Top 50+ Solved Criticism and Philosophy - F.R. Leavis MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Leavis boldly announced that Literary Criticism is not _____________
a. Psychology
b. History
c. Philosophy
d. Physiology
Q. The ideal critic according to Leavis is the __________
a. Ideal poet
b. Ideal reader
c. Ideal philosopher
d. Ideal person
Q. Leavis asserts that words in poetry demands________________ responsiveness.
a. Total
b. Absolute
c. Complex
d. Complete
Q. A critic’s constant concern is never to lose his ________________
a. Completeness of possession
b. Value Judgment
c. Completeness of response
d. Irrelevant generalizing
Q. Dr. Wellek’s first criticism of Leavis is that Leavis didn’t develop
a. cogency
b. theoretical implications
c. coherence of response
d. none of the above
Q. Dr. Wellek’s main criticism of Leavis was that
a. Leavis was biased
b. Leavis lacked interest in philosophy
c. Leavis was not a romantic
d. Leavis was ambiguous
Q. The difference between a poet and a philosopher according to Leavis is
a. Symbolical representations
b. Interests of rhythm
c. Laxity of expression
d. Evocative powers
Q. Who has written Literary Criticism and Philosophy
a. T. S Eliot
b. I. A Richards
c. F. R Leavis
d. M. H Abrams
Q. To F. R. Leavis, literary criticism and philosophy are
a. “quite distinct and different kinds of discipline”
b. “quite similar discipline”
c. “quite amusing discipline”
d. “quite extraordinary disciplines”
Q. F. R. Leavis states, “By the critic of poetry I understand the complete reader: the ideal critic is
a. the ideal writer”
b. the ideal composer”
c. the ideal reader”
d. the ideal man”
Q. The critic’s aim is, first, to realize as sensitively and completely as possible this orthat which claims his
a. Imagination
b. Attention
c. Thoughts
d. Enthusiasm
Q. The literary critic aims to make fully conscious and articulate the immediate senseof
a. “value that ‘places’ the poem”
b. “value that ‘situates’ the poem”
c. “value that ‘modifies’ the poem”
d. “value that ‘decodes’ the poem”
Q. Leavis states, “But it is to be note that the improvement we ask for is of the critic, the critic as critic, and to count on it would be to count on the attainment of
a. A glorious task”
b. A perfect balance”
c. An ideal task”
d. An arduous ideal”
Q. Leavis never proposed to consider __ as a philosophic thinker
a. William Wordsworth
b. William Blake
c. PB Shelly
d. Dr. Wellek
Q. Who said, “Poetry must be in serious relation to actuality, it must have a firm grasp of the actual, of the object, it must be in relation to life”?
a. William Wordsworth
b. Matthew Arnold
c. TS Eliot
d. FR Leavis