Online Test: Culture & Anarchy

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19. It is fine for the working classes to do just as they please.

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8. What is Culture as per Matthew Arnold's essay 'Culture and Anarchy'?

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According to Stefan Collini, culture is “an ideal of human life, a standard of excellence and fullness for the development of our capacities, aesthetic, intellectual, and moral.”

Culture involves an active personal quest to forsake egocentricity, prejudice, and narrow-mindedness and to embrace an equally balanced development of all human talents in the pursuit of flawlessness.

It is a process of self-discipline which initiates a metamorphosis from self-interest to conscientiousness and an enlightened understanding of one's singular obligation to an all-inclusive utopian society.

Culture is what is actually lived by the people.

Culture is the everyday life.

6. Although Arnold does not create specific fictional characters to express his ideas in Culture and Anarchy, he does infuse his essays with a narrative persona that can best be described as a Socratic figure. True or False?

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7. Match:

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the aristocratic segment of society who are so involved with their archaic traditions and gluttony that they have lost touch with the rest of society for which they were once responsible

the selfish and materialistic middle class who have been gulled into a torpid state of puritanical self-centeredness by nonconforming religious sects.

the disenfranchised, poverty-stricken lower class who have been let down by the negligent Barbarians and greedy Philistines

Barbarians

Populace

Philistines

the aristocratic segment of society who are so involved with their archaic traditions and gluttony that they have lost touch with the rest of society for which they were once responsible

the selfish and materialistic middle class who have been gulled into a torpid state of puritanical self-centeredness by nonconforming religious sects.

the disenfranchised, poverty-stricken lower class who have been let down by the negligent Barbarians and greedy Philistines

Barbarians

Populace

Philistines

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9. What is Anarchy as per Matthew Arnold's essay 'Culture and Anarchy'?

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Anarchy means an advance form of Democracy - a matured democracy where in rules are not required to govern the people.

anarchy represents the absence of a guiding principle in one's life which prevents one from striving to attain perfection.

British constitution fosters the idea of personal liberty. Therefore, the danger of drifting towards Anarchy is inherent in the Constitution.

Anarchy is 'Doing as one likes'

18. Popular culture brings anarchy.

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2. Culture and Anarchy is a series of ______ by Matthew Arnold, first published in Magazine and then collected as a book..

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Chapters in book

episodes of tv series

episodes of novel

periodical essays

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12. _____ signifies the open-minded, spontaneous exploration of classical ideas and their application to contemporary society

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Barbarian

Hebraism

Populace

Hellenism

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1. _________ is written by Matthew Arnold, first published in Magazine and thereafter collected and published as a book. in 1869. The preface was added later on.

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Rustom and Sohrab

Dover Beach

Culture and Anarchy

A Study of Poetry

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10. ______ represents the actions of people who are either ignorant or resistant to the idea of culture.

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Populace

Philistine

Hebraism

Hellenism

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16. Culture is about internal rather than external perfection.

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5. The essays published as book - 'Culture and Anarthy' is divided in following chapters:

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Preamble. What is Culture?

Chapter I.Doing as One Likes - Anarchy

Chapter V.Porro Unum est Necessarium

Chapter II. Sweetness and Light

Chapter V.Our Liberal Practitioners

Chapter III.Hebraism and Hellenism

Chapter IV.Hebraism and Hellenism

Chapter I.Sweetness and Light

Chapter VI.Our Liberal Practitioners

Chapter II.Doing as One Likes - Anarchy

Chapter IV. Barbarians, Philistines, Populace

Chapter VI. porro Unum est Necessarium

Chapter III.Barbarians, Philistines, Populace

Preface.

Preamble. What is light?

15. Popular culture is the study of perfection.

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4. M. Arnold's often quoted phrase "[culture is] the best which has been thought and said" comes from the Preface to Culture and Anarchy. True or False?

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13. Matthew Arnold believes that the ideals promulgated by such philosophers as _______ can help resolve the moral and ethical problems resulting from the bitter conflict between society, politics, and religion in Victorian England

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Schopenhauer and Nietzsche

Plato and Socrates

Hegel and Heidegger

Paul de Man and Derrida

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17. Culture is the endeavour to know the best and to make this knowledge prevail for all.

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20. Lincoln Allison -recently retired as a Reader in Politics at the University of Warwick - finds Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy a morally repugnant work espousing mad, bad and dangerous ideas.

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21. "First, never go against the best light you have; second, take care that your light be not darkness." Who said this in the essay 'Culture and Anarchy'?

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Bishop Wilson

Duke of Wellington

George IV

Matthew Arnold

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3. True or False

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Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book in 1869. The preface was added with the first essay in 1867.

Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book in 1869. The preface was added in 1875.

Culture and Anarchy is an episodes of TV series by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book in 1869. The preface was added in 1875.

Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published as book in 1867-68 and then published as periodical essays in 1869. The preface was added in 1875.

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14. The question of what makes Arnold's thought both attractive and repugnant takes us to the heart of an important philosophical problem. This now goes under the title which Isaiah Berlin gave it: the problem of negative and positive liberty. True or False?

Refer to Critique of the essay

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False

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11. _____ subscribe to a strict, narrow-minded method of moral conduct and self-control which does not allow them to visualize a utopian future of belonging to an enlightened community.

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Hebraists

Hellenists

Philistines

Barbarians

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