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Surprise Rapid fire 1 (True/False) Cultural Studies

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

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Class
Date
1.

In the theoretic development of hybridity, the key text is The Location of Culture (1994), by Homi Bhabha, wherein the liminality of hybridity is presented as a paradigm of colonial anxiety.

a)

True

b)

False

2.

R. S. Crane and Elder Olson belong to the Chicago School of Critics.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

The Journal of Popular Culture published by Bowling Green University beginning

1971, carried essays on amusement parks, comics and detective films.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

Cultural Studies be most interested in asking

a)

Who decides what is to be produced?

b)

Who can afford the artifact?

c)

How is the artifact marketed?

5.

Pierre Bourdieu played the most significant role in mobilizing the concept of cultural intermediaries.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

112. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak borrows the term ‘subaltern’ from Stuart Hall.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

The Subaltern Studies Contents

a)

The traditional history of India’s freedom movement celebrates the

contribution of select icons.

b)

Subaltern Studies historiography highlights the dominant strands of

India’s freedom struggle

8.

Modernity at Large is a book by Arjun Appadurai published in 1999.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

Research methods are a range of tools that are used for different types of inquiry.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

The term Heterotopia describes the coexistence of distinct varieties within a single "language". It was introduced by the Russian literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin in his 1934 paper published in English as "Discourse in the Novel."

a)

True

b)

False

11.

Heteroglossia is a concept elaborated by philosopher Michel Foucault to describe certain cultural, institutional and discursive spaces that are somehow 'other': disturbing, intense, incompatible, contradictory or transforming.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

In Marxist theory, interpellation—the process by which we encounter a culture's or ideology's values and internalize them—is an important concept regarding the notion of ideology. It is associated in particular with the work of French philosopher Louis Althusser.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

Mulvey is best known for her essay, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema", written in 1973 and published in 1975 in the influential British film theory journal Screen.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

The Frankfurt School was a group of scholars known for developing critical theory and popularizing the dialectical method of learning by interrogating society's contradictions. It is most closely associated with the work of Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Erich Fromm, and Herbert Marcuse.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

In its most literal sense, "displacement" refers to the act of moving or being put out

of the usual or original place. As such, displacement may be perceived as voluntary or involuntary and can take many forms, depending on the contextual circumstances in which it happens.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

2. Who is the founding director of CCCS (Centre Contemporary Cultural Studies)?

a)

a) Stuart Hall

b)

b) E.P.Thompson

c)

c) Raymond Williams

d)

d) Richard Hoggart

17.

3. Who were the members of the New Left Movement?

a)

a) Stuart Hall, E.P.Thompson, Raymond Williams, Perry Anderson, Raphael Samuel

b)

b) Stuart Hall, Louis Althusser, Raymond Williams, Mathew Arnold

c)

c) Raymond Williams, Edward Said, Stuart Hall, E.P.Thomson

d)

d )Stuart Hall, Raymond Williams, Raphael Samuel, Terry Eagleton

18.

1. Who called culture as ‘Sweetness and Light’?

a)

a) Louis Althusser

b)

a) Stuart Hall

c)

a) Mathew Arnold

d)

a) Roland Barthes

19.

4. Who has coined the word ‘ Culturalism’?

a)

a) Richard Johnson

b)

b) Raymond Williams

c)

c) Mathew Arnold

d)

d) Stuart Hall

20.

5.Match the following

a) Cultural Materialism – 1) Greenboltt

b) Cultural Poetics - 2) Homi Bhabha

c) Hybridity - 3) Raymond Williams

a)

a) a-1, b-3, c-2

b)

b) a-3, b-1, c-2

c)

c) a-2, b-3, c-1

d)

d) a-1, b-3, c-2

21.

6.Who has used the term ‘Cultural Hegemony’ ?

a)

a) Antonio Gramci

b)

b) Raymond Williams

c)

c) Richard Johnson

d)

d) Homi Bhabha

22.

7.Who is known as the Cyber Feminist?

a)

a) Gayatri Spivak

b)

b) Simone de Beauvoir

c)

c) Elaine Showalter

d)

d) Donna Haraway

23.

8.Who is the author of ‘Orientalism’?

a)

a) Homi Bhabha

b)

b) Roland Barthes

c)

c)Edward Said

d)

d)Raymond Williams

24.

9.Who came up with a model of encoding/decoding?


a)

a) Frederic Jameson

b)

b)Jurgen Habermas

c)

c) Stuart Hall

d)

d) Jacobim Mugatu

25.

10.Who translated Derrida’s “Of Grammatology”?

a)

a) Roland Barthes

b)

b) Gayatri Spivak

c)

c) Jurgen Habermas

d)

b) Edward Said