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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ecocritics emphasize writers who highlight ________ as their subject matter.
(a) Children.
(b) Animals.
(c) Feminists.
(d) Nature.

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

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

4. Who was appointed Professor at King's College, London in 1840?
(a) Nick Hornby.
(b) J.R.R. Tolkien.
(c) F.D. Maurice.
(d) Frank McCourt.

5. In the chapter titled Structuralism, Saussure used the terms ________ and ________ to signify language as a system or structure on the one hand, and any given utterance in that language on the other.
(a) Langue / parole.
(b) Paradigm / paradigmatic.
(c) Logocentrism / margin.
(d) Humanism / icon.

Short Answer Questions

1. ________ was founded on the notion of close reading, according to the narrator.

2. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled Structuralism, the novel "Middlemarch" is an example of a literary ________.

3. 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.

4. Who was the major theorist of postmodernism and French writer of the book "Simulations"?

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

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