What is Psychoanalysis Criticism?
Jacques Lacon
1. Which of these is related exclusively with Jacques Lacan?
[A] Real
[B] Id
(C] Symbolic
[D] Ego
{E] Imaginary
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A and B only
[2] Band D only
[3] C and E only
[4] A and E only
Answer: 3 & 4
2. Identify the stage that falls between the imaginary and symbolic stages according to Jacques Lacan :
1. Middle stage
2. Minor stage
3. Medieval stage
4. Intermediate stage
Revised Answer: Marks Given to All
3. Who among the following proposes that the unconscious comes into being only in language?
(A) Sigmund Freud
(B) Jacques Lacan
(C) Stuart Hall
(D) Paul de Man
Answer: (B)
4. Jacques Lacan posits three ‘orders’ which structure human existence. In the list that follows: Identify the one that is not included by Lacan:
(A) Imaginary
(B) Unconscious
(C) Real
(D) Symbolic
Answers: (B)
Harold Bloom
1. Name the theorist who divided poets into “strong” and “weak” and popularized the practice of misreading:
(A) Alan Bloom
(B) Harold Bloom
(C) Geoffrey Hartman
(D) Stanley Fish
Answer: (B)
2. The Anxiety of Influence : A Theory of Poetry is written by :
(A) Maud Bodkin
(B) Stephen Spender
(C) Harold Bloom
(D) Frank Kernode
Answer: C
3. In Anxiety of Influence which of the following definitions is given by Harold Bloom to explain the term, ‘clinamen’?
1. Poetic hyperbole
2. Poetic misprision
3. Poetic sublime
4. Poetic supplement
Answer: 2
4. Who among the following posits the tradition of great writers as an inescapable fact, and takes the ambivalent position of considering it as both a blessing and a curse?
A- Allen Tate
B- F.R. Leavis
C- Harold Bloom
D- T. S. Eliot
Answer: C
Noam Chomsky
1. What term used by Ferdinand de Saussure corresponds to Noam Chomsky’s term ‘performance’?
1. Difference
2. Parole
3. Paradigm
4. Langue
Answer: 2
2. Who First developed the notion of ‘competence’ in language studies ?
(A) Dell Hymes
(B) Noam Chomsky
(C) Leech and Svartvik
(D) Henry Sweet
Answer: B
3. All except one of the following scholars have come up with models which aim to characterise world English’s within one conceptual set. Identify the lone exception.
(A) Tom McArthur
(B) Noam Chomsky
(C) Braj Kachru
(D) Manfred Gorlach
Answers: (B)
4. What is the order of publication of the following books of Noam Chomsky?
1. Problems of Knowledge and Freedom
2. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
3. Syntactic Structures
4. Knowledge of Language
Choose the correct option:
1. (d), (c), (b),(a)
2. (b), (c), (d), (a)
3. (c), (b), (a), (d)
4. (a), (b), (c), (d)
Answer: 3
5. Who among the following linguists proposed the terms, ‘competence’ and ‘performance’?
1. Noah Webster
2. Steven Pinker
3. Roman Jakobson
4. Noam Chomsky
Answer: 4
5. In Noam Chomsky’s definition of grammar which two features are drawn from mathematics?
A. complexity
B. abstraction
C. transformation
D. generation
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. A and B only
B. A and C only
C. B and D only
D.C and D only
Answer: d
6. Which of the following are books by Noam Chomsky?
A. Syntactic Structures
B. Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior
C. Language and Society
D. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
E. The Pragmatics of Politeness
Choose the correct answer from the options given below
A- A and C only
B- B and D only
C- C and E only
D- D and A only
Answer: d