KINGDOM OF English Language Department

SAUDI ARABIA Course Course Code: ENG 2110

Ministry Of Title: Intr. Literary Criticism
Education
Course Exam Wednesday
Instructor: Dr. Bechir Saoudi Date: 06 - 5 – 1441 H

Allowed
Time: 2 Hours No. of pages: 4 Total Marks: 50

Final Exam
Academic Year 1441 H, First Semester
Student Name: Academic
No:
Questions Question Question 2 Question3 Question Question Question6 Question 7 Obtained
1 4 5 Marks:
Marks / 12 / 14 /10 /14 /50
Coursework Total Marks /50
Final Exam Marks /50
Total Marks /100
Course Instructor Signature Dr. B.
Saoudi

True or False? (12 marks)

-The exposition is the place in the plot where the
setting, characters, and conflict are resolved. ___
-Introverts prefer a more deliberate pace. ___
-Feminist critics believe that Western literature
reflects a masculine bias. ___
-Feelers tend to be cooperative and sensitive. ___
-Extroverts are not good at multitasking. ___
-Women have traditionally been portrayed as
independent from men. ___
-For Marxists, social values reflect material
goals, not abstract ideals. ___
-The bourgeoisie present their political, economic,
and social structures as the only reasonable ones.
___
-The resolution occurs when the conflict is
introduced. ___
-Thinkers don't weigh pros and cons objectively.
___
-To assume means to refuse without proof, to
suppose. ___
-To interact means to communicate and react to
other people. ___

1
Match parts of sentences from A with the corresponding parts in B (14 marks)

A B
1- When a young woman has a baby, and
comes back into the workplace, she’s
generally still nursing that child…
2- So I think the secret is that women…
3- Reading or viewing from a feminist
perspective includes examining…
4- I am among the ranks of women whose…
5- Don't make characters say ridiculous
things…
6- All evidence of feminine nurture, healing,…
7- A feminist critic views literature as a means
by which inequities…
8- You have nothing to lose…
9- Whoever controlled the means of
production…
10- The feminist critic rejects any application…
11- The external barriers…
12- The basis of the prince’s love at first sight…
13- Some feminist scholars have even dissected
individual words in Western languages,
14- Social, economic, and political
exploitation…
a- what aspects of feminine life are
included in the work.
b- That’s a very tough moment for
women!
c- suggesting that the languages
themselves reflect a patriarchal
worldview.
d- of women must be noted and
confronted.
e- of male standards to the female
personality.
f- no one ever says.
g- expressions are seen as too strong.
h- can be identified, protested, and
possibly rectified.
i- but your chains.
j- for Cinderella is beauty.
k- have fallen.
l- have to invite men into the
conversation.
m- in a society controlled the society.
n- life giving and restoring are examined.

A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
B

Fill in the blanks with words from the list (10 marks)

A/ insist, including, harm, about, from, which, vice versa, issues, courtship, assumption, arguments.

2
-In order to repair the potential ____________________ done and achieve balance, feminist critics
____________________ that works by and ____________________ women should be added to the
literary canon and read ____________________ a feminist perspective.
-One basic ____________________ of the feminist perspective is that gender determines everything,
____________________ values and the ways language is used.
-One of the big ____________________ I’m making is that I think most men today, certainly most
men I know, want women to succeed…
-The differences in the topics or ____________________ about which men and women write, and the
differing viewpoints from ____________________ men and women write, must be noted.
-The female personality must be judged independently from the male personality and
____________________.
-We can also examine the theme of ____________________ and marriage in Cinderella.

B/ normative, leadership, incomplete, bear, another, valid, undeniable, pace, note.

-A feminist critic will ____________________ how male and female characters in the work of
literature interact with one ____________________ in a variety of contexts.
-All views must be respected as equally ____________________.
-And it’s not a ____________________ statement: It’s not that one is better than the other. But they
feel different. The ____________________ of life is different. The ____________________ styles are
different.
-Feminist critics explore literature for portrayals of the concept that men and women are each
____________________ without the other.
-I think we haven’t dealt enough with the sheer ____________________ fact that women are
biologically different than men, and critically that women ____________________ children and men
can’t.

Answer the following questions (14 marks)

What is the difference between third-person observant and third-person omniscient points of view? (2)

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3
What are the four main areas of study in Marxist criticism? (4)

1) ______________________ 3) ______________________

2) ______________________ 4) ______________________

Identify and describe the two main classes of society according to Marx. (2)

1) ___________________________________________________________________________

2) ___________________________________________________________________________

By "masses", Karl Marx means ______________________________________________________(1)

Marxists believe that literature can ___________________________________________________ (1)

Compare the adjectives "objective" and "subjective" and give examples. (4)

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