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What was the centre set up for studying culture at the University of Birmingham called?
[1] Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies [2] Centre for Contemporary Studies [3] Centre for Culture Studies [4] Centre for New Cultural StudiesAnswer: 1
Which of the following qualify for the label ‘cultural intermediary’ in the context of a commercial film?
(a) The film magazine columnist
(b) The director
(c) Fan clubs
(d) The producer
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] (a) and (c) only [2] (a) and (b) only [3] (b) and (c) only [4] (b) and (d) onlyAnswer: 1
Which of these are true of Raymond Williams’ Culture and Society?
(a) It critiques the idea of high culture.
(b) It overlooks the idea of high culture.
(c) It defines culture as a way of life.
(d) It equates culture with science.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] (a) and (c) only [2] (a) and (d) only [3] (a) and (b) only [4] (b) and (d) onlyAnswer: 1
Which of these generally taken to be true of cultural studies?
(a) It is politically engaged.
(b) It privileges text over context.
(c) It has a symbiotic relationship with formalism.
(d) It studies the means of production of a text.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] (a) and (c) only [2] (a) and (d) only [3] (a) and (b) only [4] (b) and (d) onlyAnswer: 2
Which of the following is true of mass media?
[1] It usually has a central, single source. [2] It can affect a localized population only. [3] It usually has multiple sources. [4] Its audience is in close proximity to its source.Answer: 1
Who among the following considers a text as a ‘site of struggle between authority and popular culture”?
[1] Roland Barthes [2] Northrop Frye [3] Mikhail Bakhtin [4] Michel FoucaultAnswer: [3] Mikhail Bakhtin
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Comparative literature is a study of different cultures, nations and genres, and it explores the inherent relationship between literature and other forms of cultural exploration.
Statement II: In the study of literature and culture, the importance of methodology is secondary.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] Both statement I and Statement II are true [2] Both statement I and statement II are false [3] Statement I is true but statement II is false [4] Statement I is false but statement II is trueAnswer: [3] Statement I is true but statement II is false
Stuart hall belongs to ______________schools of cultural studies.
[1] Oxford [2] Cambridge [3] Birmingham [4] AmericanAnswer: [3] Birmingham
Who among the following is NOT a member of the Frankfurt School?
1) Louis Althusser
2) Max Horkheimer
3) Theodor Adorno
4) Herbert Marcuse
Answer: 1) Louis Althusser
The phrase “structure of feeling” is attributed to
1) Lauren Berlant
2) Terry Eagleton
3) Raymond Williams
4) Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Answer: 3) Raymond Williams
Who among the following were revaluing ‘the masses’ as sources and subjects of literature?
1) Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams
2) Penny Summerfield and Gillian Rose
3) Rachel Alsop and Catherine Belsey
4) Jon Cook and Marilyn Deegan
Answer: 1) Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams
The subject matter of Cultural Studies as it emerged as a ‘proto-discipline’ in the 1960s, was predominantly exploration of
1) High Culture
2) Popular Culture
3) Subaltern History
4) Contemporary Politics
Answer: 2) Popular Culture
What does the abbreviated term CCCS stand for in the context of cultural studies?
1) Consortium of Cooperative Culture and Society
2) Conference on Contemporary Culture and Society
3) Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
4) Conclave for Collective Consciousness and Socialisation
Answer: 3) Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
Identify the work which has NOT been authored by the famous cultural critic Raymond Williams:
1) The Country and the City
2) Culture and Society
3) Modern Tragedy
4) The Making of the English Working Class
Answer: 4) The Making of the English Working Class
Which of the following are correctly matched:
A) Jonathan Culler – Culture and Society
B) Raymond Williams – Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction
C) Terry Eagleton – Criticism and Ideology
D) Walter Benjamin – Illuminations
E) Stanley Fish – The Implied Reader
Choose the correct option:
1) B, C and E
2) C and D
3) A, C and D
4) B, C and D
Answer: 2) C and D
The concept of the public sphere plays a particularly important role in the work of
1) Jürgen Habermas
2) Jonathan Dollimore
3) Jean Baudrillard
4) Raymond Williams
Answer: 1) Jürgen Habermas
The cultural theorist Stuart Hall has written the following:
A) “Encoding/decoding”
B) “The Rediscovery of ‘Ideology: Return of the Repressed in Media Culture and Communication Studies”
C) “The Raw and the Cooked”
D) “What is Digital Humanities?”
E) “Culture Industry”
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A and B
2) B and C
3) C and D
4) D and E
Answer: 1) A and B
What is the correct sequence of the following texts authored by Raymond Williams?
A) The Long Revolution
B) Culture and Society
C) Marxism and Literature
D) Writing in Society
E) The Politics of Modernism
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A, B, C, D, E
2) B. A, C, D, E
3) C, A, D, E, B
4) D, C, B. A, E
Answer: 2) B. A, C, D, E
Facts about the Frankfurt School include the following:
A) It was founded in Frankfurt in 1925.
B) Adorno and Horkheimer were its two members.
C) The School established the term ‘Critical Theory’.
D) It had strong ties with the thinkers of the Moscow Linguistic Circle.
E) It was forced into exile with the ascendency of Nazism in Germany.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) B, C, and D
2) A, B, and C
3) A, C, and E
4) B, C, and E
Answer: 4) B, C, and E
Given below are two statements: One is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R.
Assertion (A): Scholars working in the field of cultural studies maintain that ‘culture’ in cultural studies is neither aesthetic nor humanist in emphasis, but political.
Reason (R): The implication of the above is that the object of study in cultural studies is ‘high art’ and the study of the exalted literary canon.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A.
2) Both A and R are correct, but R is not the correct explanation of A.
3) A is correct but R is not correct.
4) A is not correct but R is correct.
Answer: 3) A is correct but R is not correct.
Who along with Richard Hoggart and Stuart Hall was one of the founding figures of the school of thought now known as British Cultural Studies?
1) Raymond Williams
2) Walter Benjamin
3) Stephen Greenblatt
4) Helen Tiffin
Answer:1) Raymond Williams
Arrange the publication of the following books in chronological order.
A) The Location of Culture
B) The Future of the Race
C) Black Literature and Literary Theory
D) The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism
E) Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A, C, D, B and E
2) E, C, B, A and D
3) D, E, B. A and C
4) C, E, D, A and B
Answer:4) C, E, D, A and B
According to Andrew Milner in Re-Imagining Cultural Studies, of the four important kinds of meanings that Raymond Williams attaches to the word ‘culture’ in his early work, which three remain in play in Keywords?
A) an individual habit of mind
B) the state of intellectual development of a whole society
C) the arts as a whole
D) the way of life of a group or people
E) elitism
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A, B and C
2) B, C and D
3) C, D and A
4) D, A and B
Answer: 2) B, C and D
Which influential cultural theorist stated the following regarding the formation and development of British cultural studies?
“What is important are the significant breaks – where old lines of thought are disrupted, older constellations displaced, and elements, old and new, are regrouped around a different set of premises and themes.”
1) Richard Hoggart
2) Stuart Hall
3) Raymond Williams
4) Alan Sinfield
Answer:2) Stuart Hall
Which of the following books is NOT written by Raymond Williams?
1) Keywords
2) Culture and Society: 1780-1950
3) Culture and Imperialism
4) The Country and the City
Answer: 3) Culture and Imperialism
According to Stuart Hall, which of these is generally accepted to be true of Cultural Studies as it was practised at the University of Birmingham in the UK?
A) It sought to strengthen the barrier between high culture and low culture
B) It sought to privilege the study of the text at the cost of context
C) It could accommodate the study of the lives of working-class people
D) It sought to promote readings based on social and political contexts
E) It was essentially apolitical
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A and B
2) C and D
3) A and E
4) B and E
Answer:2) C and D
Arrange the chronological sequence in which the following works were published:
(A) Culture and Society
(B) Culture and Anarchy
(C) To Hell with Culture
(D) Studies in Dying Culture
(E) Notes towards the Definition of Culture
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) (E), (B), (A), (D), (C)
(2) (C), (E), (D), (B), (A)
(3) (A), (D), (E), (B), (C)
(4) (B), (A), (D), (C), (E)
Answer: (3) (A), (D), (E), (B), (C)
Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.
Reason (R): This is mainly because of several different though related meanings have emerged at particular moments throughout its long history.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is NOT the correct explanation of (A).
(3) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(4) (A) is false but (R) is true.
Answer: (1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
Name the author/writer who is not associated with British Cultural Studies.
(1) I.A. Richards
(2) Richard Hoggart
(3) Raymond Williams
(4) Stuart Hall
Answer: (1) I.A. Richards
Arrange the chronological sequence in which the following works of Richard Hoggart were published:
(A) An Imagined Life
(B) The Uses of Literacy
(C) Higher Education: Demand and Response
(D) A Local Habitation
(E) A Sort of Clowning
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) (A), (B). (D), (E), (C)
(2) (D), (B), (C), (A), (E)
(3) (B), (E), (A), (C), (D)
(4) (B), (C), (D), (E), (A)
Answer: (4) (B), (C), (D), (E), (A)
Which of the following is not true about Raymond Williams’ views on culture?
(1) Culture is ordinary
(2) Culture is a whole way of life
(3) The masses do not participate in the creation of cultural values
(4) There exists at least three layers of a culture at a given point of time in a society- dominant, residual and emergent
Answer: (3) The masses do not participate in the creation of cultural values
Who among the following is not associated with Cultural Imperialism?
(1) Jonathan Dollimore
(2) Alan Sinfield
(3) Raymond Williams
(4) Stanley Fish
Answer: (4) Stanley Fish
Which of the following assertions is/are not true in the context of culture industry?
(A) The term ‘culture industry’ was used by the Frankfurt School to describe the operations of mass media.
(B) The dominant capitalist class instils its values and beliefs in the minds of the working-class people.
(C) The word ‘industry’ signifies the production of cultural products for mass consumption.
(D) The authentic culture arising from the working class is preserved and protected.
(E) The mass culture thus produced induces activism and critical thinking among the youth.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) (D) and (A) Only
(2) (E) and (B) Only
(3) (B) and (C) Only
(4) (D) and (E) Only
Answer: (4) (D) and (E) Only
