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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Barry structures the work of Genette on a range of ________ questions to detail the process of telling.
(a) Nine.
(b) Two.
(c) Six.
(d) Four.

2. The chapter titled "Psychoanalytic Criticism" discusses the use by the unconscious of these linguistic means of self-expression is part of ________'s evidence for the claim that the unconscious is structured like a language.
(a) Murray.
(b) Washington.
(c) Lacan.
(d) Barry.

3. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled "Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction," post-structuralist critics seek to show that the text is characterized by ________ rather than unity.
(a) Indeterminacy.
(b) Genre.
(c) Discourse.
(d) Disunity.

4. The narrator explains that post-structuralism emerged in France in the late ________.
(a) 1960s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1990s.
(d) 1930s.

5. According to the narrator, what is another term for ecocriticism?
(a) Green studies.
(b) Earth studies.
(c) Water studies.
(d) Wind studies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Jean Baudrillard was associated with what is usually known as ________ according to the narrator.

2. 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.

3. New historicists focus attention on issues of ________ and how it is maintained, on patriarchal structures and their perpetuation, and on the process of colonization, with its accompanying "mind-set."

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

5. Peter Barry states that in the 1990s a second, less essentialist, notion of lesbianism emerged, within the sphere of what is now known as ________.

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