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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following best fits the definition of a discipline which has always been inherently confident about the possibility of establishing objective knowledge?
(a) Mimesis.
(b) Linguistics.
(c) Hermeneutics.
(d) Formalism.

2. According to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism, structuralism and post-structuralism originated in what country?
(a) Britain.
(b) United States.
(c) Russia.
(d) France.

3. In the chapter titled "Lesbian / Gay Criticism," it states that lesbian and gay literary theory emerged prominently as a distinct field only in the ________.
(a) 1970s.
(b) 1990s.
(c) 2000s.
(d) 1960s.

4. The narrator states that the study of English literature was seen as a kind of substitute for ________.
(a) Religion.
(b) Social studies.
(c) Science.
(d) History.

5. Who argued the fluidity of identity, including sexual identity in their highly influential "Epistemology of the Closet"?
(a) Judith Butler.
(b) Diana Fuss.
(c) Rock Meyer.
(d) Eve Sedgwick.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The chapter "Feminist Criticism" informs the reader that "for her notion of the basic opposition between semiotic and the symbolic Kristeva was indebted to Jacques Lacan and his distinction between two realms, the ________ and the ________.

3. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the term "liberal humanism" became current in what decade?

4. Who does Peter Barry credit with partially defusing the conflict between heterosexual feminists and lesbians in an important essay which introduced the notion of the "lesbian continuum"?

5. Dollimore and Sinfield defined the term "Political Shakespeare" as designating a critical method which has ________ characteristics.

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