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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lacan argues that the two "dream work" mechanisms identified by Freud correspond to the basic poles of language, identified by the linguist Roman Jakobson, to ________ and ________.
(a) Paradigm / paradigmatic.
(b) Langue/parole.
(c) Metaphor / metonymy.
(d) Intention / intentionality.

2. According to Peter Barry, the aim of Marxism was to bring about a ________ society, based on the common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange.
(a) Homeless.
(b) Thoughtless.
(c) Classless.
(d) Lawless.

3. According to the narrator in the Introduction, what two introductions to theory sources deal with the problems of teaching or learning theory?
(a) After Theory and The Critical Decade.
(b) Literary Studies in Action and Texts and Contexts.
(c) The Oval Portrait and The End of English.
(d) The Use of English and The English Review.

4. What term does the narrator explain was a popular term in deconstructive criticism and literally means an impasse?
(a) Aporia.
(b) Parole.
(c) Langue.
(d) Imagism.

5. The narrator explains in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism" that distrust of Freud has grown in recent years, partly as a result of his mainly negative views on ________.
(a) Americans.
(b) Children.
(c) Men.
(d) Women.

Short Answer Questions

1. ________ was probably the most influential figure in twentieth-century British criticism according to author Peter Barry.

2. 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?

3. New historicists focus attention on issues of ________ and how it is maintained, on patriarchal structures and their perpetuation, and on the process of colonization, with its accompanying "mind-set."

4. According to the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, structuralism derives ultimately from ________.

5. 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."

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