Approaches to Criticism

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A) Jean-Paul Sartre
B) Roland Barthes
C) Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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) Discourse
D) Instagram
E) Deception

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

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

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

A) Michael Bublé
B) G W F Hegel
C) Martin Heidegger
D) Fredrich Nietzsche
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) Roland Barthes, 'Myth Today' (1957)
C) Audre Lorde, 'Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference' (1984)
D) Hélène Cixous, The Newly Born Woman (1975)
E) Brooklyn Beckham, ‘What I See’ (2017)

11. How do you pronounce ‘Gramsci’?

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

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

A) Revolutionary theories of leadership emerging from Marxist thinking
B) The means of production understood in terms of their ownership
C) Topiary Costs and their division amongst social classes
D) Leadership or dominance, especially by one state or social group over others
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) Jacques Derrida
D) Judith Butler
E) Roland Barthes

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

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

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

A) The British Dream
B) Orientalism
C) Individualism
D) Pokémon
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 Panopticon
C) The Oddessy
D) The Cyclops
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) Intersectional
C) International
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 what he is thinking?
C) Who has the right to be speaking?
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) miseducation
B) media saturation
C) stigmatisation
D) cultural appropriation
E) class war

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

A) Flags signifying loyalty
B) Lions signifying ferocity
C) Wrestlers signifying strength
D) Fish signifying freedom
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) Dissimulation
B) Truth
C) Error
D) Power
E) Love

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

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

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