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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Peter Barry, stylistics developed in what century?
(a) Nineteenth.
(b) Twenty-first.
(c) Eighteenth.
(d) Twentieth.

2. The Introduction states that another name for traditional literary criticism is ________.
(a) Liberal humanism.
(b) Conservative humanism.
(c) Modern humanism.
(d) Independant humanism.

3. ________ is defined as a discipline which has always tended to emphasize the difficulty of achieving secure knowledge about things.
(a) Sociology.
(b) Criminology.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Philosophy.

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

5. In the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, whose famous remark on philosophy was, "There are no facts, only interpretations"?
(a) Galileo Galilei.
(b) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) Nietzsche.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of F.R. Leavis's teachings was essentially a syllabus, manageable within a year-long undergraduate course?

2. The Introduction states that ________, like novelists, are dauntingly plentiful.

3. Which of the following authors wrote the essay "What Has Never Been: An Overview of Lesbian Feminist Criticism" and attacked "essentialism," pointing out the way "the perceptual screen of hetero-sexism" prevented any consideration of lesbian issues in pioneering feminist writing?

4. According to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism, structuralism and post-structuralism originated in what country?

5. Karl Marx is described by Peter Barry as being a German ________.

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