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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Percy Bysshe Shelley's ________(1821) saw poetry as essentially engaged in what a group of twentieth-century Russian critics later called "defamiliarization."
(a) Queen Mab.
(b) Cenci.
(c) A Defence of Poetry.
(d) The Necessity of Atheism.

2. 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) Britain / Russia.
(b) France / Germany.
(c) Russia / the United States.
(d) The United States / Britain.

3. 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) Reference / referent.
(c) Imaginary / symbolic.
(d) Syntagm / syntagmatic.

4. According to the narrator in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism," who did Sigmund Freud link the situation of Hamlet in the play to?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Oedipus.
(c) Zeus.
(d) God.

5. 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) Edward Freeman.
(b) Lewis Carroll.
(c) Oscar Wilde.
(d) Elie Wiesel.

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

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

8. 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) 1910s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1930s.
(d) 1980s.

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

10. 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) Edgar Allan Poe.
(d) Mark Twain.

11. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled Structuralism, the novel "Middlemarch" is an example of a literary ________.
(a) Paradigmatic.
(b) Icon.
(c) Parole.
(d) Pardigm.

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

13. What where the only two universities in England in the nineteenth century?
(a) Manchester and Winchester.
(b) Oxford and Cambridge.
(c) Birmingham and Buckingham.
(d) Kingston and Liverpool.

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) Trope.
(b) Perlocutionary.
(c) Eclectic.
(d) Rhetoric.

15. 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) Aphrodite complex.
(b) Oedipus complex.
(c) Othello complex.
(d) Hamlet complex.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the American literature lecturer mentioned in the Introduction who died in January of 1995?

2. Who was credited as being a key figure in the development of modern approaches to language study in the chapter titled Structuralism?

3. The narrator explains in the Introduction that the emphasis on practice means that this is what form of book?

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

5. 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.

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