Question. “Literary Criticism and Philosophy” was written by F.R Leavis in response to which other critic?
(a) Matthew Arnold
(b) Dr. Rene Wellek
(c) T.S Eliot
(d) William Wordsworth   

Question. Leavis boldly announced that Literary Criticism is not _____________
(a) Psychology
(b) History
(c) Philosophy
(d) Physiology   

Question. Dr. Wellek has criticized Leavis that his lack of interest in philosophy makes him unfair to the poets of ______________.
(a) Victorian poets
(b) Romantic poets
(c) Elizabethan poets
(d) Modern poets   

Question. A critic’s constant concern is never to lose his ________________
(a) Completeness of possession
(b) Value Judgment
(c) Completeness of response
(d) Irrelevant generalizing   

Question. What according to Leavis are the two distinct and different kinds of discipline?
(a) Science and arts
(b) Science and Philosophy
(c) Literary Criticism and philosophy
(d) Arts and Philosophy   

Question. Leavis literary Criticism and Philosophy is a reaction to __________ essay
(a) T.S Eliot’s
(b) I.A Richard’s
(c) R.N Wellek’s
(d) K. Wimsatt   

Question. FR Leavis said the business of the literary critic is
(a) To have a coherent response to commentary
(b) To be on guard against abstracting things
(c) To be on guard against generalization
(d) All of the above   

Question. What was Leavis’ opinion of William Wordsworth?
(a) He did not consider Wordsworth to be good poet
(b) He did not consider Wordsworth to be a philosophic thinker.
(c) He did not consider Wordsworth to be a critical thinker.
(d) He did not consider Wordsworth to be a Romantic thinker. 

Question. For Leavis, the reading demanded by poetry is of a different kind from that demanded by ___________.
(a) drama
(b) essay
(c) philosophy
(d) science   

Question. To F. R. Leavis, literary criticism and philosophy are
(a) “quite distinct and different kinds of discipline”
(b) “quite similar discipline”
(c) “quite amusing discipline”  
(d) “quite extraordinary disciplines”   

Question. Leavis asserts that words in poetry demands _____ responsiveness.
(a) Disinterested
(b) Partial
(c) Complete
(d) Voluntary   

Question. F.R. Leavis is of the opinion that the ideal ___ is the ideal ____.
(a) critic, reader
(b) philosopher, critic
(c) reader. critic
(d) writer, critic   

Question. Leavis is of the opinion that the reading demanded by poetry is different from that demanded by
(a) drama
(b) philosophy
(c) science
(d) prose   

Question. Dr. Wellek’s first criticism of Leavis is that Leavis didn’t develop
(a) cogency
(b) theoretical implications
(c) coherence of response
(d) none of the above   

Question. Which of the following according to Leavis, does not invite one to “think about” and “judge”?
(a) poetry
(b) Philosophy
(c) criticism
(d) reading   

Question. Leavis says that his and Wellek’s approaches are different because he is a critic, and Wellek is a
(a) Realist
(b) Artist
(c) Writer
(d) Philosopher   

Question. The Essay literary Criticism and Philosophy was published in
(a) 1927
(b) 1947
(c) 1973
(d) 1937 

Question. Training in what discipline would be beneficial but is not a necessity to a literary critic according to Leavis?
(a) Science
(b) Psychology
(c) Sociology
(d) Philosophy   

Question. Who has written Literary Criticism and Philosophy
(a) T. S Eliot
(b) I. A Richards
(c) F. R Leavis
(d) M. H Abrams   

Question. Leavis states that poetry is concrete and that philosophy is
(a) The same
(b) Abstract
(c) Disinterested
(d) Ephemeral   

Question. F. R. Leavis states, “By the critic of poetry I understand the complete reader: the ideal critic is
(a) the ideal writer”
(b) the ideal composer”
(c) the ideal reader”
(d) the ideal man”   

Question. Leavis is of the opinion that reading demanded by poetry is different from that demanded by
(a) science
(b) law
(c) history
(d) philosophy   

Question. The reading demanded by poetry is different from that demanded by
(a) Philosophy
(b) History
(c) Science
(d) Law   

Question. Leavis feels that the best way of presenting theoretical principles is to show then at work in –
(a) Factual Criticism
(b) Logical Criticism
(c) Practical Criticism
(d) Constructive Criticism   

Question. Dr. Wellek’s main criticism of Leavis was that
(a) Leavis was biased
(b) Leavis lacked interest in philosophy
(c) Leavis was not a romantic
(d) Leavis was ambiguous 

Question. Dr. Wellek accuses Leavis of being unfair to the poets of the ______ Age.
(a) Victorian
(b) Neo- Classical
(c) Romantic
(d) Puritan   

Question. Leavis asserts that words in poetry demands________________ responsiveness.
(a) Total
(b) Absolute
(c) Complex
(d) Complete   

Question. The critic’s aim is, first, to realize as sensitively and completely as possible this or that which claims his
(a) Imagination
(b) Attention
(c) Thoughts
(d) Enthusiasm 

Question. Leavis expresses his views on the _______ of criticism
(a) relevance
(b) discipline
(c) function
(d) guidelines   

Question. The ideal critic according to Leavis is the __________
(a) Ideal poet
(b) Ideal reader
(c) Ideal philosopher
(d) Ideal person   

Question. Leavis never proposed to consider __ as a philosophic thinker
(a) William Wordsworth
(b) William Blake
(c) PB Shelly
(d) Dr. Wellek   

Question. The difference between a poet and a philosopher according to Leavis is
(a) Symbolical representations
(b) Interests of rhythm
(c) Laxity of expression
(d) Evocative powers 

Question. Leavis states, “But it is to be note that the improvement we ask for is of the critic, the critic as critic, and to count on it would be to count on the attainment of
(a) A glorious task”
(b) A perfect balance”
(c) An ideal task”
(d) An arduous ideal”   

Question. “The business of a literary critic is to attain a peculiar completeness of response” is stated by –
(a) F.R. Leavis
(b) Middleton Murry
(c) Matthew Arnold
(d) Rene Wellek 

Question. Who said, “Poetry must be in serious relation to actuality, it must have a firm grasp of the actual, of the object, it must be in relation to life”?
(a) William Wordsworth
(b) Matthew Arnold
(c) TS Eliot 
(d) FR Leavis     

Question. The literary critic aims to make fully conscious and articulate the immediate sense of
(a) “value that ‘places’ the poem”
(b) “value that ‘situates’ the poem”
(c) “value that ‘modifies’ the poem”  
(d) “value that ‘decodes’ the poem” 

Question. According to Leavis, philosophic training would benefit the critic by making clear that
(a) The two are vastly similar
(b) The two are vastly different
(c) Philosophy is needed to be a critic
(d) The two are complementary   

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Question. According to Leavis, criticism is not an ____________ activity.    

Question. Philosophy, we say, is ‘abstract’, and poetry ___.   

Question. Leavis accuses Dr. Wellek of not paying real attention to his analyses of _________    

Question. Leavis claims that Blake’s symbolism can be understood even without studying his _____   

Question. Leavis states that Dr.Wellek accuses him of not being philosophical because he himself is a _____    

Question. Leavis says that poetry is concrete, whereas philosophy is _____   

Question. The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining and ___________ us, as nothing else can.  

Question. Leavis held that Dr. Wellek confirms his conviction that philosophy and literary criticism are very _______ things.    

Question. Leavis claims philosophy invites us to think about something, whereas poetry invites us to ____ into something.     

Question. Philosophical training would make it clearer that literary criticism is not _____    

Question. Leavis remarks of Dr. Wellek, ‘He is so interested in philosophy that he pays no real attention to my _________of poetry.    

Question. ‘If I profess myself so freely to be no philosopher it is because I have a pretensions- pretensions to being a ___.     

Question. The criticism of Leavis is sometimes called _______ criticism    

Question. For Leavis, the reading demanded by poetry is of a different kind from that demanded by ___________.    

Question. Dr. Wellek accuses FR. Leavis of being unfair to the poets of the ____ age.    

Question. Leavis asserts that words in poetry demands_________ responsiveness.   

Question. The critical activity finds its highest, its true fulfillment in a kind of union with creation in the labour of the ____________.     

Question. Aristotle observes that the superiority of poetry over history consists in its possessing a higher _________ and a higher seriousness.    

Question. Leavis states, ‘Again where Wordsworth is concerned, Dr. Wellek seems to misunderstand my _______.    

Question. Leavis boldly announced that Literary Criticism is different from _______