Horace was a_____________?

A. Greek writer
B. Roman writer
C. Italian writer
D. English writer

Who proposed that poets should be banished from the ideal Republic ?

A. Plato
B. Aristotle
C. Sir philip sidney
D. Sir thomas more

In Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy there are four interlocuters representing four different ideologies. Which of them expresses Dryden’s own views ?

A. Lisideius
B. Eugenius
C. Neander
D. Crites

This literary critic warned: “We must remember that the greater part of our current reading matter is written for us by people who have no real belief in a supernatural order . . . And the greater part . . . is coming to be written by people who not only have no such belief, but are even ignorant of the fact that there are still people in the world so ’backward’ or so ’eccentric’ as to continue to believe.” ?

A. C.s. lewis
B. T.s. eliot
C. G.k. chesterton
D. Matthew arnold

What approach is described by the paragraph? Those who apply this approach believe it is necessary to know about the author and the political, economical, and sociological context of his times in order to truly understand his works ?

A. Historical/biographical approach
B. Moral/ philosophical approach
C. Formalism
D. Psychological approach

What did Sigmund Freud believe about the unconscious?

A. it contains secret instincts and desires that are repressed.
B. It is the only significant aspect of the human psyche.
C. It can never be accessed.
D. All of the above answers are correct.

In a Freudian approach to literature, concave images are usually seen as____________?

A. Female symbols
B. Phallic symbols
C. Male symbols
D. Evidence of an oedipus complex

Among the following which is not a work by Aristotle ?

A. Ethics
B. Metaphysics
C. Rhetoric
D. Ars poetica

Which of the following writers might be considered one of the early founders of firstwave feminism ?

A. Hélène cixous
B. Judith butler
C. Lucy irigaray
D. Mary wollstonecraft

This feminist critic proposed that all female characters in literature are in at least one of the following stages of development: the feminine, feminist, or female stage ?

A. Virginia woolf
B. Elaine showalter
C. Mary wolstencraft
D. Ellen mores