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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which modern architect proclaimed that "decoration is a crime" in the chapter titled "Postmodernism"?
(a) Adolf Loos.
(b) Kurt Switters.
(c) Samuel Beckett.
(d) Le Corbusier.

2. The narrator explains that post-structuralism emerged in France in the late ________.
(a) 1970s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1990s.
(d) 1930s.

3. I.A. Richards pioneered the technique called ________ which was also the title of his book in 1929.
(a) Allegorical Interpretation.
(b) Sociological Criticism.
(c) Reception Theory.
(d) Practical Criticism.

4. ________ was probably the most influential figure in twentieth-century British criticism according to author Peter Barry.
(a) Douglas Adams.
(b) F.R. Leavis.
(c) Edward Jablonski.
(d) Patrick Tilley.

5. The institutional acceptance of the term "queer" dates to a 1990 conference on "queer theory" at what major university?
(a) University of Florida.
(b) University of New York.
(c) University of California.
(d) University of New Mexico.

Short Answer Questions

1. Barry states in the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism" that the British "socialist feminist" tradition produced its key works in the ________.

2. Peter Barry states that in the 1990s a second, less essentialist, notion of lesbianism emerged, within the sphere of what is now known as ________.

3. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley are authors of what form of writing, according to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism?

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.

5. According to the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, structuralism derives ultimately from ________.

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