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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The chapter "Postmodernism" details that Ezra Pound calls his major work, "The Cantos" a ________.
(a) Paradox.
(b) Rag-bag.
(c) Misprision.
(d) Praxis.

2. The narrator explains that those abroad who were sympathetic to the ideas of Communism tried to follow the ________ on matters where an official Party policy existed, hence the international influence of the Leninist views.
(a) Moscow line.
(b) Independent line.
(c) Census line.
(d) Soviet line.

3. Whom does Peter Barry credit with the suggestion that language used is gendered, so that when a woman turns to novel writing she finds that there is "no common sentence ready for her use"?
(a) Virginia Woolf.
(b) Willa Cather.
(c) Margaret Atwood.
(d) Evelyn Waugh.

4. What is the term used to describe the study of narrative structures that combines characteristics and is derived from structuralism and linguistic theory?
(a) Narratology.
(b) Semiology.
(c) Scientology.
(d) Ideology.

5. In Percy Bysshe Shelley's ________(1821) saw poetry as essentially engaged in what a group of twentieth-century Russian critics later called "defamiliarization."
(a) Queen Mab.
(b) A Defence of Poetry.
(c) Cenci.
(d) The Necessity of Atheism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was appointed Professor at King's College, London in 1840?

2. The notion of the ________, posited by Levi-Strauss, denoting the minimal units of narrative "sense," is formed on the analogy of the morpheme, which, in linguistics, is the ________ unit of grammatical sense.

3. Which of the following essays is an example of new historicism in practice written by Louis Montrose?

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. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were the join founders of the school of________ according to the Chapter titled "Marxist Criticism."

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