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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, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's "The Madwoman in the Attic" contained ________ passing reference to lesbianism.
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 9.
(d) 20.

2. Who said the following quote found in the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism: "We are told that the study of literature 'cultivates the taste, educates the sympathies and enlarges the mind'"?
(a) Elie Wiesel.
(b) Oscar Wilde.
(c) Edward Freeman.
(d) Lewis Carroll.

3. The narrator explains that conventional ________ is often seen by the stylistician as impressionistic, intuitive, and randomized.
(a) Close reading.
(b) Surface structure.
(c) Emotive language.
(d) Constative language.

4. The narrator suggests that liberal humanists believe in ________ as something fixed and constant which great literature expresses.
(a) Human nature.
(b) Horizon of expectation.
(c) Idealism.
(d) Diegesis.

5. Peter Barry explains that post-colonial criticism emerges as a distinct category only in the ________.
(a) 2000s.
(b) 1990s.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1970s.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Peter Barry, the term "new historicism" was coined by the ________ critic Stephen Greenblattt.

2. The narrator informs the reader that in the early 1980s, two new forms of political/historical criticism emerged, new historicism from ________ and cultural materialism from ________.

3. 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?

4. The British critic ________ described cultural materialism as "a politicized form of historiography."

5. Whom does Peter Barry credit for being the first person and anthropologist to use structuralism in their work?

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