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Approaches to Criticism
Contributed by: Rose
  • 1. Which of These is a Text by Marx and Engels?
A) Das Kapitalism
B) Monkey Business
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) Economic Relation
B) Material Connection
C) Responsibility
D) Response
E) Imaginary Relation
  • 3. Which of these is regarded as a Formalist Critic?
A) Peter Gabriel
B) Titi Camara
C) bell hooks
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) Another driver
B) A policeman
C) His Mother
D) A priest
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) Martin Heidegger
C) Jean-Paul Sartre
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) Ideological State Apparatus
C) Discourse
D) Deception
E) Instagram
  • 8. What is the title of Judith Butler’s influential text on performativity?
A) Gender Trouble
B) Double Trouble
C) The Drag Act
D) Gender Bender
E) Ginger Beer
  • 9. From which Philosopher did Marxism adapt the Method of Dialectical Materialism?
A) Ludwig von Feuerbach
B) Fredrich Nietzsche
C) Martin Heidegger
D) G W F Hegel
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) Roland Barthes, 'Myth Today' (1957)
E) Brooklyn Beckham, ‘What I See’ (2017)
  • 11. How do you pronounce ‘Gramsci’?
A) Gram-ki
B) Gran-chi
C) Glam-si
D) Gram-shi
E) Gram-ski
  • 12. Which of these is a definition of ‘Hegemony’
A) Revolutionary theories of leadership emerging from Marxist thinking
B) The physical coercion of the population by a ruling class
C) The means of production understood in terms of their ownership
D) Leadership or dominance, especially by one state or social group over others
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) Simone de Beauvoir
B) Judith Butler
C) Jacques Derrida
D) Emma Watson
E) Roland Barthes
  • 14. Ferdinand de Saussure is chiefly famous as the founding father of…
A) Semiotics
B) Semiology
C) Sociology
D) Post-Structualisam
E) Structuralism
  • 15. Which cultural phenomenon did Judith Butler bring into prominence in her exploration of gender performativity?
A) Individualism
B) The British Dream
C) Pokémon
D) Drag
E) Orientalism
  • 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 Oddessy
C) The Pyramid
D) The Panopticon
E) The Cyclops
  • 17. What term denotes an approach to political or social reform that emphasises many forms of identity at once?
A) International
B) Intersectional
C) Intentional
D) Intervidual
E) Intestinal
  • 18. With which question does Foucault end his essay ‘What is an Author’?
A) What difference does it make who is speaking?
B) Is it the reader who is speaking?
C) Who has the right to be speaking?
D) What difference does it make what he is thinking?
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) cultural appropriation
C) miseducation
D) class war
E) stigmatisation
  • 20. What example does Barthes use as a cultural myth in action in 'Myth Today'
A) Wrestlers signifying strength
B) Fish signifying freedom
C) Roses signifying passion
D) Flags signifying loyalty
E) Lions signifying ferocity
  • 21. According to Nietzsche, "The intellect as a means of the preservation of the individual, develops its chief power in ________"
A) Error
B) Love
C) Truth
D) Power
E) Dissimulation
  • 22. Which of these terms might describe Donald Trump's political methods?
A) Popularism
B) Consequentialism
C) Tangerinery
D) Egalitarianism
E) Maoism
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