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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ________ is a co-founder of ecocriticism with Harold Fromm that developed in the early-1990s in the USA.
(a) Cheryll Glotfelty.
(b) Robert Heinlein.
(c) Frank Herbert.
(d) George Orwell.

2. The Introduction states that ________, like novelists, are dauntingly plentiful.
(a) Poets.
(b) Theorists.
(c) Journalists.
(d) Romanticists.

3. Who argued in 1905 that literature must become an instrument of the party and that "literature must become Party literature"?
(a) Tennyson.
(b) Keats.
(c) Reis.
(d) Lenin.

4. Which of the following realism terms best illustrates the straight realism which was imposed in the 1930s?
(a) Confederate Realism.
(b) Democratic Realism.
(c) Socialist Realism.
(d) Republican Realism.

5. Which of the following people broke away from feminism and made new allegiances, in particular, with gay men rather than with other women?
(a) Anne Koedt.
(b) Paulina Palmer.
(c) Bonnie Zimmerman.
(d) Muriel Spark.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is thecritical approach which uses the methods and findings of the science of linguistics in the analysis of literary texts?

2. According to the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, structuralism derives ultimately from ________.

3. What was the term used in the Introduction that is defined as the science of signs?

4. Stylistics is the modern version of the ancient discipline known as ________, which taught its students how to structure an argument.

5. In Julia Kristeva's essay "The System and the Speaking Subject," the ________ aspect is associated with authority, order, fathers, repression, and control.

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