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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. In the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism," which group did author Peter Barry say maintained a major interest in traditional critical concepts like theme, motif, and characterization?
(a) The American Indians.
(b) The African Americans.
(c) The Native Americans.
(d) The Anglo-Americans.

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 Doll's House.
(c) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
(d) Lads: Love Poetry of the Trenches.

3. Who wrote the following statement on the mythologized misrepresentation of the United States and Disneyland: "All its [the USA's] values are exalted here, in miniature and comic-strip form. Embalmed and pacified"?
(a) Burke.
(b) Browning.
(c) Brooker.
(d) Butler.

4. Karl Marx is described by Peter Barry as being a German ________.
(a) Philosopher.
(b) Criminologist.
(c) Zoologist.
(d) Scientist.

5. Which of the following terms is defined as the view that, in spite of the connections between culture and economics, art has a degree of independence from economic forces?
(a) Foregrounding.
(b) Relative autonomy.
(c) Écriture.
(d) Indeterminacy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following two writers were stigmatized as exemplars of "bourgeois decadence"?

2. According to the chapter titled "Marxist Criticism," what was the name of the group that had flourished in the 1920s until disbanded by the Party, even though their work was not strictly Marxist in spirit?

3. Peter Barry states that ________ is best understood by seeing it initially in the context of its own origins within feminism in the 1980s.

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 ________.

5. Which of the following people broke away from feminism and made new allegiances, in particular, with gay men rather than with other women?

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