Top 250+ Solved Literary Criticism MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Identify the state festival held every year in honour of the God Dionysus in Greece.
a. great dionysia
b. dionysia
c. phaedrus
d. athenia
Q. Choose the work from the choices below that is in the form of scholarly exchanges betweenPlato and his teacher Socrates.
a. protogoras
b. gorgias
c. symposium
d. dialogues
Q. In which work did Aristotle firmly refute Plato’s pronouncements deriding art, artists andpoetry?
a. de anima
b. poetics
c. metaphysics
d. physics
Q. The pivotal speaker in Republic, Socrates recalls the visit to Piraeus, the port of Athens totake part in the festivities to honour which deity?
a. bendis
b. apollo
c. dionysus
d. cupid
Q. Who is the young half-brother of Plato whose name means “owl” or “gleaming eyes”?
a. cephalus
b. aristotle
c. glaucon
d. thrasymachus
Q. Which book in the Republic ends with the Phoenician myth, which Socrates feels would serveas the effective mythical explanation for their State/
a. first
b. fourth
c. second
d. third
Q. Who attempts to define a philosopher and introduces the Theory of Forms?
a. plato
b. socrates
c. aristotle
d. longinus
Q. Which form of government is based primarily on wealth?
a. timocracy
b. oligarchy
c. democracy
d. tyranny
Q. The Republic concludes with Socrates’ vibrant description of the tale of which hero?
a. er
b. ulysses
c. telemachus
d. achilles
Q. Who mentions: “God is not the author of all things, but of good only”
a. plato
b. glaucon
c. socrates
d. adeimantus
Q. Whose verses does Socrates criticise because of the uneven blend of narrative, especially thespeeches of the characters in Iliad that also employ mimesis or imitation?
a. hesiod
b. homer
c. aeschylus
d. sophocles
Q. Which genre, according to Aristotle is divided into the epic and the dramatic according to themanner of its imitation?
a. poetry
b. drama
c. prose
d. fiction
Q. Which type of drama, according to Aristotle is considered a representation of characters of abase type, which means ridiculous?
a. farce
b. tragicomedy
c. satire
d. comedy
Q. Which chapter of Aristotle’s Poetics discusses the construction of an ideal plot, which isfundamental to tragedy?
a. sixth
b. seventh
c. eighth
d. ninth
Q. What is the Greek term for “resolution of complication”?
a. perepeteia
b. anagnorisis
c. denouement
d. catharsis