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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ________ is defined as a discipline which has always tended to emphasize the difficulty of achieving secure knowledge about things.
(a) Criminology.
(b) Sociology.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Philosophy.

2. Whom does Peter Barry credit for being the first person and anthropologist to use structuralism in their work?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) Alfred Tennyson.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) W.B. Yeats.

3. According to Peter Barry at the beginning of the book "Beginning Theory," many of the chapters in the book were based on material Barry has used in the "Introduction to Literature" courses at what university?
(a) TSU.
(b) ASU.
(c) FSU.
(d) LSU.

4. What does Peter Barry say was the earliest work of theory written by Aristotle?
(a) Generation of Animals.
(b) Poetics.
(c) Metaphysics.
(d) Politics.

5. According to the narrator in the Introduction, what two introductions to theory sources deal with the problems of teaching or learning theory?
(a) After Theory and The Critical Decade.
(b) Literary Studies in Action and Texts and Contexts.
(c) The Use of English and The English Review.
(d) The Oval Portrait and The End of English.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

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. According to the narrator in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism," many of Sigmund Freud's ideas concern aspects of ________.

4. 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'"?

5. 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."

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