Approaches to Criticism

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

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

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

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

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

A) Peter Gabriel
B) Cleanth Brooks
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) His Mother
B) A policeman
C) Another driver
D) A priest
E) A zookeeper

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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) Audre Lorde, 'Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference' (1984)
C) Hélène Cixous, The Newly Born Woman (1975)
D) Brooklyn Beckham, ‘What I See’ (2017)
E) Roland Barthes, 'Myth Today' (1957)

11. How do you pronounce ‘Gramsci’?

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

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

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

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) Simone de Beauvoir
C) Roland Barthes
D) Jacques Derrida
E) Emma Watson

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

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

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

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

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 Oddessy
B) The Pyramid
C) The Panopticon
D) The Cyclops
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) Intervidual
C) Intersectional
D) Intestinal
E) International

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) Who has the right to be speaking?
D) What difference does it make who is speaking?
E) Where is the speaker who is speaking?

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

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

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

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

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) Love
D) Truth
E) Dissimulation

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

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

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