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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. ________ was founded on the notion of close reading, according to the narrator.
(a) English studies.
(b) Social studies.
(c) Sociology.
(d) Humanities.

3. Ecocriticism was a term that was applied to the work previously known as what form of writing?
(a) Nature.
(b) Nurture.
(c) Scientific.
(d) Biological.

4. Who does Peter Barry credit with partially defusing the conflict between heterosexual feminists and lesbians in an important essay which introduced the notion of the "lesbian continuum"?
(a) Anne Koedt.
(b) Muriel Spark.
(c) Bonnie Zimmerman.
(d) Adrienne Rich.

5. 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) Census line.
(b) Independent line.
(c) Moscow line.
(d) Soviet line.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. In Julia Kristeva's essay "The System and the Speaking Subject," the ________ aspect is associated with authority, order, fathers, repression, and control.

3. Whom does author Peter Barry say was a French psychoanalyst whose work had an extraordinary influence upon many aspects of recent literary theory and who began his career by taking a medical degree and then training in psychiatry in the 1920s?

4. 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"?

5. What was the name of Martin Taylor's poems that Mark Lilly used in his straight-forward essay that surveyed the range of First World War poetry?

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