lit grp quiz

Question 1

If we are to understand the physical environment and class relations that shape the behavior of a certain character in a story, what is the best approach to use?

Deconstruction

Formalism

Marxism

Answer 1

Marxism

Question 2

It refers to the idea that the world has entered a new phase of history wherein most of the former colonies of European powers have gained independence and self- government.

Orientalism

Post-colonial

Marxism

Answer 2

post colonial

Question 3

The difference between Structuralism and Formalism is that:

A. One is concerned only with the text being analyzed and nothing else, while the other seeks to compare the text with others.

B. One is concerned only with the Close Reading and nothing else, while the other relates it with the gender of the author.

C. One is concerned only with the format and context of the text and nothing else, while the other seeks to apply deduction in order to find meaning.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

What are the vehicles used by the bourgeoisie to impose their values system on the proletariat?

play and poetry

arts and literature

songs and movie

Answer 4

arts and literature

Question 5

If the danger of Formalist reading is to reduce Literature to ‘literariness’ hence the loss of the text’s social relevance, what then is the danger of Marxist reading that sees the text only for its social relevance without regard for its discipline as an art form?

The text is reduced into social propaganda.

The text is reduced into an extension of Psychoanalytic study.

The text is reduced into a sermon.

Answer 5

The text is reduced into social propaganda.

Question 6

Which among the following DOES NOT prescribe to the idea of Deconstruction?

Texts are too static and unchanging.

Meaning is essentially undecidable.

It looks for a place where texts contradict.

Answer 6

Texts are too static and unchanging.

Question 7

This is an approach that makes use of close reading and examines the use of literary devices.

Deconstruction

Feminism

Formalism

Answer 7

Formalism

Question 8

The perspective utilized in the Feminism approach require a certain belief in that________.

women and those other genders have their own kind of power over the patriarchy.

men secretly want to be a different gender.

civilization is widely controlled by men.

Answer 8

civilization is widely controlled by men.

Question 9

Which of these features of a text would a Formalist be most interested in?

Context

Figures of speech used

Meaning of words

Answer 9

Figures of speech used

Question 10

How does a post-colonial scholar or critic explain the many presence of Marian devotees in the Philippines or the preference of Filipino masses for Virgin Mary over male saints?

It brings out the wish of the majority for a society which does not call for gender stereotypes.

It bears the mark of their pagan past which links the worship of women and female images with nature.

Religion is the only impenetrable aspect of culture when it comes to colonialism.

Answer 10

It bears the mark of their pagan past which links the worship of women and female images with nature.

Question 11

Miss Saigon (1989) is a musical based on Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly (1898), which similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover. The plot’s setting is relocated to 1970’s Saigon during the Vietnam War, and Madame Butterfly’s story of marriage between an American lieutenant and a geisha is replaced by a romance between a U.S. GI and a South Vietnamese bargirl. Suppose we are to analyze the representation of Vietnam as a feminized space with Kim, the bar girl protagonist who grew up an orphan. What literary approaches should we employ?

Feminism, Formalism, and Marxism

Feminism, Marxism, and Post-colonialism

Feminism, Deconstruction, and Formalism

Answer 11

Feminism, Marxism, and Post-colonialism

Question 12

Oliver Twist (1839) by Charles Dickens narrates the story of the orphan Oliver who was born and raised into a life of poverty and misfortune in a workhouse in the outskirts of London. Orphaned by his mother’s death in childbirth and his father’s mysterious absence, Oliver is meagerly provided for under the terms of the Poor Law. If we are to examine the issue of child welfare and labor in the story, what approach suits our analysis?

Marxism

Postcolonialism

Feminism

Answer 12

Marxism

Question 13

It is the movement, migration, or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland.

Exile

Expatriate

Diaspora

Answer 13

Diaspora

Question 14

How does a post-colonial scholar or critic explain the presence of Shakespeare’s works in Philippine textbooks?

Shakespeare’s works bear the elitism of privileged male writing.

Shakespeare’s works bear the cultural legacy of our American colonial education.

Shakespeare’s works bear the tyranny of English as perpetuated by the society’s upper social class.

Answer 14

Shakespeare’s works bear the cultural legacy of our American colonial education.

Question 15

Marxist Criticism existed as a critique of __________________

The bourgeoisie

The owners of the means of production

Capitalism

Answer 15

Capitalism

Question 16

How does a Marxist scholar or critic e explain the preference of some millennials for Netflix shows over local prime time tele-seryes?

It indicates better social standing.

It indicates one’s proficiency of English.

It indicates the pernicious effects of colonial mentality.

Answer 16

It indicates better social standing.

Question 17

In Gender Studies, what is the danger of disregarding sexual difference amongst women if one is to propose gender equality?

Without regard for sexual difference, woman loses the battle towards equality because she will often see herself as inferior to man who by the way sets the standard that she must comply with.

Sexual difference is simply a sorry excuse by women who cannot accomplish the things that men are asked to do.

Matriarchy will simply supplant patriarchy.

Answer 17

Without regard for sexual difference, woman loses the battle towards equality because she will often see herself as inferior to man who by the way sets the standard that she must comply with.

Question 18

What is common between Formalism and Structuralism approaches that make these the fundamentals of textual analysis?

An objective, systematic, and scientific reading of the text

The unchanging biological make-up of human readers who are wired to listen to certain types of narrative.

Answer 18

An objective, systematic, and scientific reading of the text

Question 19

How does a Marxist post-colonial feminist explain the popularity of Disney princesses amongst Filipino children?

Gender construction is made at a young age with the added issue of skin color as indicator of class. Eurocentric values and tastes are reinforced as part of the indoctrination of the young towards the attainment of social mobility and success.

These are cautionary tales told in terms of symbols to make abstract ideas palatable to young audiences who are still in the struggle of understanding what is right and wrong.

Mass entertainment for the young such as the works of Disney is part of the cultural operatives of our former colonial master, the U.S., by which they maintain their influence even without their physical presence.

Answer 19

Gender construction is made at a young age with the added issue of skin color as indicator of class. Eurocentric values and tastes are reinforced as part of the indoctrination of the young towards the attainment of social mobility and success.

Question 20

This is an approach that examines the text for its use of stylized language as if it is a construction that follows a kind of logic unique to its own universe. Outside it, nothing exists.

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Formalism

Deconstruction

Marxism

Answer 20

A

Question 21

Riverdale (2017) is a TV series that features the teenagers Archie Andrews (the typical boy next door), Betty Cooper (the smart yet homely), Veronica Lodge (the sophisticated socialite), and Jughead Jones (the social outcast). If we are to understand these characters in terms of the typical teenagers that they represent in actual society, what type of reading subscribe to our inquiry?

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Marxism

Formalism

Structuralism

Answer 21

Formalism

Question 22

How does a Gender Studies scholar or critic explain the postcolonial conditions of the Philippines?

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The Philippines speaks for nature, the pagan, or the savage female mystique that denies itself of any civilization.

The Philippines is a ‘feminized space’ that validates the history, economic power, and cultural legacy of its former colonial masters that come to pose themselves as ‘masculine.’

The Philippines is the ‘damsel in distress’ who because of its ineptitude, must be saved by Western civilization which is its ‘knight in shining armor.’

Answer 22

B

Question 23

Although Formalism is necessary for an objective analysis of a text, what possible shortcomings could it give in situation that calls for literature’s historical significance?

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This approach would pose an elitist view of literature as a mode of self-expression whose concern is only to be recognized for being stylishly different.

This approach would seem effete and self-absorbed without considering the contexts by which meaning could operate effectively for the sake of social change.

This approach would seem inaccurate in portraying the social conditions that inform the readers of the meaning of the text.

Answer 23

B

Question 24

If we are to understand the conventions of coming-of-age stories in many films without any regard to the psychological conditions of both author and reader, what approach should we use?

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Structuralism

Formalism

Deconstruction

Answer 24

A

Question 25

This is an approach that re-writes or re-interprets a text using the voice of the sub-altern.

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Post-colonialism

Feminism

Marxism

Answer 25

A

Question 26

A Marxist critic typically undertakes to ‘explain’ the literature of any era by revealing the _________________

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the life, death, and passions of the author as the determinants of his writing.

economic, class, and ideological determinants of the way an author writes.

the education, upbringing and psychological determinants of the way an author writes.

Answer 26

B

Question 27

What is common among Formalism and Structuralism approach that make these the fundamentals of textual analysis?

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The power struggle behind its construction that is made apparent to the text’s content.

The similar response of readers in each generation without regard to social change.

The unchanging discipline or the ‘static’ outlook towards a text as having a unity of its own.

Answer 27

C

Question 28

This is an approach that looks at the social conditions that shapes the production and reception of a text.

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Feminism

Marxism

Post-colonialism

Answer 28

B

Question 29

If we are to study the foot-binding practice amongst old generation of women in China in relation to the folk tale of The Glass Slipper in Italy (Cenerentola), France (Cendrillon), Spain (Cenicienta), Germany (Aschenputtel), and the United States (Disney’s Cinderella) what approach suits our analysis if we are to focus on women’s body and its relation to the perpetuation of their domestic roles?

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Feminism

Marxism

Postcolonialism

Answer 29

A

Question 30

Which among the following question of analysis DOES NOT cater to deconstruction?

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What values does it subvert?

Where are the figures of speech so ambiguous that they suggest several meanings?

What contradictions of language, image, or event do you notice?

Answer 30

B

Question 31

If we are to understand a text in how it differentiates itself from the norm using highly stylized language, what approach should we utilize?

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Postcolonialism

Deconstruction

Formalism

Answer 31

C

Question 32

If we are to understand the power relations between ‘center’ and ‘other’ in both Marxist and Postcolonial criticism, how exactly does the privileged maintain the status quo?

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By ideology, mainly using ‘unchanging’ or ‘static’ reading of texts.

By ideology, mainly by promoting a consciousness that plays on people’s consent.

By ideology, mainly using police power or physical force.

Answer 32

B

Question 33

If we are to understand the social conditions by which a text was produced and the manner of its reception by certain type of readers, what literary approach should we utilize?

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Deconstruction

Post-colonialism

Marxism

Answer 33

C

Question 34

Wildflower (2017) is a Philippine drama series. It follows the story of Lily Cruz, a beautiful and smart heiress who wants justice for her parents’ deaths by seeking revenge against the evil Ardiente family, a powerful political dynasty in the fictional province that bears their name. If we are to examine women’s representation in relation to the maintenance of the feudal set-up in rural Philippines, which approaches should we employ in the analysis of the film.

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Feminism and Deconstruction

Feminism and Marxism

Feminism and Post-colonialism

Answer 34

B

Question 35

1984 is a dystopian novel published in 1949. The novel is set in a fictional super state of Oceania whose residents are victims of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation. Oceania’s political ideology, euphemistically named English Socialism is enforced by the privileged, elite Inner Party. Via the “Thought Police”, the Inner Party persecutes individualism and independent thinking, which are regarded as “thought crimes”. The tyranny is ostensibly overseen by a mysterious leader known as Big Brother, who enjoys an intense cult of personality. If we are to analyze the text for its use of allegory by which Stalin’s dictatorship and totalitarian government was reflected, what approaches should we employ?

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Deconstruction and Marxism

Feminism and Marxism

Formalism and Marxism

Answer 35

C