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

2. All of the following religious believers were not allowed to attend university in England in the nineteenth century except which one?
(a) Catholic.
(b) Atheist.
(c) Anglican.
(d) Jewish.

3. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the term "liberal humanism" became current in what decade?
(a) 1910s.
(b) 1930s.
(c) 1920s.
(d) 1970s.

4. 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.
(a) Omnisexuality.
(b) Pansexuality.
(c) Polysexuality.
(d) Infantile sexuality.

5. In the chapter titled "Lesbian / Gay Criticism," it states that lesbian and gay literary theory emerged prominently as a distinct field only in the ________.
(a) 1990s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1960s.
(d) 2000s.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the term used in the Introduction that is defined as the science of signs?

2. 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"?

3. Peter Barry examines Sigmund Freud's book ________, which in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism" Barry claims is one of Freud's most enjoyable and accessible publications.

4. The British critic ________ described cultural materialism as "a politicized form of historiography."

5. Dollimore and Sinfield defined the term "Political Shakespeare" as designating a critical method which has ________ characteristics.

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