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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Barry states in the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism" that the British "socialist feminist" tradition produced its key works in the ________.
(a) Early 1970s.
(b) Late 1990s.
(c) Mid 1980s.
(d) Late 1950s.

2. The narrator states that the study of English literature was seen as a kind of substitute for ________.
(a) Science.
(b) History.
(c) Social studies.
(d) Religion.

3. Which modern architect proclaimed that "decoration is a crime" in the chapter titled "Postmodernism"?
(a) Kurt Switters.
(b) Le Corbusier.
(c) Adolf Loos.
(d) Samuel Beckett.

4. 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.
(a) Genre.
(b) Indeterminacy.
(c) Discourse.
(d) Disunity.

5. Who presented I.A. Richard with the manuscript of the book which was published in 1930 with the title Seven Types of Ambiguity?
(a) William Empson.
(b) Wilfred Owen.
(c) Kurt Vonnegut.
(d) George Zebrowski.

Short Answer Questions

1. What where the only two universities in England in the nineteenth century?

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

3. The narrator explains that the first prestigious name in English writing about literature was that of ________, who wrote his "Apology for Poetry" in about 1580.

4. The chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism states that the conventional reading of the origins of the subject of English is that this kind of thinking begins with who?

5. Who does Peter Barry credit with partially defusing the conflict between heterosexual feminists and lesbians in an important essay which introduced the notion of the "lesbian continuum"?

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