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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the term used in the Introduction that is defined as the science of signs?
(a) Mimesis.
(b) Logocentrism.
(c) Phenomenology.
(d) Semiotics.

2. Who wrote the following statement on the mythologized misrepresentation of the United States and Disneyland: "All its [the USA's] values are exalted here, in miniature and comic-strip form. Embalmed and pacified"?
(a) Butler.
(b) Browning.
(c) Brooker.
(d) Burke.

3. The narrator explains that post-structuralism emerged in France in the late ________.
(a) 1930s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1990s.
(d) 1970s.

4. Author Peter Barry explains that post-colonial critics reject the claims to universalism made on behalf of canonical _________ literature and seek to show its limitations of outlook.
(a) Northern.
(b) Eastern.
(c) Western.
(d) Southern.

5. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley are authors of what form of writing, according to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism?
(a) Romantic poets.
(b) Investigative journalists.
(c) Science-fiction writers.
(d) Mystery fiction writers.

Short Answer 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?

2. ________ was founded on the notion of close reading, according to the narrator.

3. Which of the following realism terms best illustrates the straight realism which was imposed in the 1930s?

4. Who does the narrator say was the founder of a method of studying English which is still the norm today?

5. Peter Barry examines Sigmund Freud's book ________, which in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism" Barry claims is one of Freud's most enjoyable and accessible publications.

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