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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) The Waste Land.
(b) Essays Ancient and Modern.
(c) The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism.
(d) Prufrock and Other Observations.

2. What example did Saussure use to explain what he meant by saying that there are no intrinsic, fixed meanings in language?
(a) 8.25 Geneva to Paris.
(b) 1984.
(c) Animal Farm.
(d) Ulysses.

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

4. In Julia Kristeva's essay "The System and the Speaking Subject," the ________ aspect is associated with authority, order, fathers, repression, and control.
(a) Semiotic.
(b) Symbolic.
(c) Natural.
(d) Imaginary.

5. The Introduction states that ________, like novelists, are dauntingly plentiful.
(a) Journalists.
(b) Poets.
(c) Theorists.
(d) Romanticists.

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

7. What term suggests a range of negative attributes, such as "non-Marxist" and "non-feminist," and "non-theoretical"?
(a) Modernism.
(b) Humanism.
(c) Absurdism.
(d) Dialogism.

8. The notion of the ________, posited by Levi-Strauss, denoting the minimal units of narrative "sense," is formed on the analogy of the morpheme, which, in linguistics, is the ________ unit of grammatical sense.
(a) Rhetoric / moderate.
(b) Semantics / largest.
(c) mytheme / smallest.
(d) Bliss / largest.

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

10. The chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism" states that ________ is the notion that sexuality begins not at puberty, with physical maturing, but in infancy, especially through the infant's relationship with the mother.
(a) Pansexuality.
(b) Infantile sexuality.
(c) Polysexuality.
(d) Omnisexuality.

11. 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.

12. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled "Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction," post-structuralist critics seek to show that the text is characterized by ________ rather than unity.
(a) Genre.
(b) Disunity.
(c) Indeterminacy.
(d) Discourse.

13. ________ was probably the most influential figure in twentieth-century British criticism according to author Peter Barry.
(a) Edward Jablonski.
(b) Patrick Tilley.
(c) Douglas Adams.
(d) F.R. Leavis.

14. 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) Lacan.
(b) Washington.
(c) Barry.
(d) Murray.

15. According to Plato, "a state of language anterior to the Word" is called ________.
(a) Chora.
(b) Organic form.
(c) Semiotic.
(d) Surrealism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Jean Baudrillard was associated with what is usually known as ________ according to the narrator.

2. What term is used in the Introduction means not politically radical, and hence generally evasive and non-committal on political issues?

3. Who was appointed Professor at King's College, London in 1840?

4. I.A. Richards pioneered the technique called ________ which was also the title of his book in 1929.

5. In what decade did "postmodernism" become current according to the author?

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