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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The crucial essay "The Death of the Author" written in 1968 was the "hinge" around which ________ turned from structuralism to post-structuralism.
(a) Barthes.
(b) Johnson.
(c) Joyce.
(d) Eddison.

2. Who wrote the following statement on the mythologized misrepresentation of the United States and Disneyland: "All its [the USA's] values are exalted here, in miniature and comic-strip form. Embalmed and pacified"?
(a) Butler.
(b) Browning.
(c) Burke.
(d) Brooker.

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

4. Who argued the fluidity of identity, including sexual identity in their highly influential "Epistemology of the Closet"?
(a) Diana Fuss.
(b) Rock Meyer.
(c) Judith Butler.
(d) Eve Sedgwick.

5. According to the narrator, post-colonial criticism gained currency through the influence of all the following books except for which one?
(a) The Empire Writes Back.
(b) The Studs Lonigan Trilogy.
(c) Nation and Narration.
(d) In Other Worlds.

Short Answer Questions

1. The chapter "Postmodernism" details that Ezra Pound calls his major work, "The Cantos" a ________.

2. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled "Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction," post-structuralist critics seek to show that the text is characterized by ________ rather than unity.

3. Which of the following people broke away from feminism and made new allegiances, in particular, with gay men rather than with other women?

4. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley are authors of what form of writing, according to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism?

5. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled Structuralism, the novel "Middlemarch" is an example of a literary ________.

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