.” Who is the author of Shame?

A. Marcel Proust

B. Jean Paul Sartre

C. Fyodor Dostoevsky

D. Leo Tolstoy

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 Viktor Shklovsky discussed the short story "Shame" which
"defamiliarizes" the idea of flogging in this way: "to strip people
who have broken the law, to hurl them to the floor, and "to rap
on their bottoms with switches," and, after a few lines, "to lash
about on the naked buttocks.” Who is the author of Shame?

ANS: LEO TOLSTOY

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 Which of the following critics employed Orphic dismemberment
and regeneration as a metaphor for the radical crisis in art and
language, culture and consciousness in postmodernism?

A. Aijaz Ahmed

B. Ihab Hassan

C. Tejaswini Niranjana

D. Susie Tharu

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 Which of the following critics employed Orphic
dismemberment and regeneration as a metaphor for the
radical crisis in art and language, culture and consciousness?

ANS: IHAB HASSAN

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 This is a philosophical term used to describe the relations and
connectivity of things, developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix
Guattari in their Capitalism and Schizophrenia project. The
term refers to a relation that spreads with no direction, no
beginning, and no end. Identify this term.

A. Dandelion

B. Tuber

C. Rhizome

D. Parasite

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 This is a philosophical term used to describe the relations and
connectivity of things, developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix
Guattari in their Capitalism and Schizophrenia project. The
term refers to a relation that spreads with no direction, no
beginning, and no end. Identify this term.

ANS: RHIZOME

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 Jean Baudrillard wrote an article titled "The Gulf War did not
take place". This is a reference to the play The Trojan War
Will Not Take Place by ___________

A. Jean Anouilh

B. Jean Paul Sartre

C. Jean Giraudoux

D. Antonin Artaud

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 Jean Baudrillard wrote an article titled "The Gulf War did not
take place". This is a reference to the play The Trojan War
Will Not Take Place by ___________

ANS: JEAN GIRAUDOUX

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 Which of the following is NOT a feature of Culture industry as
envisaged by Adorno and Horkheimer?

A. Consumption and easy pleasures

B. Autonomous thinking and criticism

C. Repetition and standardisation

D. Mass production and commodification

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 Which of the following is NOT a feature of Culture industry as
envisaged by Adorno and Horkheimer?

ANS: AUTONOMOUS
THINKING AND CRITICISM

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 Which of the following is NOT part of the
Derridean concept of text?

A. The text is not restricted by margins.

B. A text spills over its boundaries.

C. Every text carries traces of other texts.

D. The centre of a text is made of the

margins.

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 Which of the following is NOT part of the
Derridean concept of text?

ANS: THE CENTRE OF A TEXT

IS MADE OF THE MARGINS

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 Which of the following is not the objective of Orientalism?

A. The East is always contrasted negatively

with Europe.

B. It justified the colonial project.

C. It presented the Orient as having changed

considerably down the ages.

D. It created a racialized view of cultures.

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 Which of the following is not the objective of Orientalism?

ANS: IT PRESENTED THE

ORIENT AS HAVING
CHANGED CONSIDERABLY
DOWN THE AGES

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 The concept of __________ is discernible in the spread of
Western education, religion and use of Western languages by
non-Europeans.

A. Mimicry

B. Ambivalence

C. Subaltern

D. Worlding

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 The concept of __________ is discernible in the spread of
Western education, religion and use of Western languages by
non-Europeans.

ANS: MIMICRY

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 Scopophilia is a concept discussed by _______

A. Julia Kristeva

B. Helene Cixous

C. Toril Moi

D. Laura Mulvey

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 Scopophilia is a concept discussed by _______

ANS: LAURA MULVEY

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 The concept of overdetermination has been discussed by
_______ and ________

A. Lacan and Althusser

B. Lacan and Adorno

C. Lacan and Eagleton

D. Freud and Althusser

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 The concept of overdetermination has been discussed by
_______ and ________

ANS: FREUD AND

ALTHUSSER

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 Selective Tradition denotes how a canon of culture is
constructed in the present by processes of active selection
from the past. This term was coined by __________

A. Fredric Jameson

B. Raymond Williams

C. Michel Foucault

D. Stuart Hall

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 Selective Tradition denotes how a canon of culture is
constructed in the present by processes of active selection
from the past. This term was coined by __________

ANS: RAYMOND WILLIAMS

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 Phenotext is the conscious, structural elements of a text aiming
at communication, and Genotext is the textual articulation of
the unconscious. Who propounded these terms?

A. Roland Barthes

B. Mikhail Bakhtin

C. Julia Kristeva

D. Michel Foucault

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 Phenotext is the conscious, structural elements of a text aiming
at communication, and Genotext is the textual articulation of
the unconscious. Who propounded these terms?

ANS: JULIA KRISTEVA

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 The concept of aesthetic distance was propounded by
_______

A. Stanley Fish

B. Wayne Booth

C. Wolfgang Iser

D. Hans Robert Jauss

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 The concept of aesthetic distance was propounded by
_______

ANS: HANS
ROBERT JAUSS

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 The concept of Homosociality was developed in the book
Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire.
Who is the author?

A. Ann Kaplan

B. Angela McRobbie

C. Janice Radway

D. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

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 The concept of Homosociality was developed in the book
Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire.
Who is the author?

ANS: EVE KOSOFSKY

SEDGWICK

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