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  • 1. Which of These is a Text by Marx and Engels?
A) The German Ideology
B) The Pursuit of Happiness
C) The Consumerist Manifesto
D) Monkey Business
E) Das Kapitalism
  • 2. Fill in the blank: "Ideology represents the ______________of individuals to their real conditions of existence"
A) Responsibility
B) Response
C) Imaginary Relation
D) Material Connection
E) Economic Relation
  • 3. Which of these is regarded as a Formalist Critic?
A) Titi Camara
B) Cleanth Brooks
C) Peter Gabriel
D) bell hooks
E) Norman Greenbaum
  • 4. In Althusser’s account of interpellation in ‘Ideology and The ideological State apparatuses’, who ‘hails’ the subject in Althusser’s example?
A) A zookeeper
B) A priest
C) Another driver
D) A policeman
E) His Mother
  • 5. With which famous term does Derrida convey the process and instability of meaning?
A) Dilletanté
B) Différance
C) Déviance
D) Defféral
E) Divérgence
  • 6. With which Other Existentialist Philosopher is Simone de Beauvoir Most closely associated?
A) Roland Barthes
B) Maurice Merleau-Ponty
C) Jean-Paul Sartre
D) Martin Heidegger
E) Søren Kierkegaard
  • 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) Ideological State Apparatus
B) Pantopticon
C) Deception
D) Discourse
E) Instagram
  • 8. What is the title of Judith Butler’s influential text on performativity?
A) Gender Bender
B) Double Trouble
C) Ginger Beer
D) The Drag Act
E) Gender Trouble
  • 9. From which Philosopher did Marxism adapt the Method of Dialectical Materialism?
A) Ludwig von Feuerbach
B) Fredrich Nietzsche
C) G W F Hegel
D) Martin Heidegger
E) Michael Bublé
  • 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) Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic (1979)
B) Brooklyn Beckham, ‘What I See’ (2017)
C) Audre Lorde, 'Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference' (1984)
D) Hélène Cixous, The Newly Born Woman (1975)
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) The means of production understood in terms of their ownership
B) Revolutionary theories of leadership emerging from Marxist thinking
C) Leadership or dominance, especially by one state or social group over others
D) Topiary Costs and their division amongst social classes
E) The physical coercion of the population by a ruling class
  • 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) Emma Watson
B) Simone de Beauvoir
C) Judith Butler
D) Jacques Derrida
E) Roland Barthes
  • 14. Ferdinand de Saussure is chiefly famous as the founding father of…
A) Post-Structualisam
B) Sociology
C) Semiotics
D) Semiology
E) Structuralism
  • 15. Which cultural phenomenon did Judith Butler bring into prominence in her exploration of gender performativity?
A) Pokémon
B) Drag
C) Individualism
D) Orientalism
E) The British Dream
  • 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 Pyramid
B) The Panopticon
C) The Cyclops
D) The Oddessy
E) The Network
  • 17. What term denotes an approach to political or social reform that emphasises many forms of identity at once?
A) Intervidual
B) International
C) Intentional
D) Intersectional
E) Intestinal
  • 18. With which question does Foucault end his essay ‘What is an Author’?
A) Where is the speaker who is speaking?
B) Is it the reader who is speaking?
C) What difference does it make who is speaking?
D) What difference does it make what he is thinking?
E) Who has the right to be speaking?
  • 19. What concept does Owen Jones make central to his account in 'Chavs'
A) class war
B) stigmatisation
C) cultural appropriation
D) miseducation
E) media saturation
  • 20. What example does Barthes use as a cultural myth in action in 'Myth Today'
A) Flags signifying loyalty
B) Lions signifying ferocity
C) Fish signifying freedom
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) Error
B) Truth
C) Love
D) Dissimulation
E) Power
  • 22. Which of these terms might describe Donald Trump's political methods?
A) Egalitarianism
B) Popularism
C) Maoism
D) Consequentialism
E) Tangerinery
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