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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Stylistics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled "Postcolonial Criticism," Frantz Fanon was a ________ from Martinique.
(a) Psychiatrist.
(b) Cardiologist.
(c) Podiatrist.
(d) Paleontologist.

2. According to the narrator, post-colonial critics would discuss the representation of what country in Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"?
(a) Ireland.
(b) Australia.
(c) America.
(d) Africa.

3. The narrator reveals that the modern period began with the ________.
(a) Innocence.
(b) Reason.
(c) Mythology.
(d) Enlightenment.

4. The crucial essay "The Death of the Author" written in 1968 was the "hinge" around which ________ turned from structuralism to post-structuralism.
(a) Barthes.
(b) Eddison.
(c) Joyce.
(d) Johnson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The chapter "Stylistics" states that the stop-start quality can be removed and cohesion achieved by what linguists call "pronominalization," using ________.

2. Which modern architect proclaimed that "decoration is a crime" in the chapter titled "Postmodernism"?

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

4. What was the name of the American journal that was considered the "house magazine" of the new historicism?

5. According to the chapter titled Structuralism, what is another term for "alba," the poetic form dating from the twelfth century in which lovers lament the approach of daybreak?

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