8500. 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
✅ The correct answer is option A.
8502. According to Eliot, Literary tradition is
A. Self-sacrifice
B. Whiggering
C. Self-organism
D. a canon
✅ The correct answer is option B.
8504. Eliot’s essay ‘The Function of Criticism’ has
A. two points
B. three parts
C. four parts
D. five parts
✅ The correct answer is option C.
8507. Eliot says , “ inner voice is ____ “
A. hoarse
B. artificial
C. whiggery
D. sublime
✅ The correct answer is option C.
8510. Middleton Murry has criticized the critical work of
A. Wordsworth
B. Eliot
C. Arnold
D. Leavis
✅ The correct answer is option B.
8513. Which poet does Arnold say lack ‘the high seriousness of the great classics’?
A. Chaucer
B. Dryden
C. Pope
D. Burns
✅ The correct answer is option A.
8516. The first great principle of criticism enunciated by Arnold is that of
A. Disinterestedness or detachment
B. Response to rhythm and metre
C. Speculation and theorisation
D. Measurement of knowledge
✅ The correct answer is option A.
8519. Arnold defines poetry as
A. ‘The criticism of life, governed by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty’.
B. ‘The breath and finer spirit of all knowledge’.
C. ‘Not an expression of emotion, but as escape from emotion’.
D. ‘A speaking picture with its end, to teach and delight’.
✅ The correct answer is option A.
8522. To Arnold, the superiority of best poetry is marked by the superior character of
A. truth and seriousness
B. truth and ideas
C. seriousness and knowledge
D. knowledge and truth
✅ The correct answer is option A.
8525. Arnold feels the historic estimate and the personal estimate often supersedes the
A. ideal estimate
B. principal estimate
C. critical estimate
D. real estimate
✅ The correct answer is option D.