1 . Following are the names of some Russian formalists. Pick the odd one out.
a)Roman Jakobson
b)Juri Tynyanov
c)Boris Eichenbaum
d)Roland Barthes
2.The text is plural, open to other texts in an endless series of intertextual operations. Who gives these ideas about a text?
a)Derrida
b)Barthes
c)Bakhtin
d)Foucault
3. The famous work ‘ Practical Criticism’ is written by
a)I.A Richards
b)Wimsatt and Beardsley
c)Cleanth Brooks
d)William Empson
4. Who argued that language is structured out of differences?
a)Saussure
b)Jakobson
c)Samuel beckett
d)Roland Barthes
5. Who was the first to propose a science focused on the study of signs?
a)Vladimir Propp
b)Roman Jakobson
c)Roland Barthes
d)Saussure
6. A couple of Saussure's students compiled his lecture notes on language into a book that would be called what?
a)Course in general linguistics
b)Langue and Parole
c)Class in specific linguistics
d)Death of Author
7. Which of the following critics is not considered to have dealt basically with Structuralism?
a)Jacques Derrida
b)Vladmir Propp
c)Claude Levi-Strauss
d)Roman Jacobson
8. Poststructuralism particularly observes the following shortcoming in structuralism:
a)The structures it considered were not credible
b)The structures it includes are not self-sufficient
c)It overlooked a number of basic structures
d)The theory of structures itself was not credible
9. Who gave the these three principles regarding language : arbitrariness, relationality, systemacity
a)Roland Barthes
b)Saussure
c)Derrida
d)Claude Levi- Strauss
10. Which of the following is not a work by Roland Barthes?
a)From Work to Text
b)Death of the Author
c)Of Grammatology
d)S/Z
answers
1-d, 2-b, 3-a, 4-a, 5-d, 6-a, 7-a, 8- b, 9-b, 10-c
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