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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator reveals that the modern period began with the ________.
(a) Reason.
(b) Innocence.
(c) Enlightenment.
(d) Mythology.

2. What term does the narrator explain was a popular term in deconstructive criticism and literally means an impasse?
(a) Aporia.
(b) Imagism.
(c) Langue.
(d) Parole.

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

4. 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"?
(a) Prufrock and Other Observations.
(b) The Waste Land.
(c) Essays Ancient and Modern.
(d) The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism.

5. The narrator states that the study of English literature was seen as a kind of substitute for ________.
(a) Social studies.
(b) Science.
(c) Religion.
(d) History.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism," which group did author Peter Barry say maintained a major interest in traditional critical concepts like theme, motif, and characterization?

3. 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.

4. Who argued the fluidity of identity, including sexual identity in their highly influential "Epistemology of the Closet"?

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"?

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