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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does author Peter Barry say was a French psychoanalyst whose work had an extraordinary influence upon many aspects of recent literary theory and who began his career by taking a medical degree and then training in psychiatry in the 1920s?
(a) Marcus Tullius Cicero.
(b) John Maynard Keynes.
(c) Jacques Lacan.
(d) Euripides.

2. What was the name of the Nigerian novelist who published his first novel, "Things Fall Apart," in 1958, and was criticized by an early reviewer for affecting identity with African villagers?
(a) Kurt Vonnegut.
(b) Chinua Achebe.
(c) J.R.R. Tolkien.
(d) William Faulkner.

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

4. The narrator explains that those abroad who were sympathetic to the ideas of Communism tried to follow the ________ on matters where an official Party policy existed, hence the international influence of the Leninist views.
(a) Independent line.
(b) Census line.
(c) Soviet line.
(d) Moscow line.

5. The chapter "Postmodernism" details that Ezra Pound calls his major work, "The Cantos" a ________.
(a) Praxis.
(b) Rag-bag.
(c) Misprision.
(d) Paradox.

Short Answer Questions

1. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley are authors of what form of writing, according to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism?

2. W.B. Yeats was a member of the ________ ruling class in ________, according to the narrator in the chapter titled "Postcolonial Criticism."

3. The chapter "Feminist Criticism" informs the reader that "for her notion of the basic opposition between semiotic and the symbolic Kristeva was indebted to Jacques Lacan and his distinction between two realms, the ________ and the ________.

4. 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"?

5. What was the name of the American literature lecturer mentioned in the Introduction who died in January of 1995?

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