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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Barry states in the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism" that the British "socialist feminist" tradition produced its key works in the ________.
(a) Late 1950s.
(b) Mid 1980s.
(c) Early 1970s.
(d) Late 1990s.

3. Who presented I.A. Richard with the manuscript of the book which was published in 1930 with the title Seven Types of Ambiguity?
(a) George Zebrowski.
(b) Kurt Vonnegut.
(c) William Empson.
(d) Wilfred Owen.

4. The narrator explains that post-structuralism emerged in France in the late ________.
(a) 1990s.
(b) 1930s.
(c) 1960s.
(d) 1970s.

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

6. The crucial essay "The Death of the Author" written in 1968 was the "hinge" around which ________ turned from structuralism to post-structuralism.
(a) Johnson.
(b) Barthes.
(c) Joyce.
(d) Eddison.

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

8. According to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism, structuralism and post-structuralism originated in what country?
(a) Britain.
(b) United States.
(c) Russia.
(d) France.

9. Whom does author Peter Barry say was a French psychoanalyst whose work had an extraordinary influence upon many aspects of recent literary theory and who began his career by taking a medical degree and then training in psychiatry in the 1920s?
(a) Euripides.
(b) John Maynard Keynes.
(c) Marcus Tullius Cicero.
(d) Jacques Lacan.

10. What language does the narrator describe as being a Romance language that takes most of its words directly from Latin, and lacks the reassuring Anglo-Saxon layer of vocabulary?
(a) German.
(b) Spanish.
(c) French.
(d) English.

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

12. 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.

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

14. 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) Jean-Francois Lyotard.
(b) Jean Baudrillard.
(c) Mies van der Rohe.
(d) L.S. Lowry.

15. 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) The United States / Britain.
(d) Britain / Russia.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism," which group did author Peter Barry say maintained a major interest in traditional critical concepts like theme, motif, and characterization?

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

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

4. In the chapter titled Structuralism, the narrator explains that ________ applied the structuralism method to the general field of modern culture.

5. 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.

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