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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The gist of "Style in Language," edited by ________, is to claim that linguistics offers a more objective way of studying literature, and the book tends to set up "a confrontation of camps" between literary and language studies.
(a) Chaucer.
(b) Wiley.
(c) Sebeok.
(d) Fowler.

2. W.B. Yeats was a member of the ________ ruling class in ________, according to the narrator in the chapter titled "Postcolonial Criticism."
(a) Amish / Sweden.
(b) Protestant / Ireland.
(c) Jewish / Poland.
(d) Aethist / America.

3. Author Peter Barry explains that a major "moment" in the history of postmodernism was the influential paper "Modernity-an Incomplete Project" delivered by the contemporary ________ theorist ________.
(a) French / Guy de Maupassant.
(b) Polish / Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
(c) German / Jurgen Habermas.
(d) English / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

4. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled Structuralism, the novel "Middlemarch" is an example of a literary ________.
(a) Paradigmatic.
(b) Parole.
(c) Pardigm.
(d) Icon.

5. The narrator reveals that the modern period began with the ________.
(a) Reason.
(b) Innocence.
(c) Mythology.
(d) Enlightenment.

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. Who argued in 1905 that literature must become an instrument of the party and that "literature must become Party literature"?

3. Author Peter Barry explains that all of the following are part of the three stages of the deconstructive process except for which one?

4. Author Peter Barry explains that post-colonial critics reject the claims to universalism made on behalf of canonical _________ literature and seek to show its limitations of outlook.

5. What does the narrator say the reader will have the most difficulty as the result of what?

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