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Literary Lenses!

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

For which lens is "Universal" a key word?

a)

Archetypal

b)

Marxist

c)

Psychological

d)

Biographical

2.

For which lens is "the author" a key word?

a)

Feminist

b)

Historical

c)

Biographical

d)

Reader Response

3.

What does the feminist lens do?

a)

Challenges a male-dominated view of society

b)

Reflects a male-dominated view of society

c)

Questions a male-dominated view of society

d)

Potentially all of the above

4.

What's the difference between the biographical and historical lens?

a)

Biographical is about what's going on in history, historical is about the author

b)

Biographical is about the author's life, historical is about everything else going on at the time

c)

Historical is about the reader's response to a work, biographical is about the author's response to a work

d)

Historical is about what it means to be human, biographical is about the author's previous experiences

5.

Which lens was invented by Carl Jung?

a)

Marxist

b)

Archetypal

c)

Psychological

d)

Reader Response

6.

Which lens is based on the work of Karl Marx?

a)

Archetypal

b)

Marxist

c)

Historical

d)

Psychological

7.

For which of the following lenses is "the reader" a key word?

a)

Biographical

b)

Reader Response

c)

Archetypal

d)

Formalist

8.

Which lens only considers the text and no outside sources?

a)

New

b)

Mythological

c)

Psychological

d)

Reader Response

9.

Which of the following lenses has a recurring question that considers where real life leaves off and the imagination takes over?

a)

Mythological

b)

Biographical

c)

Historical

d)

Formalist

10.

For which lens are "money" and "power" key words?

a)

Archetypal

b)

Marxist

c)

Historical

d)

Biographical

11.

Which lens is basically the literary analysis that you're used to?

a)

Biographical

b)

Historical

c)

Formalist

d)

Psychological