Top 250+ Solved Literary Criticism MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Arnold believes that without poetry, “Science will appear
a. complete”
b. incomplete”
c. immature
d. undefined”
Q. Arnold feels the historic estimate and the personal estimate often supersedes the
a. ideal estimate
b. principal estimate
c. critical estimate
d. real estimate
Q. To Arnold, the superiority of best poetry is marked by the superior character of
a. truth and seriousness
b. truth and ideas
c. seriousness and knowledge
d. knowledge and truth
Q. Arnold defines poetry as
a. ‘The criticism of life, governed by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty’.
b. ‘The breath and finer spirit of all knowledge’.
c. ‘Not an expression of emotion, but as escape from emotion’.
d. ‘A speaking picture with its end, to teach and delight’.
Q. The first great principle of criticism enunciated by Arnold is that of
a. Disinterestedness or detachment
b. Response to rhythm and metre
c. Speculation and theorisation
d. Measurement of knowledge
Q. Which poet does Arnold say lack ‘the high seriousness of the great classics’?
a. Chaucer
b. Dryden
c. Pope
d. Burns
Q. Eliot’s essay ‘The Function of Criticism’ has
a. two points
b. three parts
c. four parts
d. five parts
Q. According to Eliot, Literary tradition is
a. Self-sacrifice
b. Whiggering
c. Self-organism
d. a canon
Q. A critic according to Eliot must be entirely
a. impersonal and objective
b. imaginative and emotional
c. ordered and discerning
d. learned and well-read
Q. Eliot says that the function of a critic is to ______ a work of art
a. explain
b. elucidate
c. publish
d. contemplate
Q. In T.S Eliot's "The Function of Criticism'', he mentions that the ____ should bealtered by the ___, as much as the ___ is altered by the ____.
a. future, past & past, future
b. present, past & past, present
c. future, present & present, future
d. past, present & present, past
Q. What is the commentation and exposition of works of art by means of written wordsaccording to Eliot?
a. philosophy
b. Literature
c. criticism
d. creativity
Q. Eliot mentions that the end of criticism appears to be the elucidation of works of art and
a. the correction of taste
b. the convection of taste
c. the conversion of taste
d. the conduction of taste