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| 1. |
For Kant the ------------------- is no mere criterion for aesthetics but it is a subject of metaphysical inquiry. |
| A. | judgment |
| B. | sublime |
| C. | pure reason |
| D. | art |
| Answer» B. sublime | |
| 2. |
According to Kant ------------------ is the ability to judge an object. |
| A. | taste |
| B. | sublime |
| C. | art |
| D. | reason |
| Answer» A. taste | |
| 3. |
Poetics is written by: |
| A. | plato |
| B. | kant |
| C. | aristotle |
| D. | marx. |
| Answer» C. aristotle | |
| 4. |
The original meaning of the term aesthetics is : |
| A. | related to sense perception |
| B. | related to beauty |
| C. | related to nature |
| D. | related to nature and beauty |
| Answer» A. related to sense perception | |
| 5. |
Kant’s view of Aesthetic judgment is presented in his: |
| A. | critique of pure reason |
| B. | critique of practical reason |
| C. | critique of dialectic |
| D. | critique of judgment |
| Answer» D. critique of judgment | |
| 6. |
Aesthetics is defined as a philosophy of: |
| A. | art |
| B. | beauty and art |
| C. | art and reason |
| D. | beauty and reason |
| Answer» B. beauty and art | |
| 7. |
Who introduced the term aesthetics? |
| A. | aristotle |
| B. | kant |
| C. | edmund bruke |
| D. | a. g. baumgarten |
| Answer» D. a. g. baumgarten | |
| 8. |
Identify the root term of Aesthetics. |
| A. | aesthetica |
| B. | aesthesia |
| C. | aesthesis |
| D. | aesthenes |
| Answer» C. aesthesis | |
| 9. |
Aesthesis means: |
| A. | anything connected with sense perception |
| B. | anything connected with beauty |
| C. | anything connected with beauty and perception. |
| D. | anything connected reason |
| Answer» A. anything connected with sense perception | |
| 10. |
Baumgarten calls the level of knowledge to the sense perception is: |
| A. | aestheesia |
| B. | aesthesis |
| C. | aesthetica |
| D. | aesthetis |
| Answer» C. aesthetica | |
| 11. |
The word ‘aesthetic’ is used by Kant in the Critique of Pure Reason for the level of knowledge obtained through: |
| A. | sense perception |
| B. | reason |
| C. | intuition |
| D. | reason and intuition |
| Answer» A. sense perception | |
| 12. |
Immanuel Kant devoted --------------------- ------------ for the analysis of beauty. |
| A. | critique of pure reason |
| B. | critique of practical reason |
| C. | critique of dialectic |
| D. | critique of judgment |
| Answer» D. critique of judgment | |
| 13. |
Hegel established an / a --------------------------- between beauty and art. |
| A. | intellectual |
| B. | spiritual |
| C. | organic |
| D. | intuitive |
| Answer» C. organic | |
| 14. |
according to Hegel beauty id the manifestation of : |
| A. | absolute perception |
| B. | absolute idea |
| C. | absolute experience |
| D. | absolute sensation |
| Answer» C. absolute experience | |
| 15. |
What is the norm of Aesthetics? |
| A. | truth |
| B. | goodness |
| C. | beauty |
| D. | art |
| Answer» C. beauty | |
| 16. |
Identify the dialogue in which Plato explained about the Absolute Beauty. |
| A. | symposium |
| B. | republic |
| C. | zeno |
| D. | crito |
| Answer» A. symposium | |
| 17. |
For Plato beauty exists only at ----------- level. |
| A. | empirical |
| B. | sensuous |
| C. | perceptual |
| D. | ideal |
| Answer» D. ideal | |
| 18. |
According to Plato beauty seen in nature is only a -------------- of the ideal beauty. |
| A. | fraction |
| B. | part |
| C. | shadow |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. shadow | |
| 19. |
Who thinks that art as the stepping stone to philosophy? |
| A. | plato |
| B. | aristotle |
| C. | hegel |
| D. | kant |
| Answer» C. hegel | |
| 20. |
According to Kant beauty in mankind is always the expression of: |
| A. | emotion |
| B. | morality |
| C. | reason |
| D. | absolute |
| Answer» B. morality | |
| 21. |
Hegel defines aesthetics as the philosophy of: |
| A. | fine art |
| B. | art |
| C. | beauty |
| D. | nature |
| Answer» A. fine art | |
| 22. |
For Hegel beauty whether natural or artistic is the product of: |
| A. | experience |
| B. | nature |
| C. | absolute |
| D. | human mind |
| Answer» C. absolute | |
| 23. |
Which one is considered as the first stage of art according to Hegel? |
| A. | romantic art |
| B. | symbolic art |
| C. | classical art |
| D. | theological art |
| Answer» B. symbolic art | |
| 24. |
------------------- art found in pre-Hellenic antiquity. |
| A. | romantic art |
| B. | classical art |
| C. | theological art |
| D. | symbolic art |
| Answer» D. symbolic art | |
| 25. |
Which one is considered as the second developmental stage of art according to Hegel? |
| A. | symbolic art |
| B. | romantic art |
| C. | fine art |
| D. | classical art |
| Answer» D. classical art | |
| 26. |
----------------- art attains perfectly harmonious expression of universal human mind. |
| A. | symbolic |
| B. | classical |
| C. | fine |
| D. | romantic |
| Answer» B. classical | |
| 27. |
Hegel remarks -------------------- shows an advance to spirituality. |
| A. | symbolic art |
| B. | romantic art |
| C. | fine art |
| D. | classical art |
| Answer» B. romantic art | |
| 28. |
Identify the highest stage in the development art according to Hegel. |
| A. | symbolic art |
| B. | fine art |
| C. | romantic art |
| D. | classical art |
| Answer» C. romantic art | |
| 29. |
------------ is a depiction of Classical art. |
| A. | sculpture |
| B. | music |
| C. | poetry |
| D. | painting |
| Answer» A. sculpture | |
| 30. |
Hegel says that Symbolic art is most successful in: |
| A. | painting |
| B. | sculpture |
| C. | architecture |
| D. | poetry |
| Answer» C. architecture | |
| 31. |
Of the Romantic triard ---------------- is treated as the most spiritual by Hegel. |
| A. | painting |
| B. | music |
| C. | poetry |
| D. | sculpture |
| Answer» C. poetry | |
| 32. |
Hegel says --------------is the staring of art go beyond itself. |
| A. | symbolic art |
| B. | romantic art |
| C. | fine art |
| D. | classical art |
| Answer» B. romantic art | |
| 33. |
Hegel treated Romantic art as: |
| A. | dialectic |
| B. | thesis |
| C. | antithesis |
| D. | synthesis |
| Answer» D. synthesis | |
| 34. |
For Hegel ---------------------- considered as the thesis in the dialectical process of art. |
| A. | romantic art |
| B. | symbolic art |
| C. | classical art |
| D. | fine art |
| Answer» B. symbolic art | |
| 35. |
According to Hegel -------- is the antithesis in the dialectical process of art. |
| A. | classical art |
| B. | symbolic art |
| C. | romantic art |
| D. | fine art |
| Answer» A. classical art | |
| 36. |
Hegel says that -----------alone can express all that the mind conceives. |
| A. | sculpture |
| B. | music |
| C. | poetry |
| D. | painting |
| Answer» C. poetry | |
| 37. |
Hegel extended ----------------- method into his analysis of art. |
| A. | dialectical |
| B. | rational |
| C. | logical |
| D. | phenomenological |
| Answer» A. dialectical | |
| 38. |
According to Kant aesthetics arises from the faculty of: |
| A. | subjective judgment |
| B. | individual judgment |
| C. | disinterested judgment |
| D. | neither disinterested nor subjective judgment |
| Answer» C. disinterested judgment | |
| 39. |
Kant claims that aesthetic judgments has strong similarity to : |
| A. | spiritual judgments |
| B. | moral judgments |
| C. | a-priori judgments |
| D. | both spiritual |
| Answer» B. moral judgments | |
| 40. |
Identify the major divisions of Critique of Judgment. |
| A. | critique of aesthetic judgment and critique of teleological judgment |
| B. | critique of analytic and critique of aesthetic |
| C. | critique of a-priori judgment and critique of a-posteriori judgment |
| D. | critique of aesthetical judgment and critique of moral judgment |
| Answer» A. critique of aesthetic judgment and critique of teleological judgment | |
| 41. |
------------------- deals with Kant’s account of beauty. |
| A. | critique of pure reason |
| B. | critique of practical reason |
| C. | critique of aestheticjudgment |
| D. | critique of aesthetics |
| Answer» C. critique of aestheticjudgment | |
| 42. |
Who is the founder of formalism in aesthetics? |
| A. | hegel |
| B. | burke |
| C. | kant |
| D. | aristotle |
| Answer» C. kant | |
| 43. |
For Kant aesthetic judgments are: |
| A. | personal |
| B. | intuitive |
| C. | subjective |
| D. | disinterested |
| Answer» D. disinterested | |
| 44. |
Kant says aesthetic judgments behave: |
| A. | universally |
| B. | intuitively |
| C. | emotively |
| D. | emotively and intuitively |
| Answer» A. universally | |
| 45. |
Kant explains that the beautiful has to be understood as: |
| A. | useful |
| B. | purposive |
| C. | perfection |
| D. | either useful or perfection |
| Answer» B. purposive | |
| 46. |
Kant says that aesthetical judgment help us to reach ---------------- ideals. |
| A. | spiritual |
| B. | moral |
| C. | empirical |
| D. | logical |
| Answer» B. moral | |
| 47. |
Kant says -------- gives sensible forms to moral ideals. |
| A. | beauty |
| B. | taste |
| C. | sublime |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. beauty | |
| 48. |
What is common in aesthetic judgments and moral judgments according to Kant? |
| A. | purposiveness |
| B. | subjectivity |
| C. | universal validity |
| D. | practicability |
| Answer» C. universal validity | |
| 49. |
For Kant ------------------ is the symbol of morality. |
| A. | form |
| B. | acceptance |
| C. | sublime |
| D. | beauty |
| Answer» D. beauty | |
| 50. |
According to Hegel art is one mode of apprehending: |
| A. | god |
| B. | truth |
| C. | spirit |
| D. | sublime |
| Answer» B. truth | |
| 51. |
Hegel says that the ultimate aim of art is unveil the: |
| A. | sensation |
| B. | reason |
| C. | truth |
| D. | facts |
| Answer» C. truth | |
| 52. |
Who introduced theory of Imitation? |
| A. | plato |
| B. | aristotle |
| C. | kant |
| D. | fraud |
| Answer» A. plato | |
| 53. |
According to Plato ------------ alone is/are real. |
| A. | world |
| B. | ideas |
| C. | sensation |
| D. | world and ideas |
| Answer» B. ideas | |
| 54. |
Plato said that the greatest sin of the art was its------------------. |
| A. | imperfect nature |
| B. | contemplative nature |
| C. | imitative nature |
| D. | expressive |
| Answer» C. imitative nature | |
| 55. |
Plato called the world or the nature itself as : |
| A. | imitation of the real |
| B. | absolutely real |
| C. | unreal |
| D. | neither real nor unreal |
| Answer» A. imitation of the real | |
| 56. |
Plato argues that art is an/a -------------------------- of the real. |
| A. | imitation |
| B. | copy |
| C. | imitation of imitation |
| D. | representation |
| Answer» C. imitation of imitation | |
| 57. |
Plato says ----------------- could not have an honorable place in the ideal state of Republic. |
| A. | mathematicians |
| B. | artists |
| C. | politicians |
| D. | logicians |
| Answer» B. artists | |
| 58. |
Plato claimed reality was twice removed by the activity of : |
| A. | politicians |
| B. | logicians |
| C. | philosophers |
| D. | artists |
| Answer» D. artists | |
| 59. |
Artist’s activity is considered as --------------- by Plato. |
| A. | intellectual activity |
| B. | childish game |
| C. | spiritual activity |
| D. | negative activity |
| Answer» B. childish game | |
| 60. |
Plato was very critical of -------------------- and all poets in general. |
| A. | homer |
| B. | dante |
| C. | keats |
| D. | protagoras |
| Answer» A. homer | |
| 61. |
Plato said creation of poetry is not in a normal state of mind, but in a state of -------------- ------- |
| A. | wisdom |
| B. | contemplation |
| C. | muse |
| D. | harmony |
| Answer» C. muse | |
| 62. |
Identify the Dialogue in which Plato made sharp criticism against poets and poetry. |
| A. | zeno |
| B. | republic |
| C. | ion |
| D. | crito |
| Answer» C. ion | |
| 63. |
According to Plato art is an : |
| A. | representation of nature |
| B. | imitation of nature |
| C. | representation of idea |
| Answer» B. imitation of nature | |
| 64. |
Art is a product of ----------------- according to Plato. |
| A. | emotional prosperity |
| B. | intellectual prosperity |
| C. | either emotional or intellectualprosperity |
| D. | neither intellectual nor emotional prosperity |
| Answer» A. emotional prosperity | |
| 65. |
Plato explains Art never reflects the ----------------- of the reality. |
| A. | representations |
| B. | different aspects |
| C. | inner truth |
| D. | outer form |
| Answer» C. inner truth | |
| 66. |
The poet is an/ a ----------------------- according to Plato. |
| A. | intellectual person |
| B. | rational soul |
| C. | practical being |
| D. | inspired soul |
| Answer» D. inspired soul | |
| 67. |
Principle of --------------------- plays a vital role in Plato’s theory of aesthetics. |
| A. | taste |
| B. | sensation |
| C. | illusion |
| D. | perception |
| Answer» C. illusion | |
| 68. |
Aristotle retained the concept of imitation in his theory of aesthetics and transformed it as new theory called: |
| A. | representationism |
| B. | expressionism |
| C. | realism |
| D. | intuitionism |
| Answer» A. representationism | |
| 69. |
Bring out the form of art which is accepted by Plato. |
| A. | poetry |
| B. | painting |
| C. | music |
| D. | dance |
| Answer» C. music | |
| 70. |
Plato accepted music as valuable because of its: |
| A. | melodious nature |
| B. | educational value |
| C. | rhythm |
| D. | artistic value |
| Answer» B. educational value | |
| 71. |
Plato said artist activity is: 6 |
| A. | passive |
| B. | active |
| C. | negative |
| D. | positive |
| Answer» A. passive | |
| 72. |
Plato called poet is a : |
| A. | intellectual soul |
| B. | contemplative individual |
| C. | philosopher king |
| D. | soul |
| Answer» D. soul | |
| 73. |
Aristotle’s work ---------------------- gives invaluable contribution to aesthetics. |
| A. | metaphysics |
| B. | poetics |
| C. | rhetoric |
| D. | politics |
| Answer» B. poetics | |
| 74. |
For Aristotle emulation is not a blind passive activity but an activity of: |
| A. | interpretation |
| B. | imitation |
| C. | repetition |
| D. | learning |
| Answer» D. learning | |
| 75. |
For Aristotle art has the potentiality to ------------ the essence of natural things. |
| A. | mark |
| B. | build |
| C. | represent |
| D. | reject |
| Answer» C. represent | |
| 76. |
According to Aristotle ----------------------- is the goal of art. |
| A. | representation of the ideal |
| B. | imitating the ideal |
| C. | interpreting the ideal |
| Answer» A. representation of the ideal | |
| 77. |
Aristotle considered -------------is the method while representation is the goal of art. |
| A. | learning |
| B. | analysis |
| C. | imitation |
| D. | expression |
| Answer» C. imitation | |
| 78. |
According to Aristotle representation is the unique feature of: |
| A. | architecture |
| B. | fine art |
| C. | literary art |
| D. | performing art |
| Answer» C. literary art | |
| 79. |
Poetry is a representation of ------------------- according to Aristotle. |
| A. | particular |
| B. | form |
| C. | form and matter |
| D. | universal |
| Answer» D. universal | |
| 80. |
Aristotle argues that poetry narrates not only what has happened but give an inkling of: |
| A. | past also |
| B. | future also |
| C. | present also |
| D. | infinite also |
| Answer» B. future also | |
| 81. |
Aristotle concept of ‘tragedy’ is explained in his work called: |
| A. | organon |
| B. | metaphysics |
| C. | poetics |
| D. | on the soul |
| Answer» C. poetics | |
| 82. |
According to Aristotle ---------------- is/are an imitation of events which are serious in nature. |
| A. | tragedy |
| B. | poetry |
| C. | painting |
| D. | both ‘a’ and ‘b’ |
| Answer» A. tragedy | |
| 83. |
Aristotle explains, the purpose of the ---------------is to bring the inevitability of human destiny to the fore. |
| A. | comedy |
| B. | poetry |
| C. | tragedy |
| D. | painting |
| Answer» C. tragedy | |
| 84. |
Aristotle argues, Art must -------------------- life. |
| A. | away from |
| B. | explains |
| C. | analyze |
| D. | resemble |
| Answer» D. resemble | |
| 85. |
Aristotle demanded art should be given a glimpse of: |
| A. | past |
| B. | absolute |
| C. | future |
| D. | spirit |
| Answer» C. future | |
| 86. |
According to Aristotle -------------------- has the highest potentiality to represent the most vital aspects of life. |
| A. | literature |
| B. | drama |
| C. | dance |
| D. | architecture |
| Answer» A. literature | |
| 87. |
Who introduced the theory of Catharsis? |
| A. | hegel |
| B. | plato |
| C. | kant |
| D. | aristotle |
| Answer» D. aristotle | |
| 88. |
Aristotle describes------------------ as the purging of emotions of pity and fear that are aroused in the viewer of tragedy. |
| A. | expressions |
| B. | catharsis |
| C. | emulation |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. catharsis | |
| 89. |
Catharsis means: |
| A. | purification |
| B. | orientation |
| C. | expression |
| D. | extension |
| Answer» A. purification | |
| 90. |
Aristotle treated ------------ as the capacity of tragedy. |
| A. | exemplification |
| B. | realization |
| C. | catharsis |
| D. | representation |
| Answer» C. catharsis | |
| 91. |
Catharsis is related with: |
| A. | behaviorism |
| B. | epiphenomenalism |
| C. | intuitionism |
| D. | psychoanalytic theory |
| Answer» D. psychoanalytic theory | |
| 92. |
Catharsis is associated with the elimination of: |
| A. | emotions |
| B. | negative emotions |
| C. | imaginations |
| D. | representations |
| Answer» B. negative emotions | |
| 93. |
Aristotle explains Catharsis is the capacity of: |
| A. | tragedy |
| B. | comedy |
| C. | painting |
| D. | sculpting |
| Answer» A. tragedy | |
| 94. |
The basis of the Marxist aesthetic theory is the --------------- of founded on Marxist ideology. |
| A. | structure of society |
| B. | structure of reality |
| C. | structure of politics |
| D. | structure of |
| Answer» A. structure of society | |
| 95. |
For Marx artistic activity is nothing but an effort to give objective form to : |
| A. | imaginations |
| B. | emotions and feelings |
| C. | intuition |
| D. | sensation |
| Answer» B. emotions and feelings | |
| 96. |
According to Marx the basic structure of human society is: |
| A. | power |
| B. | religious |
| C. | economic |
| D. | political |
| Answer» C. economic | |
| 97. |
Marx argues that, the form, content and style of the artistic compositions are embedded in the: |
| A. | economic structure |
| B. | ethical structure |
| C. | political structure |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. economic structure | |
| 98. |
According to Marx art is a: |
| A. | mechanical activity |
| B. | passive activity |
| C. | creative activity |
| D. | personal activity |
| Answer» C. creative activity | |
| 99. |
Marx argues that, art visualize the: |
| A. | essence of reality |
| B. | essence of society |
| C. | essence of beauty |
| D. | essence of |
| Answer» D. essence of | |
| 100. |
Marx regards the alienation of modern man in his ------------------------- as a phase of total alienation produced by the capitalist system of production. |
| A. | private life |
| B. | public life |
| C. | aesthetic life |
| D. | social life |
| Answer» C. aesthetic life | |
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