Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

Peter Barry
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Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Which of the following two writers were stigmatized as exemplars of "bourgeois decadence"?
(a) Proust and Joyce.
(b) Aristotle and Plato.
(c) Jane Austen and Stephanie Meyers.
(d) Aesop and Aeschylus.

3. Throughout the nineteenth century, linguistics was usually known as ________, and was almost entirely historical in emphasis.
(a) Phenomenology.
(b) Philology.
(c) Narratology.
(d) Semiology.

4. The narrator reveals that the modern period began with the ________.
(a) Mythology.
(b) Enlightenment.
(c) Innocence.
(d) Reason.

5. What example did Saussure use to explain what he meant by saying that there are no intrinsic, fixed meanings in language?
(a) 1984.
(b) Animal Farm.
(c) Ulysses.
(d) 8.25 Geneva to Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator in the Introduction, what two introductions to theory sources deal with the problems of teaching or learning theory?

2. Who said the following quote found in the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism: "We are told that the study of literature 'cultivates the taste, educates the sympathies and enlarges the mind'"?

3. In the chapter titled "Lesbian / Gay Criticism," it states that lesbian and gay literary theory emerged prominently as a distinct field only in the ________.

4. Which of the following realism terms best illustrates the straight realism which was imposed in the 1930s?

5. According to the narrator, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's "The Madwoman in the Attic" contained ________ passing reference to lesbianism.

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