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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In the chapter titled Structuralism, the narrator explains that ________ applied the structuralism method to the general field of modern culture.
(a) Roland Barthes.
(b) Edgar Allan Poe.
(c) Friedrich Nietzsche.
(d) Isaac Newton.

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

5. The chapter titled "Psychoanalytic Criticism" discusses the use by the unconscious of these linguistic means of self-expression is part of ________'s evidence for the claim that the unconscious is structured like a language.
(a) Barry.
(b) Murray.
(c) Washington.
(d) Lacan.

6. What was another name for the semic code found within the chapter titled Structuralism?
(a) Connotative code.
(b) Syntax.
(c) Universals.
(d) Tel Quel group.

7. Who presented I.A. Richard with the manuscript of the book which was published in 1930 with the title Seven Types of Ambiguity?
(a) Wilfred Owen.
(b) Kurt Vonnegut.
(c) William Empson.
(d) George Zebrowski.

8. Author Peter Barry informs the reader that the feminist literary criticism of today was the direct product of the "women's movement" of the ________.
(a) 1930s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1910s.
(d) 1980s.

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

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

11. Who was credited as being a key figure in the development of modern approaches to language study in the chapter titled Structuralism?
(a) Thomas de Quincey.
(b) Saki.
(c) Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
(d) Ferdinand de Saussure.

12. ________ is defined as a discipline which has always tended to emphasize the difficulty of achieving secure knowledge about things.
(a) Criminology.
(b) Sociology.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Psychology.

13. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the term "liberal humanism" became current in what decade?
(a) 1930s.
(b) 1920s.
(c) 1910s.
(d) 1970s.

14. What was the name of the American literature lecturer mentioned in the Introduction who died in January of 1995?
(a) Charles Devine.
(b) Eric Mottram.
(c) Edward Hardy.
(d) Samuel Jackson.

15. The narrator explains that post-structuralism emerged in France in the late ________.
(a) 1930s.
(b) 1990s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 1960s.

Short Answer Questions

1. Author Peter Barry suggests that the reader uses a useful form of intensive reading known as ________.

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

3. According to the narrator in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism," who did Sigmund Freud link the situation of Hamlet in the play to?

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

5. The chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism states that the conventional reading of the origins of the subject of English is that this kind of thinking begins with who?

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