Approaches to Criticism

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. How do you pronounce ‘Gramsci’?

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

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

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

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) Judith Butler
C) Simone de Beauvoir
D) Jacques Derrida
E) Roland Barthes

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

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

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

A) Individualism
B) Orientalism
C) Drag
D) Pokémon
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 Cyclops
B) The Pyramid
C) The Panopticon
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) Intentional
B) International
C) Intersectional
D) Intervidual
E) Intestinal

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

A) Where is the speaker who is speaking?
B) What difference does it make who is speaking?
C) Is it the reader 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) cultural appropriation
B) media saturation
C) miseducation
D) stigmatisation
E) class war

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

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

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

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

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

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

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