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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. In the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism," which group did author Peter Barry say maintained a major interest in traditional critical concepts like theme, motif, and characterization?
(a) The American Indians.
(b) The African Americans.
(c) The Anglo-Americans.
(d) The Native Americans.

2. Author Peter Barry explains that all of the following are part of the three stages of the deconstructive process except for which one?
(a) Linguistic.
(b) Verbal.
(c) Visual.
(d) Textual.

3. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled Structuralism, the novel "Middlemarch" is an example of a literary ________.
(a) Parole.
(b) Icon.
(c) Paradigmatic.
(d) Pardigm.

4. In the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, whose famous remark on philosophy was, "There are no facts, only interpretations"?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Galileo Galilei.
(d) Ralph Waldo Emerson.

5. The thesis that the language is "masculine" was developed by ________ in the early 1980s in her book "Man Made Language," which also argues that language is not a neutral medium.
(a) Laurell K. Hamilton.
(b) Evelyn Waugh.
(c) Dale Spender.
(d) Iris Murdoch.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states that the study of English literature was seen as a kind of substitute for ________.

2. Which of the following works did the narrator believe to be the most important Lacanian text for literary students and which was first delivered in 1957 to a "lay" audience of philosophy students?

3. 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?

4. 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."

5. What was the term used in the Introduction that is defined as the science of signs?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was I.A. Richards?

2. What does the formula SQ3R mean? Explain.

3. Briefly summarize author Peter Barry's own introduction to literary theory as seen in "My own stock-taking" found within the "Introduction."

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

5. What is structuralism? Where and when did it begin?

6. How does Disneyland fit into the concept of hyperreality according to Baurdrillard?

7. How is French feminism different from American feminism?

8. Discuss Sigmund Freud's concept of "dream work."

9. Do liberal humanists use the term "human nature"? Explain.

10. What are the three stages of the deconstructive process? Explain.

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