MARIANO MARCOS STATE UNIVERSITY

UNIVERSITY
College of Teacher Education

Activity 2. QUIZ BEE

To easily remember the lesson that we tackled, we will be having a Quiz Bee. This will be played by group with
ten members each. Good luck and do your best because the group that will accumulate the highest score will get
a prize. Good luck!

1. The frame that supports literary criticism is ___________.

2. __________ is/are the study, analysis, evaluation and interpretation of literature.
3. ____________ criticism deals with a work of literature primarily as an expression, in fictional form, of
the personality, state of mind, feelings, and desires of its author.
4. ___________ is/are the lens used to explore and challenge how scholars, activists, artistic texts, and the
media perpetrate gender- and sex-based binaries, and its goal is to undo hierarchies and fight against social
inequalities.
5. The theory that examines how works of literature embody patriarchal attitudes or undercut them,
sometimes both happening within the same work is called __________.
6. A feminist critic sees cultural and economic disabilities in a _________ society that have hindered or
prevented women from realizing their creative possibilities and women’s cultural identification as a
merely negative object, or “Other,” to man as the defining and dominating “Subject.”
7. __________ criticism requires that you apply to a text specific historical information about the time during
which an author wrote.
8. ___________ theory requires that we investigate the psychology of a character or an author to figure out
the meaning of a text.
9. ___________ is the study, analysis, evaluation and interpretation of literature
10. ___________ is somewhat like Marxist criticism, but instead of focusing on the relationships between the
classes it focuses on the relationships between the genders.
11. Literary criticism is a set of concepts and intellectual assumptions. TRUE OR FALSE?
12. The true critic is an enemy of the artist.
13. Literary criticism judges the value of a work. TRUE OR FALSE?
14. Literary criticism is the study, evaluation and interpretation of literature. TRUE OR FALSE?
15. The frame that supports literary criticism is literary theory. TRUE OR FALSE?
16. In critiquing a literary text, we critic it as it is. TRUE OR FALSE?
17. Literary criticism is not a body of work and cannot be evaluated according to its aesthetic value,
historical/cultural/social significance of the work, use of language, and insights of the work. TRUE OR
FALSE?
18. Literary theory is the study of general principles. TRUE OR FALSE?
19. In literary criticism, a critic can be personal and passionate towards a literary text. TRUE OR FALSE?
20. Literary theory is a variety of scholarly approaches to evaluate a study TRUE OR FALSE?.