Top 250+ Solved Literary Criticism MCQ Questions Answer
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
Q. FR Leavis said the business of the literary critic is
a. To have a coherent response to commentary
b. To be on guard against abstracting things
c. To be on guard against generalization
d. All of the above
Q. Leavis states that poetry is concrete and that philosophy is
a. The same
b. Abstract
c. Disinterested
d. Ephemeral
Q. According to Leavis, philosophic training would benefit the critic by making clearthat
a. The two are vastly similar
b. The two are vastly different
c. Philosophy is needed to be a critic
d. The two are complementary
Q. The reading demanded by poetry is different from that demanded by
a. Philosophy
b. History
c. Science
d. Law
Q. Leavis asserts that words in poetry demands _____ responsiveness.
a. Disinterested
b. Partial
c. Complete
d. Voluntary
Q. Dr. Wellek accuses Leavis of being unfair to the poets of the ______ Age.
a. Victorian
b. Neo- Classical
c. Romantic
d. Puritan
Q. Leavis says that his and Wellek’s approaches are different because he is a critic,and Wellek is a
a. Realist
b. Artist
c. Writer
d. Philosopher