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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. The narrator explains that those abroad who were sympathetic to the ideas of Communism tried to follow the ________ on matters where an official Party policy existed, hence the international influence of the Leninist views.
(a) Independent line.
(b) Moscow line.
(c) Soviet line.
(d) Census line.

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) Laurell K. Hamilton.
(d) Dale Spender.

3. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the ________ probably saw the high-water mark of literary theory.
(a) 1990s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 1980s.

4. According to Peter Barry, the term "new historicism" was coined by the ________ critic Stephen Greenblattt.
(a) American.
(b) Russian.
(c) Italian.
(d) German.

5. According to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism, structuralism and post-structuralism originated in what country?
(a) Russia.
(b) Britain.
(c) United States.
(d) France.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does the narrator explain was a popular term in deconstructive criticism and literally means an impasse?

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. In the chapter titled "Lesbian / Gay Criticism," it states that lesbian and gay literary theory emerged prominently as a distinct field only in the ________.

5. In the following statement found in the chapter "New Historicism and Cultural Materialism," what does the word "panoptic" mean: "Michel Foucault's pervasive image of the state is that of 'panoptic'"?

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