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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term is used in the Introduction means not politically radical, and hence generally evasive and non-committal on political issues?
(a) Conservative.
(b) Communists.
(c) Socialists.
(d) Liberal.

2. What was the name of the American literature lecturer mentioned in the Introduction who died in January of 1995?
(a) Charles Devine.
(b) Samuel Jackson.
(c) Eric Mottram.
(d) Edward Hardy.

3. Which of F.R. Leavis's teachings was essentially a syllabus, manageable within a year-long undergraduate course?
(a) Great Expectations.
(b) Great American Literature.
(c) Great Explorations.
(d) Great Tradition.

4. Karl Marx is described by Peter Barry as being a German ________.
(a) Scientist.
(b) Philosopher.
(c) Criminologist.
(d) Zoologist.

5. Author Peter Barry explains that post-colonial critics reject the claims to universalism made on behalf of canonical _________ literature and seek to show its limitations of outlook.
(a) Northern.
(b) Eastern.
(c) Southern.
(d) Western.

Short Answer Questions

1. The chapter "Narratology" explains that Aristotle offered types of psychic narrative with ________'s plot specifics and ________'s tools to tell the story.

2. 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"?

3. The chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism states that the conventional reading of the origins of the subject of English is that this kind of thinking begins with who?

4. The narrator suggests that liberal humanists believe in ________ as something fixed and constant which great literature expresses.

5. Throughout the nineteenth century, linguistics was usually known as ________, and was almost entirely historical in emphasis.

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