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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) Mid 1980s.
(b) Late 1970s.
(c) Early 1960s.
(d) Early 1990s.

2. Peter Barry explains that ________'s most significant thinking was contained in the essays "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" and "The Study of Poetry."
(a) Mark Twain.
(b) Matthew Arnold.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) William Shakespeare.

3. Who was appointed Professor at King's College, London in 1840?
(a) J.R.R. Tolkien.
(b) Frank McCourt.
(c) F.D. Maurice.
(d) Nick Hornby.

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

5. The thesis that the language is "masculine" was developed by ________ in the early 1980s in her book "Man Made Language," which also argues that language is not a neutral medium.
(a) Iris Murdoch.
(b) Dale Spender.
(c) Evelyn Waugh.
(d) Laurell K. Hamilton.

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. Lesbian theory that broke away from feminism and made new allegiances, in particular, with gay men rather than with other women is called "queer theory" or ________.

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

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

5. Author Peter Barry informs the reader that the feminist literary criticism of today was the direct product of the "women's movement" of the ________.

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