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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through New historicism and cultural materialism.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to the narrator in the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism, the "Anglo-American" tradition appeared when?
(a) Early 1960s.
(b) Mid 1980s.
(c) Late 1970s.
(d) Early 1990s.

3. What does Peter Barry say was the earliest work of theory written by Aristotle?
(a) Metaphysics.
(b) Poetics.
(c) Politics.
(d) Generation of Animals.

4. According to the chapter "New Historicism and Cultural Materialism," the notion of the state as all-powerful and all-seeing stems from the post-structuralist cultural historian ________.
(a) Michel Foucault.
(b) Edwin A. Abbott.
(c) Anthony Burgess.
(d) Sigmund Freud.

5. The narrator informs the reader that in the early 1980s, two new forms of political/historical criticism emerged, new historicism from ________ and cultural materialism from ________.
(a) The United States / Britain.
(b) France / Germany.
(c) Russia / the United States.
(d) Britain / Russia.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what decade did "postmodernism" become current according to the author?

2. Whom does Peter Barry credit for being the first person and anthropologist to use structuralism in their work?

3. The narrator states that the study of English literature was seen as a kind of substitute for ________.

4. In the following statement found in the chapter "New Historicism and Cultural Materialism," what does the word "panoptic" mean: "Michel Foucault's pervasive image of the state is that of 'panoptic'"?

5. According to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism, structuralism and post-structuralism originated in what country?

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