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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism," who did Sigmund Freud link the situation of Hamlet in the play to?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) God.
(c) Oedipus.
(d) Zeus.

2. Which of the following works of T.S. Eliot was a collage of juxtaposed, incomplete stories, or fragments of stories according to the chapter titled "Postmodernism"?
(a) Prufrock and Other Observations.
(b) The Waste Land.
(c) Essays Ancient and Modern.
(d) The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism.

3. What does Peter Barry say is the topic of the book Beginning Theory?
(a) Literary theory.
(b) Modern theory.
(c) English studies.
(d) Historical theory.

4. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley are authors of what form of writing, according to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism?
(a) Mystery fiction writers.
(b) Romantic poets.
(c) Science-fiction writers.
(d) Investigative journalists.

5. What does Peter Barry say was the earliest work of theory written by Aristotle?
(a) Generation of Animals.
(b) Metaphysics.
(c) Politics.
(d) Poetics.

6. In Percy Bysshe Shelley's ________(1821) saw poetry as essentially engaged in what a group of twentieth-century Russian critics later called "defamiliarization."
(a) The Necessity of Atheism.
(b) A Defence of Poetry.
(c) Cenci.
(d) Queen Mab.

7. 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"?
(a) Practical criticism.
(b) Applied criticism.
(c) Impressionistic criticism.
(d) Psychoanalytic criticism.

8. According to Peter Barry, where does post-structuralism ultimately derive from?
(a) Physics.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Pyschology.
(d) Zoology.

9. What is the name of the early nineteenth-century American writer who received considerable attention from both structuralists and post-structuralists?
(a) Washington Irving.
(b) Victor Hugo.
(c) Mark Twain.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe.

10. The Introduction states that another name for traditional literary criticism is ________.
(a) Conservative humanism.
(b) Independant humanism.
(c) Modern humanism.
(d) Liberal humanism.

11. 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"?
(a) Virginia Woolf.
(b) Margaret Atwood.
(c) Evelyn Waugh.
(d) Willa Cather.

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

13. 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.

14. The narrator states that the study of English literature was seen as a kind of substitute for ________.
(a) Science.
(b) Social studies.
(c) History.
(d) Religion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator reveals that the modern period began with the ________.

2. Which modern architect proclaimed that "decoration is a crime" in the chapter titled "Postmodernism"?

3. What term does the narrator explain was a popular term in deconstructive criticism and literally means an impasse?

4. Who wrote the following statement on the mythologized misrepresentation of the United States and Disneyland: "All its [the USA's] values are exalted here, in miniature and comic-strip form. Embalmed and pacified"?

5. Peter Barry examines Sigmund Freud's book ________, which in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism" Barry claims is one of Freud's most enjoyable and accessible publications.

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