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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 chapter "Feminist Criticism" suggests that feminist criticism became much more ________, meaning that it began to draw upon the findings and approaches of other kinds of criticism.
(a) Trope.
(b) Perlocutionary.
(c) Rhetoric.
(d) Eclectic.

2. The chapter "Postmodernism" details that Ezra Pound calls his major work, "The Cantos" a ________.
(a) Paradox.
(b) Praxis.
(c) Rag-bag.
(d) Misprision.

3. Who does Peter Barry credit with partially defusing the conflict between heterosexual feminists and lesbians in an important essay which introduced the notion of the "lesbian continuum"?
(a) Bonnie Zimmerman.
(b) Muriel Spark.
(c) Adrienne Rich.
(d) Anne Koedt.

4. According to Peter Barry, the ________ aspect of discourse is characterized not by logic and order, but by "displacement, slippage, condensation."
(a) Semiotic.
(b) Symbolic.
(c) Natural.
(d) Imaginary.

5. All of the following religious believers were not allowed to attend university in England in the nineteenth century except which one?
(a) Atheist.
(b) Catholic.
(c) Jewish.
(d) Anglican.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism, structuralism and post-structuralism originated in what country?

2. Author Peter Barry explains that all of the following are part of the three stages of the deconstructive process except for which one?

3. The narrator states that the study of English literature was seen as a kind of substitute for ________.

4. In Julia Kristeva's essay "The System and the Speaking Subject," the ________ aspect is associated with authority, order, fathers, repression, and control.

5. What where the only two universities in England in the nineteenth century?

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