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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. Jean Baudrillard was associated with what is usually known as ________ according to the narrator.
(a) The loss of the real.
(b) The forfeit of the real.
(c) The knowledge of the real.
(d) The gain of the real.

2. The thesis that the language is "masculine" was developed by ________ in the early 1980s in her book "Man Made Language," which also argues that language is not a neutral medium.
(a) Iris Murdoch.
(b) Evelyn Waugh.
(c) Dale Spender.
(d) Laurell K. Hamilton.

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

4. According to the chapter titled Structuralism, what is another term for "alba," the poetic form dating from the twelfth century in which lovers lament the approach of daybreak?
(a) Dawn song.
(b) Morning love.
(c) Morning glory.
(d) Breaking dawn.

5. Whom does Peter Barry credit for being the first person and anthropologist to use structuralism in their work?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Alfred Tennyson.
(c) W.B. Yeats.
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator explains in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism" that distrust of Freud has grown in recent years, partly as a result of his mainly negative views on ________.

2. Sigmund Freud believed that a ________ was an escape-hatch or safety-valve through which repressed desires, fears, or memories seek an outlet into the conscious mind.

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

4. The narrator explains in the Introduction that the emphasis on practice means that this is what form of book?

5. The chapter "New Historicism and Cultural Materialism" explains that the practice of giving ________ to literary and non-literary material is the first and major difference between the "new" and the "old" historicism.

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