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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. All of the following religious believers were not allowed to attend university in England in the nineteenth century except which one?
(a) Atheist.
(b) Jewish.
(c) Catholic.
(d) Anglican.

2. Peter Barry examines Sigmund Freud's book ________, which in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism" Barry claims is one of Freud's most enjoyable and accessible publications.
(a) Essentials of Psycho-Analysis The Definitive Collection of Sigmund Freud's Writing.
(b) Character and Culture.
(c) General Psychological Theory.
(d) The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.

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

4. According to the narrator in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism," who did Sigmund Freud link the situation of Hamlet in the play to?
(a) God.
(b) Oedipus.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Shakespeare.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The chapter "New Historicism and Cultural Materialism" explains that the practice of giving ________ to literary and non-literary material is the first and major difference between the "new" and the "old" historicism.

2. ________ was probably the most influential figure in twentieth-century British criticism according to author Peter Barry.

3. 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"?

4. The gist of "Style in Language," edited by ________, is to claim that linguistics offers a more objective way of studying literature, and the book tends to set up "a confrontation of camps" between literary and language studies.

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

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