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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lesbian/gay criticism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Author Peter Barry explains that all of the following are part of the three stages of the deconstructive process except for which one?
(a) Linguistic.
(b) Textual.
(c) Visual.
(d) Verbal.

2. All of the following authors were considered some of the literary "high priests" of the modernist movement according to the narrator in the chapter titled "Postmodernism," except for which one?
(a) Gertrude Stein.
(b) John Milton.
(c) Virginia Woolf.
(d) T.S. Eliot.

3. According to Peter Barry, where does post-structuralism ultimately derive from?
(a) Physics.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Zoology.
(d) Pyschology.

4. ________ was probably the most influential figure in twentieth-century British criticism according to author Peter Barry.
(a) F.R. Leavis.
(b) Douglas Adams.
(c) Edward Jablonski.
(d) Patrick Tilley.

5. Who was the major theorist of postmodernism and French writer of the book "Simulations"?
(a) Stephane Mallarme.
(b) Jean-Francois Lyotard.
(c) Jean Baudrillard.
(d) Andre Gide.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following authors wrote the essay "What Has Never Been: An Overview of Lesbian Feminist Criticism" and attacked "essentialism," pointing out the way "the perceptual screen of hetero-sexism" prevented any consideration of lesbian issues in pioneering feminist writing?

2. Which of the following term best can be defined as one in which we cannot know where we are, since all the concepts which previously defined the center, and hence also the margins, have been "deconstructed," or undermined?

3. The chapter "Feminist Criticism" suggests that feminist criticism became much more ________, meaning that it began to draw upon the findings and approaches of other kinds of criticism.

4. Who was the first critic to develop a "reader-centered" approach to literature?

5. Which of the following people broke away from feminism and made new allegiances, in particular, with gay men rather than with other women?

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