Top 250+ Solved Literary Criticism MCQ Questions Answer
Q. What was Leavis' opinion of William Wordsworth?
a. He did not consider Wordsworth to be good poet
b. He did not consider Wordsworth to be a philosophic thinker.
c. He did not consider Wordsworth to be a critical thinker.
d. He did not consider Wordsworth to be a Romantic thinker.
Q. Training in what discipline would be beneficial but is not a necessity to a literarycritic according to Leavis?
a. Science
b. Psychology
c. Sociology
d. Philosophy
Q. Which of the following according to Leavis, does not invite one to "think about" and "judge"?
a. poetry
b. Philosophy
c. criticism
d. reading
Q. Leavis feels that the best way of presenting theoretical principles is to show thenat work in –
a. Factual Criticism
b. Logical Criticism
c. Practical Criticism
d. Constructive Criticism
Q. Dr. Wellek has criticized Leavis that his lack of interest in philosophy makes himunfair to the poets of ______________.
a. Victorian poets
b. Romantic poets
c. Elizabethan poets
d. Modern poets
Q. “The business of a literary critic is to attain a peculiar completeness of response”is stated by –
a. F.R. Leavis
b. Middleton Murry
c. Matthew Arnold
d. Rene Wellek
Q. For Leavis, the reading demanded by poetry is of a different kind from thatdemanded by ___________.
a. drama
b. essay
c. philosophy
d. science
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