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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The ancestry of post-colonial criticism can be traced to Frantz Fanon's ________, published in French in 1961, and voicing what might be called "cultural resistance" to France's African empire.
(a) The Grapes of Wrath.
(b) The Wreched of the Earth.
(c) U.S.A. (trilogy).
(d) An American Tragedy.

2. What was the name of the American literature lecturer mentioned in the Introduction who died in January of 1995?
(a) Edward Hardy.
(b) Samuel Jackson.
(c) Charles Devine.
(d) Eric Mottram.

3. Who was the first critic to develop a "reader-centered" approach to literature?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Sophocles.
(c) Sigmund Freud.
(d) Plato.

4. According to the narrator in the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism, the "Anglo-American" tradition appeared when?
(a) Late 1970s.
(b) Early 1990s.
(c) Early 1960s.
(d) Mid 1980s.

5. Who was credited as being a key figure in the development of modern approaches to language study in the chapter titled Structuralism?
(a) Saki.
(b) Ferdinand de Saussure.
(c) Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
(d) Thomas de Quincey.

Short Answer Questions

1. Peter Barry states that ________ is best understood by seeing it initially in the context of its own origins within feminism in the 1980s.

2. Barry states in the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism" that the British "socialist feminist" tradition produced its key works in the ________.

3. W.B. Yeats was a member of the ________ ruling class in ________, according to the narrator in the chapter titled "Postcolonial Criticism."

4. What where the only two universities in England in the nineteenth century?

5. Lacan argues that the two "dream work" mechanisms identified by Freud correspond to the basic poles of language, identified by the linguist Roman Jakobson, to ________ and ________.

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