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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) John Webster.
(d) Matthew Arnold.

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

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.
(a) The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.
(b) Essentials of Psycho-Analysis The Definitive Collection of Sigmund Freud's Writing.
(c) Character and Culture.
(d) General Psychological Theory.

4. According to the chapter titled Structuralism, what is another term for "alba," the poetic form dating from the twelfth century in which lovers lament the approach of daybreak?
(a) Morning love.
(b) Dawn song.
(c) Breaking dawn.
(d) Morning glory.

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

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

7. Who was the major theorist of postmodernism and French writer of the book "Simulations"?
(a) Andre Gide.
(b) Jean-Francois Lyotard.
(c) Stephane Mallarme.
(d) Jean Baudrillard.

8. Which of the following best fits the definition of a discipline which has always been inherently confident about the possibility of establishing objective knowledge?
(a) Formalism.
(b) Linguistics.
(c) Hermeneutics.
(d) Mimesis.

9. 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) Dale Spender.
(b) Evelyn Waugh.
(c) Iris Murdoch.
(d) Laurell K. Hamilton.

10. 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) Fetishism: the Symbolic, the Imaginary and the Real.
(b) The Signification of the Phallus.
(c) The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis.
(d) The Insistence of the Letter.

11. In the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, whose famous remark on philosophy was, "There are no facts, only interpretations"?
(a) Galileo Galilei.
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Ralph Waldo Emerson.

12. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Introduction, what university did author Peter Barry say he attended?

2. ________ is defined as the meanings of words according to Saussure.

3. What term suggests a range of negative attributes, such as "non-Marxist" and "non-feminist," and "non-theoretical"?

4. What is the name of the early nineteenth-century American writer who received considerable attention from both structuralists and post-structuralists?

5. Which of the following terms best fit the following definition: "a form of literary criticism which uses some of the techniques of psychoanalysis in the interpretation of literature"?

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