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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 1980s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1930s.
(d) 1910s.

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

3. According to Plato, "a state of language anterior to the Word" is called ________.
(a) Chora.
(b) Surrealism.
(c) Organic form.
(d) Semiotic.

4. The crucial essay "The Death of the Author" written in 1968 was the "hinge" around which ________ turned from structuralism to post-structuralism.
(a) Johnson.
(b) Joyce.
(c) Eddison.
(d) Barthes.

5. Which of the following best fits the definition of a discipline which has always been inherently confident about the possibility of establishing objective knowledge?
(a) Formalism.
(b) Hermeneutics.
(c) Linguistics.
(d) Mimesis.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. Who does Peter Barry claim described the feminist change in the late 1970s as a shift of attention from "andro-texts" to "gyno-texts"?

3. The chapter titled "Postmodernism" states the term "postmodernism" was used in the 1930s, but its current sense and vogue can be said to have begun with ________'s "The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge."

4. Who does the narrator say was the founder of a method of studying English which is still the norm today?

5. According to Peter Barry, the ________ aspect of discourse is characterized not by logic and order, but by "displacement, slippage, condensation."

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