English GUETA – Multiple Choice Questions – Dr. Kshipra Purani & Dr.

Kavita Patel

BA Sem – 5 (2017-18) English (Core) – 303

Literary Criticism

Multiple Choice Questions:

1. According to _______poetry is an art of imitation for a specific purpose: it imitates ‘to teach and delight’.
a. Sir Philip Sidney
b. John Dryden
c. Dr. Johnson
d. Alexander Pope

2. Apology for Poetry, published in 1595, is written by –

a. Ben Jonson
b. Sir Philip Sidney
c. John Dryden
d. Dr. Johnson

3. Stephen Gosson book “School of Abuse” was seen as vitriolic attack on

a. Drama
b. Prose
c. Poetry
d. Essay

4. Who echoes Plato, Aristotle and Horace in his critical utterances

a. Stephen Gosson
b. Sir Philip Sidney
c. John Dryden
d. Dr. Johnson

5. Who considered the unity of action as the important condition of a well-knit plot?
a. Plato
b. Aristotle
c. Horace
d. Longinus

6. Apology for Poesy or Defence of Poetry is not just a reply to Gosson, but indirectly to _______ as well.
a. Plato
b. Aristotle
c. Longinus
d. Horace

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7. Whose work is the first serious attempt of its kind to apply the classical rules to English poetry?
a. Dryden
b. Sidney
c. Wordsworth
d. Ben Jonson

8. According to whom unrhymed classical metres are more suitable for music..
a. Sidney
b. Dryden
c. Dr. Johnson
d. Wordsworth
9. The Ballad of Chevy Chase by _______ moved Philip Sidney to a great extent.
a. Geoffrey Chaucer
b. Percy and Douglas
c. Thomas Sackville
d. Thomas Norton
10. According to Sidney, the oldest branch of learning is _____________.
a. History
b. Philosophy
c. Poetry
d. Rhetoric

11. Who upholds Aristotle’s definition of poetry as a process of imitation?

a. Sidney
b. John Dryden
c. Dr. Johnson
d. Ben Jonson
12. Who characterized Dryden as “the father of English Criticism”.
a. Eliot
b. Matthew Arnold
c. Dr. Johnson
d. T. S. Eliot
13. The “Essay of Dramatic Poesy” is in
a. Dialogue form
b. Poetry form
c. Prose form
d. Narrative form
14. Dryden’s remarks on tragedy are mainly contained in the Preface to
a. Troilus and Cressida
b. All For Love
c. The Indian Emperor
d. None of the above

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15. Which ‘preface’ is accepted as the manifesto of the Romantic Movement?

a. Preface, 1797
b. Preface, 1800
c. Preface, 1802
d. None of the above
16. Who attacked the neo-classical concepts of poetic diction and judgment of poetry?
a. Dr. Johnson
b. Wordsworth
c. Coleridge
d. John Dryden

17. By ‘Spontaneous’ Wordsworth means—

a. ‘Unforced’ not ‘sudden’
b. ‘forced’ and ‘sudden’
c. ‘unforced’ but ‘sudden’
d. ‘forced’ and ‘not sudden’

18. Who said that “I write in metre, because I am about to use a language different from that of prose”.
a. Wordsworth
b. Coleridge
c. Dyrden
d. Pope

19. The function of a critic , according to Coleridge is

a. To interpret and judge
b. To appreciate and interpret
c. To judge and evaluate
d. None of the above
20. Dryden was named as “the father of English Criticism” by
a. T.S. Eliot
b. Matthew Arnold
c. Dr. Johnson
d. Pope
21. Who pleads the case for the Ancients in Dryden’s “Essay of Dramatic Poesy”
a. Eugenius
b. Crites
c. Neander
d. Lisideius
22. Who wrote the Preface to the Plays of Shakespeare?
a. Dryden
b. Dr. Johnson
c. Coleridge
d. Matthew Arnold
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23. Which work of Dr. Johnson is a biographical-cum-critical account of fifty-two poets?

a. Rambler
b. Lives of the Poets
c. Rasselas
d. None of the above
24. Who said that the language of poetry should be “a selection of language really used by men”?
a. Arnold
b. Wordsworth
c. Coleridge
d. John Dryden
25. According defined poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, recollected in tranquility”.
a. Dryden
b. Coleridge
c. Wordsworth
d. Dr. Johnson
26. The first English critic to base his literary criticism on philosophical principles and who owed his interest in
the question of imagination was
a. Wordsworth
b. Coleridge
c. Matthew Arnold
d. T.S.Eliot
27. Coleridge's theory of the imagination modifies the traditional, particularly the _________, view of art as a
mere imitation.
a. Romantic
b. Classical
c. Neo-classical
d. None of the above
28. ____________ differs from all the previous English critics by his psychological approach to literary
problems.
a. Wordsworth
b. John Dryden
c. Coleridge
d. Dr. Johnson
29. Who advocated ‘formalism’?
a. Andre Breton
b. Roman Jakobson
c. T. E. Hulme
d. F.R. Leavis
30. It is a European phenomenon, a more worldly and thus more secular philosophy
a. Imagism
b. Surrealism
c. Humanism
d. Naturalism
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31. The term __________is often applied to the literature and art after World War II.
a. Realism
b. Modernism
c. Postmodernism
d. Post-colonialism

32. ____________has become the common label bringing together the many literatures in English from
Africa, Australia, Canada, India, Singapore and the West Indies.
a. Post-Colonial
b. Postmodern
c. Post structuralism
d. None of the above
33. ___________________, a notable proponent of humanism in the Victorian Period, strongly defended the
central role of humane studies in general education.
a. John Ruskin
b. Matthew Arnold
c. Alfred Tennyson
d. Robert Browning
34. ___________ is a type of literary theory and analysis which originated in Moscow and St. Petersburg in
the second decade of the twentieth century.
a. Humanism
b. Formalism
c. Post modernism
d. Post colonialism
35. ___________ views literature primarily as a specialized use of language, and proposes a fundamental
opposition between the literary [or poetical] use of language and the ordinary, “practical” use of
language.
a. Stream of Consciousness
b. Humanism
c. Formalism
d. Post modernism
36. Stream of Consciousness was a phrase used by ________ in his Principles of Psychology in 1890 to
describe the unbroken flow of perceptions in the waking mind.
a. William James
b. James Joyce
c. Virginia Woolf
d. Dorothy Richardson

37. Lord Brahma requested sage ___________ to compose Natyashashtra.

a) Durvasa
b) Atreya
c) Vashishtha
d) Bharata
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38. The Natyashashtra was created by taking some important elements from the _________.
a) Vedas
b) Ramayana
C) Mahabharata
d) Purana

39. In the composition of the Natyashashtra, abhinaya or the art of acting was borrowed from
______________.
a) Rigveda
b) Samveda
c) Yajurveda
d) Atharvaveda

40. Which of the following art forms is not included in the Natyashashtra?
a) drama
b) music
c) dance
d) painting

41. The concept of rasa is discussed in the ________ chapter of the Natyashashtra.
a) Sixth
b) first
c) twelfth
d) tenth

42. The term vibhava stands for ____________.

a) emotion
b) cause
c) response
d) none of the above

43. There are ________ sthayi bhavas enunciated in the Natyashashtra.

a) ten
b) five
C) eight
d) twelve

44. The sthayi bhava of rati produces ___________ rasa.

a) shringara
b) bhayanaka
C) vira
d) adbhuta

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45. According to the Natyashashtra, there are _______________ vyabhichari bhavas.

a) 10
b) 44
c) 15
d) 33

46. Which one of the following is not a part of abhinaya or histrionic representations?
a) angik
b) jadata
c) vachik
d) sattvik

47. Which of the following is not a basic or source rasa?

a) Shringara
b) karuna
c) vira
d) raudra

48 The synonyms of the term vibhava are ___________.

a) karana
b) nimitta
c) hetu
d) all of the above

49. According to Bharata, sthayi bhavas are like __________.

a) kings
b) servants
c) soldiers
d) businessmen

50. Anubhava consists of _____________.

a) words
b) gestures
c) facial expressions
d) all of the above

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