Who is Aristotle father?
(a) A common man of Macedonia
(b) A Macedonian citizen
(c) A nobleman of Athens
(d) Nichomachus, the court physician to King Amyntas II of Macedonia
Question’s Answer: Nichomachus, the court physician to King Amyntas II of Macedonia
According to Aristotle: “Neither one should do too little, nor too much”. Which concept of the critic is implied?
(a) Carefully choose his actions
(b) To do what is right
(c) Moderation, the golden mean
(d) Take moral responsibility and act carefully
Question’s Answer: Moderation, the golden mean
Is it correct to say that Aristotle was scientific and Plato was metaphysical?
(a) Partly true
(b) True
(c) False
(d) Both were metaphysical
Question’s Answer: True
Aristotle defines virtue as ____ .
(a) Moral mobility and deeds performance of good deeds
(b) Goodness
(c) Performance of good
(d) Excellence
Question’s Answer: Moral mobility and deeds performance of good deeds
Which man, according to Aristotle, does not unnecessarily expose himself to danger yet is ready to give his life?
(a) The ideal man
(b) A good man
(c) A virtuous man
(d) Brave man
Question’s Answer: The ideal man
Aristotle’s Poetics is divided into total ___ chapters.
(a) 20
(b) 40
(c) 17
(d) 26
Question’s Answer: 26
What is the topic of discussion in the next fourteen chapters (6-19)?
(a) Tragedy
(b) Epic
(c) Diction
(d) Poetry, its origin
Question’s Answer: Tragedy
According to Aristotle what points are important in a character? First goodness, secondly appropriateness, thirdly true to life and lastly
(a) Truthful
(b) Consistency
(c) Powerful
(d) Magnificent
Question’s Answer: Consistency
Thought must have a ___ .
(a) Nobility of expression
(b) Cause and effect relationship
(c) Grandeur of presentation
(d) Dignity of the character
Question’s Answer: Nobility of expression
Aristotle’s defines tragedy as ___ .
(a) Tragic flaw is the cause of a good man’s fall
(b) Tragedy deals with the fall of a good man
(c) Catharsis is possible
(d) Tragedy is a serious drama in a form of action which through pity and fear leads to catharsis of such emotions
Question’s Answer: Tragedy is a serious drama in a form of action which through pity and fear leads to catharsis of such emotions
According to Aristotle, six constituent elements in tragedy are ______ .
(i) plot, (ii) character, (iii) thought,
(iv) diction, (v) melody and (vi)
(a) Spectacle
(b) Rhetorical brilliance
(c) Incident
(d) Grandeur
Question’s Answer: Spectacle
The first five chapters of Aristotle’s Poetics deal with
(a) Discussion of poetry
(b) Tragedy
(c) Mimetic theory
(d) Different imitative arts, origin partly, its form comedy and tragedy
Question’s Answer: Different imitative arts, origin partly, its form comedy and tragedy
What unity a plot should have?
(a) Unity of action
(b) Unity of thought
(c) Unity of hero
(d) Unity of purpose
Question’s Answer: Unity of action
What factors are very imp-ortant in a plot?
(a) A grand opening
(b) Balanced in form
(c) A beginning, middle
(d) All of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: All of A, B, and C
What are the suitable emotions for a plot in tragedy?
(a) Disaster
(b) Tragic pleasure
(c) Horror
(d) Pity and fear
Question’s Answer: Pity and fear
In a plot of tragedy, the hero’s fortunes move from happiness to misery due to ____.
(a) Fate
(b) Human failings
(c) Wrong judgement
(d) Tragic flaw
Question’s Answer: Tragic flaw
Who can be a tragic hero?
(a) A perfectly good man
(b) A good man with certain weaknesses over which he has no control
(c) A good man with human failings like error of judgement or a flaw
(d) Ill-fated man
Question’s Answer: A good man with human failings like error of judgement or a flaw
Horace was a Roman poet who belonged to
(a) 65-8B.C.
(b) 65-3 B.C.
(c) 341-470 B.C.
(d) 121-65 B.C.
Question’s Answer: 65-8B.C.
The discussion on importance of ancients and moderns received largest contribution from which critic?
(a) Virgil
(b) Horace
(c) Ovid
(d) Livy
Question’s Answer: Horace
In a plot according to Poetics there should be self explanatory beginning, middle must follow naturally to the catastrophe and the end should be
(a) Naturally related to the beginning
(b) Appropriate, went before beginning and middle
(c) Causally related to something that
(d) Related to the beginning and middle
Question’s Answer: Appropriate, went before beginning and middle
The ancients in this discussion are
(a) Greeks and Romans
(b) Early Romans
(c) Greeks
(d) All those who did not subscribe to Horace’s concept of classical poetry
Question’s Answer: Greeks
Horace’s views on Poetry are significant for he belonged to a glorious period of Roman rule. What was the period he represents?
(a) Augustan age named after the Roman Augustus emperor Octavian
(b) Augustus was interested in art and progress in literature was tremendous during his period
(c) The period which produced poets like Virgil
(d) Golden period of Roman poetry
Question’s Answer: Augustan age named after the Roman Augustus emperor Octavian
Horace’s greatest works in criticism are contained in
(a) Odes
(b) Epistles
(c) Ars Poctica
(d) Satires
Question’s Answer: Ars Poctica
____ advised the poets to choose a subject within his powers, to study the best models, to seek competent criticism and to revise his work with care.
(a) Virgil
(b) Ovid
(c) Horace
(d) Livy
Question’s Answer: Horace
According to_______, perfection is not possible and small faults in a good piece will be tolerated?
(a) Virgil
(b) Livy
(c) Aristotle
(d) Horace
Question’s Answer: Horace
Which form of literature received greatest attention of Horace?
(a) Poetry
(b) Drama
(c) Satire
(d) Prose treatise
Question’s Answer: Drama
Which English writer made this discussion subject matter of his work?
(a) Pope in Essays on Criticism
(b) Matthew Amold in Essays
(c) John Dryden in his Prefaces
(d) Jonathan Swift in The Battle of the Books
Question’s Answer: John Dryden in his Prefaces
According to ____, “the conquered Greece conquered her Roman Conqueror”?
(a) Tibullus
(b) Virgil
(c) Horace
(d) Ovid
Question’s Answer: Horace
For Horace what was of great importance in the choice of the subject matter and its rendering?
(a) Appropriateness
(b) Balance
(c) Harmony
(d) Natural affinity between the subject matter and metre
Question’s Answer: Natural affinity between the subject matter and metre
Ars Poetica is Horace’s treatise on art of poetry which contains
(a) observations on poetry but they are significant statements of a great poet
(b) Basically an epistle
(c) Significant deliberation on poetry
(d) Stray views on poetry Random
Question’s Answer: Random observations on poetry but they are significant statements of a great poet
In his remarks on language Horace comes very close to Aristotle. He suggests
(a) Words and style must match
(b) Words and theme must match
(c) Appropriate words
(d) Right choice of words and their effective arrangement in a composition
Question’s Answer: Right choice of words and their effective arrangement in a composition
Horace emphasized the nature of poetry and said it must be pleasure giving. Is it true?
(a) Partially true
(b) False
(c) True but didn’t Plato also say the same
(d) True
Question’s Answer: True
What was Horace’s suggestion in the choice of subject matter?
(a) Any provided it was simple,familiar and uniform
(b) Significant for the people
(c) Grand topic
(d) These should be within the power of the poet, to which he could do justice
Question’s Answer: Any provided it was simple,familiar and uniform
______ examined the question of genius and art in the success of poetry.
(a) Plato
(b) Aristotle
(c) Horace
(d) Virgil
Question’s Answer: Horace
What was the unique ability Horace possessed?
(a) Boldness in rejection of what was inadequate Alexandrian and old Roman models
(b) Acceptance of tenets of great masters of Greece (c) His natural poetic talent
(d) His ability to compromise between the conflicting claims of pleasure and profit
Question’s Answer: His ability to compromise between the conflicting claims of pleasure and profit
According to Horace: “Mediocrity is forbidden to poets alike by gods and men and booksellers”. It suggests
(a) Need of talent
(b) Talent must be disciplined
(c) Freak success or chance is not possible
(d) Natural gift of genius must pass through hard work and training in thecreative art for being successful
Question’s Answer: Natural gift of genius must pass through hard work and training in thecreative art for being successful
How did Longinus explain the sublime?
(a) As something more than what is good for instruction, delight and persuasion
(b) A certain destination and consummate excellence in expression
(c) Uplifting spirit
(d) More for the soul
Question’s Answer: A certain destination and consummate excellence in expression
Longinus believed that stately thoughts belong to the
(a) Stately minds
(b) Genius
(c) Loftiest minds
(d) Mind trained for the purpose
Question’s Answer: Loftiest minds
Longinus, the Greek critic belonged to
(a) 1st century A.D.
(b) 5th century A.D.
(c) 3rd century A.D.
(d) 4th century A.D.
Question’s Answer: 3rd century A.D.
How to define Sublimity?
(a) Excellence of language
(b) Uplifting effect
(c) Intensity of thought
(d) Grandeur of thought and intensity of feeling expressed in appropriate language
Question’s Answer: Grandeur of thought and intensity of feeling expressed in appropriate language
What is the role of genius or talent in poetry?
(a) Horace is very candid on this topic. Natural gift must be subjected to the rigours of the craft to attain the desired result
(b) Genius without hard work is inadequate
(c) Natural gift is essential for success
(d) Talent needs no schooling
Question’s Answer: Horace is very candid on this topic. Natural gift must be subjected to the rigours of the craft to attain the desired result
What are the other requirements of sublimity according to Longinus?
(a) Besides grandeur of thought and. intensity of feeling, noble diction, skillful composition, appropriate rhetorical devices must be learned
(b) Tools of language
(c) Talent must be trained
(d) For genius without training may fail
Question’s Answer: Besides grandeur of thought and. intensity of feeling, noble diction, skillful composition, appropriate rhetorical devices must be learned
According to Longinus can a genius succeed without skill?
(a) Training is always needed
(b) No, for even a genius is prone to fall into bombast, frigidity or excess
(c) Even a genius has to be educated in subjecting himself to the discipline of the task
(d) Poetry is sacred and initiates and subjugation of the wild self is essential
Question’s Answer: No, for even a genius is prone to fall into bombast, frigidity or excess
Longinus believed sublimity is the echo of
(a) Greatness of the mind
(b) Greatness of the soul
(c) Greatness of art
(d) Committed mind
Question’s Answer: Greatness of the soul
Sublimity brings out the
(a) Value oriented experience
(b) Nobility in man
(c) Great happiness
(d) Joy at discovery of something beyond
Question’s Answer: Nobility in man
What is the role of arrangement of words in a composition for sublimity?
(a) Dignity
(b) Harmony
(c) It blends thought, emotion and figures in a harmonious whole in which harmony plays a significant role
(d) Logic and good taste
Question’s Answer: It blends thought, emotion and figures in a harmonious whole in which harmony plays
a significant role
What is the value of Longinus’ treatise on sublime for criticism?
(a) Intimate connection between the greatness of the soul and
(b) Excellence of thought and perfection of craft are essential
(c) Noble mind alone can produce noble and dignified poetry
(d) greatness of speech His aesthetics are grounded in thoughts and emotions of noble” mind
Question’s Answer: greatness of speech His aesthetics are grounded in thoughts and emotions of noble” mind
Longinus has emphasized which factor in the treatise on sublime?
(a) Grandeur
(b) Powerful delivery
(c) Simplicity
(d) Figures of speech
Question’s Answer: Figures of speech
Longinus considered the works of Homer and Sappho to be significant not only for instruction, delight and persuasion. He also find ___ .
(a) Poetic charm
(b) Valuable treatise for cultural reasons
(c) Racial consciousness indomitable spirit of man
(d) Sublimity
Question’s Answer: Sublimity
The chief figures which make for sublimity are ____.
(a) Rapid flow
(b) Emotion
(c) Rhetorical question, asyndeton,hyper baton and periphrasis
(d) Rhetoric
Question’s Answer: Rhetorical question, asyndeton,hyper baton and periphrasis
According to Longinus nobility of diction is one of the essential factors in sublimity. It comprises of
(a) Way of speaking
(b) Arrangement of words
(c) Proper choice of words and use of metaphors and ornamental language
(d) Ornamentation
Question’s Answer: Proper choice of words and use of metaphors and ornamental language
According to Longinus, what is the power of suitable words?
(a) Power to move
(b) Power of emotional
(c) They are so effective that they can breathe voice into dead things
(d) Reaches the innermost recesses of listener’s mind and heart
Question’s Answer: They are so effective that they can breathe voice into dead things
Longinus as a critic. can be best defined as
(a) A classicist
(b) A classicist in taste, romanticist in temper and an idealist at heart
(c) Seeker of perfection
(d) A classicist with moral bent of mind
Question’s Answer: A classicist in taste, romanticist in temper and an idealist at heart
Plato’s enjoyment of comedies of Aristophanes had a limitation. What was the reason?
(a) He believed that laughter must be controlled
(b) Laughter with instructions
(c) Laughter
(d) He was against excessive laughter
Question’s Answer: He believed that laughter must be controlled
Do Poetry is for delight and philosophy for instructions Plato did not consider
this basic difference between the two
(b) Poetry and morality should be linked
(c) ou find a basic flaw in Plato’s rejection of poetry?
(a) He said that poetry should not be away from moral teaching
(d) He felt that purpose of poetry and philosophy were the same
Question’s Answer: Poetry is for delight and philosophy for instructions Plato did not consider
this basic difference between the two
What was the believe of Plato due to which he attacked poetry ?
(a) Poetry is based on copy of the appearances and not reality
(b) Poets had a bad influence on social morality
(c) Poets aroused emotions and desires which served no social purpose
(d) Poetry was based on irrational frenzy
Question’s Answer: Poets had a bad influence on social morality
What are the effects of suitable and striking words according to Longinus?
(a) Effectiveness
(b) Achieving the goal
(c) Emotional effect
(d) A moving and seductive effect by their grandeur, beauty.. mellowness, dignity, force, power and a sort of glittering charm
Question’s Answer: A moving and seductive effect by their grandeur, beauty.. mellowness, dignity, force,
power and a sort of glittering charm
On WHICH assumption and belief Plato’s dislike the poetry?
(a) Philosophy was superior to poetry
(b) Philosophy was a good guide
(c) Philosophy deals in truth and poetry only imitates shadow
(d) Philosophy sees truth in its ideal or pure form
Question’s Answer: Philosophy was superior to poetry
Plato desired that poetry should have what kind of style?
(a) Form and style
(b) A structure
(c) A moral purpose
(d) Austerity
Question’s Answer: Form and style
Plato believed that poetry should have
(a) Little experimentation
(b) A definite form
(c) Decorum, order, austerity and restraint
(d) No deviation form the declared path of decorum
Question’s Answer: Decorum, order, austerity and restraint
Who said that poetry must have a moral basis, an essential requirement for good art?
(a) Aristotle
(b) Socrates
(c) Aristophanes
(d) Plato
Question’s Answer: Plato
The Plato’s concept of mimesis is ____.
(a) Copying life as it appears
(b) In the process poetry could elevate human nature
(c) It means imitation, essential characteristic of art
(d) The process is irrational
Question’s Answer: Copying life as it appears
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