Deck 2: Narrative Theory

Question 1

______ Argued for English as a more neutral language where traditional caste names become irrelevant.

A)ambedkar
B)nehru
C)gandhi
D)raja ram mohan roy

Answer 1

ambedkar

Question 2

Narrative is an act of

A)imitation
B)communication
C)imagination
D)expression

Answer 2

communication

Question 3

Wimsatt and Robert Pen Warren belong to a group called

A)new critics
B)structuralist
C)post modernist
D)formalist

Answer 3

new critics

Question 4

Who wrote Shamela

A)henry fielding
B)shakespeare
C)samuel richardson
D)daniel defoe

Question 5

J.M. Coetzee's Foe is a retelling of

A)jane eyre
B)wide sargasso sea
C)robinson crusoe
D)joseph andrews

Question 6

Mary Shelly's Fankenstein is about the quest of a

A)explorer
B)poet
C)scientist
D)doctor

Question 7

Who wrote wide Sargasso sea

A)jean rhys
B)charlette bronte
C)daniel defoe
D)emile bronte

Question 8

The narrative strategies of Hadith are associated with which religion?

A)hinduism
B)judaism
C)jainism
D)islam

Question 9

Study of narrative is known as

A)sociology
B)grammatology
C)lexicology
D)narratology

Question 10

The essay 'Narrative Construction of Reality' was written by

A)walter scott
B)jerome bruner
C)roland barthes
D)derek walcott

Question 11

The idea of mimesis was first introduced by _____ & _____

A)plato and aristotle
B)plato and longinus
C)dryden and longinus
D)socrates of descartes

Question 12

According to Aristotle _____ is the effect of mimesis

A)monologue
B)catharsis
C)confession
D)confusion

Question 13

_____ is the direct representation of reality

A)mimesis
B)diegesis
C)reality
D)logos

Question 14

Indirect representation or re-presentation of reality is known as

A)mimesis
B)narration
C)diegesis
D)description

Question 15

If On a Winter's Night Traveler is a novel by

A)salman rushdie
B)italo calvino
C)daniel defoe
D)shakespeare

Question 16

Saleem Sinai is a character in

A)midnight's children
B)one hundred years of solitude
C)if on a winter's night traveler
D)satanic verses

Question 17

Who prepared the two main modes of thinking Logico Scientific of the narrative

A)jerome bruner
B)roland barthes
C)wayne c. booth
D)italo calvino

Question 18

Dorothy wordsworth is William Wordsworth's

A)mother
B)sister
C)wife
D)daughter

Question 19

Narrative theory focuses on author, text and

A)reader
B)critic
C)narrator
D)critic.

Question 20

The concept of implied author was first formulated by

A)roland barthes
B)immanuel kant
C)vladimir propp
D)wayne c booth

Question 21

Which of the following is heterodox school of Indian Philosophy?

A)nyaya
B)budhism
C)vaisesika
D)yoga

Question 22

Which school propounded the doctrine of syadavada?

A)jainsim
B)sankhya
C)vedanta
D)yoga

Question 23

Which one of the following is a means of valid knowledge?

A)tarka
B)anumana
C)smriti
D)pramana

Question 24

Another name for illusion in

A)smrit
B)khyati
C)anumana
D)samvada

Question 25

The prama that is not accepted by the Samkya school is

A)perception
B)inference
C)comparison
D)testimony