1. Who among the following were revaluing ‘the masses’ as sources and subjects of literature?
1) Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams
2) Penny Summerfield and Gillian Rose
3) Rachel Alsop and Catherine Belsey
4) Jon Cook and Marilyn Deegan
Answer: 1
2. Identify the work which has NOT been authored by the famous cultural critic Raymond Williams:
1) The Country and the City
2) Culture and Society
3) Modern Tragedy
4) The Making of the English Working Class
Answer: 4
3. The phrase “structure of feeling” is attributed to
1) Lauren Berlant
2) Terry Eagleton
3) Raymond Williams
4) Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Answer: 3
4. What, according to Raymond Williams, is the right description of the term ‘Cultural Materialism’?
1. The cultural effect that religion has in social life
2. The political effect that matter has in social lives
3. The material effect that culture has in wider social life
4. The effect of social life in cultural situations of uncertainty
Answer: 3
5. The term homology means a correspondence between two or more structures. Who of the following developed a theory of relations between literary works and social classes in terms of homologies
(A) Raymond Williams
(B) Christopher Caudwell
(C) Lucien Goldmann
(D) Antonio Gramsci
Answer: (A OR C)
6. In a remarkably proleptic insight, a critic wrote the following, anticipating Benedict Anderson’s definition of the nation as “an imagined political community”:
“Most novels are in some sense knowable communities. It is part of a traditional method — an underlying stance and approach — that a novelist offers to show people and their relationships in essentially knowable and communicable ways”. Name the critic and the reference
(1) Van Wyck Brooks, The writer in America
(2) Raymond Williams, The country and the city
(3) Joseph Wood Krutch, The Modern Temper
(4) T.S. Eliot, Notes Towards a Definition of culture
Answer: 2
7. Who among the following is not a myth critic ?
(A) Robert Graves
(B) Raymond Williams
(C) Francis Fergusson
(D) Northrop Frye
Answer: B
8. “I have observed with growing anxiety the career of this word culture during the past six of seven years. We may find it natural, and significant, that during a period of unparalleled destructiveness, this word should come to have an important role. . .”
1. F. R Leavis, Mass Civilization and Minority Culture
2. T. S. Eliot, Notes Towards the Definition of Culture
3. Raymond Williams, Culture and Society
4. Stuart Hall, Cultural Representations and Signifizing Practice
Answer: 2
9. Which of these are true of Raymond Williams’ Culture and Society?
A. It critiques the idea of high culture.
B. It overlooks the idea of high culture.
C. It defines culture as a way of life.
D. It equates culture with science.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below
A- A and C only
B- A and D only
C- A and B only
D- B and D only
Answer: A