View a FREE sample

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

2. Author Peter Barry explains that all of the following are part of the three stages of the deconstructive process except for which one?
(a) Verbal.
(b) Textual.
(c) Visual.
(d) Linguistic.

3. Who does Peter Barry credit with partially defusing the conflict between heterosexual feminists and lesbians in an important essay which introduced the notion of the "lesbian continuum"?
(a) Anne Koedt.
(b) Adrienne Rich.
(c) Bonnie Zimmerman.
(d) Muriel Spark.

4. Who does Peter Barry claim described the feminist change in the late 1970s as a shift of attention from "andro-texts" to "gyno-texts"?
(a) Elaine Showalter.
(b) Daisy Bates.
(c) Jane Austen.
(d) Katherine Mansfield.

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) Burke.
(b) Browning.
(c) Butler.
(d) Brooker.

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. Jean Baudrillard was associated with what is usually known as ________ according to the narrator.

3. From which of Babara Johnson's literary pieces can the following definition of deconstructive reading be found according to author Peter Barry: "Deconstruction is not synonymous with 'destruction.' It is in fact much closer to the original meaning of the word 'analysis,' which etymologically means 'to undo'"?

4. 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 ________.

5. The narrator reveals that the modern period began with the ________.

(see the answer key)

This section contains 343 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample