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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Peter Barry states that in the 1990s a second, less essentialist, notion of lesbianism emerged, within the sphere of what is now known as ________.
(a) Reception theory.
(b) Speech act theory.
(c) Hybrid theory.
(d) Queer theory.

2. ________ was founded on the notion of close reading, according to the narrator.
(a) Social studies.
(b) Sociology.
(c) Humanities.
(d) English studies.

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

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?
(a) Chinua Achebe.
(b) William Faulkner.
(c) Kurt Vonnegut.
(d) J.R.R. Tolkien.

5. In the chapter titled Structuralism, the narrator explains that ________ applied the structuralism method to the general field of modern culture.
(a) Edgar Allan Poe.
(b) Friedrich Nietzsche.
(c) Roland Barthes.
(d) Isaac Newton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does the narrator explain was a popular term in deconstructive criticism and literally means an impasse?

2. Whom does Peter Barry credit with the suggestion that language used is gendered, so that when a woman turns to novel writing she finds that there is "no common sentence ready for her use"?

3. Which of the following works did the narrator believe to be the most important Lacanian text for literary students and which was first delivered in 1957 to a "lay" audience of philosophy students?

4. According to the chapter titled "Postcolonial Criticism," in its earliest phase, post-colonial criticism took as its main subject matter ________ representations of colonial countries and criticized these for their limitations and their bias.

5. 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.

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