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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 the narrator in the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism, the "Anglo-American" tradition appeared when?
(a) Early 1990s.
(b) Late 1970s.
(c) Early 1960s.
(d) Mid 1980s.

2. Author Peter Barry explains that a major "moment" in the history of postmodernism was the influential paper "Modernity-an Incomplete Project" delivered by the contemporary ________ theorist ________.
(a) French / Guy de Maupassant.
(b) German / Jurgen Habermas.
(c) English / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
(d) Polish / Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

3. In Julia Kristeva's essay "The System and the Speaking Subject," the ________ aspect is associated with authority, order, fathers, repression, and control.
(a) Semiotic.
(b) Natural.
(c) Symbolic.
(d) Imaginary.

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

5. Jean Baudrillard was associated with what is usually known as ________ according to the narrator.
(a) The gain of the real.
(b) The forfeit of the real.
(c) The loss of the real.
(d) The knowledge of the real.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. Which of the following authors wrote the essay "What Has Never Been: An Overview of Lesbian Feminist Criticism" and attacked "essentialism," pointing out the way "the perceptual screen of hetero-sexism" prevented any consideration of lesbian issues in pioneering feminist writing?

3. The chapter "Feminist Criticism" informs the reader that "for her notion of the basic opposition between semiotic and the symbolic Kristeva was indebted to Jacques Lacan and his distinction between two realms, the ________ and the ________.

4. The institutional acceptance of the term "queer" dates to a 1990 conference on "queer theory" at what major university?

5. Which of the following works of T.S. Eliot was a collage of juxtaposed, incomplete stories, or fragments of stories according to the chapter titled "Postmodernism"?

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