LITERARY CRITICISM B.
the influence of the Americans to the independence of the
Instructor: Angel Grace A. Indino Filipinos
C. the literary contributions of the Japanese to the Filipinos
1. Which of the following is NOT true? D. the linguistic contributions of the Chinese to the Filipinos
a. Marxism literary theory rejects the idea of “art for art’s sake.”
b. Formalism is criticism for meaning. 10. A formalistic approach to John Milton's Paradise Lost would take
c. New Criticism promotes close reading and interpretation. into account the following EXCEPT
d. Pyschoanalytic theory in literature attempts to interpret A. the characters of Adam, Eve, Satan, and God
symbols in literature. B. the point of view in which the story is told
2. Which of the following does NOT allow intertextual reading of C. plot analysis
D. the blindness of the writer
literature?
a. Feminism Criticism d. New Criticism 11. If the biographical approach is used to analyze Milton's Paradise
b. Marxism Criticism Lost, the critic will consider the
c. Post-colonial Criticism A. author's Puritan beliefs
3. Which of the following may be accepted by a Reader-reception B. symbolism of the paradise
critic? C. description of the garden of Eden and its prescribed location D.
a. All interpretations and meanings are correct. interrelated actions
b. Interpretations should ultimately be aligned with the author’s
12. Which critical approach focuses on ways texts reflect, reinforce, or
intention, not the reader’s perception.
challenge the effects of class, power relations, and social roles?
c. No interpretation can be objective, truthful and accurate.
d. Interpretations are governed by the language and A. Reader-response
convention of text, and the literary competence of the B. Feminism
reader. C. Historicism
4. What is common among the following literary criticism theories: D. Marxist
Marxism, Post-colonialism, Gender and Feminism and New
Historicism? 13. Which critical approach focuses on ways texts reflect, reinforce, or
a. Literature is a product of an ideology or social constructs. challenge the effects of class, power relations, and social roles?
b. Literature affects human behavior in a given society.
A. Reader-response
c. Literature is independent from other texts and factors eternal
B. Feminism
to the text.
C. Historicism
d. Literature is creative.
D. Marxist
5. How does a Marxist literary critic view literature?
a. A product of class struggles and economic history. 14. Which critical approach focuses on "objectively" evaluating the text,
b. A product of the author’s view of society and the world. identifying its underlying form. It may study, for example, a text's use of
c. A receptacle of symbol imagery, metaphor, or symbolism?
d. An art which exists for its own sake.
6. Which of the following relates Psychonalytic theory in literary A. Reader-response
criticism? B. Media Criticism
a. Art is decadent and self-indulging. C. Historicism
b. Literary criticism is giving judgment of the behavior and D. Formalism
prejudices of readers during the reading act.
c. The literary text is the product of the author’s repressed 15. Which critical approach focuses on each reader's personal reactions to a
dreams and fantasies, and literary interpretation is a form of text?
dream interpretation or psychoanalysis.
A. Reader-response
d. The text is a rich symbol of author’s personal, and
B. Feminism
psychological view of the world and its people.
C. Historicism
7. Which of the following represents the philosophical belief of a
D. Marxist
New Historicism scholar?
a. History exists as the only accurate text of the post-
16. Which critical approach focuses on understanding ways gender
structuralism.
roles are reflected
b. It does not allow intertextual reading.
or contradicted by texts?
c. It examines how readers are influenced by their prejudice or
A. Reader-response
personal view of the world.
B. Feminism
d. There is no history, but a version of the author’s view of the
C. Historicism
historical facts.
D. Marxist
8. The historical approach can be used to analyze Jose Rizal's Noli
Me Tangere if the critic considers
A. the travels of Rizal
B. the time that shaped the events in the novel
C. the abuses experienced by the Filipinos
D. the meaning of the title of the novel
9. The sociological approach can be used to study the Noli Me
Tangere of Rizal if the critic considers
A. the political and social conditions of the Filipinos during
the Spanish era
