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UGC-NET Literature Quiz – Feminist & Gender Studies

1. Who among the following has coined the term ‘eco-feminism’?

1)Monique Wittig
2)Françoise d’Eaubonne
3)Hélène Cixous
4)Marguerite Duras

2. “Women of Palestine” (1982) and “Indian Women in Struggle” (1980) deal with:

1)Women’s religious and familial issues
2)Female militancy and political involvement
3)Women’s struggle at their workplace
4)Women’s reproductive rights

3. Marge Piercy’s novel “Woman on the Edge of Time” (1976) is based on:

1)Shulamith Firestone’s “The Dialectic of Sex”
2)Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”
3)Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland”
4)Donna Haraway’s “A Cyborg Manifesto”

4. Which of the following are representative texts of ‘Gynocriticism’?

[A] Patricia Meyer Spacks’ “The Female Imagination”
[B] Mary Ellmann’s “Thinking About Women”
[C] Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar’s “The Madwoman in the Attic”
[D] Ellen Moers’ “Literary Women”
[E] Kate Millett’s “Sexual Politics”

1)A and B only
2)A, B and C only
3)B, D and E only
4)A, C and D only

5. Who is the author of “A Literature of Their Own”?

1)Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar
2)Elaine Showalter
3)Virginia Woolf
4)Sylvia Plath

6. What is the correct sequence of the following feminist texts?

[A] Sexual Politics
[B] A World of Difference
[C] The Female Imagination
[D] Thinking About Women
[E] A Room of One’s Own

1)(A), (B), (C), (D), (E)
2)(E), (B), (D), (A), (C)
3)(E), (D), (A), (C), (B)
4)(B), (C), (D), (E), (A)

7. Kimberlé Crenshaw’s term “intersectionality” is widely used for:

[A] Academic deterioration
[B] Racial justice
[C] Peace formation
[D] Complex construction of power
[E] Identity politics

1)B, D and E only
2)A, C and E only
3)B, D and C only
4)C, D and E only

8. Match List I with List II:

List I (Books)

[A] Gender and Nation

[B] Greek Homosexuality

[C] The Subject of Tragedy

[D] The Souls of Black Folk

List II (Authors)

[I] Catherine Belsey

[II] K.J. Dover

[III] W.E.B. Du Bois

[IV] Nira Yuval-Davis

1)(A)-(I), (B)-(IV), (C)-(III), (D)-(II)
2)(A)-(III), (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)
3)(A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(III), (D)-(I)
4)(A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)

9. Which of the following denote the three phases of literary feminism according to Elaine Showalter?

[A] Feminine
[B] Gynic
[C] Womanish
[D] Feminist
[E] Female

1)A, B and C only
2)A, D and E only
3)A, B and E only
4)B, C and D only

10. Which of the following two books have their roots in Foucauldian thoughts on sexuality?

A) Metahistory
B) Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
C) The Role of the Reader
D) Epistemology of the Closet
E) Sexual Politics

1)B and C only
2)A and D only
3)A and C only
4)B and D only

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11. Who among the following distinguished the ‘constatives’ from the ‘performatives’?

1)John Austin
2)Judith Butler
3)Stanley Fish
4)Mary Louise Pratt

12. Which of the following books are written by Julia Kristeva?

A) Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art
B) Illuminations
C) Syntax and Semantics
D) La Révolution du Langage Poétique
E) The Madwoman in the Attic

1)A and C
2)B and A
3)A and D
4)B and E

13. Name the author of “Out on Stage: Lesbian and Gay Theatre in the Twentieth Century”.

1)Alan Sinfield
2)Keith Peacock
3)Ronald Hayman
4)John Russell Taylor

14. The term ‘Gynocriticism’ refers to:

1)Feminist consciousness
2)Production of writings on women by men
3)Analysis of androcentric texts
4)Production and analysis of writings by women on women

15. Identify the correct option in Julia Kristeva’s definition of ‘chora’:

(A) Liminal Space
(B) Space of the marginalised
(C) Non-expressive totality created by the bodily drives
(D) The chora has no fixed identity
(E) It precedes the linguistic sign