What is generally considered to be Theodor W. Adorno’s primary concern as a theorist ?

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1. What is generally considered to be Theodor W. Adorno’s primary concern as a theorist ?

   A. The effect of literature in enlightening the human mind
   B. The effect of modern society on human suffering
   C. The effect of the economy on women’s concerns
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

2. According to Theodor Adorno’s and Max Horkheimer’s “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception,” which of the following is true of the culture industry ?

   A. The culture industry is classified by ruthless uniformity of all ideas.
   B. The culture industry is the chief method by which technology brings true democracy to all.
   C. The culture industry is a fundamental way to promote individuality.
   D. The culture industry is chiefly intended to offer consumers the opportunity to classify wants and desires as well as corresponding production.

3. Theodor Adorno’s “Culture Industry Reconsidered” further examines the notion of the “culture industry” and suggests which of the following about the “culture industry ?”

   A. It destroys notions of high and low culture and replaces it with mass culture.
   B. It is an industry in the sense that its aim is to standardize aesthetic taste and value.
   C. It is a radical rethinking of mass culture in that it promotes the values of high culture and attempts to eradicate more popular forms of expression.
   D. Both A and B

4. Which of the following authors is considered a major theorist of deconstruction ?

   A. Raymond Williams
   B. Jacques Derrida
   C. Fredric Jameson
   D. Both A and B

5. Which literary theorist argues that “there is nothing outside the text” ?

   A. T.S. Eliot
   B. Jacques Lacan
   C. Jacques Derrida
   D. Stanley Fish

6. With which theorist is the term identity thinking most closely associated ?

   A. Sigmund Freud
   B. Carl Jung
   C. William James
   D. Theodor W. Adorno

7. With which theorist is the concept imaginative geography associated ?

   A. Julia Kristeva
   B. Fredric Jameson
   C. Terry Eagleton
   D. Edward Said

8. With which theorist is the term implied reader associated ?

   A. Wolfgang Iser
   B. William Wimsatt
   C. Cleanth Brooks
   D. Harold Bloom

9. With which feminist theorist is gynocriticism most closely associated ?

   A. Elaine Showalter
   B. Julia Kristeva
   C. Lucy Irigaray
   D. Hélène Cixous

10. With which theorist is phenomenology associated ?

    A. Wolfgang Iser
    B. Jean-Paul Sartre
    C. Emmanuel Lévinas
    D. All of the above.