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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the following statement on the mythologized misrepresentation of the United States and Disneyland: "All its [the USA's] values are exalted here, in miniature and comic-strip form. Embalmed and pacified"?
(a) Butler.
(b) Browning.
(c) Brooker.
(d) Burke.

2. The narrator informs the reader that in the early 1980s, two new forms of political/historical criticism emerged, new historicism from ________ and cultural materialism from ________.
(a) The United States / Britain.
(b) Russia / the United States.
(c) France / Germany.
(d) Britain / Russia.

3. According to the chapter "Stylistics," in medieval times rhetoric played an important part in training people for the ________, the legal profession, and political or diplomatic life.
(a) Court.
(b) Library.
(c) School.
(d) Church.

4. In the following statement found in the chapter "New Historicism and Cultural Materialism," what does the word "panoptic" mean: "Michel Foucault's pervasive image of the state is that of 'panoptic'"?
(a) All-mighty.
(b) All-knowing.
(c) All-seeing.
(d) All-hearing.

5. Which of the following term best can be defined as one in which we cannot know where we are, since all the concepts which previously defined the center, and hence also the margins, have been "deconstructed," or undermined?
(a) Decentered universe.
(b) Absurdism.
(c) Allegorical Interpretation.
(d) Binary oppositions.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the chapter titled "Lesbian / Gay Criticism," it states that lesbian and gay literary theory emerged prominently as a distinct field only in the ________.

2. Who was credited as being a key figure in the development of modern approaches to language study in the chapter titled Structuralism?

3. Jean Baudrillard was associated with what is usually known as ________ according to the narrator.

4. All of the following are part of the four areas identified as "outdoor environment" in the Chapter "Ecocriticism," except for which one?

5. According to the narrator in the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism, the "Anglo-American" tradition appeared when?

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