Top 50+ Solved The Function of Criticism MCQ Questions Answer
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
Q. What according to Eliot does the inner voice sound like?
a. trusting one's instincts
b. doing as one likes
c. doing what's necessary
d. doing as other's like
Q. Who according to Eliot are the real corruptors of taste?
a. those that supply lies and fiction
b. those that supply opinions or fancy
c. those that supply truth or facts
d. those that supply criticism
Q. According to Eliot the most important qualification that a critic must have is
a. a highly developed sense of understanding
b. a highly developed sense of fact
c. a highly developed sense of meaning
d. a highly developed sense of intuition
Q. T.S. Eliot has stated that criticism is the elucidation of work of _________ and thecorrection of _________.
a. arts, taste
b. writers, sense
c. individual, mistake
d. none of the above
Q. Eliot states that to be an ideal critic, one has to develop an extraordinary sense of_____.
a. imagination
b. taste
c. fact
d. vision