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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sigmund Freud believed that a ________ was an escape-hatch or safety-valve through which repressed desires, fears, or memories seek an outlet into the conscious mind.
(a) Poem.
(b) Fetish.
(c) Memoir.
(d) Dream.

2. What term suggests a range of negative attributes, such as "non-Marxist" and "non-feminist," and "non-theoretical"?
(a) Absurdism.
(b) Dialogism.
(c) Humanism.
(d) Modernism.

3. What was the name of the Nigerian novelist who published his first novel, "Things Fall Apart," in 1958, and was criticized by an early reviewer for affecting identity with African villagers?
(a) J.R.R. Tolkien.
(b) William Faulkner.
(c) Chinua Achebe.
(d) Kurt Vonnegut.

4. ________ was probably the most influential figure in twentieth-century British criticism according to author Peter Barry.
(a) Patrick Tilley.
(b) Edward Jablonski.
(c) Douglas Adams.
(d) F.R. Leavis.

5. The narrator explains that those abroad who were sympathetic to the ideas of Communism tried to follow the ________ on matters where an official Party policy existed, hence the international influence of the Leninist views.
(a) Soviet line.
(b) Census line.
(c) Independent line.
(d) Moscow line.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the American journal that was considered the "house magazine" of the new historicism?

2. Who wrote the following statement on the mythologized misrepresentation of the United States and Disneyland: "All its [the USA's] values are exalted here, in miniature and comic-strip form. Embalmed and pacified"?

3. 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'"?

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

5. What does the narrator say the reader will have the most difficulty as the result of what?

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