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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 German Ideology
C) The Pursuit of Happiness
D) Das Kapitalism
E) The Consumerist Manifesto
  • 2. Fill in the blank: "Ideology represents the ______________of individuals to their real conditions of existence"
A) Responsibility
B) Imaginary Relation
C) Economic Relation
D) Response
E) Material Connection
  • 3. Which of these is regarded as a Formalist Critic?
A) Norman Greenbaum
B) Peter Gabriel
C) Titi Camara
D) bell hooks
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) A priest
C) A zookeeper
D) His Mother
E) A policeman
  • 5. With which famous term does Derrida convey the process and instability of meaning?
A) Defféral
B) Déviance
C) Divérgence
D) Différance
E) Dilletanté
  • 6. With which Other Existentialist Philosopher is Simone de Beauvoir Most closely associated?
A) Søren Kierkegaard
B) Maurice Merleau-Ponty
C) Jean-Paul Sartre
D) Roland Barthes
E) Martin Heidegger
  • 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) Instagram
D) Deception
E) Discourse
  • 8. What is the title of Judith Butler’s influential text on performativity?
A) The Drag Act
B) Gender Bender
C) Double Trouble
D) Ginger Beer
E) Gender Trouble
  • 9. From which Philosopher did Marxism adapt the Method of Dialectical Materialism?
A) Martin Heidegger
B) Ludwig von Feuerbach
C) G W F Hegel
D) Fredrich Nietzsche
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) Roland Barthes, 'Myth Today' (1957)
B) Hélène Cixous, The Newly Born Woman (1975)
C) Brooklyn Beckham, ‘What I See’ (2017)
D) Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic (1979)
E) Audre Lorde, 'Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference' (1984)
  • 11. How do you pronounce ‘Gramsci’?
A) Gram-ki
B) Gran-chi
C) Gram-ski
D) Gram-shi
E) Glam-si
  • 12. Which of these is a definition of ‘Hegemony’
A) Leadership or dominance, especially by one state or social group over others
B) Revolutionary theories of leadership emerging from Marxist thinking
C) The physical coercion of the population by a ruling class
D) Topiary Costs and their division amongst social classes
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) Jacques Derrida
B) Judith Butler
C) Simone de Beauvoir
D) Roland Barthes
E) Emma Watson
  • 14. Ferdinand de Saussure is chiefly famous as the founding father of…
A) Semiology
B) Post-Structualisam
C) Sociology
D) Semiotics
E) Structuralism
  • 15. Which cultural phenomenon did Judith Butler bring into prominence in her exploration of gender performativity?
A) The British Dream
B) Drag
C) Orientalism
D) Individualism
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 Network
B) The Panopticon
C) The Cyclops
D) The Pyramid
E) The Oddessy
  • 17. What term denotes an approach to political or social reform that emphasises many forms of identity at once?
A) Intersectional
B) Intentional
C) International
D) Intestinal
E) Intervidual
  • 18. With which question does Foucault end his essay ‘What is an Author’?
A) Who has the right to be speaking?
B) What difference does it make what he is thinking?
C) Where is the speaker who is speaking?
D) Is it the reader who is speaking?
E) What difference does it make who is speaking?
  • 19. What concept does Owen Jones make central to his account in 'Chavs'
A) class war
B) cultural appropriation
C) miseducation
D) stigmatisation
E) media saturation
  • 20. What example does Barthes use as a cultural myth in action in 'Myth Today'
A) Flags signifying loyalty
B) Roses signifying passion
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) Truth
B) Error
C) Power
D) Dissimulation
E) Love
  • 22. Which of these terms might describe Donald Trump's political methods?
A) Popularism
B) Maoism
C) Consequentialism
D) Egalitarianism
E) Tangerinery
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