Quiz 3 - UGC NET/ JRF English
1. The landmark publication of The Interpretation of Dreams was in ________.
(a) 1900
(b) 1905
(c) 1910
(d) 1915
2. Marxist philosophy of history is called __________.
(a) historiography
(b) dialectical materialism
(c) historical materialism
(d) cultural materialism
3. Ferdinand de Saussure was a professor at the University of _________.
(a) Leipzig
(b) Geneva
(c) Frankfurt
(d) Zurich
4. Julia Kristeva’s concept of intertextuality is based on the theory of ____________.
(a) postmodernism
(b) dialogism
(c) decentring
(d) writerly text
5. Which is the author cited by Jean Baudrillard in Simulations and Simulacra, in
whose story the map replaces the territory?
(a) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(b) Alejo Carpentier
(c) Honore Balzac
(d) Jorge Luis Borges
6. With whom is the term “Zeitgeist” or “spirit of the age” most associated?
(a) Voltaire
(b) Rousseau
(c) Hegel
(d) Nietzsche
7. The postcolonial critical work, The Intimate Enemy is written by _________.
(a) Ashis Nandy
(b) Leela Gandhi
(c) Ania Loomba
(d) Homi Bhabha
8. Who famously said, in the book Keywords, that “Culture is one of the two or three
most complicated words in the English language”?
(a) Theodor Adorno
(b) Raymond Williams
(c) Stuart Hall
(d) Roland Barthes
9. No Man’s Land is a classic three‐volume feminist text by ____________.
(a) Kate Millet
(b) Judith Butler
(c) Nancy Chodorow
(d) Gilbert and Gubar
10. Who argued in the book Anti‐Oedipus that “desire” is not “lack” as Freud saw it,
but is “production” and “productive”?
(a) Jacques Lacan
(b) Deleuze and Guattari
(c) Julia Kristeva
(d) Simone de Beauvoir
11. “Cultural poetics” is a term that has been used in the place of __________.
(a) Cultural Studies
(b) Culture Industry
(c) New Historicism
(d) Dialectical materialism
12. Paul Gilroy is a major scholar in the field of ____________ studies.
(a) postmodern
(b) gender
(c) media
(d) race
13. In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens is the defining essay of ___________.
(a) Womanism
(b) Third World Feminism
(c) Ecofeminism
(d) Postfeminism
14. Who of the following authors have not been criticized by Edward Said for colonial stereotyping of the Orient?
(a) Jane Austen
(b) W. B. Yeats
(c) Rudyard Kipling
(d) Henry Fielding
15. CRT is the abbreviation for __________.
(a) Centre for Reception Theory
(b) Council for Revisionist Thought
(c) Critical Race Theory
(d) Centre for Romantic Thought
16. The term “élan vital” means _________.
(a) essence
(b) ideal form
(c) life force
(d) divine energy
17. “Critical Philosophy” is a term that describes the work of __________.
(a) Adorno
(b) Rousseau
(c) Hegel
(d) Kant
18. Barchester Towers, a novel in the series called “Chronicles of Barsetshire,” is written by _____.
(a) George Gissing
(b) Anthony Trollope
(c) W. H. Auden
(d) Arnold Bennett
19. Critical Practice is a major work by _________.
(a) Catherine Belsey
(b) Susan Sontag
(c) Barbara Johnson
(d) Linda Hutcheon
20. The Rainbow and Women in Love were originally planned as one work titled_______.
(a) The Sisters
(b) Illogical Matters
(c) The Wedding Ring
(d) Of Love and Other Things
21. Cartographies of Diaspora is a postcolonial critical work by ________.
(a) Avtah Brah
(b) Sara Suleri
(c) Aijaz Ahmad
(d) Kwame Anthony Appiah
22. Mudrooroo is a native writer from _________.
(a) Canada
(b) Australia
(c) New Zealand
(d) Africa
23. Who is the author of the book, The Rise of the Novel?
(a) Dennis Walder
(b) Catherine Belsey
(c) Colin MacCabe
(d) Ian Watt
24. Who of the following cannot be termed an “anti‐philosopher”?
(a) Hegel
(b) Nietzsche
(c) Marx
(d) Heidegger
25. Who of the following held that human beings have an innate capacity for acquiring, using and interpreting language?
(a) Derrida
(b) Kant
(c) Chomsky
(d) Lacan
