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1. Which of the following id valid in the context of the science of interpretation?

A. Every individual’s preconception and prejudice is destructive and unproductive in the reading and analysis of texts.
B. A person cannot factor out of his prejudice but he can compromise and find a common ground between his prejudices and the author’s historical horizon
C. Prejudice are productive because they allow rich and valid interpretations of the significance of literary texts
D. Truth is always what readers thinks, and not what the author attempts to convey in the text.

ANS: B. A person cannot factor out of his prejudice but he can compromise and find a common ground between his prejudices and the author’s historical horizon
- Scholars of hermeneutics agree that every person has his own historical horizon which might affect his interpretation and bring about prejudice. However, a reader can compromise through horizon merging or finding the common ground.

2. Which of the following may be accepted by Reader-Reception critic?

A. All interpretations and meanings are correct
B. Interpretations should ultimately be aligned with the author’s intention, not the reader’s perception.
C. No interpretations can be objective, truth and accurate
D. Interpretations are governed by the language and convention of the text and literary competence of the reader

ANS: D. Interpretations are governed by the language and convention of the text and literary competence of the reader
-Not all interpretations can be considered correct or accurate but at least interpretations may considered competent if the reader is aware of the conventions of the text.

3. What is common among the following literary criticism theories: Marxism, Post-Colonial, Gender and Feminism, New Historicism?

A. Literature is a product of an ideology or social constructs
B. Literature affects human behavior in a given society
C. Literature is independent from other texts and factors external to the text
D. Literature is a creative

ANS:  A. Literature is a product of an ideology or social constructs
-All the literary theories in the item suggested that literature is a product of social ideology and construct

4. Which of the following can be the subject matter of humanism literature?

A. Faith
B. Poverty
C. Sacred
D. Salvation

AN: B. Poverty
- The orientation of this period was this period was a shift from a broadly “other-worldly” disposition to a this worldly” attitude (Habib, 20…).

5. Which is characterized by a re-examination and imitation of the classical models, literary styles and values of the ancient Greek and Roman authors?

A. Neoclassicism
B. Neo-Platonism
C. Renaissance
D. Romanticism

ANS: A. Neoclassicism

-  Neoclassicism is a movement which promotes the reading and the appreciation of literary classics and masterpieces during the classical era.

6. Which movement reacted against the stylistic excess and superfluous artistry and ornament of Renaissance writers?

A. Neoclassicism
B. Realism
C. Aestheticism
D. Romanticism

ANS: A. Neoclassicism
-  Neoclassicism advocates control and conformity according to the qualities of literary classics.

7. Which literary movement is characterized by logical thinking and freedom which are vital in making choices?

A. Enlightenment
B. Neoclassicism
C. Renaissance
D. Romanticism

ANS: A. Enlightenment
-The period of enlightenment is a movement that advocates logical and rational thinking of the human person as he interacts in the society.

8. Which was characterized by two broad events: French Revolution and the Industrial revolution?

A. Humanism
B. Modern period
C. Post-Modernism
D. Renaissance period

ANS: Modern period
-It is the period of European history from 1760 to 1860, which was dominate by the two broad events (Habib,20…)

9. In which literary period was poem analysis done within the framework of human subjectivity and its expression of nature?

A. Naturalism
B. Neoclassicism
C. Realism
D. Romanticism

ANS:  D. Romanticism
- It is a broad intellectual and artistic frame of thinking that arose toward the end of the eighteenth century and reached its zenith during the early decades of the nineteenth century (Habib, 20…).

10. “Shall I compare thee to summer’s day?” This sonnet from William Shakespeare may be interpreted may be interpreted in terms of its allusion to the beauty of nature, its metaphor, and the feelings that and human nature and human nature evoke upon the reader. Which literary  movement advocates this critical approach?

A. Empiricism
B. Neoclassicism
C. Realism
D. Romanticism

ANS: C. Romanticism
-This literary movement advocates spontaneity human emotions and imaginations over reason and logical thinking (Habib, 20…).

11. Which literary movement is characterized by the avoidance of what fantastical, imaginary, and mythical or supernatural?
A. Naturalism
B. Neoclassicism
C. Realism
D. Romanticism

ANS: C. Realism
- Is a literary movement whose philosophy is anchored on reality of the present of the human society and is state of affairs that affect the people.

12. This movement adheres to the requirements of probability and shuns impossible or improbable literary subjects and themes, with characters and incidents from all social strata, included. Which of the following literary selection can be studied using this critical theory of Realism?

A. Animal Farm by George Orwell
B. The Grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck
C. The House of spirits by Isabel Allende
D. The hunger games by Suzanne Collins
ANS: B. The Grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck
-  The grapes of wrath are the only novel in the list which includes characters from the social strata during the period of the Great Depression in the US. All the other novels use magic realism or fantasy or imaginary characters and events which do not necessarily represents real characters form a given context.

13. The following characterize realism EXCEPT __________.

A. it considered the human experiences of the present time, and the topics from contemporary life rather than longing for some idealize past
B. it emphasize the social rather than the individual or seeing the individual as a social being
C. it emphasized logical reason, and empiricism in the presentation of events and characters
D. it is focused on contemporary life, and not about some classical events in the past

ANS: C. it emphasized logical reason, and empiricism in the presentation of events and characters
-Naturalism is a extreme form of realism; it emphasize logical explanation of things.

14. Which emphasizes the hereditary psychological components of characters and experimenting the connections between human psychology and external environment?

A. Naturalism
B. Neoclassicism
C. Realism
D. Romanticism

ANS: A. Naturalism
-Indeed, Naturalism views literature to include scientific presentation of characters including their psychological motivation and how their disposition are affected by nature and events in the society

15. As an extreme form of Realism, which literary movement emphasizes the use of the methods of the physical science and principles of causality, using highly detailed methods of description to present the natural occurrence of things in the literary text?

A. Enlightenment
B. Magic Realism
C. Naturalism
D. Romanticism

ANS: A. Naturalism
- Naturalism attempts to give a scientific description of the motivation of characters and causes of the events.

16. Known as the era of “decadence,” which literary movement was a reaction against realism and naturalism, and highly structured poetry?

A. Aestheticism
B. Classicism
C. Enlightenment
D. Symbolism

ANS: D. Symbolism
- Symbolism is a reaction against the notion that language and art should be structured and scientific and that meaning in literature should be definite and pre-given based on language

17. Which literary movement rejected the idea that language was referential, or the signifiers automatically refer to their accurate signified?

A. Naturalism
B. Post-Modernism
C. Realism
D. Symbolism

ANS: D. Symbolism
- Symbolism is a reaction against the notion that language and art should be structured and scientific and that meaning in literature should be definite and pre-given based on language

18. Which literary movement emphasizes a more suggestive allusive and connotative language that would enrich and evoke feelings of awareness and aesthetic experience?

A. Naturalism
B. Post-Modernism
C. Realism
D. Symbolism

ANS: D. Symbolism
-is a reaction against the notion that language and art should be structured and scientific and that meaning in literature should be definite and pre-given based on language in addition. It was reacting against not only the reduction of the world to a material dimension but also the correlative reduction  of language to a literalness which enshrines  the possibility  of absolute clarity (Habib, 20…)

19. Which literary movement states that art exist for its own sake, or for the sake of beauty, disregarding moral or political consideration and advocating the freedom of art didactic educational and moralistic functions?

A. Aestheticism
B. Humanism
C. Renaissance
D. Structuralism

ANS: A. Aestheticism
- Aestheticism advocates the independence of art from social moral education or spiritual context. Art is for the sake of its beauty and aesthetic appeal.

20. Which literary movement would give productive interpretations and criticism of Jose Garcia Villa’s comma or punctuations poems?
     
                                                         In, my, undream, of death,
                                                       I, unspoken, the, Word.
                                                          Since, nobody has dared
                                                           With, my, own, breath,
                                                         I, broke, the, chord,   
A. Aesthetic
B. Realism
C. Structuralism
D. Symbolism

ANS:  A. Aestheticism
-- Aestheticism advocates the independence of art from social moral education or spiritual context. Art is for the sake of its beauty and aesthetic appeal. The poem of Jose Garcia Villa can be meaningfully analyzed and studied in terms of how the form language sound appearance of the poem contribute to its own identity  as a work of art.

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