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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ________ was founded on the notion of close reading, according to the narrator.
(a) Social studies.
(b) Sociology.
(c) Humanities.
(d) English studies.

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

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

4. Author Peter Barry explains that a major "moment" in the history of postmodernism was the influential paper "Modernity-an Incomplete Project" delivered by the contemporary ________ theorist ________.
(a) French / Guy de Maupassant.
(b) English / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
(c) German / Jurgen Habermas.
(d) Polish / Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

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 ________.
(a) Story / discourse.
(b) Imaginary / symbolic.
(c) Reference / referent.
(d) Syntagm / syntagmatic.

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

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

8. 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.

9. Which modern architect proclaimed that "decoration is a crime" in the chapter titled "Postmodernism"?
(a) Kurt Switters.
(b) Samuel Beckett.
(c) Le Corbusier.
(d) Adolf Loos.

10. What does Peter Barry say was the earliest work of theory written by Aristotle?
(a) Politics.
(b) Metaphysics.
(c) Poetics.
(d) Generation of Animals.

11. Which of the following works did the narrator believe to be the most important Lacanian text for literary students and which was first delivered in 1957 to a "lay" audience of philosophy students?
(a) The Signification of the Phallus.
(b) Fetishism: the Symbolic, the Imaginary and the Real.
(c) The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis.
(d) The Insistence of the Letter.

12. Author Peter Barry suggests that the reader uses a useful form of intensive reading known as ________.
(a) NH2P.
(b) NACL2.
(c) H2OO.
(d) SQ3R.

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

14. 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) Intention / intentionality.
(b) Paradigm / paradigmatic.
(c) Langue/parole.
(d) Metaphor / metonymy.

15. 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) Butler.
(b) Burke.
(c) Brooker.
(d) Browning.

Short Answer Questions

1. The chapter "Postmodernism" details that Ezra Pound calls his major work, "The Cantos" a ________.

2. All of the following religious believers were not allowed to attend university in England in the nineteenth century except which one?

3. The Introduction states that ________, like novelists, are dauntingly plentiful.

4. 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."

5. What was the term used in the Introduction that is defined as the science of signs?

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