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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator reveals that the modern period began with the ________.
(a) Enlightenment.
(b) Innocence.
(c) Mythology.
(d) Reason.

2. 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 ________.
(a) Britain / Russia.
(b) Russia / the United States.
(c) The United States / Britain.
(d) France / Germany.

3. What term suggests a range of negative attributes, such as "non-Marxist" and "non-feminist," and "non-theoretical"?
(a) Absurdism.
(b) Humanism.
(c) Dialogism.
(d) Modernism.

4. The chapter titled "Postmodernism" states the term "postmodernism" was used in the 1930s, but its current sense and vogue can be said to have begun with ________'s "The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge."
(a) L.S. Lowry.
(b) Mies van der Rohe.
(c) Jean-Francois Lyotard.
(d) Jean Baudrillard.

5. The narrator explains that the first prestigious name in English writing about literature was that of ________, who wrote his "Apology for Poetry" in about 1580.
(a) Sir Philip Sidney.
(b) William Blake.
(c) Geoffrey Chaucer.
(d) Archimedes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was credited as being a key figure in the development of modern approaches to language study in the chapter titled Structuralism?

2. What term is used in the Introduction means not politically radical, and hence generally evasive and non-committal on political issues?

3. Peter Barry explains that ________'s most significant thinking was contained in the essays "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" and "The Study of Poetry."

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

5. The narrator explains in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism" that distrust of Freud has grown in recent years, partly as a result of his mainly negative views on ________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Briefly explain what post-structuralist critics do.

2. What is the most basic difference between liberal humanist and structuralist reading?

3. Explain the Oedipus complex of Sigmund Freud.

4. Who was I.A. Richards?

5. Explain how literary theory, after Sir Phillip Sydney, was significantly advanced in the eighteenth century.

6. What are some of the important characteristics of the literary modernism practice?

7. What are the three particular areas that are debated and disagreed upon when it comes to feminist criticism?

8. What is "ecriture feminine"?

9. Who was Jean Baudrillard? How was he associated with "the loss of the real"?

10. Explain F.D. Maurice's opinions of literature as detailed in the chapter "Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism."

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