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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The term "reification" was used in Karl Marx's major work ________, and it concerned the way, when capitalist goals and questions of profit and loss are paramount, workers are bereft of their full humanity and are though of as "hands" or "the labor force."
(a) The German Ideology.
(b) Das Kapital.
(c) The Communist Manifesto.
(d) The Poverty of Philosophy.

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

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?
(a) The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis.
(b) The Insistence of the Letter.
(c) The Signification of the Phallus.
(d) Fetishism: the Symbolic, the Imaginary and the Real.

4. Who does Peter Barry credit with partially defusing the conflict between heterosexual feminists and lesbians in an important essay which introduced the notion of the "lesbian continuum"?
(a) Adrienne Rich.
(b) Muriel Spark.
(c) Bonnie Zimmerman.
(d) Anne Koedt.

5. According to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism, structuralism and post-structuralism originated in what country?
(a) Britain.
(b) France.
(c) United States.
(d) Russia.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. 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?

3. Peter Barry states that in the 1990s a second, less essentialist, notion of lesbianism emerged, within the sphere of what is now known as ________.

4. 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"?

5. In the chapter titled "Stylistics," whom does Peter Barry credit with inventing the term "under-lexicalization"?

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