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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Stylistics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following best fits the definition of a discipline which has always been inherently confident about the possibility of establishing objective knowledge?
(a) Hermeneutics.
(b) Linguistics.
(c) Formalism.
(d) Mimesis.

2. Who does Peter Barry claim described the feminist change in the late 1970s as a shift of attention from "andro-texts" to "gyno-texts"?
(a) Daisy Bates.
(b) Katherine Mansfield.
(c) Elaine Showalter.
(d) Jane Austen.

3. Author Peter Barry explains that a major "moment" in the history of postmodernism was the influential paper "Modernity-an Incomplete Project" delivered by the contemporary ________ theorist ________.
(a) English / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
(b) Polish / Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
(c) French / Guy de Maupassant.
(d) German / Jurgen Habermas.

4. What was another name for the semic code found within the chapter titled Structuralism?
(a) Connotative code.
(b) Tel Quel group.
(c) Syntax.
(d) Universals.

5. Which of the following people broke away from feminism and made new allegiances, in particular, with gay men rather than with other women?
(a) Anne Koedt.
(b) Muriel Spark.
(c) Paulina Palmer.
(d) Bonnie Zimmerman.

Short Answer Questions

1. The panopticon was a design for a circular prison conceived by the eighteenth-century utilitarian ________.

2. Who was the major theorist of postmodernism and French writer of the book "Simulations"?

3. Stylistics is the modern version of the ancient discipline known as ________, which taught its students how to structure an argument.

4. According to the narrator in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism," many of Sigmund Freud's ideas concern aspects of ________.

5. Which of the following works did the narrator believe to be the most important Lacanian text for literary students and which was first delivered in 1957 to a "lay" audience of philosophy students?

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