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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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"?
(a) Willa Cather.
(b) Evelyn Waugh.
(c) Virginia Woolf.
(d) Margaret Atwood.

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.
(a) Soviet line.
(b) Independent line.
(c) Moscow line.
(d) Census line.

3. Who was the major theorist of postmodernism and French writer of the book "Simulations"?
(a) Jean-Francois Lyotard.
(b) Jean Baudrillard.
(c) Stephane Mallarme.
(d) Andre Gide.

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

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?
(a) Anne Koedt.
(b) Bonnie Zimmerman.
(c) Muriel Spark.
(d) Adrienne Rich.

Short Answer Questions

1. The ancestry of post-colonial criticism can be traced to Frantz Fanon's ________, published in French in 1961, and voicing what might be called "cultural resistance" to France's African empire.

2. Who was credited as being a key figure in the development of modern approaches to language study in the chapter titled Structuralism?

3. What was the name of the American literature lecturer mentioned in the Introduction who died in January of 1995?

4. The institutional acceptance of the term "queer" dates to a 1990 conference on "queer theory" at what major university?

5. According to Peter Barry, the term "new historicism" was coined by the ________ critic Stephen Greenblattt.

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