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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Introduction states that ________, like novelists, are dauntingly plentiful.
(a) Theorists.
(b) Journalists.
(c) Romanticists.
(d) Poets.

2. Stylistics is the modern version of the ancient discipline known as ________, which taught its students how to structure an argument.
(a) Neoplatonism.
(b) Philology.
(c) Rhetoric.
(d) Neoclassicism.

3. In the chapter titled "Lesbian / Gay Criticism," it states that lesbian and gay literary theory emerged prominently as a distinct field only in the ________.
(a) 1960s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 2000s.
(d) 1990s.

4. Which of the following works of T.S. Eliot was a collage of juxtaposed, incomplete stories, or fragments of stories according to the chapter titled "Postmodernism"?
(a) The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism.
(b) Prufrock and Other Observations.
(c) Essays Ancient and Modern.
(d) The Waste Land.

5. 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?
(a) Adrienne Rich.
(b) Anne Koedt.
(c) Bonnie Zimmerman.
(d) Muriel Spark.

Short Answer 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.

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 "New Historicism and Cultural Materialism" explains that the practice of giving ________ to literary and non-literary material is the first and major difference between the "new" and the "old" historicism.

4. According to Peter Barry, where does post-structuralism ultimately derive from?

5. Who does Peter Barry claim described the feminist change in the late 1970s as a shift of attention from "andro-texts" to "gyno-texts"?

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