Question. Eliot’s essay ‘The Function of Criticism’ has
(a) two points
(b) three parts
(c) four parts
(d) five parts

Question. According to Eliot, Literary tradition is
(a) Self-sacrifice
(b) Whiggering
(c) Self-organism
(d) a canon

Question. Eliot says that inner voice is _________.
(a) hoarse
(b) Whiggery
(c) artificial
(d) raspy

Question. What, according to T.S. Eliot are the chief tools of the critic?
(a) Comparison and analysis
(b) Analysis and exposition
(c) Exposition and comparison
(d) None of the above

Question. In T.S Eliot’s “The Function of Criticism”, he mentions that the ____ should be altered by the ___, as much as the ___ is altered by the ____.
(a) future, past & past, future
(b) present, past & past, present
(c) future, present & present, future
(d) past, present & present, past

Question. What is the commentation and exposition of works of art by means of written words according to Eliot?
(a) philosophy
(b) Literature
(c) criticism
(d) creativity

Question. Middleton Murry has criticized the critical work of
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Eliot
(c) Arnold
(d) Leavis

Question. Eliot says , “ inner voice is ____ “
(a) hoarse
(b) artificial
(c) whiggery
(d) sublime

Question. Eliot mentions that the end of criticism appears to be the elucidation of works of art and
(a) the correction of taste
(b) the convection of taste
(c) the conversion of taste
(d) the conduction of taste

Question. What according to Eliot does the inner voice sound like?
(a) trusting one’s instincts
(b) doing as one likes
(c) doing what’s necessary
(d) doing as other’s like

Question. The Function of Criticism is T. S Elliot’s reply to_________
(a) I. A Richards
(b) Northrope Frye
(c) Middleton Murry
(d) Rene Welleck

Question. To which age does T. S Eliot belong?
(a) Classical Age
(b) Modern Age
(c) Romantic Age
(d) Victorian Age

Question. Who according to Eliot are the real corruptors of taste?
(a) those that supply lies and fiction
(b) those that supply opinions or fancy
(c) those that supply truth or facts
(d) those that supply criticism

Question. Eliot states. “The critical activity finds its highest, its true fulfillment in a kind of union with creation in the
(a) labour of the artist”
(b) composition of the poet”
(c) works of poets and prose writers”
(d) creation of the artist”

Question. The most important qualification that Eliot recommends to critics is to possess a
(a) “very highly developed sense of literature”
(b) “very highly developed sense of history”
(c) “very highly developed sense of philosophy”
(d) “very highly developed sense of fact”

Question. According to Eliot the most important qualification that a critic must have is
(a) a highly developed sense of understanding
(b) a highly developed sense of fact
(c) a highly developed sense of meaning
(d) a highly developed sense of intuition

Question. T.S. Eliot has stated that criticism is the elucidation of work of _________ and the correction of _________.
(a) arts, taste
(b) writers, sense
(c) individual, mistake
(d) none of the above

Question. Eliot believes that artists unite consciously or unconsciously under a common
(a) Inheritance and cause
(b) Religion and faith
(c) System of Believe
(d) Habit and cause

Question. “The Function of Criticism” by TS Eliot was a response to
(a) Matthew Arnold
(b) Dr. Wellek
(c) Middleton Murry
(d) FR Leavis

Question. Eliot said that the major part of the effort of an author in composing his work is __.
(a) Critical labour
(b) Critical faculty
(c) Creative criticism
(d) Workshop criticism

Question. The commentation and exposition of works of art, according to Eliot, is
(a) Elucidation
(b) Exposition
(c) Collaboration
(d) Criticism

Question. What are the chief tools of the critic according to TS Eliot?
(a) Comparison and analysis
(b) Interpretation and communication
(c) Studying and reproduction
(d) Fact hunting

Question. What did TS Eliot called critics like himself who did not have the ‘inner voice’?
(a) Inner deaf mutes
(b) Whiggery
(c) Fact hunters
(d) Lemon- squeezers

Question. Criticism must always profess an _______
(a) Observation
(b) Analysis of works of art
(c) Objective
(d) End in view

Question. Eliot said that Mathew Arnold overlooks the importance of
(a) Inner Voice
(b) Creation in criticism
(c) Criticism in creation
(d) None of the above

Question. No writer according to Eliot is_____
(a) Self-reliant
(b) Self-supported
(c) Self-sufficient
(d) Selfish

Question. A critic must have a very highly developed sense of ______
(a) Understanding
(b) Fact
(c) Knowledge
(d) Literature

Question. The chief tools of a critic are
(a) Truth and knowledge
(b) Facts and Science
(c) Comparison and analysis
(d) Reading and understanding

Question. Both Arnold and Eliot are preoccupied with
(a) Culture
(b) Society
(c) Emotion
(d) Nature

Question. ‘The function of criticism is to promote the understanding and enjoyment of literature’. Who said this?
(a) Matthew Arnold
(b) T. S Eliot
(c) Dr. Johnson
(d) John Keats

Question. Eliot states, “A common inheritance and a common cause unite artists
(a) consciously or unconsciously”
(b) interactively”
(c) by unseen thread”
(d) subconsciously”

Question. Eliot believes that between the true artists of any time there is
(a) an unconscious community
(b) a mutual understanding
(c) a vast difference
(d) an unbound thread

Question. Eliot states that to be an ideal critic, one has to develop an extraordinary sense of _____.
(a) imagination
(b) taste
(c) fact
(d) vision

Question. The lemon squeezer critic is opposed by –
(a) Middleton Murry
(b) T.S. Eliot
(c) Samuel Johnson
(d) F.R. Leavis

Question. Eliot feels that the second-rate artist cannot afford to surrender himself to any
(a) concrete idea
(b) common action
(c) universal detail
(d) philosophical idea

Question. To Eliot, the chief tools of the critic are,
(a) reading and composition
(b) reading and comprehension
(c) composition and analysis
(d) comparison and analysis

Question. According to TS Eliot, who overlook the capital importance of criticism in the work of creation itself?
(a) Middleton Murry
(b) Matthew Arnold
(c) Clutton Brock
(d) Coleridge

Question. A critic according to Eliot must be entirely
(a) impersonal and objective
(b) imaginative and emotional
(c) ordered and discerning
(d) learned and well-read

Question. Eliot says that the function of a critic is to ______ a work of art
(a) explain
(b) elucidate
(c) publish
(d) contemplate

Question. “The Function of Criticism” by TS Eliot was written in
(a) 1921
(b) 1922
(c) 1923
(d) 1924

FILL IN THE BLANKS:

Question. T.S Eliot mocks the Inner voice by calling it ______    Whiggery

Question. T.S Eliot belongs to the ______ Age of literature.   Modern

Question. ‘The function of criticism is to promote the understanding and enjoyment of literature’, is a quote by _______    TS. Eliot

Question. Eliot necessitated that the past should be ______by the present.   altered

Question. Eliot asserts that most critics are occupied in labour of ________.    obnubilation

Question. In ‘The Function of Criticism’ by T. S Eliot there are _________ parts   four

Question. The ___ seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he cherishes and loves it in his solitude.   Man of science

Question. A critic must have a very highly developed sense of ___.   Fact

Question. The critical activity finds its highest, its true fulfilment in a kind of union with ___ in the labour of the artist.    Creation

Question. Comparision and analysis are the chief tools of the critic according to _____    T.S.Eliot

Question. Eliot’s essay The Function of Criticism was published in______.    1923

Question. Eliot says that the function of a critic is to ___________works of  art.    Elucidate

Question. The commentation and exposition of works of art, according to Eliot, is _____   Criticism

Question. The Function of Criticism is T. S Elliot’s reply to_______    Middleton Murry

Question. The end of criticism is “the elucidation of the works of art and correction of _______.   Taste

Question. According to T.S Eliot. ”for order to persist after the supervention of novelty, the ______ existing order must be, if ever so lightly, altere(d)”   whole

Question. The lemon squeezer critic is opposed by _____     T.S. Eliot

Question. To Eliot, there is a large part of critical writing which consists of ‘interpreting an author a _____’.   Work

Question. Eliot feels that, ‘fact cannot corrupt ______’.   Ideas

Question. Eliot mentions that the end of criticism appears to be the elucidation of works of art and ____ of taste.   Correction