Cultural Studies Questions and Answers

Q: 'Nation and Narration' is authored by :

Nation and Narration is by Homi Bhabha.Homi K. Bhabha edited Nation and Narration (1990), a collection of essays on the nation as a story told in literature and culture, which includes his own influential essay 'DissemiNation'. Bhabha is one of the leading figures of postcolonial theory, known also for The Location of Culture and the ideas of hybridity and mimicry.Benedict Anderson wrote Imagined Communities, a related study of nationalism. Partha Chatterjee wrote Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World, and Ranajit Guha founded Subaltern Studies.

Q: 'The Wretched of the Earth' is a book on the post-colonial theory by one of the following authors :

The Wretched of the Earth is by Frantz Fanon.Fanon, the psychiatrist and revolutionary from Martinique who joined the Algerian struggle, published Les Damnes de la Terre in 1961, with a preface by Jean-Paul Sartre. It analyses the violence of colonialism and decolonisation and the pitfalls of national consciousness, and is a founding text of postcolonial theory.Barbara Harlow, Henry Louis Gates and Helen Tiffin (co-editor of The Empire Writes Back) are later critics in the field, their names printed with variations in the options; none wrote this book.

Q: The Wretched of the Earth includes an introduction by :

The Wretched of the Earth has a preface by Jean-Paul Sartre.Frantz Fanon's book (1961), written as he was dying of leukaemia, analyses colonial violence and decolonisation and became a foundational text of postcolonial thought. Sartre's fierce preface, addressed to Europeans, endorsed Fanon's argument about the violence of colonialism and its overthrow.Aime Cesaire, Fanon's teacher in Martinique, influenced him but did not introduce the book; Michel Foucault and Nelson Mandela have no connection with it.

Q: Matthew Arnold's model of culture was based on :

The key gives Internal purification, integrity and abstinence.In Culture and Anarchy (1869) Arnold defined culture as the pursuit of perfection, 'an inward condition of the mind and spirit', aimed at 'sweetness and light'. He set it against the Victorian faith in machinery: in industry, in material wealth and in the mere means of progress. So his model of culture rests on inner self-cultivation and discipline, which this option expresses.Industrialisation, scientific progress and material prosperity are exactly the external 'machinery' that Arnold said people mistook for ends in themselves.

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.

11.

'Nation and Narration' is authored by :

A.Benedict Anderson
B.Homi Bhabha
C.Partha Chatterjee
D.Ranjit Guha

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: B

Nation and Narration is by Homi Bhabha.

Homi K. Bhabha edited Nation and Narration (1990), a collection of essays on the nation as a story told in literature and culture, which includes his own influential essay 'DissemiNation'. Bhabha is one of the leading figures of postcolonial theory, known also for The Location of Culture and the ideas of hybridity and mimicry.

Benedict Anderson wrote Imagined Communities, a related study of nationalism. Partha Chatterjee wrote Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World, and Ranajit Guha founded Subaltern Studies.

Discuss in Forum

12.

'The Wretched of the Earth' is a book on the post-colonial theory by one of the following authors :

A.Barbara Harlowe
B.Henry Louis Lates
C.Helen Tiffin
D.Frantz Fanon

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: D

The Wretched of the Earth is by Frantz Fanon.

Fanon, the psychiatrist and revolutionary from Martinique who joined the Algerian struggle, published Les Damnes de la Terre in 1961, with a preface by Jean-Paul Sartre. It analyses the violence of colonialism and decolonisation and the pitfalls of national consciousness, and is a founding text of postcolonial theory.

Barbara Harlow, Henry Louis Gates and Helen Tiffin (co-editor of The Empire Writes Back) are later critics in the field, their names printed with variations in the options; none wrote this book.

Discuss in Forum

13.

The Wretched of the Earth includes an introduction by :

A.Jean-Paul Sartre
B.Michel Foucault
C.Aimé Césaire
D.Nelson Mandela

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: A

The Wretched of the Earth has a preface by Jean-Paul Sartre.

Frantz Fanon's book (1961), written as he was dying of leukaemia, analyses colonial violence and decolonisation and became a foundational text of postcolonial thought. Sartre's fierce preface, addressed to Europeans, endorsed Fanon's argument about the violence of colonialism and its overthrow.

Aime Cesaire, Fanon's teacher in Martinique, influenced him but did not introduce the book; Michel Foucault and Nelson Mandela have no connection with it.

Discuss in Forum

14.

Matthew Arnold's model of culture was based on :

A.Industrialization
B.Scientific progress
C.Material prosperity
D.Internal purification, integrity and abstinence

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2021, SET Exam - 2021,

Answer: D

The key gives Internal purification, integrity and abstinence.

In Culture and Anarchy (1869) Arnold defined culture as the pursuit of perfection, 'an inward condition of the mind and spirit', aimed at 'sweetness and light'. He set it against the Victorian faith in machinery: in industry, in material wealth and in the mere means of progress. So his model of culture rests on inner self-cultivation and discipline, which this option expresses.

Industrialisation, scientific progress and material prosperity are exactly the external 'machinery' that Arnold said people mistook for ends in themselves.

Discuss in Forum

15.

'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.

Discuss in Forum

16.

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.

Discuss in Forum

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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.

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