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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of Martin Taylor's poems that Mark Lilly used in his straight-forward essay that surveyed the range of First World War poetry?
(a) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
(b) The Doll's House.
(c) Of Human Bondage.
(d) Lads: Love Poetry of the Trenches.

2. According to the narrator, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's "The Madwoman in the Attic" contained ________ passing reference to lesbianism.
(a) 1.
(b) 9.
(c) 20.
(d) 3.

3. 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?
(a) Adrienne Rich.
(b) Muriel Spark.
(c) Bonnie Zimmerman.
(d) Anne Koedt.

4. 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) Pansexuality.
(b) Infantile sexuality.
(c) Omnisexuality.
(d) Polysexuality.

5. In the Introduction, what university did author Peter Barry say he attended?
(a) London University.
(b) North Carolina State University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Yale University.

Short Answer Questions

1. ________ is defined as a discipline which has always tended to emphasize the difficulty of achieving secure knowledge about things.

2. In the chapter titled "Stylistics," whom does Peter Barry credit with inventing the term "under-lexicalization"?

3. The narrator reveals that the modern period began with the ________.

4. Which of the following realism terms best illustrates the straight realism which was imposed in the 1930s?

5. The narrator states that the study of English literature was seen as a kind of substitute for ________.

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