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Elaine Showalter – Towards a Feminist Poetics – Exam Based MCQs
1. Towards a Feminist Poetics is written by: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) Simone de Beauvoir
B) Elaine Showalter
C) Kate Millett
D) Julia Kristeva
Ans: B) Elaine Showalter
2. Elaine Showalter is best known as a: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) feminist literary critic
B) Victorian novelist
C) dramatist
D) linguist only
Ans: A) feminist literary critic
3. Towards a Feminist Poetics is mainly an essay on: (SET 2020; PGTRB 2021; UGC NET 2022)
A) romantic poetry
B) Marxist drama
C) feminist literary criticism
D) structural linguistics
Ans: C) feminist literary criticism
4. The essay is closely associated with the concept of: (UGC NET 2017; SET 2018; PGTRB 2019)
A) deconstruction
B) new historicism
C) practical criticism
D) gynocriticism
Ans: D) gynocriticism
5. Showalter distinguishes between feminist critique and: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) reader-response theory
B) archetypal criticism
C) gynocritics / gynocriticism
D) Marxism
Ans: C) gynocritics / gynocriticism
6. “Feminist critique” in Showalter’s essay mainly studies: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) woman as reader
B) woman as writer
C) only male authors
D) only language structure
Ans: A) woman as reader
7. “Gynocriticism” in Showalter’s model studies: (SET 2019; PGTRB 2020; UGC NET 2021)
A) woman as writer
B) man as author
C) the publishing market only
D) reader psychology only
Ans: A) woman as writer
8. Showalter’s major aim is to develop: (UGC NET 2020; SET 2021; PGTRB 2022)
A) a neutral criticism without gender
B) a poetics based on women’s literary experience
C) a return to classical rhetoric only
D) a rejection of all theory
Ans: B) a poetics based on women’s literary experience
9. Showalter argues that feminist criticism had often been weakened by: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) too much attention to women writers
B) dependence on male theoretical models
C) excess historical knowledge
D) lack of female readers
Ans: B) dependence on male theoretical models
10. A central concern of the essay is to establish: (SET 2020; PGTRB 2021; UGC NET 2022)
A) women’s literary tradition
B) only political revolution
C) only psychoanalytic reading
D) the death of authorship
Ans: A) women’s literary tradition
11. Showalter divides women’s writing into how many major phases? (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) two
B) three
C) four
D) five
Ans: B) three
12. The first phase identified by Showalter is the: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) Feminist phase
B) Female phase
C) Feminine phase
D) Radical phase
Ans: C) Feminine phase
13. The second phase in Showalter’s scheme is the: (SET 2019; PGTRB 2020; UGC NET 2021)
A) Female phase
B) Symbolic phase
C) Feminist phase
D) Aesthetic phase
Ans: C) Feminist phase
14. The third phase in Showalter’s model is the: (UGC NET 2020; SET 2021; PGTRB 2022)
A) Feminine phase
B) Female phase
C) Reformist phase
D) Psychological phase
Ans: B) Female phase
15. In the Feminine phase, women writers generally: (UGC NET 2017; SET 2018; PGTRB 2019)
A) rejected all male standards
B) imitated dominant male literary norms
C) focused only on autobiography
D) refused publication
Ans: B) imitated dominant male literary norms
16. In the Feminist phase, women writers mainly: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) withdrew from society
B) protested against male values and demanded rights
C) copied Victorian conventions
D) avoided politics altogether
Ans: B) protested against male values and demanded rights
17. In the Female phase, women writers turn primarily toward: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) imitation of male precursors
B) self-discovery and female experience
C) political speeches only
D) abstract linguistics
Ans: B) self-discovery and female experience
18. Showalter’s phases are important because they help trace: (SET 2020; PGTRB 2021; UGC NET 2022)
A) only linguistic change
B) the historical continuity of women’s writing
C) the decline of fiction
D) only feminist politics
Ans: B) the historical continuity of women’s writing
19. Showalter criticizes feminist theory that remains only: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) historically grounded
B) dependent on male intellectual frameworks
C) interested in women writers
D) aware of genre
Ans: B) dependent on male intellectual frameworks
20. According to Showalter, a feminist poetics should be built from: (SET 2019; PGTRB 2020; UGC NET 2021)
A) female literary history and experience
B) classical mythology alone
C) market demands only
D) neutral science
Ans: A) female literary history and experience
21. Showalter’s essay is foundational for the study of: (UGC NET 2020; SET 2021; PGTRB 2022)
A) ecocriticism
B) feminist literary theory
C) new criticism
D) structural anthropology
Ans: B) feminist literary theory
22. The term “gynocritics” focuses on: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) women as producers of texts
B) only male readers
C) publishing economics only
D) stage performance
Ans: A) women as producers of texts
23. Showalter argues that feminist criticism should not merely revise male theory but: (SET 2020; PGTRB 2021; UGC NET 2022)
A) reject all reading
B) create its own female-centered framework
C) become apolitical
D) avoid literary history
Ans: B) create its own female-centered framework
24. Showalter’s essay is especially concerned with the relation between gender and: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) literary production
B) geometry
C) trade networks
D) phonetics only
Ans: A) literary production
25. The “woman as reader” model is concerned with: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) representation of women in texts
B) female authorship only
C) copyright law
D) translation studies
Ans: A) representation of women in texts
26. The “woman as writer” model is concerned with: (SET 2019; PGTRB 2020; UGC NET 2021)
A) women’s literary traditions, genres, and structures
B) only censorship law
C) male symbolism only
D) reader marketing only
Ans: A) women’s literary traditions, genres, and structures
27. Showalter believes feminist criticism must move from dependence to: (UGC NET 2020; SET 2021; PGTRB 2022)
A) neutrality
B) autonomy
C) silence
D) formalism
Ans: B) autonomy
28. Showalter’s approach is important because it emphasizes: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) a separate female framework of analysis
B) the end of authorship
C) purely linguistic play
D) scientific objectivity alone
Ans: A) a separate female framework of analysis
29. The Female phase, according to Showalter, is marked by: (SET 2020; PGTRB 2021; UGC NET 2022)
A) imitation
B) protest only
C) self-definition
D) anti-literary silence
Ans: C) self-definition
30. One major strength of Showalter’s essay is that it offers: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) a historical map of women’s writing
B) a rejection of all categories
C) only textual close reading
D) a theory of drama alone
Ans: A) a historical map of women’s writing
31. Showalter’s essay belongs mainly to: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) feminist criticism
B) classical rhetoric
C) psychoanalytic fiction
D) travel writing
Ans: A) feminist criticism
32. The essay is especially relevant for discussions of: (SET 2019; PGTRB 2020; UGC NET 2021)
A) gender and literary theory
B) geography and mapping
C) science and religion
D) pastoral lyric only
Ans: A) gender and literary theory
33. Showalter wants feminist criticism to be: (UGC NET 2020; SET 2021; PGTRB 2022)
A) derivative
B) theoretically self-aware and independent
C) opposed to all literature
D) only political activism
Ans: B) theoretically self-aware and independent
34. Which of the following best defines gynocriticism? (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) the study of literature through women’s authorship and female tradition
B) the study of only men writing about women
C) the rejection of history in criticism
D) a branch of linguistics
Ans: A) the study of literature through women’s authorship and female tradition
35. Which statement is TRUE about Towards a Feminist Poetics? (SET 2020; PGTRB 2021; UGC NET 2022)
A) It is Elaine Showalter’s influential essay on feminist criticism and gynocriticism
B) It is a Victorian novel
C) It rejects all women’s writing
D) It is only about linguistics
Ans: A) It is Elaine Showalter’s influential essay on feminist criticism and gynocriticism
36. Showalter’s argument challenges the assumption that literary theory is: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) always neutral and universal
B) always feminine
C) only historical
D) impossible to use
Ans: A) always neutral and universal
37. A key contribution of the essay is its emphasis on: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) women’s literary culture
B) abstract formalism only
C) anti-historical reading
D) plot summary alone
Ans: A) women’s literary culture
38. Showalter’s phases are not merely political labels; they are also: (SET 2020; PGTRB 2021; UGC NET 2022)
A) stages in literary self-definition
B) types of readers only
C) publishing categories
D) language families
Ans: A) stages in literary self-definition
39. The essay is NOT mainly about: (UGC NET 2020; SET 2021; PGTRB 2022)
A) feminist theory
B) women’s writing
C) gynocriticism
D) medieval chivalry
Ans: D) medieval chivalry
40. Showalter’s essay can be seen as a call for: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) a women-centered critical methodology
B) the end of criticism
C) only male canon study
D) apolitical reading
Ans: A) a women-centered critical methodology
41. The essay’s intellectual importance lies in its attempt to: (SET 2019; PGTRB 2020; UGC NET 2021)
A) organize feminist criticism into a coherent framework
B) abolish all categories of reading
C) replace literature with politics
D) focus only on biography
Ans: A) organize feminist criticism into a coherent framework
42. Showalter’s “female phase” most strongly values: (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) imitation of male texts
B) autonomous female creativity
C) only political slogans
D) silence and withdrawal
Ans: B) autonomous female creativity
43. The best short description of the essay is: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) a foundational essay in feminist literary criticism
B) a historical romance
C) a dramatic monologue
D) a travel essay
Ans: A) a foundational essay in feminist literary criticism
44. Showalter argues that feminist criticism should be grounded in: (SET 2020; PGTRB 2021; UGC NET 2022)
A) women’s texts, history, and experience
B) mathematical models
C) ancient grammar only
D) abstract universalism alone
Ans: A) women’s texts, history, and experience
45. Showalter’s essay remains useful because it helps readers understand: (UGC NET 2020; SET 2021; PGTRB 2022)
A) how gender shapes literary traditions
B) only Victorian grammar
C) only market publishing
D) only narrative voice
Ans: A) how gender shapes literary traditions
46. Showalter’s main opposition is between derivative feminist theory and: (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) autonomous feminist poetics
B) classical rhetoric
C) pastoral fiction
D) linguistic neutrality
Ans: A) autonomous feminist poetics
47. The essay is especially important for UGC NET literary theory because it discusses: (SET 2020; PGTRB 2021; UGC NET 2022)
A) feminist critique and gynocriticism
B) only structuralism
C) only Marxism
D) only postmodern fiction
Ans: A) feminist critique and gynocriticism
48. Which term is most directly linked with Elaine Showalter? (UGC NET 2019; SET 2020; PGTRB 2021)
A) objective correlative
B) gynocriticism
C) différance
D) dialogism
Ans: B) gynocriticism
49. Which statement is TRUE about Showalter’s essay? (UGC NET 2018; SET 2019; PGTRB 2020)
A) It proposes a female-centered poetics and outlines the Feminine, Feminist, and Female phases
B) It rejects the idea of women’s literary tradition
C) It is mainly about linguistics and phonology
D) It denies the value of feminist criticism
Ans: A) It proposes a female-centered poetics and outlines the Feminine, Feminist, and Female phases
50. The overall message of Towards a Feminist Poetics is that: (SET 2020; PGTRB 2021; UGC NET 2022)
A) feminist criticism must build its own theory from women’s literary experience and tradition
B) male theory is always sufficient
C) history is irrelevant to criticism
D) gender has no role in literary study
Ans: A) feminist criticism must build its own theory from women’s literary experience and tradition
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