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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whom does author Peter Barry say was a French psychoanalyst whose work had an extraordinary influence upon many aspects of recent literary theory and who began his career by taking a medical degree and then training in psychiatry in the 1920s?
(a) Euripides.
(b) Jacques Lacan.
(c) John Maynard Keynes.
(d) Marcus Tullius Cicero.

3. All of the following are part of the four areas identified as "outdoor environment" in the Chapter "Ecocriticism," except for which one?
(a) Scenic sublime.
(b) Wastelands.
(c) Countryside.
(d) Wilderness.

4. According to Peter Barry at the beginning of the book "Beginning Theory," many of the chapters in the book were based on material Barry has used in the "Introduction to Literature" courses at what university?
(a) LSU.
(b) FSU.
(c) TSU.
(d) ASU.

5. The narrator explains in the Introduction that the emphasis on practice means that this is what form of book?
(a) E-book.
(b) Work book.
(c) Manuscript.
(d) Missal.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's "The Madwoman in the Attic" contained ________ passing reference to lesbianism.

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

3. The British critic ________ described cultural materialism as "a politicized form of historiography."

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.

5. The narrator explains that the first prestigious name in English writing about literature was that of ________, who wrote his "Apology for Poetry" in about 1580.

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