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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 the Nigerian novelist who published his first novel, "Things Fall Apart," in 1958, and was criticized by an early reviewer for affecting identity with African villagers?
(a) Kurt Vonnegut.
(b) William Faulkner.
(c) J.R.R. Tolkien.
(d) Chinua Achebe.

2. Peter Barry affirms that Friedrich Engels was a German ________.
(a) Sociologist.
(b) Philosopher.
(c) Criminologist.
(d) Radiologist.

3. In Percy Bysshe Shelley's ________(1821) saw poetry as essentially engaged in what a group of twentieth-century Russian critics later called "defamiliarization."
(a) Cenci.
(b) The Necessity of Atheism.
(c) Queen Mab.
(d) A Defence of Poetry.

4. The narrator explains that conventional ________ is often seen by the stylistician as impressionistic, intuitive, and randomized.
(a) Constative language.
(b) Close reading.
(c) Surface structure.
(d) Emotive language.

5. According to Peter Barry, the term "new historicism" was coined by the ________ critic Stephen Greenblattt.
(a) Italian.
(b) Russian.
(c) German.
(d) American.

Short Answer Questions

1. All of the following religious believers were not allowed to attend university in England in the nineteenth century except which one?

2. According to the chapter "New Historicism and Cultural Materialism," the notion of the state as all-powerful and all-seeing stems from the post-structuralist cultural historian ________.

3. The British critic ________ described cultural materialism as "a politicized form of historiography."

4. Sigmund Freud believed that a ________ was an escape-hatch or safety-valve through which repressed desires, fears, or memories seek an outlet into the conscious mind.

5. Throughout the nineteenth century, linguistics was usually known as ________, and was almost entirely historical in emphasis.

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