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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the 1986 book "Linguistic Criticism," which characterized linguistic criticism as "objective description of texts"?
(a) Fowler.
(b) Madison.
(c) Clinton.
(d) Eliot.

2. Stylistics is the modern version of the ancient discipline known as ________, which taught its students how to structure an argument.
(a) Philology.
(b) Rhetoric.
(c) Neoclassicism.
(d) Neoplatonism.

3. 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) Bonnie Zimmerman.
(d) Paulina Palmer.

4. Peter Barry explains that ________'s most significant thinking was contained in the essays "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" and "The Study of Poetry."
(a) Matthew Arnold.
(b) William Shakespeare.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) Mark Twain.

5. Whom does author Peter Barry say was a French psychoanalyst whose work had an extraordinary influence upon many aspects of recent literary theory and who began his career by taking a medical degree and then training in psychiatry in the 1920s?
(a) Jacques Lacan.
(b) Marcus Tullius Cicero.
(c) John Maynard Keynes.
(d) Euripides.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism, structuralism and post-structuralism originated in what country?

2. ________ was founded on the notion of close reading, according to the narrator.

3. In Julia Kristeva's essay "The System and the Speaking Subject," the ________ aspect is associated with authority, order, fathers, repression, and control.

4. In the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, whose famous remark on philosophy was, "There are no facts, only interpretations"?

5. The narrator states that the study of English literature was seen as a kind of substitute for ________.

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