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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Peter Barry explains that ________'s most significant thinking was contained in the essays "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" and "The Study of Poetry."
(a) Matthew Arnold.
(b) Voltaire.
(c) William Shakespeare.
(d) Mark Twain.

2. In the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism," which group did author Peter Barry say maintained a major interest in traditional critical concepts like theme, motif, and characterization?
(a) The Native Americans.
(b) The Anglo-Americans.
(c) The American Indians.
(d) The African Americans.

3. In the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, whose famous remark on philosophy was, "There are no facts, only interpretations"?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(d) Galileo Galilei.

4. Author Peter Barry explains that all of the following are part of the three stages of the deconstructive process except for which one?
(a) Linguistic.
(b) Textual.
(c) Verbal.
(d) Visual.

5. Which of F.R. Leavis's teachings was essentially a syllabus, manageable within a year-long undergraduate course?
(a) Great Tradition.
(b) Great Explorations.
(c) Great American Literature.
(d) Great Expectations.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lesbian theory that broke away from feminism and made new allegiances, in particular, with gay men rather than with other women is called "queer theory" or ________.

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

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. The thesis that the language is "masculine" was developed by ________ in the early 1980s in her book "Man Made Language," which also argues that language is not a neutral medium.

5. 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?

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