Lesson C02.4.1

C02.4.1 Women in Literature: contexts and themes Quiz: OCR English Literature, Unit 2

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The 20 questions

  1. Which literary term describes Alice Walker's inclusive, Black-centred feminist theory?

    • Marxist feminism
    • Postfeminism
    • Womanism
    • Ecofeminism

  2. What nineteenth-century ideological concept restricted middle-class women to the domestic realm?

    • Male gaze
    • Free love
    • Separate spheres
    • Coterie culture

  3. Which term refers to Coventry Patmore's Victorian idealisation of the submissive wife?

    • Domestic Goddess
    • Angel in the House
    • The New Woman
    • True Womanhood

  4. What term describes a woman who defied Victorian gender conventions at the late nineteenth century?

    • New Woman
    • Femme fatale
    • Flapper
    • Gibson Girl

  5. Which literary genre depicts a protagonist's growth from childhood to spiritual maturity?

    • Roman à clef
    • Epistolary novel
    • Bildungsroman
    • Picaresque

  6. Laura Mulvey coined which critical term regarding female portrayal in visual and narrative art?

    • The male gaze
    • The female gaze
    • Phallocentrism
    • Objectification

  7. Which feminist wave primarily focused on legal rights, suffrage, and property ownership?

    • Second wave
    • First wave
    • Fourth wave
    • Third wave

  8. A novel presenting Offred's lived experiences under totalitarian patriarchal rule belongs to which subgenre?

    • Gothic romance
    • Dystopian fiction
    • Utopian fiction
    • Sensational novel

  9. Esther Greenwood's mental health struggle in The Bell Jar critiques which era's social expectations?

    • 1950s America
    • 1920s Britain
    • Victorian England
    • 1970s America

  10. Tess Durbeyfield being labelled a 'pure woman' by Hardy challenges which Victorian concept?

    • The Femme Fatale
    • The fallen woman
    • The Bluestocking
    • The New Woman

  11. Mrs Dalloway's inner thoughts presented seamlessly alongside external events use which narrative technique?

    • Epistolary form
    • Unreliable narrator
    • Stream of consciousness
    • Framed narrative

  12. Offred's recorded cassette tapes discovered in the 'Historical Notes' form which narrative structure?

    • Frame narrative
    • Linear narrative
    • Epistolary narrative
    • Dual narrative

  13. The contrast between Elinor's restraint and Marianne's passion in Sense and Sensibility reflects which debate?

    • Reason versus emotion
    • Class versus wealth
    • Urban versus rural
    • Nature versus nurture

  14. Shug Avery encouraging Celie to discover her own spiritual agency illustrates which feminist concept?

    • Female empowerment
    • Marxist alienation
    • Patriarchal bargain
    • Institutional racism

  15. Which literary concept describes a female narrative voice rendered silent or unacknowledged by society?

    • Muted group theory
    • Double consciousness
    • Essentialism
    • Subaltern speech

  16. Gilbert and Gubar's feminist critique of Victorian literature introduced which famous trope?

    • Damsel in distress
    • Angel in the house
    • Madwoman in the attic
    • Fallen woman

  17. What term describes the intersection of environmental degradation and female oppression in literature?

    • Ecofeminism
    • Socialist feminism
    • Postmodern feminism
    • Cultural feminism

  18. Helene Cixous championed which style of writing aimed at disrupting patriarchal language structures?

    • Jouissance
    • Intertextuality
    • Phallogocentrism
    • Écriture féminine

  19. Which term refers to the literary technique of revealing a character's thoughts through indirect third-person narration?

    • Direct interior monologue
    • Stream of consciousness
    • Free indirect discourse
    • Unreliable narration

  20. Judith Butler popularized which concept stating that gender is socially constructed through repeated actions?

    • Gender performativity
    • Gender fluidity
    • Biological determinism
    • Essentialism

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