Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Peter Barry
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was appointed Professor at King's College, London in 1840?
(a) J.R.R. Tolkien.
(b) Nick Hornby.
(c) F.D. Maurice.
(d) Frank McCourt.

2. Author Peter Barry explains that a major "moment" in the history of postmodernism was the influential paper "Modernity-an Incomplete Project" delivered by the contemporary ________ theorist ________.
(a) English / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
(b) French / Guy de Maupassant.
(c) Polish / Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
(d) German / Jurgen Habermas.

3. Barry states in the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism" that the British "socialist feminist" tradition produced its key works in the ________.
(a) Mid 1980s.
(b) Late 1950s.
(c) Late 1990s.
(d) Early 1970s.

4. Who does the narrator say was the founder of a method of studying English which is still the norm today?
(a) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(b) I.A. Richards.
(c) Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
(d) T.S. Eliot.

5. Who was the major theorist of postmodernism and French writer of the book "Simulations"?
(a) Andre Gide.
(b) Jean Baudrillard.
(c) Stephane Mallarme.
(d) Jean-Francois Lyotard.

6. What is the name of the early nineteenth-century American writer who received considerable attention from both structuralists and post-structuralists?
(a) Washington Irving.
(b) Edgar Allan Poe.
(c) Mark Twain.
(d) Victor Hugo.

7. 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) Discourse.
(b) Indeterminacy.
(c) Genre.
(d) Disunity.

8. What example did Saussure use to explain what he meant by saying that there are no intrinsic, fixed meanings in language?
(a) 1984.
(b) Ulysses.
(c) 8.25 Geneva to Paris.
(d) Animal Farm.

9. What term does the narrator explain was a popular term in deconstructive criticism and literally means an impasse?
(a) Aporia.
(b) Langue.
(c) Imagism.
(d) Parole.

10. What term is used in the Introduction means not politically radical, and hence generally evasive and non-committal on political issues?
(a) Conservative.
(b) Liberal.
(c) Communists.
(d) Socialists.

11. Which of the following works of T.S. Eliot was a collage of juxtaposed, incomplete stories, or fragments of stories according to the chapter titled "Postmodernism"?
(a) Essays Ancient and Modern.
(b) Prufrock and Other Observations.
(c) The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism.
(d) The Waste Land.

12. Which of the following term best can be defined as one in which we cannot know where we are, since all the concepts which previously defined the center, and hence also the margins, have been "deconstructed," or undermined?
(a) Binary oppositions.
(b) Decentered universe.
(c) Allegorical Interpretation.
(d) Absurdism.

13. Jean Baudrillard was associated with what is usually known as ________ according to the narrator.
(a) The loss of the real.
(b) The knowledge of the real.
(c) The gain of the real.
(d) The forfeit of the real.

14. According to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism, structuralism and post-structuralism originated in what country?
(a) United States.
(b) France.
(c) Russia.
(d) Britain.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Introduction, what university did author Peter Barry say he attended?

2. The chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism" states that ________ is the notion that sexuality begins not at puberty, with physical maturing, but in infancy, especially through the infant's relationship with the mother.

3. The notion of the ________, posited by Levi-Strauss, denoting the minimal units of narrative "sense," is formed on the analogy of the morpheme, which, in linguistics, is the ________ unit of grammatical sense.

4. 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?

5. All of the following religious believers were not allowed to attend university in England in the nineteenth century except which one?

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