MCQs- Russian Formalism

 MCQs- Russian Formalism

1.     Who is considered the founder of Russian Formalism?

a.     Viktor Shklovsky

b.     Vladimir Propp

c.      Roman Jakobson

d.     Mikhail Bakhtin

2.     Formalism emerged against traditional criticism in early ......... century.

a.     19th

b.     20th

c.      21st

d.     18th

3.     Who is the Founder member of Moscow Linguistic Circle and later co-founded Prague School?

a.     Viktor Shklovsky

b.     Yury Tynianov

c.      Vladimir Popp

d.     Ramon Jacobson

4.     Russian Formalism emphasized the importance of:

a.     Historical context

b.     Author's biography

c.      Formal literary elements

d.     Social and political themes

5.     According to Formalists, which is the only hero of literature?

a.     Plot

b.     Story

c.      Three unities

d.     Device

6.     Formalistic method is not based on…..

a.     Autonomy/close reading of text

b.     Scientific method

c.      Traditional method

d.     Objective approach

7.     Which work in known as manifesto of OPOJAZ.

a.     Art as Device (1916)

b.     Art as Technique (1917)

c.      Closing statement: Linguistics & Poetics

d.     Russian Formalism (1955)

8.     The concept of "defamiliarization" in Russian Formalism refers to:

a.     Creating a sense of strangeness or unfamiliarity

b.     Making literature easily understandable

c.      Presenting familiar ideas in a new way

d.     Focusing on the author's personal experiences

9.     The concept of "fabula" in Russian Formalism refers to:

a.     The main theme of a story

b.     The chronological sequence of events

c.      The author's intentions

d.     The structure of a narrative

10.  The concept of “Syuzhet” in Russian formalism refers to:

a.     Theme of the story

b.     Author’s intensions

c.      Devices in the story

d.     Arrangement of the story

11.  Which is not true about Fabula and Syuzhet?

a.     Fabula means story;

b.     Syuzhet means plot;

c.      One Syuzhet may have many Fabulas

d.     One Fabula may have many Syuzhets

12.  Who coined the term Defamiliarization?

a.     Viktor Shklovsky

b.     Ramon Jacobson

c.      Yury Tynianov

d.     Vladimir Popp

13.  Russian Formalism influenced the development of a similar literary theory called…….?

a.     Psychoanalytic theory

b.     Marxist theory

c.      New Criticism

d.     Feminist theory

14.  OPOJAZ is ………….

a.     Society for the study of Poetic Language

b.     Organization for the study of communicative Language

c.      Organization for the study of poetic Language

d.     Society for the study of communicative Language

15.  Which is “Fundamental opposition between ordinary language & literary language” ?

a.     Defamiliarization

b.     Literariness

c.      Syuzhet

d.     Fabula

16.  Who said, “the object of literary science is not literature but literariness, i.e. what makes a given work a literary work’?

a.     Viktor Shklovsky

b.     Yury Tynianov

c.      Vladimir Popp

d.     Ramon Jakobson

17.  Russian Formalists focused on analyzing literary texts based on their:

a.     Political context

b.     Philosophical depth

c.      Rhetorical devices

d.     Moral lessons

18.  The Russian Formalist concept of "motif" refers to:

a.     A recurring theme or idea in a literary work

b.     The author's personal experiences

c.      The historical background of a story

d.     The protagonist's journey

19.  Betrolt Bretch’s Epic Theatre is based on?

a.     Literariness

b.     Defamiliarization

c.      Syuzhet

d.     Fabula

20.  Which Russian Formalist scholar introduced the idea of "estrangement" or "ostranenie"?

a.     Roman Jakobson

b.     Mikhail Bakhtin

c.      Boris Eikhenbaum

d.     Viktor Shklovsky

21.  Russian Formalism aimed to shift the focus of literary criticism from:

a.     Form to content

b.     Historical context to author's biography

c.      Ideological themes to character development

d.     Content to formal literary elements

22.  Who says, “the purpose of art was to make the stone stony”

a.     Roman Jakobson

b.     Viktor Shklovsky

c.      Mikhail Bakhtin

d.     Boris Eikhenbaum

23.  Who described six functions of language?

a.     Roman Jakobson

b.     Mikhail Bakhtin

c.      Boris Eikhenbaum

d.     Viktor Shklovsky

24.  Apart from sender and receiver, which of the following is not in the “six functions of language”?

a.     Context

b.     Code

c.      Meaning

d.     Channel

25.  Moscow Linguistic Circle was established in….

Prague School was established in----

a.     1915, 1926

b.     1916, 1925

c.      1926, 1915

d.     1925, 1916

26.  Moscow Linguistic School is a counter part of

a.     Prague School

b.     OPOJAZ

c.      Geneva School

d.     Petrograd School

27.  OPOYAZ was established at ……. in ….…

a.     Moscow, 1915

b.     Prague, 1925

c.      St Petersburgh, 1916

d.     Leningrad, 1926

28.  Which is not true about six functions of language?

a.     Referential function is related to context

b.     Emotive function is related to sender

c.      Conative function is related to receiver

d.     Phatic function is related to Code

29.  Who says that metaphor and metonymy are the two fundamental structures of language?

a.     Victor Shklovsky

b.     Todorov

c.      Tomashevsky

d.     Roman Jakobson

30.  Russian Formalism emerged as a response to:

a.     Traditional criticism

b.     Realism

c.      Postmodernism

d.     Existentialism

31.  Who is the author of “Russian Formalism (1955)”

a.     Rene Welleck

b.     Viktor Erlich

c.      Yury Tynyanov

d.     Jan Mukarovsky

32.  Who is the author of “Morphology of the folk tale (1928)”

a.     Rene Welleck

b.     Yury Tynyanov

c.      Vladimir Propp

d.     Jan Mukarovsky

33.  Meaning of Ostranenie is…

a.     Make it new

b.     Make it strong

c.      Make it strange

d.     Make it famous

34.  In Morphology of the folk tale (1928), Vladimir Prop discovered ………… basic units of narrative functions and ………. spheres of action.

a.     10,6

b.     31,7

c.      7,31

d.     6,10

35.  The Russian Formalist approach is emerged in which literary movement?

a.     Romanticism

b.     Neo-Classical

c.      Post Modern

d.     Modernism

36.  Which formalist concept refers to the process of breaking down a narrative into its constituent elements?

a.     Syuzhet

b.     Motif

c.      Defamiliarization

d.     Fabula

37.  Which Formalist scholar introduced the concept of "literariness"?

a.     Roman Jakobson

b.     Boris Eikhenbaum

c.      Viktor Shklovsky

d.     Mikhail Bakhtin

38.  The Russian Formalist term "literary school" refers to:

a.     A physical place where authors gather

b.     A group of writers who share similar political views

c.      A group of authors who utilize similar literary techniques

d.     A school where authors are trained in writing

39.  Russian Formalism is often associated with the study of which literary genre?

a.     Biography

b.     Poetry

c.      Historical fiction

d.     Mystery novels

40.  In Russian Formalism, which is not true.

a.     Defamiliarization is based on Ostranenie

b.     Literariness differentiates between ordinary and literary text

c.      Device is a literary technique

d.     Foregrounding is priority to author's biography

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