Approaches to Criticism

Approaches to Criticism - Quiz

1. Which of These is a Text by Marx and Engels?

A) The German Ideology
B) Das Kapitalism
C) Monkey Business
D) The Consumerist Manifesto
E) The Pursuit of Happiness

2. Fill in the blank: "Ideology represents the ______________of individuals to their real conditions of existence"

A) Economic Relation
B) Material Connection
C) Response
D) Responsibility
E) Imaginary Relation

3. Which of these is regarded as a Formalist Critic?

A) Cleanth Brooks
B) Titi Camara
C) bell hooks
D) Norman Greenbaum
E) Peter Gabriel

4. In Althusser’s account of interpellation in ‘Ideology and The ideological State apparatuses’, who ‘hails’ the subject in Althusser’s example?

A) A policeman
B) A priest
C) Another driver
D) His Mother
E) A zookeeper

5. With which famous term does Derrida convey the process and instability of meaning?

A) Defféral
B) Déviance
C) Différance
D) Divérgence
E) Dilletanté

6. With which Other Existentialist Philosopher is Simone de Beauvoir Most closely associated?

A) Maurice Merleau-Ponty
B) Roland Barthes
C) Jean-Paul Sartre
D) Søren Kierkegaard
E) Martin Heidegger

7. The way in which a particular society comes to know and to order the world, Foucault argues, is bound up with the way in which power is exercised within that society. What term captures this idea?

A) Deception
B) Pantopticon
C) Ideological State Apparatus
D) Instagram
E) Discourse

8. What is the title of Judith Butler’s influential text on performativity?

A) Gender Bender
B) Gender Trouble
C) The Drag Act
D) Ginger Beer
E) Double Trouble

9. From which Philosopher did Marxism adapt the Method of Dialectical Materialism?

A) Ludwig von Feuerbach
B) Michael Bublé
C) Fredrich Nietzsche
D) G W F Hegel
E) Martin Heidegger

10. From which text is this a quotation: “Man’s dream is the face of death. Which always threatens him differently than it threatens woman.”

A) Hélène Cixous, The Newly Born Woman (1975)
B) Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic (1979)
C) Audre Lorde, 'Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference' (1984)
D) Brooklyn Beckham, ‘What I See’ (2017)
E) Roland Barthes, 'Myth Today' (1957)

11. How do you pronounce ‘Gramsci’?

A) Gram-shi
B) Glam-si
C) Gram-ski
D) Gram-ki
E) Gran-chi

12. Which of these is a definition of ‘Hegemony’

A) Topiary Costs and their division amongst social classes
B) Leadership or dominance, especially by one state or social group over others
C) The means of production understood in terms of their ownership
D) The physical coercion of the population by a ruling class
E) Revolutionary theories of leadership emerging from Marxist thinking

13. Who said: “If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by what we are, we can all be freer.”

A) Judith Butler
B) Emma Watson
C) Roland Barthes
D) Jacques Derrida
E) Simone de Beauvoir

14. Ferdinand de Saussure is chiefly famous as the founding father of…

A) Post-Structualisam
B) Semiology
C) Sociology
D) Structuralism
E) Semiotics

15. Which cultural phenomenon did Judith Butler bring into prominence in her exploration of gender performativity?

A) Orientalism
B) The British Dream
C) Pokémon
D) Individualism
E) Drag

16. What is the name of ideal prison, designed by Jeremy Bentham, That Foucault uses to illustrate the development of the Carceral Society?

A) The Network
B) The Oddessy
C) The Cyclops
D) The Panopticon
E) The Pyramid

17. What term denotes an approach to political or social reform that emphasises many forms of identity at once?

A) Intentional
B) International
C) Intervidual
D) Intersectional
E) Intestinal

18. With which question does Foucault end his essay ‘What is an Author’?

A) Is it the reader who is speaking?
B) What difference does it make what he is thinking?
C) What difference does it make who is speaking?
D) Where is the speaker who is speaking?
E) Who has the right to be speaking?

19. What concept does Owen Jones make central to his account in 'Chavs'

A) cultural appropriation
B) media saturation
C) miseducation
D) class war
E) stigmatisation

20. What example does Barthes use as a cultural myth in action in 'Myth Today'

A) Fish signifying freedom
B) Lions signifying ferocity
C) Flags signifying loyalty
D) Roses signifying passion
E) Wrestlers signifying strength

21. According to Nietzsche, "The intellect as a means of the preservation of the individual, develops its chief power in ________"

A) Love
B) Power
C) Error
D) Truth
E) Dissimulation

22. Which of these terms might describe Donald Trump's political methods?

A) Consequentialism
B) Popularism
C) Tangerinery
D) Egalitarianism
E) Maoism

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