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

Multiple Choice 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.
(a) Disunity.
(b) Genre.
(c) Indeterminacy.
(d) Discourse.

2. Which of the following terms is defined as the view that, in spite of the connections between culture and economics, art has a degree of independence from economic forces?
(a) Relative autonomy.
(b) Foregrounding.
(c) Écriture.
(d) Indeterminacy.

3. According to the chapter "New Historicism and Cultural Materialism," the notion of the state as all-powerful and all-seeing stems from the post-structuralist cultural historian ________.
(a) Sigmund Freud.
(b) Edwin A. Abbott.
(c) Anthony Burgess.
(d) Michel Foucault.

4. The chapter "Postmodernism" details that Ezra Pound calls his major work, "The Cantos" a ________.
(a) Praxis.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Misprision.
(d) Rag-bag.

5. Which of the following term is about "lexical items" (words) which cross the boundaries between sentences, binding them into a single continuous utterance, even though they are grammatically separate sentences?
(a) Syntax.
(b) Trace.
(c) Cohesion.
(d) Trope.

Short Answer Questions

1. ________ was probably the most influential figure in twentieth-century British criticism according to author Peter Barry.

2. Which of the following essays is an example of new historicism in practice written by Louis Montrose?

3. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled Structuralism, the novel "Middlemarch" is an example of a literary ________.

4. The chapter titled "Psychoanalytic Criticism" discusses the use by the unconscious of these linguistic means of self-expression is part of ________'s evidence for the claim that the unconscious is structured like a language.

5. According to the narrator, post-colonial critics would discuss the representation of what country in Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"?

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