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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lesbian/gay criticism.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. According to Peter Barry, the ________ aspect of discourse is characterized not by logic and order, but by "displacement, slippage, condensation."
(a) Natural.
(b) Imaginary.
(c) Symbolic.
(d) Semiotic.
2. The narrator explains that post-structuralism emerged in France in the late ________.
(a) 1930s.
(b) 1990s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 1960s.
3. 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) Archimedes.
(b) Geoffrey Chaucer.
(c) William Blake.
(d) Sir Philip Sidney.
4. Author Peter Barry informs the reader that the feminist literary criticism of today was the direct product of the "women's movement" of the ________.
(a) 1930s.
(b) 1910s.
(c) 1960s.
(d) 1980s.
5. Which of the following people broke away from feminism and made new allegiances, in particular, with gay men rather than with other women?
(a) Paulina Palmer.
(b) Anne Koedt.
(c) Muriel Spark.
(d) Bonnie Zimmerman.
Short Answer Questions
1. The chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism states that the conventional reading of the origins of the subject of English is that this kind of thinking begins with who?
2. 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.
3. All of the following religious believers were not allowed to attend university in England in the nineteenth century except which one?
4. 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?
5. ________ was probably the most influential figure in twentieth-century British criticism according to author Peter Barry.
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