CULTURAL STUDIES – QUESTION BANK

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UNIT 1

1. Cultural studies was setup at___

a. Birmingham

b. France

c. Germany

d. Canada

2. Who set up the centre?

a. Jonathan culler

b. Francis bacon

c. Stuart Hall

d. Raymond Williams

3. Who coined the term Cultural Materialism?

a. Raymond Williams

b. Judith Butler

c. Gayatri Spivok

d. Stuart Hall

4. Culture and Society was written by ____

a. Janardhan

b. Raymond Williams

c. William Shakespeare

d. Homi K Bhabha

5. Who wrote Wuthering Heights?

a. Emily Bronte

b. Jane Austen

c. Viriginia Woolf
d. Stuart Hall

6. Who coined the term Cultural Poetics?

a. Stuart Hall

b. Senghor

c. Stephen Greenblatt

d. none

7. The book Renaisaance self fashioning was written by

a. Stephen Greenblatt

b. Raymond Williams

c. Homi K Bhabha

d. Arnold

8. What affects culture?

a. Culture

b. Media

c. Education

d. Religion

9. Who developed Marxist theory?

a. Arnold

b. Lenin

c. Stalin

d. Karl Marx

10. Karl Marx believed that the rich ____

a. dominating the society

b. helps the poor

c. supports the marginalized

d. sponsers

11. Neo Marxism has the fundamental base of ___

a. Feminism

b. Marxism

c. Historicism

d. Realism

12.

UNIT 2

UNIT 3

UNIT 4

UNIT 5
250 WORDS:

UNIT 1

1. Compare and contrast Marxist and Non – Marxist theory

2. Explain The Frankfurt School

3. Development of Neo Marxist theory in Britain

4. Explain the difference between texts and readers

5. What is Popular culture?

UNIT 2

1. What is cultural studies according to Wilfred L. Guerin?

2. Compare and contrast British and American multi culturalism

3. Relate New Historicism and Laputa

4. Interpret Jonathan Culler’s emergence of cultural studies

5. Show the process between Literary canon and mode of analysis

UNIT 3

1. State Foucault’s statement on Power

2. Explain Power and Knowledge

3. Analyse the concepts of Ideology and Repression.

4. Comment on the topic “women” as the subject of feminism

5. Explain the order of sex/gender/desire

UNIT 4
1. Explain Negritude in the words of Senghor

2. Examine the problem of African Identity

3. State Homi K. Bhabha’s view on Post Colonial

4. Interpret questions of agency

5. How Bhabha combines Post colonial and Post Modern?

UNIT 5

1. Elaborate the key concepts in subaltern studies

2. Criticize subaltern studies briefly

3. What are the social status of African Americans and Dalits

4. Write an Introduction on Dalit and Black literature

5. Explain Dalit and Black literature briefly.

500 WORDS

UNIT 1

1. How Cultural studies evolved?

2. Define Cultural studies its evolution, need and significance

3. What are the key concepts in Cultural studies?

UNIT 2

1. Classify the five approaches of cultural studies of Jonathan Culler

2. Summarize the relationship between cultural study and literary study

3. Interpret the tensions in cultural and literary studies.

UNIT 3

1. Comment on the views of Foucault’s Power and Knowledge

2. Identify sex and the metaphysics of substance

3. Examine “gender trouble” in Judith Butler’s theory

UNIT 4

1. Explain Negritude – The quest for African Identity

2. Prove The Senghorian Negritude as an African Identity

3. Summarize Homi K. Bhabha’s theory on Post Colonial and Post Modern

UNIT 5

1. Write the involvement of Ranajit Gunha and Gayatri Spivok in subaltern studies

2. Sketch the characteristic features of Dalit and Black literature

3. Explain Dalit and Black literature:The voice of the marginalised.