Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy deals with the subject of_____________?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

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. For what do Matthew Arnold’s moral investment in nonfiction and Walter Pater’s aesthetic investment together pave the way ?

   A. a renewed secularism in the twentieth century
   B. modern literary criticism
   C. late “nineteenth-century and early” twentieth-century satirical drama
   D. the surrealist movement

4. Matthew Arnold;s Thyrsis is an elegy written on the death of______________?

   A. Arthur Hallam
   B. Milton
   C. Edward King
   D. Hugh Clough

5. The basic theme of Arnold’s Literature and Dogma is____________?

   A. Contemporary literary criticism
   B. Art and Literature
   C. Theology
   D. Social changes in the Victorian Age

6. From where Matthew Arnold took the story for his Sohras and Rustam ?

   A. Arabian Nights
   B. Canterbury Tales
   C. Shah Namah
   D. Pilgrims Progress

7. For what do Matthew Arnold’s moral investment in nonfiction and Walter Pater’s aesthetic investment together pave the way ?

   A. a renewed secularism in the twentieth century
   B. modern literary criticism
   C. late nineteenth-century and earlytwentieth- century satirical drama
   D. the surrealist movement

8. Who said that Arnold was a propagandist for literature rather than a critic ?

   A. Carlyle
   B. Ruskin
   C. T. S. Eliot
   D. F. R. Leavis

9. Which of the following does NOT characterize Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” ?

   A. It is a dramatic monologue.
   B. Like earlier Romantic lyrics, it takes a natural setting as an occasion for philosophical reflection.
   C. It has a melancholic tone.
   D. It envisions Christianity as eternal.

10. Complete the following sentence. Matthew Arnold’s poem “Dover Beach” is illustrative of modernist poetry, because it________________?

    A. employs free verse.
    B. has an undertow of nihilism.
    C. is chauvinistic about British “exceptionalism.”
    D. was composed between WW I and WW II.