Approaches to Criticism

1. Which of These is a Text by Marx and Engels?

A) Monkey Business
B) The Pursuit of Happiness
C) The Consumerist Manifesto
D) The German Ideology
E) Das Kapitalism

2. Fill in the blank: "Ideology represents the ______________of individuals to their real conditions of existence"

A) Response
B) Responsibility
C) Imaginary Relation
D) Economic Relation
E) Material Connection

3. Which of these is regarded as a Formalist Critic?

A) Titi Camara
B) Cleanth Brooks
C) Norman Greenbaum
D) bell hooks
E) Peter Gabriel

4. In Althusser’s account of interpellation in ‘Ideology and The ideological State apparatuses’, who ‘hails’ the subject in Althusser’s example?

A) A priest
B) His Mother
C) A zookeeper
D) Another driver
E) A policeman

5. With which famous term does Derrida convey the process and instability of meaning?

A) Dilletanté
B) Divérgence
C) Différance
D) Déviance
E) Defféral

6. With which Other Existentialist Philosopher is Simone de Beauvoir Most closely associated?

A) Roland Barthes
B) Martin Heidegger
C) Jean-Paul Sartre
D) Maurice Merleau-Ponty
E) Søren Kierkegaard

7. The way in which a particular society comes to know and to order the world, Foucault argues, is bound up with the way in which power is exercised within that society. What term captures this idea?

A) Instagram
B) Pantopticon
C) Deception
D) Discourse
E) Ideological State Apparatus

8. What is the title of Judith Butler’s influential text on performativity?

A) The Drag Act
B) Double Trouble
C) Gender Trouble
D) Ginger Beer
E) Gender Bender

9. From which Philosopher did Marxism adapt the Method of Dialectical Materialism?

A) Ludwig von Feuerbach
B) Fredrich Nietzsche
C) Michael Bublé
D) G W F Hegel
E) Martin Heidegger

10. From which text is this a quotation: “Man’s dream is the face of death. Which always threatens him differently than it threatens woman.”

A) Hélène Cixous, The Newly Born Woman (1975)
B) Audre Lorde, 'Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference' (1984)
C) Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic (1979)
D) Brooklyn Beckham, ‘What I See’ (2017)
E) Roland Barthes, 'Myth Today' (1957)

11. How do you pronounce ‘Gramsci’?

A) Gram-ki
B) Gram-ski
C) Gram-shi
D) Glam-si
E) Gran-chi

12. Which of these is a definition of ‘Hegemony’

A) Revolutionary theories of leadership emerging from Marxist thinking
B) The physical coercion of the population by a ruling class
C) Leadership or dominance, especially by one state or social group over others
D) Topiary Costs and their division amongst social classes
E) The means of production understood in terms of their ownership

13. Who said: “If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by what we are, we can all be freer.”

A) Roland Barthes
B) Judith Butler
C) Simone de Beauvoir
D) Jacques Derrida
E) Emma Watson

14. Ferdinand de Saussure is chiefly famous as the founding father of…

A) Structuralism
B) Semiotics
C) Post-Structualisam
D) Sociology
E) Semiology

15. Which cultural phenomenon did Judith Butler bring into prominence in her exploration of gender performativity?

A) Pokémon
B) Individualism
C) Orientalism
D) Drag
E) The British Dream

16. What is the name of ideal prison, designed by Jeremy Bentham, That Foucault uses to illustrate the development of the Carceral Society?

A) The Panopticon
B) The Network
C) The Pyramid
D) The Oddessy
E) The Cyclops

17. What term denotes an approach to political or social reform that emphasises many forms of identity at once?

A) Intestinal
B) Intervidual
C) Intentional
D) Intersectional
E) International

18. With which question does Foucault end his essay ‘What is an Author’?

A) Where is the speaker who is speaking?
B) Is it the reader who is speaking?
C) What difference does it make who is speaking?
D) Who has the right to be speaking?
E) What difference does it make what he is thinking?

19. What concept does Owen Jones make central to his account in 'Chavs'

A) miseducation
B) stigmatisation
C) media saturation
D) class war
E) cultural appropriation

20. What example does Barthes use as a cultural myth in action in 'Myth Today'

A) Lions signifying ferocity
B) Wrestlers signifying strength
C) Fish signifying freedom
D) Roses signifying passion
E) Flags signifying loyalty

21. According to Nietzsche, "The intellect as a means of the preservation of the individual, develops its chief power in ________"

A) Truth
B) Love
C) Error
D) Power
E) Dissimulation

22. Which of these terms might describe Donald Trump's political methods?

A) Popularism
B) Consequentialism
C) Egalitarianism
D) Maoism
E) Tangerinery

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