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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Stylistics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does author Peter Barry say was a French psychoanalyst whose work had an extraordinary influence upon many aspects of recent literary theory and who began his career by taking a medical degree and then training in psychiatry in the 1920s?
(a) John Maynard Keynes.
(b) Jacques Lacan.
(c) Euripides.
(d) Marcus Tullius Cicero.

2. In the chapter titled Structuralism, the narrator explains that ________ applied the structuralism method to the general field of modern culture.
(a) Friedrich Nietzsche.
(b) Edgar Allan Poe.
(c) Roland Barthes.
(d) Isaac Newton.

3. The chapter "Stylistics" states that the stop-start quality can be removed and cohesion achieved by what linguists call "pronominalization," using ________.
(a) Verbs.
(b) Adjectives.
(c) Pronouns.
(d) Nouns.

4. What was the name of the American literature lecturer mentioned in the Introduction who died in January of 1995?
(a) Charles Devine.
(b) Eric Mottram.
(c) Edward Hardy.
(d) Samuel Jackson.

5. The chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism" states that ________ is the notion that sexuality begins not at puberty, with physical maturing, but in infancy, especially through the infant's relationship with the mother.
(a) Polysexuality.
(b) Infantile sexuality.
(c) Omnisexuality.
(d) Pansexuality.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following authors wrote the essay "What Has Never Been: An Overview of Lesbian Feminist Criticism" and attacked "essentialism," pointing out the way "the perceptual screen of hetero-sexism" prevented any consideration of lesbian issues in pioneering feminist writing?

2. The institutional acceptance of the term "queer" dates to a 1990 conference on "queer theory" at what major university?

3. Stylistics is the modern version of the ancient discipline known as ________, which taught its students how to structure an argument.

4. According to the narrator in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism," who did Sigmund Freud link the situation of Hamlet in the play to?

5. Peter Barry states that in the 1990s a second, less essentialist, notion of lesbianism emerged, within the sphere of what is now known as ________.

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