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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Allegorical Interpretation.
(b) Absurdism.
(c) Binary oppositions.
(d) Decentered universe.

2. According to the chapter "Narratology," Russian formalist Vladimir Propp identified how many actions in a tale with seven spheres of action to animate?
(a) 23.
(b) 31.
(c) 13.
(d) 63.

3. Which modern architect proclaimed that "decoration is a crime" in the chapter titled "Postmodernism"?
(a) Adolf Loos.
(b) Samuel Beckett.
(c) Kurt Switters.
(d) Le Corbusier.

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

5. Who is credited with saying that the textuality of history is "an intensified willingness to read all of the textual traces of the past with the attention traditionally conferred only on literary texts"?
(a) Dutton.
(b) Greenblatt.
(c) Louis.
(d) Montrose.

Short Answer Questions

1. A poem of which author is provided by Peter Barry as an example of ecocriticism?

2. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled "Postcolonial Criticism," Frantz Fanon was a ________ from Martinique.

3. Which of the following two writers were stigmatized as exemplars of "bourgeois decadence"?

4. Author Peter Barry explains that post-colonial critics reject the claims to universalism made on behalf of canonical _________ literature and seek to show its limitations of outlook.

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

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