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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. I.A. Richards pioneered the technique called ________ which was also the title of his book in 1929.
(a) Practical Criticism.
(b) Reception Theory.
(c) Sociological Criticism.
(d) Allegorical Interpretation.

3. Peter Barry affirms that Friedrich Engels was a German ________.
(a) Radiologist.
(b) Philosopher.
(c) Criminologist.
(d) Sociologist.

4. What is thecritical approach which uses the methods and findings of the science of linguistics in the analysis of literary texts?
(a) Ambiguity.
(b) Stylistics.
(c) Grammatology.
(d) Intersubjectivity.

5. What example did Saussure use to explain what he meant by saying that there are no intrinsic, fixed meanings in language?
(a) Ulysses.
(b) Animal Farm.
(c) 8.25 Geneva to Paris.
(d) 1984.

Short Answer Questions

1. Peter Barry explains that post-colonial criticism emerges as a distinct category only in the ________.

2. In the chapter titled "Narratology", ________ means slow telling where an author stages a tale for readers whereas ________ means relating where the narrator summarizes events without trying to create an illusion.

3. David Lodge, Professor of English at Birmingham, combined the ideas of structuralism with more traditional approaches in which one of his books?

4. According to the narrator, post-colonial critics would discuss the representation of what country in Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"?

5. Which of the following term is about "lexical items" (words) which cross the boundaries between sentences, binding them into a single continuous utterance, even though they are grammatically separate sentences?

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