METHODOLOGY OF LITERATURE QUESTION BANK 22-45

22.  “Of the standard of Taste” is an essay by ___________
a. David Hume
b. Harold Bloom
c. David Lodge
d. Plato
23.  The term canon originaly meanin g a measuring rod, is of ____________ origin
a. Hebrew
b. Arab
c. Chinese
d. Greek
24.  The famous book on culture wars in USA, Illiberal Education : The politics of Sex and
Race on Campus is written by ______________
a. Dinesh D’souza
b. Amartya Sen
c. Arundhadi Roy
d. Noam Chomsky
25.  Macaulay’s  “Minutes on Indian Education” dates back to _____________
a. 1835
b. 1935
c. 1845
d. 1925
26.  What does the acronym DWEM stands for ?
a. Dear white European Males
b. Dead white English Man
c. Dead White European Male
d. Dear White English Man
27.  Who made a distinction between implied reader and actual reader?
a. Wolf Gang Iser
b. Kamla Das
c. Mahasweta Devi
d. Terry Eagleton
28.  Who translated Rubaiyat of the Persian poet Omar Khayyam into English?
a. Homer
b. Edward Fitzgerald
c. Harold Bloom
d. Terry Eagleton
29. Who wrote the book Loose Canons:Notes on the CultureWars (1992)?
a. Henry Louis Gates
b. Harold Bloom
c. Dinesh D’souza
d. Milton
30.  Who spoke about the concept of value in literature?  
a. T S Eliot
b. Coleridge
c. Frank Kermode
d. Wordsworth
31.  The word for copying another person’s ideas, words, or work and using as if they are
yours is called________________
a. Plagiarism
b. Theft
c. Robbery
d. Copyright
32.  “Piers Plowman” is a poem by _______________
a. Cervantes,
b. Wycliffe
c. William Langland
d. Tyndale
33.  _______________ means intended to give instruction, is applied to a work with an
  educational value
a. Didacticism
b. Structure
c. Textual criticism
d. Sensualism
34.  Aestheticism means intended for____________
a. Learning
b. Pleasure
c. Teaching
d. Spirituality
35.  My story is a fictional autobiography of ____________
a. Kamala Das
b. A K Ramanujam
c. Indira nooyi
d. Nissim Ezikial
36.  Autobiography of anUnknown Indian is of _______________
a. Nirad Chaudhri
b. Kamaladas
c. Kushwant Singh
d. Dom Moraes
37.  Who wrote the famous essay “What is an Author?” 1969?
a. Roland Bartthes
b. Michel Foucault
c. David Crystal
d. David Lodge          
38.  Which of the following is a novel by Mulk Raj Anand?
a. AfineBalance
b. Untouchables
c. ByeBye black bird
d. Maneater ofMalgudi
39.  Who wrote Poetics?
a. Plato
b. Aristotle
c. Longinus
d. Horace
40.   What does the idea of “catharsis” by Aristotle mean?
a. Emotion
b. Fear
c. Pity
d. Purgation of pity and fear
41.  In which century did Shakespeare live?
a. Eighteenth
b. Nineteenth
c. Twentieth
d. Sixteenth
 42.  Who wrote the essay “From work to Text”?
a. Roman Jakobson
b. Roland Barthes
c. Todorov
d. David Cristal
43.  The comparison between two different things by using like or as as in “O my love’s
like a red red rose” is called a_______________
a. Metaphor
b. Simile
c. Epic simile
d. Conceit
44.  The comparison between two different things by not using like or as as in “O my
love’s a red red rose” is called a_______________
a. Metaphor
b. Simile
c. Epic simile
d. Conceit
45.  Who used the word  social construction for the first time in the book The Social
Construction ofReality ?
a. David Crystal
b. Peter Berger& Tomas Luckman
c. Tomas Luckman
d. Eagleton

22 a, 23 d , 24 a ,25 a, 26 c ,  27 a , 28 b , 29 a ,30 c , 31 a  ,32 c ,33 a  ,34 b  ,35 a  ,36 a ,37 b   ,38 b 39 b  ,40 d ,41 d   ,42 b  ,43 b  ,44 a   ,45 b