MCQs 1: Which of the following texts is the BEST example of the argument that a work’s meaning does not come entirely from the imagination of the author ?

MCQs 2: What approach is described by the paragraph? This approach takes as a fundamental tenet that “literature” exists not as an artifact upon a printed page but as a transaction between the physical text and the mind of a reader ?

MCQs 3: Which text argues that, as infants, human beings begin to define their identities against the identities of others ?

MCQs 4: Aristotle discusses the theory of Tragedy in _______________?

MCQs 5: In her essay “The Laugh of the Medusa,” what does Hélène Cixous suggest for women ?

MCQs 6: Who called Aristotle “the very Alexander of criticism” ?

MCQs 7: How does VirginiaWoolf’s essay “A Room of One’s Own” contribute to feminist theory ?

MCQs 8: Who contributed the term “to see the object as in itself it really is” ?

MCQs 9: The phrase “willing suspension of disbelief” applies to which poet/critic ?

MCQs 10: What is hermeneutics ?

MCQs 11: What does Judith Butler mean when she suggests that gender is “performed” ?

MCQs 12: How are Julia Kristeva’s psychoanalytic theories distinct from traditional Freudian concepts ?

MCQs 13: What does Edward Said argue about the concept of the Orient ?

MCQs 14: According to Aristotle the unravelling of the plot_____________?

MCQs 15: “Of all philosopher’s Plato is the most poetic.” Who said this______________?

MCQs 16: In which book of the Republic did Plato ban poets from his ideal world ?

MCQs 17: In Fredric Jameson’s book The Political Unconscious, what does Jameson suggest about literature ?

MCQs 18: Who established the Lyceum ?

MCQs 19: Regarding the observance of the three Classical Unities in a play, Dr. Johnson’s view is that ?

MCQs 20: “The end of writing is to instruct, the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.” Whose view is this ?