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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was the major theorist of postmodernism and French writer of the book "Simulations"?
(a) Stephane Mallarme.
(b) Jean-Francois Lyotard.
(c) Andre Gide.
(d) Jean Baudrillard.

3. In Julia Kristeva's essay "The System and the Speaking Subject," the ________ aspect is associated with authority, order, fathers, repression, and control.
(a) Natural.
(b) Symbolic.
(c) Imaginary.
(d) Semiotic.

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 ________.
(a) Story / discourse.
(b) Syntagm / syntagmatic.
(c) Imaginary / symbolic.
(d) Reference / referent.

5. 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) Katherine Mansfield.
(d) Jane Austen.

Short Answer Questions

1. The chapter "Postmodernism" details that Ezra Pound calls his major work, "The Cantos" a ________.

2. Who was the first critic to develop a "reader-centered" approach to literature?

3. Author Peter Barry explains that a major "moment" in the history of postmodernism was the influential paper "Modernity-an Incomplete Project" delivered by the contemporary ________ theorist ________.

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

5. Whom does Peter Barry credit with the suggestion that language used is gendered, so that when a woman turns to novel writing she finds that there is "no common sentence ready for her use"?

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