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Approaches to Criticism
Contributed by: Rose
  • 1. Which of These is a Text by Marx and Engels?
A) Das Kapitalism
B) Monkey Business
C) The Consumerist Manifesto
D) The German Ideology
E) The Pursuit of Happiness
  • 2. Fill in the blank: "Ideology represents the ______________of individuals to their real conditions of existence"
A) Imaginary Relation
B) Responsibility
C) Response
D) Material Connection
E) Economic Relation
  • 3. Which of these is regarded as a Formalist Critic?
A) Cleanth Brooks
B) Peter Gabriel
C) Titi Camara
D) bell hooks
E) Norman Greenbaum
  • 4. In Althusser’s account of interpellation in ‘Ideology and The ideological State apparatuses’, who ‘hails’ the subject in Althusser’s example?
A) A policeman
B) A priest
C) Another driver
D) A zookeeper
E) His Mother
  • 5. With which famous term does Derrida convey the process and instability of meaning?
A) Déviance
B) Divérgence
C) Différance
D) Dilletanté
E) Defféral
  • 6. With which Other Existentialist Philosopher is Simone de Beauvoir Most closely associated?
A) Roland Barthes
B) Søren Kierkegaard
C) Maurice Merleau-Ponty
D) Jean-Paul Sartre
E) Martin Heidegger
  • 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) Ideological State Apparatus
C) Deception
D) Pantopticon
E) Discourse
  • 8. What is the title of Judith Butler’s influential text on performativity?
A) Gender Bender
B) Double Trouble
C) Ginger Beer
D) The Drag Act
E) Gender Trouble
  • 9. From which Philosopher did Marxism adapt the Method of Dialectical Materialism?
A) Martin Heidegger
B) G W F Hegel
C) Fredrich Nietzsche
D) Ludwig von Feuerbach
E) Michael Bublé
  • 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) Audre Lorde, 'Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference' (1984)
B) Hélène Cixous, The Newly Born Woman (1975)
C) Brooklyn Beckham, ‘What I See’ (2017)
D) Roland Barthes, 'Myth Today' (1957)
E) Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic (1979)
  • 11. How do you pronounce ‘Gramsci’?
A) Gram-ski
B) Gram-shi
C) Glam-si
D) Gram-ki
E) Gran-chi
  • 12. Which of these is a definition of ‘Hegemony’
A) The means of production understood in terms of their ownership
B) Leadership or dominance, especially by one state or social group over others
C) Topiary Costs and their division amongst social classes
D) The physical coercion of the population by a ruling class
E) Revolutionary theories of leadership emerging from Marxist thinking
  • 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) Emma Watson
B) Judith Butler
C) Jacques Derrida
D) Roland Barthes
E) Simone de Beauvoir
  • 14. Ferdinand de Saussure is chiefly famous as the founding father of…
A) Post-Structualisam
B) Structuralism
C) Semiotics
D) Sociology
E) Semiology
  • 15. Which cultural phenomenon did Judith Butler bring into prominence in her exploration of gender performativity?
A) Orientalism
B) Pokémon
C) Individualism
D) The British Dream
E) Drag
  • 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 Network
B) The Cyclops
C) The Panopticon
D) The Oddessy
E) The Pyramid
  • 17. What term denotes an approach to political or social reform that emphasises many forms of identity at once?
A) International
B) Intervidual
C) Intentional
D) Intersectional
E) Intestinal
  • 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) Who has the right to be speaking?
D) What difference does it make what he is thinking?
E) What difference does it make who is speaking?
  • 19. What concept does Owen Jones make central to his account in 'Chavs'
A) miseducation
B) cultural appropriation
C) stigmatisation
D) media saturation
E) class war
  • 20. What example does Barthes use as a cultural myth in action in 'Myth Today'
A) Lions signifying ferocity
B) Wrestlers signifying strength
C) Flags signifying loyalty
D) Fish signifying freedom
E) Roses signifying passion
  • 21. According to Nietzsche, "The intellect as a means of the preservation of the individual, develops its chief power in ________"
A) Error
B) Power
C) Truth
D) Love
E) Dissimulation
  • 22. Which of these terms might describe Donald Trump's political methods?
A) Consequentialism
B) Tangerinery
C) Egalitarianism
D) Popularism
E) Maoism
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