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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the major theorist of postmodernism and French writer of the book "Simulations"?
(a) Jean Baudrillard.
(b) Jean-Francois Lyotard.
(c) Andre Gide.
(d) Stephane Mallarme.

2. Lesbian theory that broke away from feminism and made new allegiances, in particular, with gay men rather than with other women is called "queer theory" or ________.
(a) Heterosexual examinations.
(b) Queer studies.
(c) Homosexual education.
(d) Homosexual concepts.

3. What term does the narrator explain was a popular term in deconstructive criticism and literally means an impasse?
(a) Parole.
(b) Aporia.
(c) Imagism.
(d) Langue.

4. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled "Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction," post-structuralist critics seek to show that the text is characterized by ________ rather than unity.
(a) Genre.
(b) Indeterminacy.
(c) Disunity.
(d) Discourse.

5. Who wrote the following statement on the mythologized misrepresentation of the United States and Disneyland: "All its [the USA's] values are exalted here, in miniature and comic-strip form. Embalmed and pacified"?
(a) Browning.
(b) Butler.
(c) Brooker.
(d) Burke.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Who was appointed Professor at King's College, London in 1840?

4. In Percy Bysshe Shelley's ________(1821) saw poetry as essentially engaged in what a group of twentieth-century Russian critics later called "defamiliarization."

5. What is the name given to the movement that dominates the arts and culture of the first half of the twentieth century?

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