1. “Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender”. This is an important statement defining the womanist perspective advanced by
a. Toni Morrison
b. Zora Neale Hurston
c. Alice Walker
d. bell hooks
2. In a classic statement that inaugurated Feminist thought in English, we read: “A woman writing thinks back through her mothers”. Where does this occur?
a. Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own
b.Kate Millet's Sexual Politics
c. Gertrude Stein's Three Lives
d. Mary Hiatt's The Way Women Write.
3. A Subaltern perspective is one where
a. Power-structures define and determine your command of language and language of command in an uneven world.
b. The politically dispossessed could be voiceless, written out of the historical record and ignored because their activities do not count for “Cultural” or “Structured”.
c.You don't know what your 'story' is, how to deal with a 'story' and therefore you are forced to put stereotyped situations in it to please your listeners.
d. You begin to see how we live, how we have been living, how we have been led to imagine ourselves, how our language has trapped as well as liberated us.
4. Who challenges the binary oppositions emanating from Plato?
a.J. Hillis Miller
b. Paul de Man
c. Roland Barthes
d. Jacques Derrida
5. Who is the author of A Map of Misreading (1975)?
a.Edmund Wilson
b. Harold Bloom
c. Lionel Trilling
d. Paul de Man
6. Margins of Philosophy and Writing and Difference (1978) are foundational books for
a. Structuralism
b. Post-colonialism
c.Deconstruction
d. Psychoanalytical approach
7. Who among the following makes a distinction between the semiotic and the symbolic?
a.Julia Kristeva
b. Freud
c.Harold Bloom
d. Barthes
8.· Who among the following insists upon the polyphonic or dialogic aspect of language?
a. Bakhtin
b.Saussure
c.Faoucault
d.Paul de Man
9. · The Role of the Reader (1979) was written by
a. Edward Said
b.Bakhtin
c.Umberto Eco
d.Jonathan Cullar
10.· Which of the following critical approaches is inclined towards Marxism?
a.Cultural Materialism
b.New Historicism
c.Post-Structuralism
d.Postcolonialism
answers:
1-c, 2-a, 3- ·b, 4- d, 5- b, 6- b, 7- a, 8- a, 9-c, 10- a
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