According to Plato, what is the moral purpose of art ?

Related Mcqs:

1. According to Plato, what is the moral purpose of art ?

   A. To connect human beings with a higher ideal
   B. To entertain those who enjoy it
   C. To criticize society through satire
   D. To bring to light social oppressions

2. According to Langston Hughes’s essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (his answer to George Schuyler’s essay “Negro Art Hokum”), what is the “mountain” that stands in the way of “any true Negro art in America” ?

   A. It is the racial discrimination endemic in the white community.
   B. It is the racial segregation in the South.
   C. It is a widespread “urge toward whiteness” among African Americans.
   D. It is a widespread “urge to incorporate and neutralize other cultures” among white Americans.

3. The motto “art for art’s sake” means that artists began to do which of the following ?

   A. Produce works of art that were meaningless
   B. Reject artistic production that was obligatorily moral in character
   C. Avoid all forms of prose
   D. Make art profitable above all else

4. The fine arts flourished in Elizabethan England. William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Edmund Spenser were some of the more famous playwrights and poets of the time. Drama, music, songs, and art were popular with noblemen and commoners alike. Exploring certain topics, however, was considered taboo in any art form. What was a strictly forbidden subject ?

   A. Sexuality
   B. Criticism of the queen
   C. Murder
   D. Witchcraft

5. Plato said that art is an imperfect reflection of the real world because______________?

   A. Art presents only part of the world
   B. Art describes only what appears and not what is real
   C. Art tells lies about the world
   D. Art is an exaggeration of the world

6. Plato has a positive view of art, in so far as_______________?

   A. It represents the nature
   B. It contributes to the spiritual growth of people
   C. It shows a tragedy
   D. It imitates nobility

7. One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is described below: “The historical approach, for instance, might be helpful in addressing a problem in Thomas Otway’s play Venice Preserv’d. Why are the conspirators, despite the horrible, bloody details of their obviously brutish plan, portrayed in a sympathetic light? If we look at the author and his time, we see that he was a Tory whose play was performed in the wake of the Popish Plot and the Exclusion Bill Crisis, and that there are obvious similarities between the Conspiracy in the play and the Popish Plot in history. The Tories would never approve of the bloody Popish Plot, but they nonetheless sympathized with the plotters for the way they were abused by the Tory enemy, the Whigs. Thus it makes sense for Otway to condemn the conspiracy itself in Vencie Preserv’d without condemning the conspirators themselves.” What purpose does this prescribe to ?

   A. To help resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the readin
   B. To help decide which is the better of two conflicting readings.
   C. To enable to form judgments about literature.
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

8. One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is described below: A formalist approach might enable us to choose between a reading which sees the dissolution of society in Lord of the Flies as being caused by too strict a suppression of the “bestial” side of man and one which sees it as resulting from too little suppression. We can look to the text and ask: What textual evidence is there for the suppression or indulgence of the “bestial” side of man? Does Ralph suppress Jack when he tries to indulge his bestial side in hunting? Does it appear from the text that an imposition of stricter law and order would have prevented the breakdown? Did it work in the “grownup” world of the novel? What purpose does this prescribe to ?

   A. To help resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the reading.
   B. To help decide which is the better of two conflicting readings.
   C. To enable to form judgments about literature.
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

9. According to Stephen, how is art represented in the lyrical form ?

   A. the image is presented in immediate relation to the artist himself
   B. the image is presented is immediate relation to the artist and others
   C. the image is presented in a way that is not purely personal
   D. the image is presented in immediate relation to others only

10. According to Walter Benjamin in “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” which of the following is true ?

    A. “Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.”
    B. “The feeling of strangeness that overcomes the actor before the camera, as Pirandello describes it, is basically of the same kind as the estrangement felt before one’s own image in the mirror.”
    C. “All art work, even mass produced art, clearly links to an original referent that has a stable and knowable meaning.”
    D. Both A and B