Literary Criticism Quiz

Which approach is concerned with the impact of gender in writing and reading?

• Feminist Criticism

• Marxist Literary Criticism

• Formalist Approach

• Historical Approach

Which approach sees the importance of history in understanding a work?

• Historical Approach

• Marxist Literary Criticism

• Feminist Criticism

• Formalist Approach

Which approach is concerned with questions of ethical goodness and badness of literature?

• Historical Approach

• Feminist Criticism

• Moralist or Humanistic Approach

• Formalist Approach

Which approach recognizes that different people view works differently?

• Reader-Response Criticism

• Marxist Literary Criticism

• Formalist Approach

• Historical Approach

Which approach believes that a literary text is given meaning by its readers?

• Historical Approach

• Reader-Response Criticism

• Moralist or Humanistic Approach

• Formalist Approach

Which approach emphasizes on the unity of and form of a literary material?

• Historical Approach

• Formalist Approach

• Marxist Literary Criticism

• Feminist Criticism

Which form of criticism interrogates all societies and their texts including race, class, and attitudes and norms shared within a given culture?

• Historical Approach

• Feminist Criticism

• Marxist Literary Criticism

• Formalist Approach

Which form of criticism requires investigating the social, cultural, and intellectual context of a literary work?

• Historical Approach

• Feminist Criticism

• Moralist or Humanistic Approach

• Formalist Approach

A critique is a genre of which type of writing used to analyze a variety of works?

• brief

• interesting

• academic

• investigative

Why do we write critiques according to the text?

• To develop belief in the work's subject

• To develop faith in the work's subject

• To develop love for the work's subject

• To develop knowledge of the work's subject