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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. W.B. Yeats was a member of the ________ ruling class in ________, according to the narrator in the chapter titled "Postcolonial Criticism."
(a) Jewish / Poland.
(b) Aethist / America.
(c) Amish / Sweden.
(d) Protestant / Ireland.

2. The narrator suggests that liberal humanists believe in ________ as something fixed and constant which great literature expresses.
(a) Diegesis.
(b) Human nature.
(c) Horizon of expectation.
(d) Idealism.

3. ________ focalization is classic narrative called omniscient narration, according to the narrator in the chapter titled "Narratology."
(a) Internal.
(b) Spiritual.
(c) Zero.
(d) External.

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

5. What was the name of the American literature lecturer mentioned in the Introduction who died in January of 1995?
(a) Charles Devine.
(b) Eric Mottram.
(c) Edward Hardy.
(d) Samuel Jackson.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the chapter titled "Narratology", ________ means slow telling where an author stages a tale for readers whereas ________ means relating where the narrator summarizes events without trying to create an illusion.

2. The Introduction states that another name for traditional literary criticism is ________.

3. The narrator informs the reader that in the early 1980s, two new forms of political/historical criticism emerged, new historicism from ________ and cultural materialism from ________.

4. The British critic ________ described cultural materialism as "a politicized form of historiography."

5. Sigmund Freud connects infantile sexuality to the ________, in which the male infant conceives the desire to eliminate the father and become the sexual partner of the mother.

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