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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the Introduction, what university did author Peter Barry say he attended?
(a) Yale University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) North Carolina State University.
(d) London University.

2. All of the following authors were considered some of the literary "high priests" of the modernist movement according to the narrator in the chapter titled "Postmodernism," except for which one?
(a) John Milton.
(b) Virginia Woolf.
(c) Gertrude Stein.
(d) T.S. Eliot.

3. The chapter "Narratology" explains that Aristotle offered types of psychic narrative with ________'s plot specifics and ________'s tools to tell the story.
(a) Propp / Genette.
(b) T.S. Eliot / Proust
(c) Plato / Aristophenes
(d) Galileo Galilei / Kepler

4. According to the narrator, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's "The Madwoman in the Attic" contained ________ passing reference to lesbianism.
(a) 9.
(b) 20.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

5. Who does the narrator say was the founder of a method of studying English which is still the norm today?
(a) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(b) Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
(c) I.A. Richards.
(d) T.S. Eliot.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Peter Barry credit for being the first person and anthropologist to use structuralism in their work?

2. The Introduction states that another name for traditional literary criticism is ________.

3. 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.

4. The crucial essay "The Death of the Author" written in 1968 was the "hinge" around which ________ turned from structuralism to post-structuralism.

5. Author Peter Barry explains that all of the following are part of the three stages of the deconstructive process except for which one?

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