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