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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who said the following quote found in the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism: "We are told that the study of literature 'cultivates the taste, educates the sympathies and enlarges the mind'"?
(a) Oscar Wilde.
(b) Edward Freeman.
(c) Lewis Carroll.
(d) Elie Wiesel.

2. Sigmund Freud believed that a ________ was an escape-hatch or safety-valve through which repressed desires, fears, or memories seek an outlet into the conscious mind.
(a) Dream.
(b) Memoir.
(c) Poem.
(d) Fetish.

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

4. The narrator informs the reader that in the early 1980s, two new forms of political/historical criticism emerged, new historicism from ________ and cultural materialism from ________.
(a) Russia / the United States.
(b) France / Germany.
(c) Britain / Russia.
(d) The United States / Britain.

5. The narrator explains in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism" that distrust of Freud has grown in recent years, partly as a result of his mainly negative views on ________.
(a) Women.
(b) Americans.
(c) Men.
(d) Children.

6. 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.

7. Author Peter Barry explains that all of the following are part of the three stages of the deconstructive process except for which one?
(a) Linguistic.
(b) Visual.
(c) Textual.
(d) Verbal.

8. The narrator reveals that the modern period began with the ________.
(a) Mythology.
(b) Innocence.
(c) Reason.
(d) Enlightenment.

9. What term is used in the Introduction means not politically radical, and hence generally evasive and non-committal on political issues?
(a) Conservative.
(b) Communists.
(c) Liberal.
(d) Socialists.

10. 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) Indeterminacy.
(b) Genre.
(c) Discourse.
(d) Disunity.

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

12. 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) Washington Irving.
(c) Mark Twain.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe.

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

14. The chapter "Feminist Criticism" suggests that feminist criticism became much more ________, meaning that it began to draw upon the findings and approaches of other kinds of criticism.
(a) Rhetoric.
(b) Trope.
(c) Perlocutionary.
(d) Eclectic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, structuralism derives ultimately from ________.

2. Which of the following term best can be defined as one in which we cannot know where we are, since all the concepts which previously defined the center, and hence also the margins, have been "deconstructed," or undermined?

3. The Introduction states that another name for traditional literary criticism is ________.

4. Author Peter Barry informs the reader that the feminist literary criticism of today was the direct product of the "women's movement" of the ________.

5. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the term "liberal humanism" became current in what decade?

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