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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A book in which author Peter Barry claimed to properly inaugurate post-colonial criticism was Edward Said's ________, which was a specific expose of the Eurocentric universalism which took for granted both the superiority of that which was European or Western.
(a) Pre-Raphaelitism.
(b) Existentialism.
(c) Phallocentrism.
(d) Orientalism.

2. The thesis that the language is "masculine" was developed by ________ in the early 1980s in her book "Man Made Language," which also argues that language is not a neutral medium.
(a) Dale Spender.
(b) Iris Murdoch.
(c) Laurell K. Hamilton.
(d) Evelyn Waugh.

3. According to the narrator in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism," who did Sigmund Freud link the situation of Hamlet in the play to?
(a) God.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Oedipus.
(d) Zeus.

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) Western.
(b) Northern.
(c) Southern.
(d) Eastern.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the following statement, which is found in the chapter "Postcolonial Criticism": "We cannot easily say that since Mansfield Park is a novel, its affiliations with a particularly sordid history are irrelevant or transcended, not only because it is irresponsible to say that, but because we know too much to say so with bad faith"?

2. What was another name for the semic code found within the chapter titled Structuralism?

3. The term "reification" was used in Karl Marx's major work ________, and it concerned the way, when capitalist goals and questions of profit and loss are paramount, workers are bereft of their full humanity and are though of as "hands" or "the labor force."

4. According to Marxist literary criticism, what term is best defined as an outlook, values, tacit assumptions, half-realized allegiances, etc. and having a major bearing on what is written by a member of a social class?

5. The narrator explains that post-structuralism emerged in France in the late ________.

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