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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. According to the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, structuralism derives ultimately from ________.
(a) Formalism.
(b) Hermeneutics.
(c) Linguistics.
(d) Mimesis.

2. According to the narrator in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism," many of Sigmund Freud's ideas concern aspects of ________.
(a) Conservation.
(b) Death.
(c) Humanity.
(d) Sexuality.

3. What does Peter Barry say is the topic of the book Beginning Theory?
(a) Modern theory.
(b) Historical theory.
(c) English studies.
(d) Literary theory.

4. New historicists focus attention on issues of ________ and how it is maintained, on patriarchal structures and their perpetuation, and on the process of colonization, with its accompanying "mind-set."
(a) State power.
(b) Social class.
(c) Immigration.
(d) Poverty.

5. What term is used in the Introduction means not politically radical, and hence generally evasive and non-committal on political issues?
(a) Communists.
(b) Socialists.
(c) Conservative.
(d) Liberal.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Peter Barry, the term "new historicism" was coined by the ________ critic Stephen Greenblattt.

2. 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?

3. Which of the following authors wrote the essay "What Has Never Been: An Overview of Lesbian Feminist Criticism" and attacked "essentialism," pointing out the way "the perceptual screen of hetero-sexism" prevented any consideration of lesbian issues in pioneering feminist writing?

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

5. 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.

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