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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which modern architect proclaimed that "decoration is a crime" in the chapter titled "Postmodernism"?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) Adolf Loos.
(c) Kurt Switters.
(d) Le Corbusier.

2. According to the chapter titled "Postcolonial Criticism," in its earliest phase, post-colonial criticism took as its main subject matter ________ representations of colonial countries and criticized these for their limitations and their bias.
(a) Black.
(b) Gray.
(c) White.
(d) Red.

3. The narrator explains in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism" that distrust of Freud has grown in recent years, partly as a result of his mainly negative views on ________.
(a) Americans.
(b) Men.
(c) Women.
(d) Children.

4. Which of F.R. Leavis's teachings was essentially a syllabus, manageable within a year-long undergraduate course?
(a) Great Explorations.
(b) Great Expectations.
(c) Great Tradition.
(d) Great American Literature.

5. The chapter "New Historicism and Cultural Materialism" explains that the practice of giving ________ to literary and non-literary material is the first and major difference between the "new" and the "old" historicism.
(a) Equal weighting.
(b) Emotive language.
(c) Deep structure.
(d) Catharsis.

Short Answer Questions

1. ________ is defined as a discipline which has always tended to emphasize the difficulty of achieving secure knowledge about things.

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

3. What was the name of the American literature lecturer mentioned in the Introduction who died in January of 1995?

4. 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?

5. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley are authors of what form of writing, according to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism?

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