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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ________ is defined as a discipline which has always tended to emphasize the difficulty of achieving secure knowledge about things.
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Criminology.
(d) Sociology.

2. 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) Virginia Woolf.
(b) John Milton.
(c) Gertrude Stein.
(d) T.S. Eliot.

3. 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.

4. In Percy Bysshe Shelley's ________(1821) saw poetry as essentially engaged in what a group of twentieth-century Russian critics later called "defamiliarization."
(a) The Necessity of Atheism.
(b) A Defence of Poetry.
(c) Queen Mab.
(d) Cenci.

5. Who presented I.A. Richard with the manuscript of the book which was published in 1930 with the title Seven Types of Ambiguity?
(a) George Zebrowski.
(b) Wilfred Owen.
(c) William Empson.
(d) Kurt Vonnegut.

Short Answer Questions

1. All of the following religious believers were not allowed to attend university in England in the nineteenth century except which one?

2. Peter Barry states that ________ is best understood by seeing it initially in the context of its own origins within feminism in the 1980s.

3. I.A. Richards pioneered the technique called ________ which was also the title of his book in 1929.

4. The crucial essay "The Death of the Author" written in 1968 was the "hinge" around which ________ turned from structuralism to post-structuralism.

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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