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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator in the Introduction, what two introductions to theory sources deal with the problems of teaching or learning theory?
(a) Literary Studies in Action and Texts and Contexts.
(b) The Use of English and The English Review.
(c) After Theory and The Critical Decade.
(d) The Oval Portrait and The End of English.

2. The chapter titled "Psychoanalytic Criticism" discusses the use by the unconscious of these linguistic means of self-expression is part of ________'s evidence for the claim that the unconscious is structured like a language.
(a) Barry.
(b) Washington.
(c) Murray.
(d) Lacan.

3. Which of the following term best can be defined as one in which we cannot know where we are, since all the concepts which previously defined the center, and hence also the margins, have been "deconstructed," or undermined?
(a) Decentered universe.
(b) Binary oppositions.
(c) Allegorical Interpretation.
(d) Absurdism.

4. Who argued in 1905 that literature must become an instrument of the party and that "literature must become Party literature"?
(a) Lenin.
(b) Keats.
(c) Reis.
(d) Tennyson.

5. The narrator explains in the Introduction that the emphasis on practice means that this is what form of book?
(a) E-book.
(b) Manuscript.
(c) Work book.
(d) Missal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was appointed Professor at King's College, London in 1840?

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."

3. According to Peter Barry, the aim of Marxism was to bring about a ________ society, based on the common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange.

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

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