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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who argued the fluidity of identity, including sexual identity in their highly influential "Epistemology of the Closet"?
(a) Judith Butler.
(b) Diana Fuss.
(c) Rock Meyer.
(d) Eve Sedgwick.

2. Who does the narrator describe as a prominent contributor to "Inside/Outside," who pointed out that "identity categories," like "gay" and "straight," "tend to be instruments of regulatory regimes"?
(a) Judith Butler.
(b) Diana Fuss.
(c) Eve Sedgwick.
(d) Rock Meyer.

3. I.A. Richards pioneered the technique called ________ which was also the title of his book in 1929.
(a) Practical Criticism.
(b) Reception Theory.
(c) Sociological Criticism.
(d) Allegorical Interpretation.

4. Who was the major theorist of postmodernism and French writer of the book "Simulations"?
(a) Jean-Francois Lyotard.
(b) Andre Gide.
(c) Stephane Mallarme.
(d) Jean Baudrillard.

5. The crucial essay "The Death of the Author" written in 1968 was the "hinge" around which ________ turned from structuralism to post-structuralism.
(a) Joyce.
(b) Johnson.
(c) Eddison.
(d) Barthes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following best fits the definition of a discipline which has always been inherently confident about the possibility of establishing objective knowledge?

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

3. What is the name given to the movement that dominates the arts and culture of the first half of the twentieth century?

4. What was another name for the semic code found within the chapter titled Structuralism?

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

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