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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does Peter Barry credit with the suggestion that language used is gendered, so that when a woman turns to novel writing she finds that there is "no common sentence ready for her use"?
(a) Virginia Woolf.
(b) Margaret Atwood.
(c) Evelyn Waugh.
(d) Willa Cather.

2. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the ________ probably saw the high-water mark of literary theory.
(a) 1960s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1990s.
(d) 1980s.

3. According to Peter Barry, what is the subject of narratology common to all story-telling?
(a) Imitation and motivation.
(b) Mechanisms and procedures.
(c) Genre and plot.
(d) Metaphors and synonyms.

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

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.
(a) Geoffrey Chaucer.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) William Blake.
(d) Sir Philip Sidney.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following essays is an example of new historicism in practice written by Louis Montrose?

2. The Introduction states that ________, like novelists, are dauntingly plentiful.

3. What does Peter Barry say was the earliest work of theory written by Aristotle?

4. The chapter "Feminist Criticism" suggests that feminist criticism became much more ________, meaning that it began to draw upon the findings and approaches of other kinds of criticism.

5. The narrator explains that post-structuralism emerged in France in the late ________.

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