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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The panopticon was a design for a circular prison conceived by the eighteenth-century utilitarian ________.
(a) Sigmund Freud.
(b) Jeremy Bentham.
(c) Ray Bradbury.
(d) Anthony Burgess.

2. ________ is defined as the meanings of words according to Saussure.
(a) Canon.
(b) Episteme.
(c) Relational.
(d) Hermeneutics.

3. In the chapter titled Structuralism, the narrator explains that ________ applied the structuralism method to the general field of modern culture.
(a) Roland Barthes.
(b) Isaac Newton.
(c) Friedrich Nietzsche.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe.

4. Peter Barry explains that ________'s most significant thinking was contained in the essays "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" and "The Study of Poetry."
(a) Matthew Arnold.
(b) Voltaire.
(c) William Shakespeare.
(d) Mark Twain.

5. The narrator explains in the Introduction that the emphasis on practice means that this is what form of book?
(a) Work book.
(b) Manuscript.
(c) E-book.
(d) Missal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sigmund Freud believed that a ________ was an escape-hatch or safety-valve through which repressed desires, fears, or memories seek an outlet into the conscious mind.

2. The chapter titled "Postmodernism" states the term "postmodernism" was used in the 1930s, but its current sense and vogue can be said to have begun with ________'s "The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge."

3. In the Introduction, what university did author Peter Barry say he attended?

4. What is the term used to describe the study of narrative structures that combines characteristics and is derived from structuralism and linguistic theory?

5. Which of the following terms best fit the following definition: "a form of literary criticism which uses some of the techniques of psychoanalysis in the interpretation of literature"?

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