Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

Peter Barry
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Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

Peter Barry
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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. David Lodge, Professor of English at Birmingham, combined the ideas of structuralism with more traditional approaches in which one of his books?
(a) Working with Structuralism.
(b) Transforming Structuralism.
(c) Beginning Structuralism.
(d) Beyond Structuralism.

2. The term "reification" was used in Karl Marx's major work ________, and it concerned the way, when capitalist goals and questions of profit and loss are paramount, workers are bereft of their full humanity and are though of as "hands" or "the labor force."
(a) The Poverty of Philosophy.
(b) The German Ideology.
(c) Das Kapital.
(d) The Communist Manifesto.

3. Author Peter Barry explains that all of the following are part of the three stages of the deconstructive process except for which one?
(a) Verbal.
(b) Linguistic.
(c) Textual.
(d) Visual.

4. Author Peter Barry informs the reader that the feminist literary criticism of today was the direct product of the "women's movement" of the ________.
(a) 1930s.
(b) 1910s.
(c) 1980s.
(d) 1960s.

5. 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) Social class.
(b) Poverty.
(c) State power.
(d) Immigration.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator reveals that the modern period began with the ________.

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

3. The chapter "Feminist Criticism" suggests that feminist criticism became much more ________, meaning that it began to draw upon the findings and approaches of other kinds of criticism.

4. According to the narrator in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism," many of Sigmund Freud's ideas concern aspects of ________.

5. The narrator explains that post-structuralism emerged in France in the late ________.

(see the answer key)

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