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Approaches to Criticism
Contributed by: Rose
  • 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) Titi Camara
C) bell hooks
D) Norman Greenbaum
E) Peter Gabriel
  • 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) A priest
C) His Mother
D) A zookeeper
E) A policeman
  • 5. With which famous term does Derrida convey the process and instability of meaning?
A) Dilletanté
B) Defféral
C) Divérgence
D) Déviance
E) Différance
  • 6. With which Other Existentialist Philosopher is Simone de Beauvoir Most closely associated?
A) Søren Kierkegaard
B) Martin Heidegger
C) Maurice Merleau-Ponty
D) Jean-Paul Sartre
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) Deception
C) Discourse
D) Instagram
E) Ideological State Apparatus
  • 8. What is the title of Judith Butler’s influential text on performativity?
A) Ginger Beer
B) Gender Trouble
C) Gender Bender
D) The Drag Act
E) Double Trouble
  • 9. From which Philosopher did Marxism adapt the Method of Dialectical Materialism?
A) G W F Hegel
B) Michael Bublé
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) Brooklyn Beckham, ‘What I See’ (2017)
B) Audre Lorde, 'Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference' (1984)
C) Hélène Cixous, The Newly Born Woman (1975)
D) Roland Barthes, 'Myth Today' (1957)
E) Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic (1979)
  • 11. How do you pronounce ‘Gramsci’?
A) Gran-chi
B) Gram-ski
C) Gram-ki
D) Glam-si
E) Gram-shi
  • 12. Which of these is a definition of ‘Hegemony’
A) Topiary Costs and their division amongst social classes
B) The physical coercion of the population by a ruling class
C) Revolutionary theories of leadership emerging from Marxist thinking
D) Leadership or dominance, especially by one state or social group over others
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) Emma Watson
B) Roland Barthes
C) Jacques Derrida
D) Judith Butler
E) Simone de Beauvoir
  • 14. Ferdinand de Saussure is chiefly famous as the founding father of…
A) Structuralism
B) Semiology
C) Post-Structualisam
D) Sociology
E) Semiotics
  • 15. Which cultural phenomenon did Judith Butler bring into prominence in her exploration of gender performativity?
A) Drag
B) Individualism
C) Pokémon
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 Network
C) The Cyclops
D) The Panopticon
E) The Oddessy
  • 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) Intersectional
E) Intervidual
  • 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) Is it the reader who is speaking?
D) What difference does it make who is speaking?
E) What difference does it make what he is thinking?
  • 19. What concept does Owen Jones make central to his account in 'Chavs'
A) class war
B) stigmatisation
C) miseducation
D) cultural appropriation
E) media saturation
  • 20. What example does Barthes use as a cultural myth in action in 'Myth Today'
A) Roses signifying passion
B) Flags signifying loyalty
C) Fish signifying freedom
D) Lions signifying ferocity
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) Dissimulation
B) Error
C) Power
D) Truth
E) Love
  • 22. Which of these terms might describe Donald Trump's political methods?
A) Egalitarianism
B) Consequentialism
C) Maoism
D) Popularism
E) Tangerinery
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