21st Century Lit Quiz #2

Feminist Criticism depicts and questions which of the following?

• Social classes

• Gender roles and equality

• Psychology

• Effects of colonization

Who was influential in Psychoanalytic Theory?

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Karl Marx

• Shrek

• Sigmund Freud

Postcolonial criticism is the examination and analysis of the history, culture, and literature of the cultures of ________

• Africa

• Asia

• The Caribbean Islands

• South America

• All of the Above

What does Marxism Critical Literary Theory focus on?

• Prosperity through economic, social, and political advantage.

• Understanding the world.

• The life of Karl Marx.

• Struggle through economic, social, and political advantage.

Marxist literary theory could be described as...

• focusing on the struggles between social classes and those who oppress and those are oppressed

• focusing on communism

• A criticism of any rich characters

• being irrelevant after 1991

This school of literary theory says that a work is separate and not at all dependent upon the author’s life or the culture in which the work is created

• Post-colonialism
• Psychoanalytical
• Biographical
• Formalism

This school of literary theory is mainly concerned with the reader and the reading process and how they work together to create meaning

• Biographical
• Formalism
• Reader Response
• Feminism

This school of literary criticism shows how human behavior is relevant to our experience of literature

• Feminism
• Biographical
• Historical
• Psychoanalytical

This theory assumes that the text is always heavily influenced by the life, thoughts, and feelings of the author

• Biographical
• Historical
• Formalism
• Post-colonialism

Which of the following theories are under sociological criticism? Select the correct options.

• Reader-Response Criticism

• Feminist Criticism

• Marxist Criticism

• Psychological Criticism