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New Criticism-Quiz

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

New Criticism is also known as Anglo-American Criticism

a)

True

b)

False

2.

Which of the following pairs developed Basic English in the 1930s?

a)

I.A.Richards and T.S.Eliot

b)

Ogden and Empson

c)

FR Leavis and J C Ransom

d)

I.A.Richards and Ogden

3.

Who criticised FR Leavis's "Revaluation: Tradition and Development in English Poetry" as theoretical vacuum?

a)

Rene Wellek

b)

Allen Tate

c)

William Empson

d)

Clean the Brooks

4.

FR Leavis and his wife QD Leavis are associated with the journal

a)

Fugitive

b)

Scrutiny

c)

Southern Review

d)

Kenyan Review

5.

Who authored "The Seven Types of Ambiguity"(1930)?

a)

Eliot

b)

Cleanth Brooks

c)

William Empson

d)

Allen Tate

6.

Choose the works by Empson

a)

Milton's God

b)

Coleridge on Imagination

c)

The Common Pursuit

d)

Some Versions of Pastoral

7.

Who said, "The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past,but of its presence "

a)

T.S.Eliot in "Hamlet and his problems"

b)

T.S.Eliot in "Tradition and the Individual Talent"

c)

T.S.Eliot in "The Metaphysical Poets "

d)

F R Leavis in "The Great Tradition"

8.

Concepts such as "Intentional Fallacy" and "Affective Fallacy" are created by

a)

William K. Wimsatt

b)

R P Warren

c)

Cleanth Brooks

d)

Monroe C. Beardsley

e)

R S Crane

9.

What is the subtitle of Wimsatt's "The Verbal Icon"(1954)?

a)

Tradition and Development in English Poetry

b)

Studies in the Meaning of Poetry

c)

Essays in Writing and Criticism

d)

Studies in Literature and Criticism

10.

J C Ransom is associated with the magazine

a)

Southern Review

b)

Sewanee Review

c)

Scrutiny

d)

Fugitive

11.

Ransom's "Criticism Inc.," was published in

a)

Fugitive

b)

Times

c)

The World's Body

d)

Gentleman's Magazine

12.

Which critic is associated with the concept of "Tension in Poetry"?

a)

Allen Tate

b)

Ransom

c)

Eliot

d)

R P Warren

13.

Cleanth Brooks wrote "Understanding Poetry"(1938) and "Understanding Fiction"(1943) with

a)

Richards

b)

Ransom

c)

Allen Tate

d)

R P Warren

14.

William Empson cited three poems as examples in "The Seven Types of Ambiguity". Pick out the right ones

a)

G M Hopkin's "Pied Beauty"

b)

G M Hopkin's "Windhover"

c)

George Herbert's "Sacrifice"

d)

George Herbert 's "The Temple"

15.

Who popularised the term "New Criticism" in 1941?

a)

T.S.Eliot

b)

I.A.Richards

c)

John Crowe Ransom

d)

William Empson