1. What did Arnold say will appear incomplete if not for poetry?
Correct : C. Science
2. Charlatanism is for confusing or obliterating the distinctions between
Correct : A. Excellent and inferior
3. In poetry, as a criticism of life, the spirit of our race will find its _____________
Correct : A. Consolation
4. Mathew Arnold said that the best poetry will be found to have a power of
Correct : D. Forming, sustaining and delighting
5. The different kinds of estimations propounded by Arnold were
Correct : A. Historical, Personal and Real
6. Arnold was of the view that Chaucer’s superiority is found in his______
Correct : C. Style and substance
7. Which quality is not needful for a fit prose according to Arnold?
Correct : D. Exclusivity
8. Poetry is a criticism of life under the ______ fixed for such a criticism
Correct : D. Conditions
9. Arnold regards Dryden and Pope as the Classics of English______
Correct : A. Prose
10. In the age of Pope and Dryden, Arnold regards _________ as a unique poet.
Correct : D. Gray
11. Keats, according to Arnold, is with _________
Correct : C. Shakespeare
12. Arnold states, “But for poetry the idea is everything, the rest is a world of illusion; of
Correct : C. divine illusion”
13. “Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea: the idea is the
Correct : A. fact”
14. Arnold states, “The strongest part of our religion is its
Correct : B. unconscious poetry”
15. Arnold believes that without poetry, “Science will appear
Correct : B. incomplete”
16. Arnold feels the historic estimate and the personal estimate often supersedes the
Correct : D. real estimate
17. To Arnold, the superiority of best poetry is marked by the superior character of
Correct : A. truth and seriousness
18. Arnold defines poetry as
Correct : A. ‘The criticism of life, governed by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty’.
19. The first great principle of criticism enunciated by Arnold is that of
Correct : A. Disinterestedness or detachment
20. Which poet does Arnold say lack ‘the high seriousness of the great classics’?
Correct : A. Chaucer
21. Middleton Murry has criticized the critical work of
Correct : B. Eliot
22. Eliot says , “ inner voice is ____ “
Correct : C. whiggery
23. Eliot’s essay ‘The Function of Criticism’ has
Correct : C. four parts
24. According to Eliot, Literary tradition is
Correct : B. Whiggering
25. A critic according to Eliot must be entirely
Correct : A. impersonal and objective
26. Eliot says that the function of a critic is to ______ a work of art
Correct : B. elucidate
27. In T.S Eliot's "The Function of Criticism'', he mentions that the ____ should be
altered by the ___, as much as the ___ is altered by the ____.
Correct : D. past, present & present, past
28. What is the commentation and exposition of works of art by means of written words
according to Eliot?
Correct : C. criticism
29. Eliot mentions that the end of criticism appears to be the elucidation of works of art and
Correct : A. the correction of taste
30. What according to Eliot does the inner voice sound like?
Correct : B. doing as one likes
31. Who according to Eliot are the real corruptors of taste?
Correct : B. those that supply opinions or fancy
32. According to Eliot the most important qualification that a critic must have is
Correct : B. a highly developed sense of fact
33. T.S. Eliot has stated that criticism is the elucidation of work of _________ and the
correction of _________.
Correct : A. arts, taste
34. Eliot states that to be an ideal critic, one has to develop an extraordinary sense of
_____.
Correct : C. fact
35. Eliot says that inner voice is _________.
Correct : B. Whiggery
36. What, according to T.S. Eliot are the chief tools of the critic?
Correct : A. Comparison and analysis
37. The lemon squeezer critic is opposed by –
Correct : B. T.S. Eliot
38. Eliot believes that artists unite consciously or unconsciously under a common
Correct : A. Inheritance and cause
39. The commentation and exposition of works of art, according to Eliot, is
Correct : D. Criticism
40. Criticism must always profess an _______
Correct : D. End in view
41. Eliot said that Mathew Arnold overlooks the importance of
Correct : C. Criticism in creation
42. No writer according to Eliot is_____
Correct : C. Self-sufficient
43. A critic must have a very highly developed sense of ______
Correct : B. Fact
44. The chief tools of a critic are
Correct : C. Comparison and analysis
45. The Function of Criticism is T. S Elliot’s reply to_________
Correct : C. Middleton Murry
46. To which age does T. S Eliot belong?
Correct : B. Modern Age
47. Both Arnold and Eliot are preoccupied with
Correct : A. Culture
48. 'The function of criticism is to promote the understanding and enjoyment of literature'.
Who said this?
Correct : B. T. S Eliot
49. Eliot states, “A common inheritance and a common cause unite artists
Correct : A. consciously or unconsciously”
50. Eliot believes that between the true artists of any time there is
Correct : A. an unconscious community
51. Eliot feels that the second-rate artist cannot afford to surrender himself to any
Correct : B. common action
52. To Eliot, the chief tools of the critic are,
Correct : D. comparison and analysis
53. Eliot states. “The critical activity finds its highest, its true fulfillment in a kind of union with creation in the
Correct : A. labour of the artist”
54. The most important qualification that Eliot recommends to critics is to possess a
Correct : D. “very highly developed sense of fact”
55. According to TS Eliot, who overlook the capital importance of criticism in the work
of creation itself?
Correct : B. Matthew Arnold
56. What are the chief tools of the critic according to TS Eliot?
Correct : A. Comparison and analysis
57. What did TS Eliot called critics like himself who did not have the ‘inner voice’?
Correct : A. Inner deaf mutes
58. “The Function of Criticism” by TS Eliot was written in
Correct : C. 1923
59. “The Function of Criticism” by TS Eliot was a response to
Correct : C. Middleton Murry
60. Eliot said that the major part of the effort of an author in composing his work is __.
Correct : D. Workshop criticism
61. The Essay literary Criticism and Philosophy was published in
Correct : D. 1937
62. Leavis literary Criticism and Philosophy is a reaction to __________ essay
Correct : C. R.N Wellek’s
63. Leavis is of the opinion that reading demanded by poetry is different from that
demanded by
Correct : D. philosophy
64. Leavis expresses his views on the _______ of criticism
Correct : B. discipline
65. Leavis is of the opinion that the reading demanded by poetry is different from that
demanded by
Correct : B. philosophy
66. "Literary Criticism and Philosophy" was written by F.R Leavis in response to
which other critic?
Correct : B. Dr. Rene Wellek
67. What according to Leavis are the two distinct and different kinds of discipline?
Correct : C. Literary Criticism and philosophy
68. F.R. Leavis is of the opinion that the ideal ___ is the ideal ____.
Correct : A. critic, reader
69. What was Leavis' opinion of William Wordsworth?
Correct : B. He did not consider Wordsworth to be a philosophic thinker.
70. Training in what discipline would be beneficial but is not a necessity to a literary
critic according to Leavis?
Correct : D. Philosophy
71. Which of the following according to Leavis, does not invite one to "think about" and "judge"?
Correct : A. poetry
72. Leavis feels that the best way of presenting theoretical principles is to show then
at work in –
Correct : C. Practical Criticism
73. Dr. Wellek has criticized Leavis that his lack of interest in philosophy makes him
unfair to the poets of ______________.
Correct : B. Romantic poets
74. “The business of a literary critic is to attain a peculiar completeness of response”
is stated by –
Correct : A. F.R. Leavis
75. For Leavis, the reading demanded by poetry is of a different kind from that
demanded by ___________.
Correct : C. philosophy
76. Leavis boldly announced that Literary Criticism is not _____________
Correct : C. Philosophy
77. The ideal critic according to Leavis is the __________
Correct : B. Ideal reader
78. Leavis asserts that words in poetry demands________________ responsiveness.
Correct : D. Complete
79. A critic’s constant concern is never to lose his ________________
Correct : A. Completeness of possession
80. Dr. Wellek’s first criticism of Leavis is that Leavis didn’t develop
Correct : B. theoretical implications
81. Dr. Wellek’s main criticism of Leavis was that
Correct : B. Leavis lacked interest in philosophy
82. The difference between a poet and a philosopher according to Leavis is
Correct : C. Laxity of expression
83. Who has written Literary Criticism and Philosophy
Correct : C. F. R Leavis
84. To F. R. Leavis, literary criticism and philosophy are
Correct : A. “quite distinct and different kinds of discipline”
85. F. R. Leavis states, “By the critic of poetry I understand the complete reader: the ideal critic is
Correct : C. the ideal reader”
86. The critic’s aim is, first, to realize as sensitively and completely as possible this or
that which claims his
Correct : B. Attention
87. The literary critic aims to make fully conscious and articulate the immediate sense
of
Correct : A. “value that ‘places’ the poem”
88. Leavis states, “But it is to be note that the improvement we ask for is of the critic, the critic as critic, and to count on it would be to count on the attainment of
Correct : D. An arduous ideal”
89. Leavis never proposed to consider __ as a philosophic thinker
Correct : A. William Wordsworth
90. Who said, “Poetry must be in serious relation to actuality, it must have a firm grasp of the actual, of the object, it must be in relation to life”?
Correct : D. FR Leavis
91. FR Leavis said the business of the literary critic is
Correct : D. All of the above
92. Leavis states that poetry is concrete and that philosophy is
Correct : B. Abstract
93. According to Leavis, philosophic training would benefit the critic by making clear
that
Correct : B. The two are vastly different
94. The reading demanded by poetry is different from that demanded by
Correct : A. Philosophy
95. Leavis asserts that words in poetry demands _____ responsiveness.
Correct : C. Complete
96. Dr. Wellek accuses Leavis of being unfair to the poets of the ______ Age.
Correct : C. Romantic
97. Leavis says that his and Wellek’s approaches are different because he is a critic,
and Wellek is a
Correct : D. Philosopher
98. Identify the state festival held every year in honour of the God Dionysus in Greece.
Correct : A. great dionysia
99. Choose the work from the choices below that is in the form of scholarly exchanges between
Plato and his teacher Socrates.
Correct : D. dialogues
100. In which work did Aristotle firmly refute Plato’s pronouncements deriding art, artists and
poetry?