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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ________ was probably the most influential figure in twentieth-century British criticism according to author Peter Barry.
(a) F.R. Leavis.
(b) Edward Jablonski.
(c) Patrick Tilley.
(d) Douglas Adams.

2. The narrator explains that post-structuralism emerged in France in the late ________.
(a) 1930s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1990s.
(d) 1960s.

3. Which of the following people broke away from feminism and made new allegiances, in particular, with gay men rather than with other women?
(a) Bonnie Zimmerman.
(b) Muriel Spark.
(c) Anne Koedt.
(d) Paulina Palmer.

4. 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.

5. 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) Adrienne Rich.
(b) Anne Koedt.
(c) Muriel Spark.
(d) Bonnie Zimmerman.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Peter Barry states that ________ is best understood by seeing it initially in the context of its own origins within feminism in the 1980s.

3. 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.

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

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