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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. According to Peter Barry, stylistics developed in what century?
(a) Nineteenth.
(b) Eighteenth.
(c) Twentieth.
(d) Twenty-first.
2. In the following statement found in the chapter "New Historicism and Cultural Materialism," what does the word "panoptic" mean: "Michel Foucault's pervasive image of the state is that of 'panoptic'"?
(a) All-mighty.
(b) All-knowing.
(c) All-hearing.
(d) All-seeing.
3. What was the name of the American journal that was considered the "house magazine" of the new historicism?
(a) Competence.
(b) Dramatic unities.
(c) Diegesis.
(d) Representations.
4. 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) Amish / Sweden.
(c) Aethist / America.
(d) Protestant / Ireland.
5. According to the narrator, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's "The Madwoman in the Attic" contained ________ passing reference to lesbianism.
(a) 1.
(b) 9.
(c) 20.
(d) 3.
6. The institutional acceptance of the term "queer" dates to a 1990 conference on "queer theory" at what major university?
(a) University of New Mexico.
(b) University of California.
(c) University of Florida.
(d) University of New York.
7. Who does Peter Barry credit with partially defusing the conflict between heterosexual feminists and lesbians in an important essay which introduced the notion of the "lesbian continuum"?
(a) Adrienne Rich.
(b) Anne Koedt.
(c) Bonnie Zimmerman.
(d) Muriel Spark.
8. Which of the following realism terms best illustrates the straight realism which was imposed in the 1930s?
(a) Republican Realism.
(b) Democratic Realism.
(c) Socialist Realism.
(d) Confederate Realism.
9. Author Peter Barry uses an excerpt from which author to illustrate the analysis of narratologists?
(a) Edgar Allan Poe
(b) D.H. Lawrence.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) James Joyce.
10. The term "reification" was used in Karl Marx's major work ________, and it concerned the way, when capitalist goals and questions of profit and loss are paramount, workers are bereft of their full humanity and are though of as "hands" or "the labor force."
(a) Das Kapital.
(b) The German Ideology.
(c) The Communist Manifesto.
(d) The Poverty of Philosophy.
11. The chapter "Postcolonial Criticism" states that post-colonial critics celebrate hybridity and ________, which is the situation whereby individuals and groups belong simultaneously to more than one culture.
(a) Affective fallacy.
(b) Cultural polyvalency.
(c) Constative language.
(d) Decorum.
12. 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.
(a) Census line.
(b) Soviet line.
(c) Independent line.
(d) Moscow line.
13. In the chapter titled "Lesbian / Gay Criticism," it states that lesbian and gay literary theory emerged prominently as a distinct field only in the ________.
(a) 1960s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 2000s.
(d) 1990s.
14. Author Peter Barry explains that post-colonial critics reject the claims to universalism made on behalf of canonical _________ literature and seek to show its limitations of outlook.
(a) Western.
(b) Eastern.
(c) Northern.
(d) Southern.
15. According to the chapter titled "Marxist Criticism," what was the name of the group that had flourished in the 1920s until disbanded by the Party, even though their work was not strictly Marxist in spirit?
(a) Russian Formalists.
(b) Irish Formalists.
(c) German Formalists.
(d) Korean Formalists.
Short Answer Questions
1. A poem of which author is provided by Peter Barry as an example of ecocriticism?
2. Barry structures the work of Genette on a range of ________ questions to detail the process of telling.
3. 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.
4. ________ read major works from an ecocritic point of view and extend the application of concepts to areas other than the natural world.
5. Who does the narrator describe as a prominent contributor to "Inside/Outside," who pointed out that "identity categories," like "gay" and "straight," "tend to be instruments of regulatory regimes"?
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