Question: What is double consciousness ?

• 1. An understanding of how double experiences create identity
• 2. A concept developed by W.E.B Du Bois
• 3. An attempt to explain dual identity
• 4. All of the above.

Question: What is dialectical materialism ?

• 1. A form of literary criticism that is based on historical context
• 2. A form of literary criticism that does not incorporate economic concerns
• 3. A form of literary criticism based on linguistic analysis
• 4. A term related to gender theory that argues that men are dominant in society by virtue of their economic privilege

Question: Which of the following texts provides the best example of defamiliarization ?

• 1. Aristotle’s Poetics
• 2. Leo Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata
• 3. John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
• 4. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

Question: How do Marxist theorists react to ideology ?

• 1. They accept ideology as an essential, although sometimes problematic, part of society.
• 2. They subject all ideologies to critique in order to expose biased interests.
• 3. They reject the idea that ideology has real effects on social progress.
• 4. They promote ideology because it helps to create a dominant social order

Question: Which of the following figures is considered to be the father of the linguistic theory known as structuralism ?

• 1. Cleanth Brooks
• 2. Ferdinand de Saussure
• 3. Karl Marx
• 4. Sigmund Freud

Question: Trauma theory is tremendously influenced by which theoretical school ?

• 1. Psychoanalysis
• 2. Marxism
• 3. Feminism
• 4. Deconstruction

Question: Which of the following statements best describes Cleanth Brooks’s attitude towards studying literature ?

• 1. Critics should examine historical information surrounding a literary work.
• 2. Critics should develop universal readings of texts.
• 3. Critics should consider evolving notions of a text over time.
• 4. Critics should attempt to paraphrase texts in order to find out what they mean

Question: Which of the following offers the best definition of écriture féminine ?

• 1. How women really feel about male writers
• 2. The inscription of womanhood and femininity in texts
• 3. Second-wave feminism
• 4. Psychological studies of women

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

Question: The concept of otherness is related to which of the following theories ?

• 1. Feminist theory
• 2. Ethnic criticism
• 3. Postcolonial theory
• 4. All of the above.