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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 informs the reader that the feminist literary criticism of today was the direct product of the "women's movement" of the ________.
(a) 1960s.
(b) 1910s.
(c) 1980s.
(d) 1930s.

2. From which of Babara Johnson's literary pieces can the following definition of deconstructive reading be found according to author Peter Barry: "Deconstruction is not synonymous with 'destruction.' It is in fact much closer to the original meaning of the word 'analysis,' which etymologically means 'to undo'"?
(a) Trustee from the Toolroom.
(b) The Critical Difference.
(c) The Age of Innocence.
(d) Of Grammatology.

3. In what decade did "postmodernism" become current according to the author?
(a) 1950s.
(b) 1910s.
(c) 1980s.
(d) 1990s.

4. Who does the narrator say was the founder of a method of studying English which is still the norm today?
(a) T.S. Eliot.
(b) I.A. Richards.
(c) Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
(d) Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The chapter titled "Postmodernism" states the term "postmodernism" was used in the 1930s, but its current sense and vogue can be said to have begun with ________'s "The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge."

2. 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?

3. The thesis that the language is "masculine" was developed by ________ in the early 1980s in her book "Man Made Language," which also argues that language is not a neutral medium.

4. Who wrote the following statement on the mythologized misrepresentation of the United States and Disneyland: "All its [the USA's] values are exalted here, in miniature and comic-strip form. Embalmed and pacified"?

5. According to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism, structuralism and post-structuralism originated in what country?

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