Cultural Studies Questions and Answers

Q: 'Memoir Club' of 1920 was originally centred on two daughters of :

The Memoir Club centred on two daughters of Leslie Stephen.The Memoir Club was formed in 1920 by members of the Bloomsbury Group, who met to read autobiographical papers to one another. Its centre was the circle around Leslie Stephen's daughters, the painter Vanessa Bell and the novelist Virginia Woolf.Duncan Grant, E. M. Forster and J. M. Keynes were members of the club and of Bloomsbury, so their names belong to the group, but the two sisters at its heart were Stephen's daughters.

Q: E.P. Thomson wrote :

E. P. Thompson (printed 'Thomson') wrote The Making of the English Working Class.Thompson's history of 1963 traced how the English working class formed itself between about 1780 and 1832, rescuing ordinary workers from what he called 'the enormous condescension of posterity'. It is a founding work of history from below and of British cultural studies.The other titles are by his contemporaries: Marxism and Literature (1977) and Culture and Society (1958) by Raymond Williams, and The Uses of Literacy (1957) by Richard Hoggart.

Q: When a nation casts off colonialism, it also casts off "the colonized man". What is the implication of Frantz Fanon ?

Fanon's implication is When we become free of oppression, we regain our humanity.In The Wretched of the Earth (1961), Fanon argues that colonialism dehumanises the colonised, reducing them to objects. Decolonisation is therefore not only a political change but 'the veritable creation of new men': in freeing themselves, the colonised cast off the identity of 'the colonized man' and recover their full humanity.Fanon actually warns against native intellectuals merely digging up fragments of a past culture, and he rejects exoticising one's own people. Isolationism is not what he draws from decolonisation.

Q: During the reign of King James, in which continent were the first British colonies founded ?

The first British colonies were founded in North America.Under James I, the Virginia Company founded Jamestown in 1607, the first permanent English settlement in America, and the Pilgrims settled Plymouth in New England in 1620. Bermuda (1612) was also settled in his reign.British colonies in Africa and Australia came much later, and in Asia the East India Company, chartered in 1600, set up trading posts, not colonies, at this time.

Q: Richard Hoggart established :

Richard Hoggart established the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Studies, that is, the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham.Hoggart, author of The Uses of Literacy (1957), founded the Centre in 1964 and was its first director; Stuart Hall succeeded him. The Centre is where British cultural studies took shape as a discipline. The option shortens its name, but it is plainly the institution meant.Hoggart founded no School of Drama or school of poetry, and 'Practical Criticism' is associated with I.A. Richards at Cambridge, not with Hoggart.

Q: The famous term 'culture industry' was coined by :

The term 'culture industry' was coined by Theodor Adorno, with Max Horkheimer.It comes from the chapter 'The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception' in their Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944/1947). The two Frankfurt School thinkers argued that film, radio and popular music are produced like factory goods, standardised to keep audiences passive.Georg Lukacs is known for reification and his theory of the novel, Stuart Hall for the encoding and decoding model in British cultural studies, and Roland Barthes for Mythologies and semiology. None coined this term.

Q: Who said, "it is healthier to read Tit-Bits than Tennyson's Idylls of the King" ?

The key attributes the remark to J.M. Synge.The line sets the lively popular weekly Tit-Bits against the genteel Victorian Idylls of the King, and it matches Synge's view that poetry should be rooted in ordinary, vigorous life, not in refined literary convention. A 1961 Spectator piece on Tennyson is the only source I found that gives the remark to Synge; I could not trace the original wording, so the key is kept on that evidence.I found nothing linking George Orwell or Kingsley Amis to this remark, and 'Samuel Backett' is the printed spelling of Beckett's name, so those options are not supported by anything I could find.

Q: The term 'Diaspora' comes from :

The term 'diaspora' comes from Greek.Diaspora derives from the Greek diaspeirein, 'to scatter about' (dia, through, and speirein, to sow). It was first used in the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible for the scattering of the Jews outside Palestine, and is now used for any people dispersed from a homeland.The word is not Latin, French or Scandinavian, though it reached English through scholarly use in the nineteenth century. The 'sowing' image explains why it suggests both dispersal and new roots.

Q: Identify the printer credited for issuing the two prints, 'Beer Street' and 'Gin Lane' :

'Beer Street' and 'Gin Lane' are credited to William Hogarth.Hogarth issued the two prints in 1751 to support the campaign against gin drinking that led to the Gin Act of that year. 'Gin Lane' shows a street of ruin and death, while 'Beer Street' shows healthy, prosperous beer drinkers. The stem calls him a printer, though he was an engraver and painter.'Richard Hogarth' was the artist's father, a schoolmaster. Joshua Reynolds was a portrait painter and first president of the Royal Academy, and Michelangelo was a Renaissance artist. Neither produced these satirical prints.

Q: Following was one of the pioneering theorists of cultural studies in Britain :

The pioneering cultural studies theorist is Raymond Williams.Williams's Culture and Society (1958) and The Long Revolution (1961), with his claim that 'culture is ordinary', laid the foundations of British cultural studies, together with Richard Hoggart and E.P. Thompson. He later developed cultural materialism.I.A. Richards was a pioneer of practical criticism, Walter Pater a Victorian aesthete, and C.S. Lewis a medievalist and novelist. None of them worked on popular and working-class culture as Williams did.

11.

'Memoir Club' of 1920 was originally centred on two daughters of :

A.Leslie Stephen
B.Duncan Grant
C.E.M. Forster
D.J.M. Keynes

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2021, SET Exam - 2021,

Answer: A

The Memoir Club centred on two daughters of Leslie Stephen.

The Memoir Club was formed in 1920 by members of the Bloomsbury Group, who met to read autobiographical papers to one another. Its centre was the circle around Leslie Stephen's daughters, the painter Vanessa Bell and the novelist Virginia Woolf.

Duncan Grant, E. M. Forster and J. M. Keynes were members of the club and of Bloomsbury, so their names belong to the group, but the two sisters at its heart were Stephen's daughters.

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12.

E.P. Thomson wrote :

A.Marxism and Literature
B.Culture and Society
C.The Use of Literacy
D.The Making of the English Working Class

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2021, SET Exam - 2021,

Answer: D

E. P. Thompson (printed 'Thomson') wrote The Making of the English Working Class.

Thompson's history of 1963 traced how the English working class formed itself between about 1780 and 1832, rescuing ordinary workers from what he called 'the enormous condescension of posterity'. It is a founding work of history from below and of British cultural studies.

The other titles are by his contemporaries: Marxism and Literature (1977) and Culture and Society (1958) by Raymond Williams, and The Uses of Literacy (1957) by Richard Hoggart.

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13.

When a nation casts off colonialism, it also casts off "the colonized man". What is the implication of Frantz Fanon ?

A.That native intellectuals must dig up the fragments of culture
B.That one must exoticize one's own people
C.That it gives rise to isolationism
D.When we become free of oppression, we regain our humanity

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2021, SET Exam - 2021,

Answer: D

Fanon's implication is When we become free of oppression, we regain our humanity.

In The Wretched of the Earth (1961), Fanon argues that colonialism dehumanises the colonised, reducing them to objects. Decolonisation is therefore not only a political change but 'the veritable creation of new men': in freeing themselves, the colonised cast off the identity of 'the colonized man' and recover their full humanity.

Fanon actually warns against native intellectuals merely digging up fragments of a past culture, and he rejects exoticising one's own people. Isolationism is not what he draws from decolonisation.

Discuss in Forum

14.

During the reign of King James, in which continent were the first British colonies founded ?

A.Asia
B.Africa
C.Australia
D.North America

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2021, SET Exam - 2021,

Answer: D

The first British colonies were founded in North America.

Under James I, the Virginia Company founded Jamestown in 1607, the first permanent English settlement in America, and the Pilgrims settled Plymouth in New England in 1620. Bermuda (1612) was also settled in his reign.

British colonies in Africa and Australia came much later, and in Asia the East India Company, chartered in 1600, set up trading posts, not colonies, at this time.

Discuss in Forum

15.

Richard Hoggart established :

A.School of Drama
B.Practical Criticism Centre
C.Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Studies
D.Romantic School of Poetry

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2023, SET Exam - 2023,

Answer: C

Richard Hoggart established the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Studies, that is, the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham.

Hoggart, author of The Uses of Literacy (1957), founded the Centre in 1964 and was its first director; Stuart Hall succeeded him. The Centre is where British cultural studies took shape as a discipline. The option shortens its name, but it is plainly the institution meant.

Hoggart founded no School of Drama or school of poetry, and 'Practical Criticism' is associated with I.A. Richards at Cambridge, not with Hoggart.

Discuss in Forum

16.

The famous term 'culture industry' was coined by :

A.Theodore Adorno
B.George Lukacs
C.Stuart Hall
D.Roland Barthes

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2023, SET Exam - 2023,

Answer: A

The term 'culture industry' was coined by Theodor Adorno, with Max Horkheimer.

It comes from the chapter 'The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception' in their Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944/1947). The two Frankfurt School thinkers argued that film, radio and popular music are produced like factory goods, standardised to keep audiences passive.

Georg Lukacs is known for reification and his theory of the novel, Stuart Hall for the encoding and decoding model in British cultural studies, and Roland Barthes for Mythologies and semiology. None coined this term.

Discuss in Forum

17.

Who said, "it is healthier to read Tit-Bits than Tennyson's Idylls of the King" ?

A.George Orwell
B.Samuel Backett
C.Kingsley Amis
D.J.M. Synge

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2023, SET Exam - 2023,

Answer: D

The key attributes the remark to J.M. Synge.

The line sets the lively popular weekly Tit-Bits against the genteel Victorian Idylls of the King, and it matches Synge's view that poetry should be rooted in ordinary, vigorous life, not in refined literary convention. A 1961 Spectator piece on Tennyson is the only source I found that gives the remark to Synge; I could not trace the original wording, so the key is kept on that evidence.

I found nothing linking George Orwell or Kingsley Amis to this remark, and 'Samuel Backett' is the printed spelling of Beckett's name, so those options are not supported by anything I could find.

Discuss in Forum

18.

The term 'Diaspora' comes from :

A.Latin
B.French
C.Greek
D.Scandinavian

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2023, SET Exam - 2023,

Answer: C

The term 'diaspora' comes from Greek.

Diaspora derives from the Greek diaspeirein, 'to scatter about' (dia, through, and speirein, to sow). It was first used in the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible for the scattering of the Jews outside Palestine, and is now used for any people dispersed from a homeland.

The word is not Latin, French or Scandinavian, though it reached English through scholarly use in the nineteenth century. The 'sowing' image explains why it suggests both dispersal and new roots.

Discuss in Forum

19.

Identify the printer credited for issuing the two prints, 'Beer Street' and 'Gin Lane' :

A.Richard Hogarth
B.William Hogarth
C.Joshua Reynolds
D.Michelangelo

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2023, SET Exam - 2023,

Answer: B

'Beer Street' and 'Gin Lane' are credited to William Hogarth.

Hogarth issued the two prints in 1751 to support the campaign against gin drinking that led to the Gin Act of that year. 'Gin Lane' shows a street of ruin and death, while 'Beer Street' shows healthy, prosperous beer drinkers. The stem calls him a printer, though he was an engraver and painter.

'Richard Hogarth' was the artist's father, a schoolmaster. Joshua Reynolds was a portrait painter and first president of the Royal Academy, and Michelangelo was a Renaissance artist. Neither produced these satirical prints.

Discuss in Forum

20.

Following was one of the pioneering theorists of cultural studies in Britain :

A.I.A. Richards
B.Walter Pater
C.Raymond Williams
D.C.S. Lewis

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2023, SET Exam - 2023,

Answer: C

The pioneering cultural studies theorist is Raymond Williams.

Williams's Culture and Society (1958) and The Long Revolution (1961), with his claim that 'culture is ordinary', laid the foundations of British cultural studies, together with Richard Hoggart and E.P. Thompson. He later developed cultural materialism.

I.A. Richards was a pioneer of practical criticism, Walter Pater a Victorian aesthete, and C.S. Lewis a medievalist and novelist. None of them worked on popular and working-class culture as Williams did.

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