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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What where the only two universities in England in the nineteenth century?
(a) Manchester and Winchester.
(b) Kingston and Liverpool.
(c) Oxford and Cambridge.
(d) Birmingham and Buckingham.

2. What term does the narrator explain was a popular term in deconstructive criticism and literally means an impasse?
(a) Langue.
(b) Parole.
(c) Imagism.
(d) Aporia.

3. The crucial essay "The Death of the Author" written in 1968 was the "hinge" around which ________ turned from structuralism to post-structuralism.
(a) Joyce.
(b) Barthes.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Eddison.

4. According to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism, structuralism and post-structuralism originated in what country?
(a) Britain.
(b) United States.
(c) Russia.
(d) France.

5. Peter Barry states that ________ is best understood by seeing it initially in the context of its own origins within feminism in the 1980s.
(a) Radical feminism.
(b) Lesbian feminism.
(c) Endangered feminism.
(d) Beginning feminism.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled "Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction," post-structuralist critics seek to show that the text is characterized by ________ rather than unity.

2. ________ is defined as a discipline which has always tended to emphasize the difficulty of achieving secure knowledge about things.

3. Peter Barry explains that ________'s most significant thinking was contained in the essays "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" and "The Study of Poetry."

4. Who said the following quote found in the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism: "We are told that the study of literature 'cultivates the taste, educates the sympathies and enlarges the mind'"?

5. Barry states in the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism" that the British "socialist feminist" tradition produced its key works in the ________.

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