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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lesbian/gay criticism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. All of the following authors were considered some of the literary "high priests" of the modernist movement according to the narrator in the chapter titled "Postmodernism," except for which one?
(a) Gertrude Stein.
(b) Virginia Woolf.
(c) T.S. Eliot.
(d) John Milton.

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.
(a) Dale Spender.
(b) Evelyn Waugh.
(c) Iris Murdoch.
(d) Laurell K. Hamilton.

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."
(a) Mark Twain.
(b) Matthew Arnold.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) William Shakespeare.

4. What was the name of Martin Taylor's poems that Mark Lilly used in his straight-forward essay that surveyed the range of First World War poetry?
(a) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
(b) Lads: Love Poetry of the Trenches.
(c) The Doll's House.
(d) Of Human Bondage.

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) Anne Koedt.
(b) Bonnie Zimmerman.
(c) Muriel Spark.
(d) Paulina Palmer.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. Who presented I.A. Richard with the manuscript of the book which was published in 1930 with the title Seven Types of Ambiguity?

3. In what decade did "postmodernism" become current according to the author?

4. ________ was probably the most influential figure in twentieth-century British criticism according to author Peter Barry.

5. In Julia Kristeva's essay "The System and the Speaking Subject," the ________ aspect is associated with authority, order, fathers, repression, and control.

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