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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The narrator explains that the first prestigious name in English writing about literature was that of ________, who wrote his "Apology for Poetry" in about 1580.
(a) Archimedes.
(b) Geoffrey Chaucer.
(c) William Blake.
(d) Sir Philip Sidney.

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

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

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

7. The chapter titled "Postmodernism" states the term "postmodernism" was used in the 1930s, but its current sense and vogue can be said to have begun with ________'s "The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge."
(a) Mies van der Rohe.
(b) Jean Baudrillard.
(c) Jean-Francois Lyotard.
(d) L.S. Lowry.

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

9. Sigmund Freud connects infantile sexuality to the ________, in which the male infant conceives the desire to eliminate the father and become the sexual partner of the mother.
(a) Hamlet complex.
(b) Oedipus complex.
(c) Othello complex.
(d) Aphrodite complex.

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

11. 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?
(a) Edwin Abbott.
(b) Thomas Malory.
(c) Matthew Arnold.
(d) John Webster.

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

13. 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) Washington.
(c) Lacan.
(d) Murray.

14. Who does Peter Barry claim described the feminist change in the late 1970s as a shift of attention from "andro-texts" to "gyno-texts"?
(a) Katherine Mansfield.
(b) Jane Austen.
(c) Daisy Bates.
(d) Elaine Showalter.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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.

3. 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.

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 ________.

5. 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 ________.

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