Which author writes a profound criticism of Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness,” accusing Conrad of reinforcing typical European stereotypes of Africa ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which of the following descriptions accurately describes Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” ?

   A. The end of the novella depicts Marlow’s conversation with the Kurtz’s Intended.
   B. The work considers the dark side of European colonialism.
   C. Marlow comes to understand the necessity of European leadership in Africa.
   D. Both A and B

2. A person who writes about his own life writes ______________?

   A. a diary
   B. a biography
   C. an autobiography
   D. a chronicle

3. Which author relied on complex characters and dialect to overturn American stereotypes about Southern African Americans ?

   A. William Wells Brown
   B. Richard Wright
   C. Charles Chesnutt
   D. Booker T. Washington

4. Arnold summarises the rule of English criticism in one word, in The Function Of Criticism. What is the word ?

   A. Disintrestedness
   B. Intresedness
   C. Purification
   D. Civilization

5. What is the difference between traditional literary criticism and post-New Criticism literary theory ?

   A. Traditional literary criticism is mainly focused on exploring gender issues.
   B. Traditional literary criticism only examines pre-20th-century literary texts.
   C. Traditional literary criticism focused on tracking influences and textual allusions and considering the historical contexts of literary texts.
   D. Traditional literary criticism attempted to consider the psychological aspects of literary texts.

6. A work of literary criticism that considers how social and economic power structures are depicted in a 19th-century English novel would be an example of which type of literary criticism ?

   A. Marxist criticism
   B. Reader-response criticism
   C. Psychoanalytic criticism
   D. New Criticism

7. This is the name of the report by Cotton Mather about the trial accusing Martha Carrier of witchcraft_______________?

   A. The Burning of Our House
   B. The Story of Plymouth Plantation
   C. Sinners in the Hand
   D. The Wonders of the Invisible World

8. Fill in the blank. Martin Luther nailed his _____________ to a church door in Wittenberg, accusing the Roman Catholic Church of heresy upon heresy?

   A. Paradise Lost
   B. 95 Theses
   C. The Bible
   D. Piers Plowman

9. Name the author of The New Criticism ?

   A. F. R. Leavis
   B. Allen Tate
   C. John Crowe Ransom
   D. R. P. Blackmur

10. A work of criticism that considers how the author’s childhood trauma influenced his characters would be an example of_____________?

    A. psychoanalytic criticism.
    B. Marxist criticism.
    C. New Criticism.
    D. structuralism.