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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lesbian theory that broke away from feminism and made new allegiances, in particular, with gay men rather than with other women is called "queer theory" or ________.
(a) Homosexual education.
(b) Homosexual concepts.
(c) Heterosexual examinations.
(d) Queer studies.

2. Barry states in the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism" that the British "socialist feminist" tradition produced its key works in the ________.
(a) Mid 1980s.
(b) Late 1990s.
(c) Early 1970s.
(d) Late 1950s.

3. David Lodge, Professor of English at Birmingham, combined the ideas of structuralism with more traditional approaches in which one of his books?
(a) Transforming Structuralism.
(b) Working with Structuralism.
(c) Beginning Structuralism.
(d) Beyond Structuralism.

4. What was another name for the semic code found within the chapter titled Structuralism?
(a) Universals.
(b) Tel Quel group.
(c) Connotative code.
(d) Syntax.

5. What is the name given to the movement that dominates the arts and culture of the first half of the twentieth century?
(a) Structuralism.
(b) Modernism.
(c) Historicism.
(d) Feminism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. All of the following authors were considered some of the literary "high priests" of the modernist movement according to the narrator in the chapter titled "Postmodernism," except for which one?

3. Author Peter Barry explains that all of the following are part of the three stages of the deconstructive process except for which one?

4. Which of the following realism terms best illustrates the straight realism which was imposed in the 1930s?

5. The narrator explains that narratology studies how narratives, or stories, creates ________.

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