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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Peter Barry explains that ________'s most significant thinking was contained in the essays "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" and "The Study of Poetry."
(a) William Shakespeare.
(b) Matthew Arnold.
(c) Mark Twain.
(d) Voltaire.

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

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

5. What where the only two universities in England in the nineteenth century?
(a) Oxford and Cambridge.
(b) Manchester and Winchester.
(c) Birmingham and Buckingham.
(d) Kingston and Liverpool.

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

7. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the ________ probably saw the high-water mark of literary theory.
(a) 1970s.
(b) 1980s.
(c) 1990s.
(d) 1960s.

8. According to the narrator in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism," many of Sigmund Freud's ideas concern aspects of ________.
(a) Conservation.
(b) Sexuality.
(c) Humanity.
(d) Death.

9. Jean Baudrillard was associated with what is usually known as ________ according to the narrator.
(a) The gain of the real.
(b) The loss of the real.
(c) The knowledge of the real.
(d) The forfeit of the real.

10. All of the following religious believers were not allowed to attend university in England in the nineteenth century except which one?
(a) Atheist.
(b) Jewish.
(c) Anglican.
(d) Catholic.

11. 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"?
(a) Browning.
(b) Brooker.
(c) Burke.
(d) Butler.

12. What was the term used in the Introduction that is defined as the science of signs?
(a) Semiotics.
(b) Mimesis.
(c) Logocentrism.
(d) Phenomenology.

13. The chapter "Feminist Criticism" informs the reader that "for her notion of the basic opposition between semiotic and the symbolic Kristeva was indebted to Jacques Lacan and his distinction between two realms, the ________ and the ________.
(a) Story / discourse.
(b) Syntagm / syntagmatic.
(c) Reference / referent.
(d) Imaginary / symbolic.

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

15. According to the narrator in the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism, the "Anglo-American" tradition appeared when?
(a) Mid 1980s.
(b) Late 1970s.
(c) Early 1960s.
(d) Early 1990s.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What was another name for the semic code found within the chapter titled Structuralism?

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

4. Barry states in the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism" that the British "socialist feminist" tradition produced its key works in the ________.

5. According to Plato, "a state of language anterior to the Word" is called ________.

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