MCQs Critics in English LiteratureBy: Prof. Dr. Fazal Rehman | Last updated: May 8, 2025 35 Score: 0 Attempted: 0/35 Subscribe 1. “Correlative” was first used by Eliot in his (A) Essay on ‘King Lear’ (B) Essay on ‘Macbeth’ (C) Essay on ‘Hamlet’ (D) Essay on ‘Othello’ 2. The phrase ‘dissociation of sensibility” was first used by Eliot in his (A) Essay on ‘Hamlet’ (B) Tradition and Individual Talent (C) Frontiers of Criticism (D) Metaphysical Poets 3. Lawrence’s Twilight in Italy and Sea and Sardinia are marked by (A) A true picture (B) A vivaciousness and descriptive brilliance of a Tolstoy, Dickens, and George Eliot (C) Truthful travel sketches (D) Powerful language 4. Which travel sketch is considered Lawrence’s best? (A) Twilight in Italy (B) Sea and Sardinia (C) Etruscan Places (D) Morning in Mexico 5. “There is literary criticism in his travel sketches and philosophy in his criticism.” This is true in the case of which modern British writer? (A) James Joyce (B) D.H. Lawrence (C) Kingsley Amis (D) George Eliot 6. According to Lawrence, the basis of human sensuality was (A) Thoracic ganglion (B) Solar Plexus (C) Cardiac plexus (D) The Lumbar ganglion 7. Which of the following phrases has been coined by T.S. Eliot? (A) Objective correlative (B) Suspension of disbelief (C) Art for Art’s sake (D) Touchstone method 8. Which of the following phrases has not been coined by T.S. Eliot? (A) Dissociation of sensibility (B) Unified sensibility (C) Art for art’s sake (D) Objective correlative 9. Which statements may be true about Eliot’s criticism? (A) Unification of sensibility means a fusion of thought and feeling (B) Dissociation of sensibility is a characteristic of good poetry (C) Eliot was a romanticist in literature, not classicist (D) Unification of sensibility is a characteristic of bad poetry 10. The term ‘new criticism’ was first used by which critics? (A) George Watson (B) John Crowe Ransom (C) T.S. Eliot (D) Joel E. Spingarn 11. Who is the author of The Sacred Wood? (A) F.R. Leavis (B) James Wood (C) I.A. Richards (D) T.S. Eliot 12. In his major criticism, Lawrence makes a distinction between (A) Knowledge and instinct (B) Intuition and the mind, instinct of the body and intellect of the mind (C) Education and ignorance (D) Sensitive mind and intellectual awareness 13. Leavis’ New Bearings in English Poetry provides us with his critical opinions on (A) Post-Shakespearean poetry (B) Modern poetry (C) Drama (D) Novel 14. Which novelist has not been mentioned in Leavis’ The Great Tradition? (A) Jane Austen (B) Joseph Conrad (C) Thomas Hardy (D) George Eliot 15. Which critical works has been authored by F.R. Leavis? (A) The Great Tradition (B) The Principles of Literary Criticism (C) The Sacred Wood (D) Poetics 16. Leavis’ The Great Tradition provides us with his critical opinions on (A) Modern poetry (B) Post-Shakespearean poetry (C) Novel (D) Drama 17. Leavis’ Revaluation provides us with his critical opinions on (A) Modern poetry (B) Post-Shakespearean poetry (C) Drama (D) Novel 18. In which category can you keep the criticism of F.R. Leavis? (A) Biographical Criticism (B) Historical Criticism (C) Ontological Criticism (D) Comparative Criticism 19. Which statement is true about the critical opinions of F.R. Leavis? (A) Literature matters vitally to civilization (B) Literature of the past is more valuable than the literature of the present (C) Leavis judges a work of art on the basis of rules and theories which he has framed (D) Literature has nothing to do with the tastes and habits it fosters and its effect on the quality of living 20. F.R. Leavis was born in: (A) 14 July (B) 14 July 1896 (C) 14 July 1897 (D) 14 July 1898 21. Which critical work has not been authored by F.R. Leavis? (A) Revaluation (B) The Great Tradition (C) New Bearings in English Poetry (D) The Meaning of Meaning 22. Who is the author of the book Coleridge on Imagination? (A) James Wood (B) F.R. Leavis (C) L.K. Ogden (D) L.A. Richards 23. The full name of I.A. Richards is (A) Insle Anderson Richards (B) Iris August Richards (C) Iris Anderson Richards (D) Ivor Armstrong Richards 24. The Meaning of Meaning was written by Richards in collaboration with whom? (A) T.S. Eliot (B) William Empson (C) R.P. Blackmur (D) C.K. Ogden 25. Who is the author of the book The Principles of Literary Criticism? (A) I.A. Richards (B) William Empson (C) T.S. Eliot (D) Cleanth Brooks 26. Which has not been written by I.A. Richards? (A) The Principles of Literary Criticism (B) The Practical Criticism (C) The Metaphysical Poets (D) The Philosophy of Rhetoric 27. Which book was written by I.A. Richards in collaboration with C.K. Ogden and James Wood? (A) The Meaning of Meaning (B) The Foundation of Aesthetics (C) Coleridge on Imagination (D) The Principles of Literary Criticism 28. According to I.A. Richards, there are two uses of language. What are they? (A) Referential or scientific and emotive (B) Communicative and suggestive (C) Emotional and emotive (D) Referential and suggestive 29. “A poet in our time (novel) is a semi-barbarian in a civilized community.” This line may be associated with which critic? (A) T.S. Eliot (B) Thomas Love Peacock (C) F.R. Leavis (D) I.A. Richards 30. Who is known as the father of deconstruction? (A) Jacques Derrida (B) F.R. Leavis (C) I.A. Richards (D) T.S. Eliot 31. What does Richards mean by the term “synaesthesia”? (A) A harmony between words and music (B) A harmony between sound and rhythm (C) A harmony and equilibrium of our impulses (D) A harmony between body and soul 32. Of the following critics, who is considered to be the most celebrated by the philosophers of the 20th century? (A) F.R. Leavis (B) I.A. Richards (C) T.S. Eliot (D) Jacques Derrida 33. Which theory was applied to the whole gamut of arts and social sciences, including linguistics, anthropology, political science, and even architecture? (A) Theory of Imagination (B) Theory of Dramatic Pleasure (C) Theory of Deconstruction (D) Theory of Poetry 34. Jacques Derrida was an Algerian-born intellectual. (A) British (B) American (C) French (D) Swiss 35. Which books has not been written by Derrida? (A) Of Grammatology (B) Ulysses Gramophone: Here Say Yes in Joyce (C) Discoveries (D) The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond Related Posts:American English Critics in LiteratureBritish English Critics MCQsEnglish literature MCQsJohn Dryden MCQs [English Literature & Famous Authors]Alexander Pope MCQs [English Literature & Famous Authors]Fiction MCQs [American English Literature]