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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 explains that the first prestigious name in English writing about literature was that of ________, who wrote his "Apology for Poetry" in about 1580.
(a) Geoffrey Chaucer.
(b) William Blake.
(c) Archimedes.
(d) Sir Philip Sidney.

2. 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."
(a) L.S. Lowry.
(b) Jean Baudrillard.
(c) Mies van der Rohe.
(d) Jean-Francois Lyotard.

3. 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"?
(a) Willa Cather.
(b) Virginia Woolf.
(c) Margaret Atwood.
(d) Evelyn Waugh.

4. Who argued the fluidity of identity, including sexual identity in their highly influential "Epistemology of the Closet"?
(a) Rock Meyer.
(b) Eve Sedgwick.
(c) Judith Butler.
(d) Diana Fuss.

5. Who said the following quote found in the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism: "We are told that the study of literature 'cultivates the taste, educates the sympathies and enlarges the mind'"?
(a) Edward Freeman.
(b) Lewis Carroll.
(c) Oscar Wilde.
(d) Elie Wiesel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was appointed Professor at King's College, London in 1840?

2. Which modern architect proclaimed that "decoration is a crime" in the chapter titled "Postmodernism"?

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

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

5. 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'"?

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