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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. According to the narrator in the Introduction, what two introductions to theory sources deal with the problems of teaching or learning theory?
(a) After Theory and The Critical Decade.
(b) Literary Studies in Action and Texts and Contexts.
(c) The Oval Portrait and The End of English.
(d) The Use of English and The English Review.

3. What term does the narrator explain was a popular term in deconstructive criticism and literally means an impasse?
(a) Langue.
(b) Aporia.
(c) Parole.
(d) Imagism.

4. According to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism, structuralism and post-structuralism originated in what country?
(a) Russia.
(b) France.
(c) Britain.
(d) United States.

5. Lacan argues that the two "dream work" mechanisms identified by Freud correspond to the basic poles of language, identified by the linguist Roman Jakobson, to ________ and ________.
(a) Paradigm / paradigmatic.
(b) Intention / intentionality.
(c) Langue/parole.
(d) Metaphor / metonymy.

6. 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) Voltaire.
(c) Mark Twain.
(d) Matthew Arnold.

7. I.A. Richards pioneered the technique called ________ which was also the title of his book in 1929.
(a) Practical Criticism.
(b) Reception Theory.
(c) Allegorical Interpretation.
(d) Sociological Criticism.

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

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

10. 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) Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
(c) Ferdinand de Saussure.
(d) Saki.

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

12. Who was appointed Professor at King's College, London in 1840?
(a) Frank McCourt.
(b) Nick Hornby.
(c) F.D. Maurice.
(d) J.R.R. Tolkien.

13. 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.

14. The thesis that the language is "masculine" was developed by ________ in the early 1980s in her book "Man Made Language," which also argues that language is not a neutral medium.
(a) Evelyn Waugh.
(b) Laurell K. Hamilton.
(c) Iris Murdoch.
(d) Dale Spender.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley are authors of what form of writing, according to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism?

3. Who does Peter Barry claim described the feminist change in the late 1970s as a shift of attention from "andro-texts" to "gyno-texts"?

4. 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.

5. Who was the major theorist of postmodernism and French writer of the book "Simulations"?

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