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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the Introduction, what university did author Peter Barry say he attended?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) London University.
(c) Yale University.
(d) North Carolina State University.

2. What was the name of Martin Taylor's poems that Mark Lilly used in his straight-forward essay that surveyed the range of First World War poetry?
(a) The Doll's House.
(b) Lads: Love Poetry of the Trenches.
(c) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
(d) Of Human Bondage.

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

4. Peter Barry examines Sigmund Freud's book ________, which in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism" Barry claims is one of Freud's most enjoyable and accessible publications.
(a) General Psychological Theory.
(b) Essentials of Psycho-Analysis The Definitive Collection of Sigmund Freud's Writing.
(c) The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.
(d) Character and Culture.

5. According to Plato, "a state of language anterior to the Word" is called ________.
(a) Organic form.
(b) Semiotic.
(c) Chora.
(d) Surrealism.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to the narrator in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism," who did Sigmund Freud link the situation of Hamlet in the play to?

4. Peter Barry explains that ________'s most significant thinking was contained in the essays "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" and "The Study of Poetry."

5. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled "Postcolonial Criticism," Frantz Fanon was a ________ from Martinique.

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