Top 250+ Solved Literary Criticism MCQ Questions Answer
Q. The most important qualification that Eliot recommends to critics is to possess a
a. “very highly developed sense of literature”
b. “very highly developed sense of history”
c. “very highly developed sense of philosophy”
d. “very highly developed sense of fact”
Q. According to TS Eliot, who overlook the capital importance of criticism in the workof creation itself?
a. Middleton Murry
b. Matthew Arnold
c. Clutton Brock
d. Coleridge
Q. What are the chief tools of the critic according to TS Eliot?
a. Comparison and analysis
b. Interpretation and communication
c. Studying and reproduction
d. Fact hunting
Q. What did TS Eliot called critics like himself who did not have the ‘inner voice’?
a. Inner deaf mutes
b. Whiggery
c. Fact hunters
d. Lemon- squeezers
Q. “The Function of Criticism” by TS Eliot was a response to
a. Matthew Arnold
b. Dr. Wellek
c. Middleton Murry
d. FR Leavis
Q. Eliot said that the major part of the effort of an author in composing his work is __.
a. Critical labour
b. Critical faculty
c. Creative criticism
d. Workshop criticism
Q. Leavis literary Criticism and Philosophy is a reaction to __________ essay
a. T.S Eliot’s
b. I.A Richard’s
c. R.N Wellek’s
d. K. Wimsatt
Q. Leavis is of the opinion that reading demanded by poetry is different from thatdemanded by
a. science
b. law
c. history
d. philosophy
Q. Leavis expresses his views on the _______ of criticism
a. relevance
b. discipline
c. function
d. guidelines
Q. Leavis is of the opinion that the reading demanded by poetry is different from thatdemanded by
a. drama
b. philosophy
c. science
d. prose
Q. "Literary Criticism and Philosophy" was written by F.R Leavis in response towhich other critic?
a. Matthew Arnold
b. Dr. Rene Wellek
c. T.S Eliot
d. William Wordsworth
Q. What according to Leavis are the two distinct and different kinds of discipline?
a. Science and arts
b. Science and Philosophy
c. Literary Criticism and philosophy
d. Arts and Philosophy
Q. F.R. Leavis is of the opinion that the ideal ___ is the ideal ____.
a. critic, reader
b. philosopher, critic
c. reader. critic
d. writer, critic