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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Linguistics.
(b) Mimesis.
(c) Hermeneutics.
(d) Formalism.

2. Which of the following two writers were stigmatized as exemplars of "bourgeois decadence"?
(a) Aristotle and Plato.
(b) Aesop and Aeschylus.
(c) Jane Austen and Stephanie Meyers.
(d) Proust and Joyce.

3. The Introduction states that ________, like novelists, are dauntingly plentiful.
(a) Romanticists.
(b) Poets.
(c) Theorists.
(d) Journalists.

4. According to the narrator in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism," who did Sigmund Freud link the situation of Hamlet in the play to?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Oedipus.
(d) God.

5. Who argued in 1905 that literature must become an instrument of the party and that "literature must become Party literature"?
(a) Lenin.
(b) Keats.
(c) Reis.
(d) Tennyson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following essays is an example of new historicism in practice written by Louis Montrose?

2. The narrator explains that those abroad who were sympathetic to the ideas of Communism tried to follow the ________ on matters where an official Party policy existed, hence the international influence of the Leninist views.

3. According to the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, structuralism derives ultimately from ________.

4. 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?

5. Who was the major theorist of postmodernism and French writer of the book "Simulations"?

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