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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Peter Barry, the term "new historicism" was coined by the ________ critic Stephen Greenblattt.
(a) Russian.
(b) American.
(c) German.
(d) Italian.

2. According to the chapter titled Structuralism, what is another term for "alba," the poetic form dating from the twelfth century in which lovers lament the approach of daybreak?
(a) Dawn song.
(b) Morning glory.
(c) Breaking dawn.
(d) Morning love.

3. What is the name given to the movement that dominates the arts and culture of the first half of the twentieth century?
(a) Modernism.
(b) Structuralism.
(c) Historicism.
(d) Feminism.

4. Which of F.R. Leavis's teachings was essentially a syllabus, manageable within a year-long undergraduate course?
(a) Great Tradition.
(b) Great Expectations.
(c) Great Explorations.
(d) Great American Literature.

5. The narrator suggests that liberal humanists believe in ________ as something fixed and constant which great literature expresses.
(a) Horizon of expectation.
(b) Diegesis.
(c) Idealism.
(d) Human nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Peter Barry, what is the subject of narratology common to all story-telling?

2. All of the following religious believers were not allowed to attend university in England in the nineteenth century except which one?

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

4. According to Peter Barry, the aim of Marxism was to bring about a ________ society, based on the common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange.

5. Barry structures the work of Genette on a range of ________ questions to detail the process of telling.

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