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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the narrator describe as a prominent contributor to "Inside/Outside," who pointed out that "identity categories," like "gay" and "straight," "tend to be instruments of regulatory regimes"?
(a) Eve Sedgwick.
(b) Rock Meyer.
(c) Judith Butler.
(d) Diana Fuss.

2. In Julia Kristeva's essay "The System and the Speaking Subject," the ________ aspect is associated with authority, order, fathers, repression, and control.
(a) Semiotic.
(b) Symbolic.
(c) Imaginary.
(d) Natural.

3. According to Peter Barry, the ________ aspect of discourse is characterized not by logic and order, but by "displacement, slippage, condensation."
(a) Natural.
(b) Semiotic.
(c) Imaginary.
(d) Symbolic.

4. Which of the following terms best fit the following definition: "a form of literary criticism which uses some of the techniques of psychoanalysis in the interpretation of literature"?
(a) Impressionistic criticism.
(b) Psychoanalytic criticism.
(c) Practical criticism.
(d) Applied criticism.

5. The chapter "Feminist Criticism" informs the reader that "for her notion of the basic opposition between semiotic and the symbolic Kristeva was indebted to Jacques Lacan and his distinction between two realms, the ________ and the ________.
(a) Story / discourse.
(b) Imaginary / symbolic.
(c) Syntagm / syntagmatic.
(d) Reference / referent.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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 ________.

2. Author Peter Barry suggests that the reader uses a useful form of intensive reading known as ________.

3. 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?

4. According to Peter Barry, the aim of Marxism was to bring about a ________ society, based on the common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange.

5. Peter Barry explains that post-colonial criticism emerges as a distinct category only in the ________.

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