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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Ideology.
(b) Diachrony.
(c) Expressionism.
(d) Hermeneutics.

2. 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) Fetish.
(b) Memoir.
(c) Dream.
(d) Poem.

3. From which of Babara Johnson's literary pieces can the following definition of deconstructive reading be found according to author Peter Barry: "Deconstruction is not synonymous with 'destruction.' It is in fact much closer to the original meaning of the word 'analysis,' which etymologically means 'to undo'"?
(a) The Age of Innocence.
(b) Of Grammatology.
(c) Trustee from the Toolroom.
(d) The Critical Difference.

4. 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) Phallocentrism.
(b) Pre-Raphaelitism.
(c) Existentialism.
(d) Orientalism.

5. Which of the following two writers were stigmatized as exemplars of "bourgeois decadence"?
(a) Aesop and Aeschylus.
(b) Aristotle and Plato.
(c) Jane Austen and Stephanie Meyers.
(d) Proust and Joyce.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who wrote the 1986 book "Linguistic Criticism," which characterized linguistic criticism as "objective description of texts"?

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

4. Who does Peter Barry credit with partially defusing the conflict between heterosexual feminists and lesbians in an important essay which introduced the notion of the "lesbian continuum"?

5. The crucial essay "The Death of the Author" written in 1968 was the "hinge" around which ________ turned from structuralism to post-structuralism.

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