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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. Dollimore and Sinfield defined the term "Political Shakespeare" as designating a critical method which has ________ characteristics.
(a) Two.
(b) Seven.
(c) Four.
(d) Nine.

2. The narrator explains that post-structuralism emerged in France in the late ________.
(a) 1970s.
(b) 1930s.
(c) 1960s.
(d) 1990s.

3. What was the name of the American journal that was considered the "house magazine" of the new historicism?
(a) Diegesis.
(b) Representations.
(c) Dramatic unities.
(d) Competence.

4. What does the narrator say the reader will have the most difficulty as the result of what?
(a) The way theory was created.
(b) The way theory is taught.
(c) The way theory is told.
(d) The way theory is written.

5. Author Peter Barry explains that all of the following are part of the three stages of the deconstructive process except for which one?
(a) Visual.
(b) Textual.
(c) Verbal.
(d) Linguistic.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the term "liberal humanism" became current in what decade?

2. Who argued the fluidity of identity, including sexual identity in their highly influential "Epistemology of the Closet"?

3. 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"?

4. The chapter "Feminist Criticism" suggests that feminist criticism became much more ________, meaning that it began to draw upon the findings and approaches of other kinds of criticism.

5. Author Peter Barry suggests that the reader uses a useful form of intensive reading known as ________.

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