Marxism Previous Year UGC-NET English

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UGC-NET Literature Quiz – Marxism & Cultural Studies

1. Who among the following says that ideology is “a representation of the imaginary relationship of individual to their real condition of existence”?

1)Fredric Jameson
2)Herbert Marcuse
3)Louis Althusser
4)Terry Eagleton

2. Who among the following is associated with a ‘philosophy of praxis’?

1)Antonio Gramsci
2)Georg Lukács
3)Raymond Williams
4)Stuart Hall

3. Match List I with List II:

List I (Theorists)

[A] Karl Marx

[B] Lévi-Strauss

[C] Michel Foucault

[D] Jean Paul Sartre

List II (Works)

[I] Madness and Civilization

[II] Being and Nothingness

[III] The German Ideology

[IV] The Elementary Structures of Kinship

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

4. Who has used the term ‘bowling alone’ to describe the erosion of community ties in the United States?

1)Frank Furedi
2)Zygmunt Bauman
3)Robert Bellah
4)Robert Putnam

5. Given below are two statements: One is labeled as assertion A and the other is labeled as reason R.

Assertion (A): The Marxists represent Marxism as a scientific account of social change.

Reason (R): The Marxist ideology believes that culture is a mirror of social life and the artist is an engineer of the human soul educating the working classes.

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

6. Who among the following critics appropriates the following statement by Karl Marx?

“They cannot represent themselves: they must be represented”.

1)Ruth Vanita
2)Kamla Bhasin
3)Flavia Agnes
4)Chandra Talpade Mohanty

7. Who among the following is known as a post-Marxist thinker?

1)Ernesto Laclau
2)Antonio Gramsci
3)Theodor Adorno
4)Walter Benjamin

8. Who among the following coined the phrase ‘soft capitalism’?

1)Louis Althusser
2)Slavoj Žižek
3)Nigel Thrift
4)Terry Eagleton

9. According to Stuart Hall, the concept of __________ played a seminal role in Cultural Studies.

1)Interpellation
2)Dispositive
3)Hegemony
4)Society

10. The book “Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism” was jointly edited by:

1)Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
2)Alan Sinfield and Jonathan Dollimore
3)Bill Ashcroft and Helen Tiffin
4)Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer

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11. Mention the year in which “Political Shakespeare” edited by Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield was published.

1)1980
2)1984
3)1987
4)1985

12. What does Pierre Bourdieu imply by the term ‘habitus’ in his sociological studies?

1)The culture of increasing consumerization of post-capitalist societies
2)The phenomenon of the masses succumbing to material fetishism of different types
3)A person’s posture, speech and the mental habit of perception, classification, appreciation, feeling and action
4)Personal habits that do not impact the society profoundly

13. Match List I with List II:

List I (Theorists)

A) Antonio Gramsci

B) Pierre Bourdieu

C) Dick Hebdige

D) Raymond Williams

List II (Concepts)

I Popular Culture

II Hegemony

III Cultural Capital

IV Subculture

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

14. Given below are two statements:

Statement I: Althusser’s theory of “interpellation” implies the act of hailing like “Hey, you!” and thereby turning individuals into ideological, consenting subjects.

Statement II: Althusser’s theory of interpellation is very much similar to the concept of Derrida’s theory of deconstruction.

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 true

15. Antonio Gramsci’s “Prison Notebooks” primarily deals with:

1)Pain of a prisoner during colonial times
2)Recollections of love, romance and blissful life
3)Philosophy, culture, literature and the role of intellectuals
4)Exploitation of blacks during the colonial times

16. In Antonio Gramsci’s definition of intellectual, which is the correct option?

(A) Every social group joining the world of production creates organically a stratum of intellectuals.
(B) Intellectuals give homogeneity and awareness of a social group’s function in all the fields.
(C) Intellectuals do not work for consolidating the power of a social group.
(D) The category of ecclesiastics is organically bound to the bourgeoisie.
(E) The monopoly held by the ecclesiastics in the superstructural domain was not exercised without a contestation.