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

2. 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) Katherine Mansfield.
(b) Elaine Showalter.
(c) Jane Austen.
(d) Daisy Bates.

3. 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 ________.
(a) Homosexual education.
(b) Queer studies.
(c) Heterosexual examinations.
(d) Homosexual concepts.

4. 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) Dale Spender.
(b) Evelyn Waugh.
(c) Laurell K. Hamilton.
(d) Iris Murdoch.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. All of the following religious believers were not allowed to attend university in England in the nineteenth century except which one?

2. 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 ________.

3. Which of the following people broke away from feminism and made new allegiances, in particular, with gay men rather than with other women?

4. Which of the following term best can be defined as one in which we cannot know where we are, since all the concepts which previously defined the center, and hence also the margins, have been "deconstructed," or undermined?

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

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