Question: What is the meaning of the term Hamartia as used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy ?

• 1. Tragic end of the tragedy
• 2. Working of fate against the hero
• 3. A weak trait in the character of the hero
• 4. A strong quality in the character of the hero

Question: Whom did Aristotle consider the most tragic of the Greek dramatists ?

• 1. Agathon
• 2. Aeschylus
• 3. Sophocles
• 4. Euripides

Question: What is the main goal of ethnic criticism ?

• 1. To bring attention to false Euro-centric paradigms
• 2. To rectify the double experiences of certain racial groups
• 3. To reconcile cultural identity with individual identity
• 4. All of the above answers are correct.

Question: Which of the following is a rule of semiotics ?

• 1. All linguistic concepts evolve solely out of the responses of people within a specific historical era.
• 2. All linguistic and social phenomena are texts, and the object of studying these texts is to reveal the underlying codes that make them meaningful.
• 3. All linguistics is in some way related to class struggle.
• 4. All of the above answers are correct.

Question: What does the term meta-language mean, according to Andrzej Warminski ?

• 1. A language about another language
• 2. A supernatural language
• 3. A language that does not yet constitute a real language
• 4. All of the above answers are correct.

Question: Which of the following statements offers the best definition of the concept of strange attractors in chaos theory ?

• 1. Strange attractors are mysterious forces that are entirely random.
• 2. Strange attractors are complex forces that are determined by the laws of physics.
• 3. Strange attractors are mysterious forces that are both random and determined.
• 4. Strange attractors are complex forces that are entirely random

Question: What is defamiliarization ?

• 1. A term that describes how literature exposes its own artificiality
• 2. An idea explored by Viktor Shklovsky
• 3. A term that describes the capacity of art to counter the effects of habit
• 4. All of the above answers are correct.

Question: Who used the words “romanticism” and “romantic” first ?

• 1. Wordsworth
• 2. Coleridge
• 3. Carlyle
• 4. Schlegel

Question: Which is a common postcolonial critique of the West ?

• 1. The West spends too much time trying to consider an Asian perspective.
• 2. The West tends to look at Asian countries as individual units rather than lump them together.
• 3. The West views matters through its own limited historical position.
• 4. The West refuses to apply economic and political coercion to Asian writers.

Question: Which school of literary theory shows a particular interest in the role of testimony in literature ?

• 1. Trauma theory
• 2. Ecotheory
• 3. Chaos theory
• 4. Formalism