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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 in the chapter titled "Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction," post-structuralist critics seek to show that the text is characterized by ________ rather than unity.
(a) Indeterminacy.
(b) Disunity.
(c) Discourse.
(d) Genre.

2. Which of the following essays is an example of new historicism in practice written by Louis Montrose?
(a) A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(b) Heart of Darkness.
(c) Lord of the Flies.
(d) The Sun Also Rises.

3. Sigmund Freud believed that a ________ was an escape-hatch or safety-valve through which repressed desires, fears, or memories seek an outlet into the conscious mind.
(a) Poem.
(b) Dream.
(c) Fetish.
(d) Memoir.

4. Peter Barry states that ________ is best understood by seeing it initially in the context of its own origins within feminism in the 1980s.
(a) Endangered feminism.
(b) Beginning feminism.
(c) Lesbian feminism.
(d) Radical feminism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What language does the narrator describe as being a Romance language that takes most of its words directly from Latin, and lacks the reassuring Anglo-Saxon layer of vocabulary?

2. Dollimore and Sinfield defined the term "Political Shakespeare" as designating a critical method which has ________ characteristics.

3. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were the join founders of the school of________ according to the Chapter titled "Marxist Criticism."

4. ________ is defined as the meanings of words according to Saussure.

5. Who does the narrator describe as a prominent contributor to "Inside/Outside," who pointed out that "identity categories," like "gay" and "straight," "tend to be instruments of regulatory regimes"?

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