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MCQs: What is the main function of postcolonial criticism ?

To represent the relationship between colonizers and the colonized To draw attention to the positive effects of colonization on literature To explain why there are few examples of successful non-Western literature To show the ways in which most Western literature is superior
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MCQs 1: What approach is described by the paragraph? Users of this approach believe that all information essential to the interpretation of a work must be found within the work itself; there is no need to bring in outside information about the history, politics, or society of the time, or about the author’s life ?

Historical/Biographical Approach Moral/ Philosophical Approach Formalism Psychological Approach
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MCQs 2: Who proposed that poets should be banished from the ideal Republic ?

Plato Aristotle Sir Philip Sidney Sir Thomas More
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MCQs 3: What does gynocriticism recommend as an approach to literature ?

Examining only female-authored literature more critically Considering women’s literature outside of its historical context Becoming more familiar with the history of women and women’s writing All of the above answers are correct.
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MCQs 4: Horace was a_____________?

Greek writer Roman Writer Italian writer English writer
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MCQs 5: A critic examining Pope’s “An Essay on Man” asks herself: How well does this poem accord with the real world? Is it accurate? Is it moral? She is most likely a critic?

Feminist Reader Response Formalist Mimetic
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MCQs 6: The statements below are steps on “How to Read and Understand an Expository Essay”. Which comes in as an initial thing to do before writing an expository essay ?

Identify the Mode of Development Analysis of the Author Subsequent Readings/Reviews All of the above answers are correct.
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MCQs 7: This literary critic warned: “We must remember that the greater part of our current reading matter is written for us by people who have no real belief in a supernatural order . . . And the greater part . . . is coming to be written by people who not only have no such belief, but are even ignorant of the fact that there are still people in the world so ’backward’ or so ’eccentric’ as to continue to believe.” ?

C.S. Lewis T.S. Eliot G.K. Chesterton Matthew Arnold
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MCQs 8: New trends in literary theory tend to do which of the following ?

Reject all previous modes of literary theory Focus on a return to traditional critical methods Make use of different literary theories in order to develop new theories Work only with ideas developed by post- Marxist theorists
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MCQs 9: In Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy there are four interlocuters representing four different ideologies. Which of them expresses Dryden’s own views ?

Lisideius Eugenius Neander Crites
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MCQs 10: What do many contemporary theorists find problematic about the literary canon ?

It includes too few works by non- European writers. It includes too few works by non-white writers. It includes too few works by women. All of the above answers are correct.
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