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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. Sigmund Freud connects infantile sexuality to the ________, in which the male infant conceives the desire to eliminate the father and become the sexual partner of the mother.
(a) Oedipus complex.
(b) Othello complex.
(c) Aphrodite complex.
(d) Hamlet complex.

2. What was the name of Martin Taylor's poems that Mark Lilly used in his straight-forward essay that surveyed the range of First World War poetry?
(a) Of Human Bondage.
(b) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
(c) Lads: Love Poetry of the Trenches.
(d) The Doll's House.

3. What is the name of the early nineteenth-century American writer who received considerable attention from both structuralists and post-structuralists?
(a) Washington Irving.
(b) Victor Hugo.
(c) Mark Twain.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe.

4. The narrator explains in the Introduction that the emphasis on practice means that this is what form of book?
(a) Manuscript.
(b) Work book.
(c) Missal.
(d) E-book.

5. Barry states in the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism" that the British "socialist feminist" tradition produced its key works in the ________.
(a) Mid 1980s.
(b) Late 1950s.
(c) Early 1970s.
(d) Late 1990s.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator in the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism, the "Anglo-American" tradition appeared when?

2. Who argued in 1905 that literature must become an instrument of the party and that "literature must become Party literature"?

3. Who was appointed Professor at King's College, London in 1840?

4. Which of F.R. Leavis's teachings was essentially a syllabus, manageable within a year-long undergraduate course?

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

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